T-Mobile May Squeeze 3G For the Last Drop of Capacity
Telephony Unfiltered
T-Mobile may be calling its souped-up 3G network by the 4G moniker today, but it could have plans to run actual 4G-like capacities over its high-speed packet access plus network in the future. The TmoNews blog today had an interesting photo, reportedly taken at a T-Mobile manager’s meeting, that showed T-Mobile increasing HSPA+ network [...]
No Stranger To Services, Best Buy Partners With Sprint To Offer Data Plans
MocoNews
Best Buy will launch its own mobile broadband data service on July 11 for some of the devices it sells in many of its big-box retail outlets. The story has been dribbling out over the past few weeks with Best Buy leaking the details itself in an ad that was picked up by Engadget, but [...]
Auctions Winding Down in Germany & India
Daily Wireless
The big German spectrum auction heads into week five, reports Light Reading, and the bidding has just passed the €3 billion (US$3.9 billion) mark after 161 rounds. Total bids so far on Monday morning came to €3.09 billion ($4.02 billion), and the bidding is still going on among the four participating German operators — [...]
Sprint Bails on the Google Nexus One
PhoneScoop
Google has removed any and all reference to the Sprint/CDMA variant of the Google Nexus One from its Nexus One web site. Verizon Wireless also decided it would pass on offering the device, having replaced it with the more powerful HTC Droid Incredible.
Topics: CDMA, Sprint
DoT Rebuffs SSTL Request for More CDMA Spectrum
Telegeography
India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has rejected a call from mobile network operator Sistema Shyam Teleservices (SSTL) for additional 2G spectrum, the Economic Times reports. SSTL, which operates under the MTS India banner, had requested that the government increase the spectrum awarded to CDMA-based cellcos from 2.5MHz for each circle to 3.75MHz, noting that under [...]
MTS Ukraine Loses 500,000 Customers
Telegeography
Cellco MTS Ukraine has reported that it lost a net 550,000 mobile subscribers in 2009 to leave it with 17.56 million active customer accounts at the end of December, down 3.1% year-on-year. Meanwhile, the number of subscribers to the operator’s 450MHz CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Rev A-based mobile broadband service ‘MTS Connect 3G’ reached 140,000 at the [...]
Nortel’s Name Likely To Disappear
Telephony Unfiltered
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.
Topics: VoIP, telecom, wireless, CDMA, Avaya, GSM, Ericsson, Nortel
Skype, Verizon to Hold Joint Press Event at Mobile World Congress
Verizon Wireless, a CDMA operator in the process of transitioning to LTE on the 700 MHz band, and Skype, a company who disrupted both landline and mobile operators with their free, extremely high quality calls, are holding a joint press conference at Mobile World Congress, an event that mainly highlights innovation in the European, Middle [...]
AT&T: T-Mobile’s Perfect Merger Partner?
IPO and merger talks are again swirling around T-Mobile USA, the latest reports coming from the Wall Street Journal that parent Deutsche Telekom (NYSE:DT) is thinking about some sort of full or partial divestiture. So what would that mean for T-Mobile here? It depends on what approach DT takes.
Topics: 4G, wireless, USA, T-Mobile, MetroPCS, CDMA, Sprint, [...]
Global Smartphone Shipments Jump 30% in Q4 2009
The latest research from Strategy Analytics says that the global smartphone shipments grew 30% year-over-year, to reach a record 53 million units in Q4 2009.
Topics: cellular, wireless, Nokia, Apple, smartphone, handset, CDMA, iPhone, Google
Ericsson Nortel CDMA-LTE Acquisition Finalized
Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) today officially closed its acquisition of Nortel’s CDMA business and long-term evolution assets, allowing it to assume the mantle of largest telecom equipment vendor in North America.
Topics: Google, ISP, China, North America, 4G, Nortel, telecom, USA, wireless, Nokia
TelOne Will Expand CDMA Coverage – When Funds Available
ZimGuardian.com reports that Zimbabwe’s national PTO TelOne is ‘at an advanced stage’ in its plans to expand its coverage of CDMA-based wireless in the local loop (WiLL) services countrywide, but can only proceed when the necessary funds become available.
Topics: CDMA, wireless, telecom, TelOne
Nordic-Based Telenor Rejects Ericsson & Nokia Gear
Telenor, Norway’s largest mobile operator with 2.98 million subscribers and a 55 percent market share, announced today that it will replace its entire mobile infrastructure in its home market of Norway, with Huawei and Starent gear for its mobile network.
Topics: China, Taiwan, satellite, Europe, wireless, WiMax, femtocell, Verizon, Ericsson, Nokia
Verizon’s Prepaid Data for Laptops
Verizon Wireless today announced it will offer customers a prepaid wireless broadband option for their laptops. It compliments Verizon’s prepaid phone plans. The monthly plan costs $50 for 500 MB of data usage.
Topics: HSPA, pre-paid, Verizon, CDMA, MetroPCS, text messaging, T-Mobile, DSL, Virgin Mobile, Sprint
Nokia Siemens Networks Launches Cell Tower That Can Handle 80% More Traffic
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Siemens Networks (NSN) has just launched their “High-Performance Site Solution”. It’s basically a cell tower on steroids.
Topics: cell tower, 4G, WCDMA, cellular, wireless, broadband, Nokia, CDMA
