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Walmart and Straight Talk to Offer iPhone
January 9, 2013 10:42 am | by Andrew Berg | News | CommentsWalmart and Straight Talk Wireless, a Tracfone brand, which is a subsidiary of America Movil, today announced that it will offer the iPhone 5 and iPhone 4 starting on January 11, 2013. Straight Talk will offer Apple’s iconic devices in more than 2,000 Walmart stores...
Tracfone Ups Prepaid Stakes with Simple Mobile Buy
May 11, 2012 7:19 am | by Maisie Ramsay | News | CommentsTracfone Wireless is acquiring Simple Mobile in a deal that could help it kick off a SIM-only service to the U.S. market.
Enterprise Femtocells: Too Much of a Good Thing?
June 4, 2009 1:55 pm | by John Spindler | Articles | CommentsUsing multiple femtocells to provide coverage within an enterprise can cause a lot of problems.
Imperatives For Managing High Data Traffic
May 4, 2009 11:06 am | by Stuart Taylor | Articles | CommentsAfter years of industry pundits preaching about mobile data, it has finally arrived.
NRTC Strikes Deal with Private WiMAX Op
April 30, 2009 8:49 am | by Traci Patterson, CED Magazine | News | CommentsThe NRTC local members will soon have the opportunity to provide high-speed, fixed and mobile broadband Internet access to “unwired” communities nationwide.
D.C. to Get First Crack at Free Mobile TV
April 20, 2009 9:11 am | by Peter Svensson, AP Technology Writer | News | CommentsWashington will be the first U.S. city to get free digital TV broadcasts for mobile devices like cell phones, laptop computers and in-car entertainment systems.
Verizon Releases Developer Specs for LTE
April 17, 2009 9:20 am | by Andrew Berg | News | CommentsVerizon Wireless today released an initial set of technical specifications for devices that will run on its forthcoming LTE network.
Two Critical 4G Challenges
March 31, 2009 9:27 pm | by Elliott Drucker | Articles | CommentsWhile enterprises in almost every other business sector are tightening their belts, major wireless carriers are planning for huge expenditures on 4G network deployments.
5 Considerations in a Down Economy
February 24, 2009 12:41 pm | by Chris Kozup | Articles | CommentsBusinesses continue to make investments in mobility as a way to improve employee productivity.
Obama Lobbied Intel CEO on Stimulus
February 11, 2009 8:20 am | by Marcy Gordon, AP Business Writer | Articles | CommentsPresident Barack Obama lobbied the head of Intel to talk up the more than $800 billion economic recovery package moving through Congress.
GPS Gets More Assists
January 31, 2009 6:11 pm | by Monica Alleven | Articles | CommentsFor years, GPS has played a role in helping solve one of the industry’s stickiest problems: fixing the location of phones for E911. But as location-based services (LBS) increasingly go commercial, engineers are looking for ways to improve the performance of GPS indoors.
EJL Predicts HSPA+ Upgrades
January 27, 2009 8:07 am | by Andrew Berg | News | CommentsA significant number of mobile operators will upgrade from HSPDA to HSPA+ technology as an interim stop gap before migrating to LTE.
Common AAA Platform...
October 7, 2008 6:20 am | News | CommentsAmong the most significant challenges facing service providers as they migrate from their legacy infrastructures to next-generation networks is delivering high-quality services across a variety of legacy and IP access technologies.
M2Z, Opponents Wait to Hear from FCC
September 30, 2008 7:56 pm | by Monica Alleven | News | CommentsM2Z Networks wants to be a data service provider on Day 1, as opposed to voice, but its strongest opposition these days is coming from the cellular camp.
WiMAX News Briefs for Oct. 1, 2008
September 30, 2008 6:49 pm | News | CommentsCompanies also in the news at WiMAX World: SOMA Networks, Ronan Telephone Company, Apitilo Networks, Wireless Communications Association, WiMAX Forum, Coresonic AB
T-Mobile: M2Z Unqualified to Judge AWS Interference
September 29, 2008 8:00 am | by Evan Koblentz | News | CommentsT-Mobile issued a harshly worded statement defending its AWS interference test against startup M2Z Networks’ recent criticism.
FCC Eyes Busy Wireless Agenda
September 26, 2008 8:04 am | by Rhonda Wickham | News | CommentsThe FCC chairman and his commissioners have a long to-do list, which it hopes to complete before the end of the year
Synchronization and Timing in the NGN
July 14, 2008 3:00 pm | by FIG 1 The effect of network jitter on NTP accuracy | Articles | CommentsTime and frequency synchronization are surprisingly crucial to mobile service providers' Internet Protocol/Call Detail Record (IIP/CDR) reconciliation, at the heart of billing and logging services.
Skyhook Announces Hybrid Positioning System
June 30, 2008 8:00 am | by Monica Alleven | News | CommentsSkyhook Wireless wants to make location-based services work in more places.
NGMN Alliance, Femto Forum Team for Next-Gen Femtocells
June 26, 2008 8:56 am | by Rhonda Wickham | News | CommentsThe Femto Forum and the NGMN Alliance have agreed to work together to ensure a smooth migration of femtocells as they move from today’s first steps to implementation
News Briefs for April 17, 2008
April 17, 2008 7:42 am | News | CommentsCompanies in today’s briefs include: Panasonic, T-Mobile, RF Micro Devices, U Mobile, fring, Apple, Nokia Siemens Networks, Wataniya Telecom Algerie, Vodafone, Mobilkom Austria, NextPoint
Fundamentals Are Changing
April 14, 2008 10:35 am | by Brad Smith | Articles | CommentsThe move toward wireless broadband data is inexorable, says the CEO of Qualcomm.
ADC Targets Picocells Now, Femtocells Later
April 9, 2008 8:20 am | by Evan Koblentz | News | CommentsADC is starting to offer in-building picocells as a result of its fall 2007 acquisition of LGC Wireless, and next year will move into the femtocell business
