Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) News
CES: Wi-Fi Direct gains momentum, consumer acceptance
Support for Wi-Fi Direct, the Wi-Fi Alliance’s new initiative to connect consumer-electronic devices directly to one another without use of an access point, has been growing – both from device makers and consumers....
Google reinvents mobile pricing, purchasing
Google officially announced the Nexus One today, including a Google Web store for purchasing the phone, carrier service...
Mobile data set to explode – this Friday, AT&T hopes not literally
Two reports today outline how mobile Internet usage will explode, as well as what carriers should be doing about it ...
How fring aims to revive cell-phone video calling
Mobile voice-over IP (VoIP) provider fring beat Skype to the punch in introducing a wireless industry first this week. The company first enabled two-way video calls on several Nokia Symbian S60 devices...
Defining open mobile
Battles between developers wanting to take advantage of the new capabilities of increasingly powerful 3G networks and carriers needing to maintain control...
Ruckus targets WiFi at last-mile access
Combining its beamforming technology with 802.11n’s increased range, Ruckus Wireless is positioning WiFi as an alternative to wireless wide-area network technologies...
Wi-Fi Alliance outlines WiFi’s role in the smart grid
Today kicks off the first meeting of the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) and governing board meeting at the Grid-Interop show in Denver. Organized by the National Institute of Standards and Technology...
inCode predicts wireless inflection point in 2010
inCode’s wireless predictions for 2010 include a rise in netbooks, a fall in smartphones and a shake-up in wireless pricing....
Fiber-fed wholesale wireless backhaul market takes off
Qwest, Level 3 and Verizon are offering backhaul under glass....
Google’s Cerf calls for spectrum sharing
Google’s Vint Cerf says spectrum is inefficiently utilized today due to the single operator-single license system....
Subscriber slowdown marks Q3 for small carriers
Most prepaid and Tier 2 wireless operators lost subscribers or saw a marked slowdown, as competition rages....
The magic of the Microcell
AT&T’s ambitions for its new femtocell may seem modest today, but the Microcell could become another pillar in AT&T’s dual-network strategy....
Blabbelon uses Skype, P2T to connect gamers
VoIP start-up used Skype's SILK audio codec to connect online gamers through "one giant online walkie talkie"...
VZW: Droid won’t strain 3G network
Verizon is counting on the new Android-powered smartphone being as successful as the iPhone, but unlike AT&T, VZW believes it can handle the enormous surge in network data traffic that will accompany it...
Genband, Kineto start voice-over-LTE trials with T-Mobile
Genband and Kineto Wireless are conducting one of the first trials of the proposed voice over LTE via the generic access network, or VoLGA, standard...
Verizon launches first quad-play bundle
The much-vaunted "quad play" has finally landed at Verizon, which today unveiled its first "quad play" bundles, available initially in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states. ...
CellTrust Unveils secure SMS
Secure mobile messaging and applications provider CellTrust introduced an enterprise appliance that enables encrypted SMS messages from handset to handset, application to handset or vice versa...
Cisco: Starent purchase ‘completes’ the mobile core
Cisco Systems’ mobile radio access business may be limited to WiMax, but it has much greater ambitions for the mobile packet core. If its $2.9 billion acquisition of the Starent Networks goes through, it will have filled in the remaining holes in its 3G and 4G core product portfolio, which, according to Cisco, will allow it to offer an end-to-end mobile core solution...
Q&A: NSN CEO, ex-CEO stress importance of US, services
While Beresford-Wylie will stay on until the end of the month to ensure a smooth transition, head of NSN service’s business Rajeev Suri has taken up the CEO mantle....
Perfect intersection: M2M and the supply chain
Telecom service providers have had mixed success providing supply chain services – usually in the form of hosted apps. Leveraging machine-to-machine communications to help companies track in-transit goods worldwide could be the killer app that helps change all that...
