Archive for the ‘Wireless’ Category
by Sarah ReedyMarch 2nd, 2010
It may not be ready to let users transform the iPhone into a TV remote control as Verizon (NYSE:VZ) recently did, but Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) is willing to give its cable TV subscribers what they really want: remote digital-video recording (rDVR) on the iPhone.
Comcast’s first mobile app was introduced to the iPhone and iPod Touch last fall to let consumers view and use the features of their Comcast Digital Voice, Cable and high-speed Internet services in one central location. According to Cathy Avgiris, Comcast’s senior vice president and general manager of communications and data services, the app reached more than 100,000 downloads in less than one week, but remote DVR was a feature that consumers were still asking for. (more…)
Related Topics: All Stories, Mobile Apps, Video, Wireless |
by Kevin FitchardFebruary 25th, 2010
When Nortel Networks decided to auction itself off in pieces, its name was of the items on block. But now with its last business unit slated to go to Genband, Nortel hasn’t found anyone interested in taking up the moniker despite its long history in the industry. (more…)
Related Topics: 3G/4G, Broadband/FTTX, Business Services, Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC), IMS, IP/NGN, LTE, Residential Services, Wireless |
by Kevin FitchardFebruary 25th, 2010
While AT&T (NYSE:T) and Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ, NYSE:VOD) belt it out over whose network is more widespread and reliable, Sprint’s (NYSE:S) latest round of advertising is playing the speed card. It announced a new marketing campaign today that centers on the much higher capacities its new 4G service can offer over 3G networks–including presumably its own. (more…)
Related Topics: 3G/4G, Mobile Apps, WiMAX, Wireless |
by Kevin FitchardFebruary 25th, 2010
MetroPCS (NYSE:PCS) didn’t say much about its 4G rollout in its Q4 earnngs conference call today, but from what little CEO Roger Linquist did say we can gather Metro plans to extend the same budget prepaid business model that’s served it so well for 2G voice into the new 4G mobile broadband service.
“The world is moving toward broadband services,” Linquist said. “We believe there can be a renaissance in the no-contract wireless service segment as 4G becomes readily available.” (more…)
Related Topics: All Stories, LTE, Mobile Apps, Residential Services, WiMAX, Wireless |
by Kevin FitchardFebruary 24th, 2010
Judginm it year-end earnings report, Clearwire (NASDAQ:CLWR) spent 2009 converting its pre-WiMax fixed wireless customers into mobile WiMax customers, but as its nationwide 4G build-out ramps up its mobile broadband customer base is beginning to blossom. (more…)
Related Topics: 3G/4G, Mobile Apps, Residential Services, WiMAX, Wireless |
by Sarah ReedyFebruary 23rd, 2010
Hybrid location provider Skyhook Wireless’ news that it is powering location-based social networking service Gowalla had fortuitous timing today. Concurrent with the announcement, Juniper Research put out a report suggesting that mobile location-based services (LBS) will exceed $12 billion by 2014, driven in part by Skyhook’s specialty, hybrid location. (more…)
Related Topics: 3G/4G, All Stories, Mobile Apps, Wireless |
by Kevin FitchardFebruary 19th, 2010
Mobile World Congress always produces a flood of product releases as the world’s mobile vendors and developers save their big guns for the world’s largest wireless trade show. While we can’t cover ever product release at the show, here are some of the more interesting ones that caught our eye: (more…)
Related Topics: 3G/4G, All Stories, Mobile Apps, Smart Grids, Unified Communications, WiMAX, Wireless |
by Kevin FitchardFebruary 19th, 2010
AT&T (NYSE:T) is closely tracking Verizon Wireless’ (NYSE:VZ, NYSE:VOD) long-term evolution timeline, taking many of the same steps in its LTE roll-out plans as its arch-competitor–albeit one year later. Just as VZW announced Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE:ALU) and Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) as its LTE vendors last year at Mobile World Congress, AT&T revealed the week before this year’s Congress the same two would build its 4G network . And just as Verizon set up LTE innovation centers last April to encourage new 4g devices and applications for its forthcoming LTE trials, AT&T is now doing the same, announcing two US and one international labs focusing on its newest network technologies. (more…)
Related Topics: 3G/4G, Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC), Mobile Apps, Residential Services, Wireless |
by Sarah ReedyFebruary 18th, 2010
AT&T (NYSE:T) became the last of the big four carriers to take on a Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android device today, announcing it would begin selling the Motorola (NYSE:MOT) Backflip on March 7. The relationship is important for all parties involved: Motorola as it fights to regain prominence, Android as it looks to gain momentum and AT&T as it seeks to prove there’s life beyond Apple.
This is the Motorola’s third carrier partner for its Android devices, with only Sprint remaining to woo. The handset maker has been vying for a comeback for awhile now, and it’s made it clear it’s counting on Android to fuel it. In the fourth-quarter of 2009 it did show signs of a revival. The company posted a profit and shipped two million Android devices around the world in the quarter, although it wasn’t enough for it to declare victory yet. (more…)
Related Topics: 3G/4G, All Stories, Mobile Apps, Wireless |
by Sarah ReedyFebruary 17th, 2010
Near-field communications, and mobile banking in general, get so much support from a wide swatch of pl
ayers, but is support enough? Not yet. Without NFC-enabled mobile phones, it’s a market that will never see its potential realized. But we are getting closer.
At Mobile World Congress this week the GSM Association launched what they’re billing as the first SIM-based NFC payment trial to drive NFC adoption and promised that phones would soon follow. The GSMA-hosted trial included handset maker Samsung, wireless operator Telefónica and financial companies Visa, G&D, Ingenico, ITN International and La Caixa. The companies loaded 400 Samsung Star NFC mobile phones with Telefónica SIM cards from O2 and Visa’s mobile payment application and gave them to MWC attendees to purchase goods totaling up to €75 from 30 locations within the conference. (more…)
Related Topics: 3G/4G, All Stories, Mobile Apps, Wireless |
