www.fiercewireless.com — Verizon Communications CFO John Killian said the telecom firm will keep its capital expenditures roughly flat in 2010, a sign Verizon Wireless’ LTE network buildout is not putting undue strain on the company’s resources… Continue…
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Nortel’s LTE patents generating big interest
www.fiercewireless.com — As Nortel Networks mulls what to do with its valuable LTE intellectual property, the vultures are beginning to circle… Continue…
AT&T chief: Industry moving toward usage-based pricing
www.fiercewireless.com — AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said he thinks the wireless industry is going to adopt usage-based pricing models for mobile data. While he did not provide specific plans for how AT&T Mobility might implement such pricing structures, he said there is a steady move toward those models… Continue…
Motorola may move new handset company to California
www.fiercewireless.com — Motorola may be following the 19th century dictate made famous by Horace Greeley: “Go West, young man!”… Continue…
AT&T steps into the Arena with latest LG phone
www.fiercewireless.com — AT&TMobility will launch its latest mobile TV-capable device, the LG Arena, next month, giving one of LG’s flagship devices its U.S. debut… Continue…
Trade commission investigating Apple’s claims against Nokia
SOURCE — The U.S. International Trade Commission said it will investigate Apple’s patent-infringement claims against Nokia, and decide whether to ban the U.S. importation of the infringing Nokia products. The decision comes roughly three weeks after the ITC said it would investigate Nokia’s own patent-infringement claims against Apple to determine whether imports of Apple devices should be banned… Continue…
Ericsson, Alca-Lu score LTE deal with AT&T
www.fiercewireless.com — Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent are big winners in the North American LTE race. AT&T announced this morning that the two firms will supply LTE radio access equipment for the company’s LTE deployment scheduled for 2011. Financial details of the two contracts were not revealed… Continue…
Alca-Lu exec: WiMAX has lost to LTE
www.fiercewireless.com — An Alcatel-Lucent executive sought to put more distance between the company and mobile WiMAX, arguing the wireless industry has clearly chosen LTE as the technology of choice for next-generation networks… Continue…
Motorola shifts gears in China, Lenovo stands firm
www.fiercewireless.com — Motorola inked a number of new deals in China for forthcoming Android products, actions that highlight the company’s plans to forge ahead in the country without the aid of Android backer Google. Specifically, Motorola said it would use China’s Baidu Internet search engine, or other search engines, instead of Google’s, and that it would open its own Android application storefront, called Shop4Apps… Continue…
AT&T, Verizon price cuts may have small impact on revenue
www.fiercewireless.com — The price cuts AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless made to their unlimited plans likely will not have much of a negative impact on their revenue, as market dynamics and the benefits accrued from the simplified pricing structure will offset most revenue losses. Meanwhile, with quarterly earnings announcements approaching, attention turned to pressure on margins at the nation’s two largest telcos… Continue…
Motorola targets RIM in latest patent spat
www.fiercewireless.com — Motorola filed a claim with the U.S. International Trade Commission against Research In Motion, arguing the BlackBerry maker is infringing on five of its patents. Motorola is seeking to bar the sale of the allegedly infringing products, though the company did not say which BlackBerry models it found at fault… Continue…
Clearwire laying foundation for new market launches in NYC, San Fran
www.fiercewireless.com — Flush with $2.8 billion in new investment, mobile WiMAX operator Clearwire is moving ahead with plans to cover 120 million POPs by the end of the year… Continue…
Verizon envisions usage-based model for LTE
www.fiercewireless.com — Verizon Wireless likely will introduce a usage-based pricing model when it launches its LTE network in commercial markets later this year, a Verizon executive said, lending credence to the idea that wireless carriers will increasingly adopt the model in the future… Continue…
MagicJack using GSM femtocell technology for VoIP
www.fiercewireless.com — MagicJack, the company behind the Internet calling device that works with analog desk phones, introduced a new gadget that essentially acts as a GSM femtocell that bypasses carriers, letting users make VoIP calls with their mobile phones… Continue…
T-Mobile upgrades 3G footprint to HSPA 7.2
www.fiercewireless.com — T-Mobile USA said it deployed HSPA 7.2 network technology–technically twice as fast as its previous 3G network–across its entire footprint… Continue…
Sprint expected to launch 3G/4G router
www.fiercewireless.com — Sprint Nextel is expected to announce a WiMAX/EV-DO pocket-sized router called the Overdrive from Sierra Wireless… Continue…
