Mobile World Congress has emerged as one of the industry’s key events. Taking place Feb. 15-18 in Barcelona, Spain, the show brings together the industry to discuss and explore the explosion of today’s mobile networks and apps and the path to tomorrow’s 4G world. Connected Planet Senior Editor Kevin Fitchard will be on site, while other CP editors will be pitching in long-distance.
Check back to this page as we update it with all the news and developments from the show.
News: Oracle helps operators manage stores, orders
February 17th, By Rich Karpinski
New retail store application and upgraded order management platform targets mobile back-office priorities
News: Verizon Wireless, Skype cozy up
February, 17th, By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon will offer Skype to smartphone customers this March, allowing them to use the service with mobile just as they would on the PC or over WiFi
Blog: NFC demand is here; bring on the handsets
February 17th, 2010, By Sarah Reedy
Near-field communications, and mobile banking in general, get so much support from a wide swatch of players, but is support enough? Not yet
Blog: Ericsson wins the Congress speed crown
February 17th, 2010, By Kevin Fitchard
Vendors at Mobile World Congress this week vied with one another over who had the largest capacity, adopting ever-more bizarre carrier-stacking and multi-antenna schemes all in the name of producing the biggest fattest single broadband wireless connection.
Blog: Is Google’s Schmidt genuine?
February 17th, 2010, By Kevin Fitchard
Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s keynote to Mobile World Congress on Tuesday was a deferential one.
Blog: Symbian releases new OS details
February 17th, 2010, By Kevin Fitchard
Microsoft wasn’t the only software developer to release a new mobile operating system at Mobile World Congress this week.
Blog: Will Windows phone 7 reinvigorate Microsoft?
February 16th, 2010, By Sarah Reedy
WinMo 7Microsoft’s new operating-system update for its Windows Phone 7 Series handsets brings together its Zune music service, Xbox Live gaming platform and a suite of social networking and Web services
Blog: ALU launches developer sandbox in the clouds
February 16th, 2010, By Kevin Fitchard
Alcatel-Lucent has a new hobby: it’s collecting network APIs.
Blog: T-Mobile launching first HSPA+ device
February 16th, By Kevin Fitchard
T-Mobile USA is making its HSPA+ debut next month, unveiling today at Mobile World Congress its first laptop 3G dongle embedded with the new technology.
News: Alcatel-Lucent tries own app aggregation play
Feb 16, 2010, By Rich Karpinski
Building on earlier tools announcement, vendor plans to bundle app-enabling capabilities from multiple operators to get telcos in the game…
News: Nuance brings voice control to touchscreens
Feb 16, 2010, By Sarah Reedy
Speech-to-text provider acquires MacSpeech, launches T9 Write for touchscreen devices at MWC…
News: NSN targeting excessive arm-waving in the mobile network
Feb 16, 2010, By Kevin Fitchard
Vendor’s latest effort focuses on stemming the growth of signaling traffic along with dealing with the data traffic glut…
News: Brightcove brings Flash video to smartphones
Feb 16, 2010, By Sarah Reedy
Following the launch of Flash 10.1, Brightcove is bringing high-quality video to any smartphone running Flash…
News: Adobe outlines Air, Flash 10.1 mobile plans
Feb 16, 2010, By Sarah Reedy
Adobe makes mobile inroads as it joins LiMo Foundation, introduces Air for standalone, cross-platform mobile apps…
News: Juniper takes on 4G without Ericsson
Feb 16, 2010, By Kevin Fitchard
IP vendor upgrades next-generation router to handle LTE packet core functions; introduces new 3G traffic management capabilities…
Keynote: Vodafone CEO says end app discrimination
Feb 16, 2010, By Kevin Fitchard
Vittorio Colao says operators have no right to dictate what app a customer uses for a particular service, but operators don’t have to let them do so for free…
News: Global operators aim to create a common mobile apps platform
February 15th, By Kevin Fitchard
Putting aside competitive differences, the big 4 in the US join operators in effort to create a de facto standard development platform for widgets
Blog: GSMA throws weight behind IMS for LTE voice
February 15th, 2010, By Kevin Fitchard
The GSM Association put it’s foot down in the voice-over-LTE debate today, announcing it was backing the One Voice Initiative
MWC: Seven extends power of push email to apps
February 15th, By Sarah Reedy
Seven doubles its user base, adds apps to portfolio as consumers continue to seek push email alternatives
MWC: Nokia, Intel go after a MIDs, tablets with new OS
February 15th 2010, By Kevin Fitchard
Merging their Moblin and Maemo work, the two vendors are creating an open-source platform that both resembles and challenge’s Google’s OS strategy
News: Acme aims to simplify IMS, scale SIP
February 12th, 2010, by Rich Karpinski
New access and core routing solutions help ease delivery of services using its session border control platform
News: Beceem looking to play with the big boys in LTE
February 12th, 2010, By Kevin Fitchard
WiMax chip maker to launch dual-mode WiMax-LTE silicon in hopes of establishing a foothold in the larger LTE market
News: Tellabs launches new 3G data offload gateway
Feb 11, 2010, By Kevin Fitchard
Moving WiChorus’ SmartCore from the core to the backhaul network, Tellabs seeks to head off Internet-bound traffic before it hits the 3G core …
News: Sandvine update helps mobile operators manage usage
Feb 11, 2010, By Rich Karpinski
New usage management application builds on DPI capabilities to help carriers implement more fine-grained service and pricing plans …
News: Ericsson predicts radio modules to make their way to phones
Feb 10, 2010, By Kevin Fitchard
As consumer device makers look to make their own smartphones, modules could prove an easy way to bypass wireless R&D, according to Ericsson VP…
Blog: Telefonica to run live LTE network at Fira
February 10th, 2010, by Kevin Fitchard
There may be no commercial long-term evolution (LTE) service s in Barcelona to coincide with next week’s Mobile World Congress, but at least for a few days the Fira de Barcelona conference center will have a live network.
Blog: NEC to highlight LTE’s petite side
February 10th, 2010, By Kevin Fitchard
While other wireless vendors show off their big honking long-term evolution (LTE) macro-cellular base stations at Mobile World Congress next week, NEC aims to make a much smaller impression.
News: Cisco incorporates Starent tech into NGN architecture
Feb 9, 2010, By Kevin Fitchard
Cisco study shows that data traffic on the mobile network will grow 39 times in five years, driven by video..