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3 February, 2010
 
  Nokia sees impressive Q4 rebound, then unleashes the price war
  Mergers, reunions and break-ups: the UK mobile market transforms
  Android community chases Apple’s user experience ‘magic’
  Auctions must be decoupled to release brakes on mobile broadband
  AT&T wireline resilient, but its investment priority has to be wireless
  ARM promises new processors and better 2010 results
  Clearwire gains market confidence as others eye its multi-provider model
  DoCoMo plans dramatic shift to SIM-only plans
  Cisco weighs in on smart grid aspects of US broadband plan
  Nokia Siemens falls further behind Huawei with 18% sales drop
  Spidercloud and ip.access target wireless enterprise
  OK Labs and Citrix turn the phone into a web PC
  DoCoMo pushes ahead of the market on LTE devices
  Worth Noting February 3 2010
 
 
27 January, 2010
 
  Apple plays it safe with iPad, refusing to shift the goalposts
  Verizon’s results highlight huge dependence on mobile data
  No surprise, but Telia’s LTE network isn’t as fast as promised
  Oracle-Sun merger cleared: mobile impact slow burning but serious
  Maps and emerging markets: Nokia’s biteback at Android
  Ericsson suffers 92% profits drop but maintains lead over Huawei
  Softbank could get 4G by the back door with Willcom rescue plan
  Updated Palm phones are the latest to double as portable hotspots
  Motorola latest on legal bandwaggon, suing RIM
  Cellcos launch new inhouse brands to target new markets
  Vivendi looks to enter “hyper-competitive” Indian market
  Technologies that will turn up in this year’s smartphones?
  INQ prepares to expand into US and Asia
  Microsoft: two WinMo 7s and an Apple search deal?
  Opera buys into mobile advertising to monetize browser
  Second time around, BSNL selects WiMAX partners
  WiMAX and Wi-Fi in Brief January 27 2010
  Worth Noting January 27 2010
 
 
20 January, 2010
 
  Could Samsung and LiMO turn Google’s China row to advantage?
  Could Motorola’s Android Shadow double as Nexus Two?
  Apple versus Nokia: content model will be key to the outcome
  Ovi Store for Maemo:
  Nokia’s latest patent:
  Amdocs aims to transform carriers, and itself, with ‘customer experience platform’
  Midrange is new handset hotbed, as US carriers’ new plans show
  Intel’s strong Q4 doesn’t mask its uphill battle for low power markets
  3 Scandinavia and Telstra in tussle for HSPA+ leadership
  Sprint and Clearwire could tap WalMart and Google for WiMAX expansion
  Vodafone revs up UK femtocell program
  Carlos Slim to create Latin American quad play powerhouse
  Indonesia first with latest CDMA release, but sticks to older WiMAX
  Ericsson’s key services business gets new chief
  Motorola puts sale of networks arm on hold, reports say
  Satellite sidelined in new round of US stimulus awards?
  Apple seeks to block Nokia imports, Nokia scores in Europe
  WirelessHD standard makes progress, driven by SiBeam
  Orange extends its MVNE deal with Transatel
  O2 comes full circle with fixed voice services
  Operator News in Brief:
  Russia to auction 2.3GHz spectrum but obstacles remain
  Full Spectrum brings WiMAX to smart grids
  WiMAX and Wi-Fi in Brief:
  Worth Noting:
 
 
13 January, 2010
 
  AT&T cuts iPhone umbilical cord, as mobile software fragments again
  Symbian 3 due next month, WinMo 7 may be way behind
  Souped-up iPhone could appear as early as April
  Four OSs and over 30 models lead LG’s smartphone charge
  Can Intel really make it back into the smartphone market?
  GSMA research shows why carriers shouldn’t ignore 2.6GHz auctions
  NSN elbows into Telia’s LTE deal:
  Bell Labs leads push for thousandfold energy reduction in telecoms
  Clearwire and Sprint expand their business models with WiMAX
  Google’s Nexus angers users, developers and even Android vendors
  Bharti expands in Bangladesh and app stores, but still waiting for 3G
  TransferJet on the verge of commercial reality
  ETRI action sees IPR balance of power shifting in Korea’s favor
  MetroPCS’ slowdown points to the bursting of the flat rate bubble
  CES: round-up of the latest ereaders and tablets
  Verizon points to usage-based pricing for LTE
  All three carriers must work to boost TD-SCDMA, says China
  DoCoMo promises lightweight phones with multiband amp
  Kineto moves into carrier offload
  Stoke wins LTE gateway deal at DoCoMo
  Ericsson buys Italian integrator to boost services
  Gemini increases R&D to tap into huge Indian WiMAX opportunity
 
 
6 January, 2010
 
  Nexus One may carry the seeds of Android’s destruction
  Mobile data offload is essential, whether vendors like it or not
  CES: Tablets and smartbooks take center stage
  CES: Sprint and Clearwire bring WiMAX to the CE world
  Nokia takes on Apple, but Samsung is the real threat
  Google and Apple go to war on apps and ads, as well as phones
  Telefonica buys Jajah for Telco 2.0 strategy at O2
  DoCoMo turns to remote radio heads for LTE strategy
  Bluetooth standard gains low energy mode
  Quantenna puts in its bid for the wireless home with reference design
  Palm’s awful quarter in sad contrast to a buoyant Q3 at RIM
  Nortel’s break-up almost over, Huawei rubs salt in the wound
  Qualcomm loses COO to Memjet
  Free gets fourth 3G license in France and could trigger price war
  Vodafone strengthens Turkish arm with backhaul buy
  Operator News in Brief January 6 2010
  Indian 3G auction pushed back to February
  W-CDMA base stations to drive market for years
  Huawei beats Ericsson in Sweden
  LTE and HSPA+ in Brief January 6 2010
  Taiwan’s WiMAX operators likely to consolidate
  WiMAX and Wi-Fi in Brief January 6 2010
  Worth Noting January 6 2010
 
 
16 December, 2009
 
  Google ‘mobile lab’ highlights Android conflicts; LiMO should exploit them
  LTE gets first live network, WiMAX adds India – both face big 2010 challenges
  Prepare for stand-off at the top, as Nokia and Samsung load their weapons
  Nortel is gone, Motorola could break into four: a year of turmoil in networks
  T-Mobile kicks off femto interoperability tests, Ubiquisys turns to software
  BSNL goes live with first Mobile WiMAX network in India
  Sony Ericsson supports Java as the antidote to fragmentation
  TeliaSonera – first live LTE network:
  Apple countersues Nokia on 13 patent counts
  Two more candidates vye for wireless HD video standard
  Wireless and TV sectors in uneasy truce on spectrum inventory
  Broadcom ups the ante in mobile multimedia processors
  Synaptics’ concept ‘squeeze-phone’ brings touch to all surfaces
  Opera offers cross-platform UI to OEMs, Fennec coming up behind
  Nokia and Samsung both invest in Swype
  Cellcos ride out recession with cutbacks, but these can’t last
  AT&T sounds deathknell for unlimited data plans
  Operator News in Brief December 16 2009
  India insists 3G auction will be on time, may act against tariff war
  LTE and HSPA+ in Brief December 16 2009
  Spanish WiMAX contract is ZTE’s largest ever European deal
  WiMAX and Wi-Fi in Brief December 16 2009
  Worth Noting December 16 2009
 
 
2 December, 2009
 
  Capital Markets Day: Handsets will grow 10% in 2010, but Nokia will be a firm in transition
  Google looks beyond Android for magic mix of openness and control
  Clearwire’s end of year report card: Stage set for scores of partnerships at home and abroad
  India gives clues to the wireless vendors’ new landscape
  LTE will create more silicon shake-up, and chances for WiMAX players
  Nortel GSM buys fills voice switching gap for Ericsson
  Sale of Japan’s Willcom could signal final death of PHS
  Spanish cablecos could form Clearwire-style group in 2.6GHz
  Tele2 is frontrunner to go national at Russia’s new auctions
  Nokia joins AT&T in suing LCD display makers for alleged cartel
  Philips and Vodafone step up mobile healthcare efforts
  Kroes takes on Europe’s digital agenda as new telecoms laws approved
  Access Linux appears in first phone, LiMO may be its best hope
  FCC chief calls for more spectrum and new funds for broadband
  Baidu to challenge Google with preloaded search engine
  Microsoft pushes mobile store concept to enterprise with Pinpoint
  Orascom eyes midsized merger, Bouygues says ‘non’
  O2 launches personalized mobile ads service
  International players pour funds into India
  Operator News in Brief December 2 2009
  China’s 3G spend to hit $6.3bn this year, down slightly in 2010
  Lenovo buys back its mobile arm for new cellphone assault
  Decouple WiMAX and 3G auctions in India, says Forum
  US broadband stimulus awards delayed again
  3Com’s new WLan range complicates HP deal
  WiMAX and Wi-Fi in Brief December 2 2009
  Worth Noting December 2 2009
 
 
25 November, 2009
 
  Flat rates out, premium user experience in: cellcos prepare their defense
  Single OS dream is dead – cloudbooks and phones have contrasting needs
  European Union and Ericsson abandon actions against Qualcomm
  Google and the chipmakers aim to harness mobile multicore
  Ericsson vs Huawei: US, financing and LTE are this month’s battles
  ZigBee and Z-Wave in smart grid stand-off, with Wi-Fi the wild card
  More upheaval expected among the US’ six main cellcos
  Nokia and Infineon work on gigabit MID silicon designs
  Murdoch enlists Microsoft in fight against Google and free content
  iPhone spreads its wings but anger with App Store mounts
  Sony Ericsson sticks with Android, hits Satio problems
  RadioFrame: ahead of its time in the mobile enterprise
  Finland auctions 4G spectrum, but Germany’s plans hit legal barrier
  Ovi Store gains momentum but Sony plans its own mobile shopfront
  Is the Wi-Fi Flip Cisco’s first step to a smartphone?
  SFR goes live with femtocells, rejects quad play
  Indian price war mounts, auction could be delayed again
  Operator News in Brief November 25 2009
  Alcatel-Lucent first to complete LTE data call at 800MHz
  Korea adopts new band plan to boost WiBro
  Sequans gets Motorola and ALU support for R&D push
  WiMAX and Wi-Fi in Brief November 25 2009
  Wireless Watch November 25 2009
 
 
16 November, 2009
 
  Wireless vendors in further turmoil; will Motorola exit infrastructure?
  Qualcomm remains patent leader in LTE; signs big three phonemakers
  Ericsson to use Redback acquisition for LTE core challenge
  Interoperability and reference designs – femtocells get ready for volume
  Qualcomm to launch TD-SCDMA and TD-LTE next year
  Carrier Wi-Fi enjoys revival in broadband access and utilities
  Qualcomm focuses on LTE and HSPA+, but CDMA soldiers on
  CDMA group focuses on 3G survival and new markets
  Amimon shifts focus to Wi-Fi as Sony drops it for WirelessHD
  Google’s new programming language will target mobile world
  Weather balloons no longer a crazy idea for rural coverage
  3 is latest to adopt traffic shaping for data explosion
  Silicon Image eyes new opportunities in all-in-one smartphones
  Microsoft loses more mobile share, RIM looks resilient
  HD voice comes to Android, but can it really save voice revenues?
  Wireless will be key overlap area in HP-3Com merger
  Android reduces value of Microsoft’s search alliance with Verizon
  Flurry says Droid is fastest selling Android phone to date
  Nokia unveils a low cost DVB-H phone at last
  China Mobile and Claro Brazil launch Dell’s first phone
  Telcos are failing to innovate, says Accenture
  Operator News in Brief November 18 2009
  India aims to open new bands “quickly” after January auctions
  Samsung sees WiMAX as its chance to be an infrastructure leader
  UK begins consultation on white spaces spectrum
  Worth Noting November 18 2009
  WiMAX and Wi-Fi in Brief November 18 2009
 
 
11 November, 2009
 
  Samsung’s Bada: why does the OS matter in the smartphone mass market?
  What becomes of MontaVista’s handset strategy after Cavium buy?
  Google intrudes further on the cellco’s business with AdMob and Gizmo5 buys
  Huawei gets Telenor LTE deal, but Cisco may be the real winner
  One Voice initiative looks to make IMS more usable for LTE
  Vodafone’s stable results achieved with cost cutting not services
  Samsung deal boosts Qualcomm’s rocky Korean fortunes
  Vodafone and BT create platforms in the cloud
  Death of TMo’s myFaves is more than the end of a calling option
  Clearwire gets a further $1.5bn as it sticks to aggressive coverage plan
  Financing, franchises, leasing – the cellco’s changing vendor relationship
  Consolidation looms as Indian cellcos resort to per-second billing
  Huawei, ALU and even Intel may eye Indian equipment ventures
  Could mobile satellite operators provide FCC with the spectrum it needs?
  Google calls for open spectrum rules, enabled by OFDM
  RIM and Palm try to dilute the downsides of single-vendor OSs
  Mobility should strengthen Cisco’s UC challenge to Microsoft
  Qualcomm to debut first smartbook platform tomorrow
  Data caps could give RIM a new day in the smartphone sun
  HTC’s HD2 with internal router is latest bid to revive 2010 fortunes
  Tower sharing could cut cellco costs by $8bn in MEA
  Operator News in Brief November 11 2009
  Alvarion shares rise on strong WiMAX outlook despite cautious Q3
  WiMAX and Wi-Fi in Brief November 11 2009
  Worth Noting November 11 2009
 
 
4 November, 2009
 
  Google gets its place in the sun with carriers, Nokia courts AT&T
  Strong Android phones, but will this be enough for Motorola and SEMC?
  Start-ups Spidercloud and AirHop eye carriers’ shift to small cells
  BT Ribbit highlights a non-Google option for carriers in Voice 2.0
  ALU focuses on vision as loss quadruples, NSN more pragmatic
  Atheros targets high and low end of 11n market with 2010 line-up
  Orange adds to TD-LTE hopes of a global ecosystem
  Juniper goes it alone for packet core with universal edge approach
  Novatel’s MiFi opportunity may have a short shelf life
  New licenses and MVNO deals mark a new start for WiBro
  Bluetooth SIG transfers affections from UWB to 60GHz
  Indonesian Life Tools launch shows Nokia’s real differentiator
  Verizon Wireless supports touch optimized Microsoft Bing
  CDMA body joins 3GPP on road to 4G
  HSPA and LTE in Brief November 4 2009
  Augere raises funds to step up international WiMAX push
  Intel could take part in Indian spectrum bid with major cellco
  Cablevision talks up the Wi-Fi option for quad play
  WiMAX in Brief November 4 2009
  Worth Noting November 4 2009
 
 
28 October, 2009
 
  Symbian releases open kernel and signs key carriers for Horizon
  M&A: Amdocs and Tellabs target new-look cellco supply chain
  Nokia sues Apple for patent infringement, will others follow?
  Verizon and AT&T look to new networks and quad play for future growth
  Google pushes free model into navigation and music, more to come
  Google’s latest spectrum venture could be in India
  Marvell Armada and ARM’s Sparrow up the ante against Atom
  Recession hits Ericsson at last, but ZTE looks immune
  US carriers set for holiday smartphone stand-off
  picoChip extends femtocell’s reach to outdoor and rural networks
  US net neutrality plans faces opposition, but Europe avoids the issue
  LG phone sales soar, HTC adopts new global branding
  Vendors vye to outdo one another in LTE ‘world firsts’
  Mobile flat at Microsoft, Zune to come to WinMo 7
  Netbook bundling could open the back door for US mobile TV
  Level 3 adds to wave of new options for US wireless backhaul
  Clearwire to hit target of 25 live markets this year
  First white spaces network live in Virginia
 
 
21 October, 2009
 
  After Q3 problems, Nokia moves CFO to sourcing: watch for chip changes
  RAD: Operators ready for Carrier Ethernet, to address LTE ‘intelligence crunch’
  Will Google really create a ‘gPhone’ to wrongfoot Apple?
  Ericsson results may highlight NSN’s weakness as Nokia takes huge writedown
  New hopes for WiMAX as UK makes rules for 2.6GHz and 3.5GHz
  Samsung preserves proprietary OS with multiplatform store for carriers
  IDT sale plan shows new interest in LMDS for mobile backhaul
  Spotify ties with 3 to shake up mobile content market further
  Off-grid mobile charging to power $2.3bn opportunity
  Bluetooth Low Energy to reach handsets in 2010
  Ericsson signs Chinese partner to boost social nets strategy
  Verizon follows AT&T into the quad play
  Sprint acquires last affiliate to end lawsuits
  Chinese operators’ profits hit by marketing costs
  Operator News in Brief October 21 2009
  Vendor labs already look towards LTE Advanced
  Airvana says smartphones, not dongles, are the danger for mobile networks
  Clearwire ratings boosted as Time Warner Cable announces launch
  WiMAX in Brief October 21 2009
  Worth Noting October 21 2009
 
 
14 October, 2009
 
  Mobile Linux choices proliferate as fragmentation risk mounts
  Cisco buys Starent, boosting 4G strategy and outsmarting Juniper
  Is smartphone differentiation all about software? Samsung says no
  Atom boosts Intel again, but it has uphill battle against ARM
  Marvell puts a hotspot into a handset as Wi-Fi Direct emerges
  New CEO ‘class of 2009’ takes over in wireless
  Operators fear there will be no LTE devices until 2011
  Femto Forum announces first plugfest in push to standards economics
  Sidekick outage shows dark side of the cloud, as Vodafone piles in
  Microsoft promises first Windows Mobile reference designs
  Orange UK joins 3 and O2 in bid to take control of MVNOs
  Nokia and Motorola see a way to get their Turkish money back at last
  Sprint loses Amazon, but may win Barnes & Noble
  T-Mobile USA undecided on 4G strategy
  AT&T doesn’t break even on iPhone until month 17
  Orange-TMo UK venture could face hurdles
  Operator News in Brief October 14 2009
  Alcatel-Lucent breaks into China Telecom’s Rev B trials
  Germany may face EC legal action over auction
  ST-Ericsson’s TD-HSPA module brings new Chinese progress
  WiMAX Forum submits ‘WiMAX 2.0’ as official 4G standard
  Airspan bounces back with hat trick of deals
  Brocade replaces Meru with Motorola for enterprise WLans
  WiMAX in Brief October 14 2009
  Worth Noting October 14 2009
 
 
7 October, 2009
 
  Verizon/Google versus AT&T/Apple: the mobile web game polarizes
  Palm’s revised webOS developer program looks more open than Google
  Clearwire and Yota extend their reach as flagwavers for new WiMAX models
  Alcatel-Lucent extends ng Connect as Telco 2.0 becomes real
  Nokia Qt and Adobe Flash Player 10 sit above the OS wars
  Windows Mobile 6.5 debuts, gets slots with top three US carriers
  ITU: Africa offers greatest mobile potential, Asian vendors rise to challenge
  Indian 3G and WiMAX auctions both hit further delays as price war escalates
  ZTE looks to LTE and Europe to gain top three place in devic
  Japan orders Qualcomm to change its cross-licensing deals
  EU’s GPS augmentation system paves way for Galileo
  Motorola and China Mobile demonstrate TD-LTE for first time
  GSM business latest to be put on block by Nortel
  ARM ups the low power ante on Atom with GlobalFoundries deal
  Nokia joins Wireless Power Consortium
  MediaFLO gains its first handheld device
  More details of Apple ‘iPad’ leak
  SiBeam tries to stay ahead of the big guns in WirelessHD
  T-Mobile UK reports best ever month of subscriber growth
  Operator News in Brief October 7 2009
  Seacom undersea cable will enable host of African WiMAX launches
  WiMAX in Brief October 7 2009
  Worth Noting October 7 2009
 
 
30 September, 2009
 
  Vodafone ensures Android’s victory in mobile Linux is not a done deal
  iPhone goes non-exclusive in UK, another signal for smartphone price war
  Telefonica shows how LTE economics need multinational trials
  European carriers ‘keep the enemy close’ by launching inhouse MVNOs
  Google in uneasy position in open voice and browser debates
  EchoStar leads satellite related bids for stimulus funding
  MTN-Bharti deal fall through again on day of deadline
  Former BT CTO boosts Huawei’s global credentials
  Broadcom’s latest ARM deal could signal move into netbooks
  White spaces and 700MHz D Block could be part of new US spectrum plan
  Standards group formed for HD links between phones and TVs
  Sweden announces proposals for digital dividend spectrum
  France Telecom looks for further European joint ventures
  Operator News in Brief September 30 2009
  Verizon steps on LTE accelerator
  TD-LTE proof of concept completed as China Mobile waits eagerly
  India aims to open up more 2G spectrum
  IDF: Intel’s commitment to WiMAX undimmed
  WiMAX in Brief September 30 2009
  Worth Noting September 30 2009
 
 
23 September, 2009
 
  4G World: US cellcos mull neutrality, upgrades, M&A and Clearwire
  Favorite rumors – Apple tablet, MS handset, now an MS tablet?
  Samsung steps up challenge to Snapdragon in gigahertz phones
  IDF: Ericsson and Intel eye new breed of embedded devices
  Comcast turns investor attention to mobile cable
  IDF: Intel shows app store and new user experience for Moblin
  4G World: WiMAX shows off a shiny new device ecosystem
  Adobe adds software distribution service for mobile and social nets
  Handset software platforms try to build up developer constituencies
  After the hype, M2M sees a little bounce
  China Mobile and NSN demonstrate LTE femtocell
  Palm dumps WinMo amid mystery of ‘missing Pres’
  Amid increased losses and confusion over the performance to date of the Pre, Palm has confirmed it will dump Windows Mobile entirely, to focus only on
  Ubiquisys and FON propose shared femtocell approach
  Linux Foundation is latest in ARM’s web of mobile alliances
  China Mobile crosses half-billion mark
  Vodafone rebrands, but UK mobile broadband claims disappoint
  Huawei promises 56Mbps HSPA+ next year
  Sweden introduces new spectrum model, probes LTE deal
 
 
16 September, 2009
 
  China Mobile embraces Symbian, highlighting all carriers’ dilemmas
  Motorola’s first Android phone rides mobile social wave, but better to come
  Three or four networks per operator, all with small cells: the face of 4G?
  Home Gateway Initiative prepares for multiple wireless links
  HSPA and LTE in Brief September 16 2009
  Major reorganization highlights Intel’s new approach to mobility
  Why should the US stimulus rules change for the big carriers?
  Is Deutsche Telekom looking to mirror UK TMo deal in the US?
  European Commission mulls ‘devil’s advocate’ probe for Qualcomm
  AT&T may keep iPhone, otherwise it will go non-exclusive by mid-2010
  Atheros and IBM make new deals to support powerline
  GSMA backs IMB standard for next mobile TV push
  DoCoMo bids for Net Mobile to boost content strategy
  Vodafone brings convergence to SMEs
  Indian 3G date set, but Chinese trial shows survival of EDGE
  AT&T names the first six cities to get HSPA upgrade
  WiChorus scores again and Sandvine upgrades DPI box
  After seven years, 802.11n is finally ratified
 
 
9 September, 2009
 
  Nokia World: progress in tools and services, but real breakthrough to wait for 2011
  Massive operator deals define BRIC markets, but has Motorola missed out?
  T-Mobile looks like lead carrier for Motorola Android, Sprint takes Hero
  Taiwanese ODMs under pressure from vendors’ midmarket plans
  Intel offers preview of enhancements to Moblin 2.0 Linux
  DoCoMo heads effort to make IMS more relevant to mobile web strategies
  Huawei’s mixed bag: LTE patent gains, Indian battles, what about AT&T?
  Cellco mergers – Orange/T-Mobile good; AT&T/Leap bad
  Confusion over LG-Nortel bidders as consolidation rumors persist
  Clearwire takes open approach with WiChorus core network deal
  Seven’s Vivid unit takes WiMAX up against Australia’s cellcos
  Near-global acceptance puts new momentum behind WirelessHD
  MediaFLO to go direct to consumer with portable media player
  Things are looking up at last for Freescale
  Sony Ericsson continues brand revamp with ‘make.believe’
  Qualcomm drives down power in body area networks
  Vendors make big claims for wireless broadband in Paris
  Nokia follows Samsung in announcing LTE modem
  Operator News in Brief September 9 2009
  PureWave promises macrocell performance in picocell package
  Worth Noting September 9 2009
 
 
2 September, 2009
 
  Nokia World: booklets, Facebook and emerging markets support Ovi push
  Clearwire reshuffles executive team to face transitional challenges
  Wireless upheaval continues - NSN chief departs, ALU could face bids
  Contrasting widget strategies may bring Microsoft and Samsung into conflict
  India’s MTS first to commit to new CDMA standard
  Sony teams with AT&T and fires first shot in ebook wars
  This week Sony rolled back the years and came out fighting, using its power as an established consumer electronics manufacturer to undercut the new Am
  Apple could end all exclusives next year to chase market share
  OPhone versus iPhone: Chinese 3G stand-off begins
  Motorola Android phones to debut on September 10
  Japanese handset makers mull three-way merger
  Femtocells poised for growth as coverage becomes cellco differentiator
  Applications total seven times more than US stimulus fund available
  Indian auction finally looms, AT&T courts BSNL deal
  Motorola to put Blockbusters on handsets
  Verizon Wireless pushes data plans with midrange phones
  TeliaSonera acquires in neighboring Baltic states
  Sprint and T-Mobile make latest M2M alliances
  Operator News in Brief September 2 2009
  French cellcos gang up on government’s auction plans
  Europe sets up fund for LTE Advanced research
  HSPA and LTE in Brief September 2 2009
  ZTE building Ukraine WiMAX network for broadband
  WiMAX in Brief September 2 2009
  Worth Noting September 2 2009
 
 
19 August, 2009
 
  Nokia Office deal sounds early deathknell for Windows Mobile
  Rich browsers and ‘light’ apps will chip away at Apple’s walled garden
  New chief for Sony Ericsson, Palm and Nokia under fire
  IPR: Nokia scores in US, Qualcomm attacked in Japan, both look to LTE
  DirecTV leads latest operator bid to create unified content experience
  Zune HD almost as critical to Nvidia as Microsoft
  Verizon will go head-to-head with Clearwire in Boston and Seattle
  Silicon Valley to be largest R&D center with the ‘IPfication’ of Ericsson
  3 Group goes back on 2009 breakeven plan, but remains disruptive
  NSN, Sonus and Ericsson all touted for further Nortel units
  Warner deal enhances Cisco’s hosted services credentials
  Turk Telekom uses Wi-Fi to counter Turkcell’s 3G assault
  Apple and Facebook promise updates to mobile social experience
  Verizon contest makes BlackBerry the centerpiece of new apps strategy
  China sets aggressive 3G targets again
  Wprth Noting August 19 2009
 
 
12 August, 2009
 
  Nokia won’t dump Symbian, but winning the Linux fight is key too
  Nortel loses CEO, Motorola treads water – can anyone stop Huawei?
  Google boosts Android with On2 buy, while Japan looks to CE markets
  Creative Technology ups the ante for Android
  Dell and Motorola Android specs hit the blogs
  Clearwire reaches tipping point, adding Huawei for next phase roll-out
  UK market shows smaller cellcos how to leverage bundles and media
  Even Sprint looks good compared to US’ tier two carriers
  Apple may develop digital payments platform
  China Mobile lines up smartphones and app store to boost 3G
  Nokia targets youth market with new music and video offerings
  Sprint allies with Samsung for green handsets and new screens
  O2 latest operator to turn to mapping for new ARPU
  Operator News in Brief August 12 2009
  EMobile leapfrogs larger Japanese rivals with HSPA+
  Nokia to offer Microsoft Office on handsets
  HSPA and LTE in Brief August 12 2009
  MTNL seeks WiMAX partner, amid further license confusion in India
  Korean operators threatened with loss of WiBro licenses
  WiMAX in Brief August 12 2009
  Worth Noting August 12 2009
 
 
6 August, 2009
 
  Motorola up, HTC down: Android the common factor
  Apple’s exclusive model still works in US, but doesn’t replicate elsewhere
  US bounceback, India and services key to ALU’s surprise Q1
  Vodafone starts to counter mobile saturation with quad play plans
  Nortel could survive as a licensing business
  WiMAX may break into China after all, but India remains crucial
  Palm steps up iTunes row as Apple faces cloud music dilemmas
  Vodafone’s Madrid R&D center pushes forward in green base stations
  Ballmer dismisses thin clients but admits WinMo challenges
  Regulators and price wars force European carriers to widen horizons
  Qualcomm defines new role for Brew in open smartphone world
  Apple books up most of Toshiba’s flash memory capacity
  Third MVNO, and 10 more markets, go live at Clearwire
  Prepaid price war and barrage of handsets hit US holiday season
  Freescale in U-turn over cellphone unit sale
  Nokia may be gearing up for wider money services
  Samsung takes new steps towards full app store
  Google makes truce with Facebook for Android app
  Pre uptake mainly coming from Palm base
  Genachowski confirms probe into handset exclusives
  Operator News in Brief August 5 2009
  DoCoMo’s profits slump but it sticks to LTE timeline
  India proposes no increase in WiMAX spectrum reserve price
  WiMAX in Brief August 5 2009
  Worth Noting August 5 2009
 
 
29 July, 2009
 
  US cellco special focus: Big two increasingly pull away from the pack with new services and devices
  North America lifts Ericsson’s Q2; main motive for its Nortel deal
  Korean chip venture spells new challenge for Qualcomm
  Android needs delayed release 2.0 to be ready for the big time
  European Union paves way for region-wide mobile internet
  Initial 3G uptake disappoints in China, as operators eye next steps
  Latest BSNL deal highlights appeal of India’s ITI
  Next WiMAX standard moves closer to reality
  Vodafone bows under UK pressure, but TMo deal “not imminent”
  Google seeks role in defining US national broadband policy
  Bluetooth finds new home in ‘Television 2.0’
  Patent holder seeks US ban on devices with Samsung Nand flash
  Nokia buys social net start-up and offers Ovi commissions
  Apple turns hostile to Google Voice in App Store
  P2P not biggest strain on network now
  Alcatel-Lucent boosts edge routers and moves closer to core
  HSPA baseline is now 7.2Mbps, says GSA
  Huawei opens Texas LTE lab
  Sprint pushes Pre’s enterprise credentials
  Turkcell may share 3G networks
  Operator News in Brief July 29 2009
  Alvarion CEO resigns as WiMAX grows
  Clearwire opens up to Mac and Linux
  Even after 11n, IEEE working on raft of Wi-Fi standards
  WiMAX in Brief July 29 2009
  Worth Noting July 29 2009
 
 
23 July, 2009
 
  LG will be surefire star of handset recovery, Nokia has tougher task
  App store is not the mobile future, says Google, but cellcos disagree
  Markets nervous about Vodafone’s margins as it seeks new directions
  NSN loses market share and faces bidding war for Nortel wireless
  Network transformation will keep carrier market resilient
  French firms at heart of race for MEA mobile markets
  Clearwire’s fourth WiMAX launch brings Mondi into play
  TI boosts confidence in chip sector despite hard transition
  Ruckus shows carriers the joys of Wi-Fi as 11n to be ratified at last
  Mobile email, not P2P, is app that can kill the network
  Vodafone boosts Tele Atlas’ position against Nokia Navteq
  Qualcomm shutters LifeComm
  Ericsson signs outsourcing deal with O2 in tumultuous UK market
  Telecom Italia in HSPA+ vanguard with Milan launch
  MTNL seeks 3G franchise partner for Delhi and Mumbai
  Verizon offers olive branch on exclusives
  Operator News in Brief July 22 2009
  HSPA and LTE in Brief July 22 2009
  Intel’s latest Indian alliance gears up for WiMAX auctions
  WiMAX in Brief July 22 2009
  Worth Noting July 22 2009
 
 
15 July, 2009
 
  Google’s pincer movement is essential, but which way will Intel jump?
  Huawei and Ericsson strengthen their lead with progress in China and India
  Social webphone is the new smartphone, driving autumn launches
  Intel insists Atom margins are higher than Celeron’s, despite falling ASPs
  Outsourcing: breakthrough for Ericsson, mainly positive for Sprint
  DoCoMo will be in LTE “first group” but HSPA is cellcos’ workhorse
  Sprint mandates Wi-Fi but WLans remain both friend and foe
  Commissioner Reding lays down new gauntlet on European digital dividend
  Vendors enhance app stores, but shut out at Verizon Wireless
  Japanese phonemakers return to Europe, with NEC the latest
  WiMAX vendors refine their positions between three target markets
  Symbian releases first fully open source package
  Amazon steps up mobile activities again with new store
  How much does Apple make from its store?
  European operators deliver very unpredictable smartphone experience
  Vivendi and Vodafone could announce international deals this week
  Operator News in Brief July 15 2009
  Ericsson and Korea have crossed wires over ‘green 4G’ deal
  Huawei and NSN look for differentiators in base station market
  Blue Wonder and Lime create LTE reference design
  WiMAX hit by downturn, carriers cool on LTE
  WiMAX is ready for the UK market says Alvarion
  WiMAX in Brief July 15 2009
  Worth Noting July 15 2009
 
 
8 July, 2009
 
  Google's pincer movement is essential, but which way will Intel jump?
  VoLGA, RCS and OpenAPI: the acronyms helping carriers keep Telco 2.0 control
  Price wars may spark M&A in US and Europe, but are antitrust probes needed?
  Samsung forecast and latest smartphones signal second half uptick
  Nokia could re-enter CDMA smartphone market next year
  WiMAX players have high hopes as US defines broadband stimulus rules
  Criteria for US broadband stimulus funds released
  Vodafone and even Ericsson show caution about LTE timescales
  Private equity firm proposes to keep Nortel intact
  App stores need to be customized for growth markets like India
  Cisco adds specific smartphone features to Collaboration in Motion
  DoCoMo takes stake in PacketVideo, looking to LTE and Android
  Analysis: Day of the Google – Chrome OS to assassinate PCs, annex netbooks
  Google extends enhanced search to mass market webphones
  Apple touchscreen patents point to future of iPhone
  German publishers stall Kindle’s European debut
  Orange diversifies model with BIC and Blyk low end moves
  Operator News in Brief July 8 2009
  Operators’ mobile rates vary wildly, and ads confuse users
  HSPA and LTE in Brief July 8 2009
  Saudi Arabia aims to become telecoms powerhouse with WiMAX
  WiMAX in Brief July 8 2009
  Worth Noting July 8 2009
 
 
1 July, 2009
 
  Handset spotlight back on Android as Motorola and HTC prepare launches
  Svanberg to step down after seven years, leaving a transformed Ericsson
  Imagination and Nvidia play for key MID roles with tier one deals
  Integration challenges and slow market evolution face NSN in LTE
  Avaya touted for Nortel enterprise unit, and brand could survive
  Ericsson and ALU help carriers to fend off Google and Apple
  Comcast takes first steps to true quad play with Portland launch
  Nokia keeps smartbook options open but Android would be misstep
  Sprint still aggressive on femtocells, T-Mobile more cautious
  T-Mobile and Phones4U once again at heart of UK shake-up talks
  Tethering, SIM-only and dongles – three symptoms of the cellco nightmare
  Operators play with open models for mobile apps stores
  Qualcomm wants lower prices for FLO
  Top 20 cellcos now control 57% of world’s subscribers
  Kuwait’s Hits looks for global MVNO opportunities
  eMobile goes live with HSPA+
  BT adds BlackBerry to small business services
  AT&T adds smart grid partner but Europe leaps ahead
  Operator News in Brief July 1 2009
  European refarming consensus closer as TeliaSonera deploys UTMS900
  Indian 3G auctions within four months, promises telecom secretary
  Asia sets pace for major shift to Carrier Ethernet backhaul
  HSPA and LTE in Brief July 1 2009
  Brazil plans new mobile broadband auction as demand outruns capacity
  Clearwire adds to spectrum hoard
  WiMAX in Brief July 1 2009
  Worth Noting July 1 2009
 
 
24 June, 2009
 
  ‘Finntel’ or a marriage of convenience? Nokia and Intel try to define MID market
  NSN bids for Nortel wireless units, taking CDMA as route to LTE
  Femtocell World Summit: Vodafone highlights femtos’ accelerated push to market
  RIM’s strong quarter holds seeds of future crisis
  WiMAX patent pool wants to be model for LTE, Ericsson demurs
  IBM works with carriers, and HP with ALU, on converged services
  UK 2.6GHz auction pushed back again, to 2010
  IBM and Intel put mobility at the heart of major R&D initiatives
  Device testing complexity goes into overdrive in LTE
  Qualcomm under new antitrust pressure, this time in Korea
  Agito first to extend fixed/mobile and VoIP to BlackBerry
  Amazon buys SnapTell to enhance iPhone experience
  Asian operators form Android buying collective
  3 UK looks for more MVNOs to meet Virgin challenge
  O2 slashes subsidies it’s prepared to offer on iPhones
  Operator News in Brief June 24 2009
  India likely to green light 3G auction, with doubled reserve price
  HSPA and LTE in Brief June 24 2009
  Intel’s latest WiMAX investment is in Irish Broadband
  Gilat in talks to acquire Airspan
  WiMAX in Brief June 24 2009
  Worth Noting June 24 2009
 
 
17 June, 2009
 
  CommunicAsia: are open OSs really the only way to go?
  Opera bring Unite web hosting software to phone soon
  Nokia beefs up musicphone range to support CWM expansion
  Nokia works on self-powering phone that ‘harvests’ energy
  Android shines at CommunicAsia
  Japan poised for $11bn LTE spend, but DoCoMo looks abroad too
  Rubinstein takes CEO post but will he really sell Palm?
  Interoperability and services, not interference, are now key femtocell issues
  Qualcomm and LG point to recovery, but midrange still tightly squeezed
  US contract puts new momentum behind Alvarion
  Huawei and ZTE line up tier one deals with vendor financing
  ALU unit envisions millions of objects controlled from handset
  Row over China’s WLan security rears its ugly head
  Digital Britain will not be blueprint for Europe
  Sun adds to operating system soup in MID space
  BT teams with Samsung for new mobile business push
  Sprint looks to broadening range of revenue streams to kickstart growth
  US DTV day goes smoothly, Europeans reawaken DMB
  Start-Up Watch: IPWireless back on the radar, with a public safety focus for TDD
  Amazon buys SnapTell to enhance iPhone experience
  The rights and wrongs of the campaign against US handset exclusives
  PCCW launches quad play Wi-Fi phone
  Two French giants eye acquisitions in India and Africa
  AT&T to reduce its supplier numbers to reduce cost and risk
  Virgin putting together pieces of cross-platform app store
  Verizon to insist on IPv6 for its LTE devices
  Operator News in Brief June 17 2009
  Patent pool trend even spreads to CDMA2000
  Canada should set the standard for 2.5GHz rules, says trade body
  Zylog to put Wi-Fi into Indian cities and trains
  Axe ‘Buy America’ clause for stimulus fund, argues Cisco
  WiMAX in Brief June 17 2009
  Worth Noting June 17 2009
 
 
10 June, 2009
 
  iPhone 3GS steals some Pre thunder, but Apple has big challenges
  MTS deal in Russia shows the way Nokia will hold onto its lead
  Intel makes bold mobile and embedded purchase with Wind River
  Netbook market splits in two with Intel trying to span both sides
  Intel, Yahoo and HP push open standards for the cloud
  Intel invests a further $43m in WiMAX provider UQ
  New widgets tools another small sign of Nokia’s cross-platform ambitions
  Korean vendors boost STE and Infineon in reviving market
  Ericsson expands module business into netbooks and Intel Pine Trail-M
  Telenor opens up network for mobile enterprise services
  Sony Ericsson shows how Java could unify mobile store market
  Operators look to Bondi platform for unified mobile web
  NSN strengthens IP Ethernet play with Juniper venture
  Meru promises ‘forensic’ WLan management and iPhone support
  Virtualization could push Android into low cost segment
  Start-Up Watch: Stoke signs DoCoMo for multi-network gateway
  MedioFLO to go direct to consumers – but is married to cellcos
  Flash to come to smartphones this year
  RIM buys Dash to create its own location services
  European cellcos remove DRM from music stores
  More controversy over BSNL GSM superdeal
  Operator news in Brief June 10 2009
  T-Mobile demoes LTE at 130Mbps
  Finland leads Baltic 3G initiative
  Taiwan creates TD-SCDMA testbed
  HSPA and LTE in Brief June 10 2009
  China to open up to Mobile WiMAX after all?
  Ericsson and Qualcomm holding back WiMAX in Brazil?
  WiMAX in Brief June 10 2009
  Worth Noting June 10 2009
 
 
3 June, 2009
 
  Superphone battle resumes, but Nokia’s Vodafone Classic deal is important too
  Qualcomm fires shot at Broadcom in digital home, with 4x4 MIMO 11n chip
  WiMAX Global Congress: China is not closed to WiMAX says West
  Android poised to turn up in a score of handsets, but risks fragmentation
  Computek: Qualcomm steps up Intel challenge with new ‘smartbook’ label
  Motorola looks to embedded 3G/4G modules for new kickstart
  JavaOne: Verizon and Sprint embrace unifying power of Java
  India’s 3G and WiMAX auctions “definitely” set for this year
  Start-Up Watch: RFAxis promises low cost RF front ends for multiple standards
  Google Wave and MS Bing to go mobile soon
  INQ promises first Twitter handset
  New group launches to bring mobile tools to “bottom billion”
  Mobile payments to rise by 70% this year
  Mobinil deploys single IP-based NGN with Cisco
  Operator News in Brief June 3 2009
  China Telecom second cellco to commit to EV-DO Rev B
  WiMAX and Femto Forums cooperate on standards
  WiMAX in Brief June 3 2009
  Worth Noting June 3 2009
 
 
27 May, 2009
 
  DoCoMo-Telefonica pact could balance Vodafone and boost Japanese cellphones
  Broadcom aims to underpin unified computing revolution
  ALU in race against time in services, as Huawei overtakes in hardware
  Smartphone makers become software houses – but not overnight
  HTC widens its Android lead with China Mobile deal
  Sun to unveil Java App store, Apple app revenues “not meaningful”
  Virtualization moves to center of mobile agenda
  Opera wants to remain independent, but competition mounting
  Vodacom may be springboard to Africa, but has its parent mistimed the market?
  Apple to leapfrog netbook and go for touch tablet?
  Web of reference design alliances speed LTE’s time to market
  Governments could still kill the dream of pan-European satellite radio and TV
  Good Technology moves into social networking
  SKT buys landlines and looks to new devices
  Operator News in Brief May 27 2009
  Nortel confirms it is seeking LG stake buyer
  HSPA and LTE in Brief May 27 2009
  WiMAX in Brief May 27 2009
  Worth Noting May 27 2009
 
 
20 May, 2009
 
  oFono could point to closer Linux alliance between Intel and Nokia
  Verizon adds dose of caution to LTE plan, Europeans raise concerns
  Cisco enhances collaboration and looks at 30 new IP markets
  Yahoo courts mobile disaster by killing new apps strategy
  Microsoft and Qualcomm up the stakes in flexible app stores
  Open Patent Alliance close to unveiling frameworks, could embrace LTE too
  Palm Pre just sneaks in ahead of Apple show, with June 6 launch
  India up, Turkey and Spain down: Vodafone’s mixed 2009 bag
  Can Broadcom make it into the handset big time?
  Nokia’s cheapest 3G phone yet bolsters emerging market strategy
  “Time is the enemy” for Nortel’s restructuring plans
  Huawei slowly breaking down barriers to India’s GSM goldrush
  ICO to challenge European award of pan-regional mobile satellite licenses
  Wi-Fi shifts from cellco threat to cellco friend
  AT&T and Orange highlight mobile data boom
  Telefonica boosts Chinese investment as Europe downturns
  Middle Eastern operators continue to jostle for position
  Blyk may pull back from MVNO model beyond UK
  T-Mobile could look to BT deal to boost UK fortunes
  Operator News in Brief May 20 2009
  Femto Forum starts to make the case for small cells in LTE
  Forecasters look for 3G to drive slow infrastructure recovery from this year
  Midrange phones will be the slowest to recover from the downturn
  Clearwire may buy from three or four RAN suppliers
  HSPA+ and LTE in Brief May 20 2009
  Woosh Wireless raises funds to upgrade to WiMAX
  WiMAX in Brief May 20 2009
  Worth Noting May 20 2009
 
 
13 May, 2009
 
  Cisco brings Clearwire the heavyweight vendor partner it needs
  Vodafone opens APIs in bid to create giant mobile software store
  Verizon and Japan head to LTE at breakneck speed, but without phones
  Facing WinMo defections, Microsoft must make big compromises
  Motorola: no pullback on WiMAX, and playing to TDD strengths in China
  AT&T enlists Jasper to help address challenges of ‘hyper-segmentation’
  Wi-Fi community takes reins of bid for single 60GHz standard
  R&D investment at Ericsson and Cisco converges in the IP cloud
  Nokia to recycle R&D projects with Finnish partners
  Dell offers WiMAX laptop upgrade, initially for Clearwire
  Femto-Android combination creates ‘chameleon handset’
  Clearwire announces results and management reorg
  NSN claims it could double voice capacity on HSPA
  Verizon to add netbook, offers compromises on phone exclusives
  Piracy clause grounds EU telecoms bill; US lobbying on open rules
  Nortel announces $507m loss, needs more time to sell units
  Nokia and NXP put seal of approval on SIM-based NFC
  Google sees PC and mobile search converging at last
  Vodafone dumps Yahoo and pursues broader mobile ad strategy
  Carphone Warehouse buys Tiscali UK for TalkTalk’s quad play
  €1.8bn writedown intensifies rumors of T-Mobile UK sell-off
  Verizon to use Ericsson’s RS6000 software base station
  Zain to take on arch-rival MTN in yet another market, Iran
  Operator News in Brief May 13 2009
  UK considers spectrum caps as way to break 900MHz deadlock
  Nokia’s E52 aims to be a “socially connected” business phone
  Amazon overprices its new Kindle
  HSPA and LTE in Brief May 13 2009
  Acer joins WiMAX IPR alliance, Via bids for LTE patent pool
  ZigBee Alliance embraces IP to strengthen its role in smart grids
  WiMAX in Brief May 13 2009
  Worth Noting May 13 2009
 
 
6 May, 2009
 
  Operators will increasingly seek to ringfence Google in Android
  Ericsson and Huawei continue to exploit rivals’ turmoil
  Cellcos face huge dilemmas over LTE voice models
  Clearwire and KT no longer lonely trailblazers for WiMAX mobile broadband
  RIM should shine in the summer, but Motorola faces relegation
  Nokia encounters obstacles on path to mobile web services
  Germany blazes the trail for European 4G spectrum
  Wireless chips improving, but Apple may go inhouse
  Prepaid boosts Sprint, while AT&T tries to sort out data dilemmas
  Who could take T-Mobile UK off Deutsche Telekom’s hands?
  Another UWB start-up folds and 802.11n looks “unstoppable”
  Start-Up Watch: Altair now spans WiMAX, LTE and XGP with one platform
  Large screen Kindle looks to pre-empt Amazon rivals
  Orange UK expands in music with HMV tie-in
  MTN and Zain take different paths to expansion
  Operator news in Brief May 6 2009
  Yota network supporting more traffic than all Russia’s cellcos
  Sprint’s affiliate battles spill into WiMAX
  WiMAX in Brief May 6 2009
  Worth Noting May 6 2009
 
 
29 April, 2009
 
  Should AT&T and O2 really be battling so hard to keep iPhone exclusives?
  Qualcomm’s model intact after Broadcom pact, but doubts remain for both sides
  Nokia to rely more heavily on third parties to deliver web services vision
  China provides ALU’s greatest opportunity and greatest threat
  Cellphones bolster Samsung’s quarter as it launches first Android
  Adobe extends across digital media chain, with handset at the hub
  Ericsson’s Labs Portal generates first major product
  Fragmentation is a risk for early LTE movers
  Palm “close” to European strategy for Pre, as pricing speculation grows
  Amazon’s Stanza buy could be first step to an open platform
  UK partnership targets femtocells at rural or low power 2G
  3 UK attacks churn with disruptive free Skype offer
  T-Mobile’s embedded SIM could give it headstart in smart grid market
  ITU seeks key role in global broadband and open access
  Start-Up Watch: Stoke helps operators extend 3G life by offloading traffic
  Symbian and LiMO fight Android ‘overhype’
  Microsoft will “cripple” Windows 7 for netbooks
  DoCoMo lowers full year guidance as profits slump
  Mobile broadband keeps France Telecom resilient
  Operator News in Brief April 29 2009
  Latin America to be key growth market for Mobile WiMAX
  ALU seeks to clarify WiMAX position
  WiMAX in Brief Aprill 29 2009
  Worth Noting April 29 2009
 
 
22 April, 2009
 
  Android makes slow market progress, but its ambitions grow broader
  AT&T’s catch-up HSPA upgrade heavily geared to new iPhones
  Nokia results signal the worst is over, though LG is the star
  Qualcomm delays results on Broadcom talks; TI and Intel see light ahead
  Mobile impact of Oracle-Java deal not immediate, but profound
  Will Cisco go into the smartphone business this year?
  SKT spreads its net and plans ambitious software framework
  NSN results signal tough quarter for wireless infrastructure
  Sony endorses femtocells as Forum makes the business case
  Bluetooth version 3.0 arrives this week
  Cutdown 802.11n products fall outside certification process
  Handsets will see 11% fall in 2009, but Q1 will be the nadir
  Nokia gets serious about touchscreens
  Consumers’ phone requirements changing rapidly
  Net neutrality issues overshadow stimulus funds
  Nokia goes commercial with Life Tools in India
  Barnes & Noble seeks cellcos for Kindle challenge
  Orange adds Tabbee to new ‘tablet-netbook’ category
  AT&T throws off recessionary forces, thanks U-Verse, iPhone
  Vodafone and Telefonica step up convergence moves in Germany
  Operator News in Brief April 22 2009
  Swedish operators take RAN sharing trend into LTE
  HSPA and LTE in Brief Aprill 22 2009
  Clearwire may form Taiwanese alliance
  Doubts continue to hang over French WiMAX
  WiMAX in Brief April 22 2009
  Worth Noting April 22 2009
 
 
8 April, 2009
 
  Operators won’t get their wish for fewer mobile OSs any time soon
  iPhone users in Skype stampede despite operator warnings
  CTIA: Fewer OSs, more devices – the call from top three US cellcos
  As financially squeezed operators are forced to invest in rapid expansion of their networks’ coverage and capacity, to meet exploding demand for cheap
  Clearwire creates Silicon Valley sandbox, but Nokia on offensive
  Carriers may not get LTE smartphones until late 2011
  CTIA: final thoughts as Al Gore wraps up the show
  New standards make femtocells more operator friendly
  CTIA: ALU joins Cisco in router-based core approach for LTE
  China Telecom to reap rewards of CDMA R&D boost
  EU joins US as major market for hybrid satellite/terrestrial services
  Rupert Murdoch wants to apply Kindle model to newspapers
  Telcos start haggling over G20 and US broadband plans
  The Cable Show: cablecos plot course to wireless and quad play
  Australian operators in turmoil over broadband plan and RAN sharing
  Skype is just the banner under which a thousand IP services march
  Netbooks must not be allowed to go the route of operator exclusives
  Nokia draws eyes to Ovi with Heroes tie-up and ‘green’ moves
  Opera makes US breakthrough
  Europe must have digital dividend policy agreed by the fall says Reding
  Orange announces iPhone TV and cross-media store
  Details emerge of Vodafone-O2 sharing plan
  Operator News in Brief April 8 2009
  European eCall in-car standard aims to reduce road deaths from 2010
  HSPA and LTE in Brief April 8 2009
  Intel’s embedded devices to promote WiMAX in South Africa
  HP breaks ranks to settle Wi-Fi battle with CSIRO
  WiMAX in Brief April 8 2009
  Worth Noting April 8 2009
 
 
1 April, 2009
 
  CTIA: cautious optimism and apps will be the key themes
  CTIA: Carrier alliance upstages vendors’ widget strategies
  CTIA: Has UBS called the bottoming-out of the handset market?
  CTIA: Samsung pushes to the heart of the WiMAX device strategy
  CTIA: Stronger focus on LTE, but Ericsson keeps HSPA central
  CTIA: Google wakes up to real world dilemmas of app store game
  Handango looks to cash in on app store proliferation
  Dell to offer 3G bundles in Japan, as device makers take MVNO route
  CTIA: Skype and ALU put voice back at the top of the agenda
  Europe to see spectrum goldrush in 2009-2010
  Verizon to offer netbook, Orange may get Macbook deal
  ZTE raises specter of a return to 90s-style vendor financing
  Start-Up Watch: Has Pulse~Link’s great potential been crushed by the UWB wars?
  Start-Up Watch: OnLive could bring big PlayStation games to a handset
  Nokia takes significant stake in mobile payments firm
  UK users can get Twitter updates by SMS now, but they cost
  3 UK slashes mobile broadband costs again as home usage grows
  MTN and Zain continue M&A battle in Africa
  Operator News in Brief April 1 2009
  VoLGA Forum publishes first specifications
  HSPA and LTE in Brief April 1 2009
  WiMAX in Brief April 1 2009
  Worth Noting April 1 2009
 
 
25 March, 2009
 
  LG promises 50 WinMo devices, throwing Microsoft a real lifeline
  Palm, Dell and even Apple struggle to meet carrier expectations
  Sprint Nextel looks to expand Kindle model for new revenues
  Qualcomm harnesses cellphone chip to drive low cost games console
  Clearwire and KT make WiMAX VoIP advances
  WiMAX in Brief March 25 2009
  Telstra and AT&T are the iconoclasts in cellco thinking
  Ericsson sells TEMS as part of shift towards services
  SIM-only deals sweep Europe, but are “lottery” for cellcos
  BT excludes Wi-Fi from latest convergence offering
  Samsung attacks iTunes with mobile video store
  China Mobile defers some capex as rivals catch up quickly
  Start-Up Watch: Rhomobile chases ‘write once run anywhere’ dream
  Opera hints at US breakthrough at CTIA show
  Mobile YouTube app extended to new smartphones
  UK mobile broadband boom brings dilemmas for cellcos
  Europe solidifies plans to cut roaming fees
  Vodafone extends influence in three continents
  Operator news in Brief March 25 2009
  Mobilkom first to go commercial with HSPA+ in Europe
  FCC approves mystery LTE device from LG
  HSPA and LTE in Brief March 25 2009
  Worth Noting March 25 2009
 
 
18 March, 2009
 
  Smartphone OS contest intensifies as big three outline next steps
  IMS versus open web: Verizon and TDC are two faces of 4G picture
  Texas Instruments looks in its smartphone crystal ball
  Cellcos are a key target for cloud initiatives from Cisco and Sun
  Google Voice trumps Skype with its most disruptive move yet
  An NSN bid, or merger with Motorola, are options for Nortel’s wireless unit
  Ericsson scores as Sprint set to follow European cellcos into outsourcing
  Eclipse Pulsar goes some way to deliver cross-handset development
  Comcast and CTC demonstrate new WiMAX models
  WiMedia Alliance shuts down in another blow for UWB
  iSkoot expands ‘smartphone lite’ platform beyond AT&T
  Facebook allows iPhone and PC users to connect
  Broadcom suffers setback in Qualcomm battle
  Palm gets analyst boost
  Telefonica could gazump Vodafone for Palm Pre exclusive
  Middle East/Africa operators gain strength
  Turkish operators eye eastern Europe’s mobile data boom
  Operator News in Brief March 18 2009
  China Mobile announces third phase of 3G tender
  SAP helps iPhone towards its enterprise goals
  Swedish operators gain right to run 3G in GSM spectrum
  AirWalk offers enterprise femtocell for CDMA
  Mobile broadband defies recession
  HSPA and LTE in Brief March 18 2009
  Unwired looks to fixed WiMAX, businesses and government funds
  WiMAX in Brief March 18 2009
  Worth Noting March 18 2009
 
 
11 March, 2009
 
  Nokia gets closer to Verizon’s LTE plans, but AT&T would be the real catch
  TI comments spark Nokia rally and new hopes for midyear handset upturn
  Nokia, Microsoft and RIM reveal details of their challenges to App Store
  New CEO brings the operational excellence that Clearwire will need
  New VoLGA Forum and NSN threaten LTE voice stand-off
  Has Samsung beaten Apple to a new-look ‘tablet-phone’ format?
  China and India will leapfrog the west to new mobile web models
  Yahoo could poach Vodafone search deal from Google
  History repeats itself: Philadelphia in legal challenge to public broadband
  Palm and Microsoft both on defensive against Apple
  Orange and Barclaycard in new mobile payments breakthrough
  Prospects for mobile infrastructure market are strong despite downturn
  Europe set to slash roaming charges in time for summer holiday
  Google blocks iPhone free text app
  Mobile Internet in Brief March 11 2009
  HTC under threat of German handset ban
  Sony Ericsson launches Xperia X1 in Korea
  Smartphones dominate European handset business
  Second watchphone in a month arrives from Korea
  Handsets in Brief March 11 2009
  WiMAX saw Latin American boom in 2008
  Ruckus targets Cisco’s heartland with high end access points
  WiMAX in Brief March 11 2009
  Worth Noting March 11 2009
 
 
4 March, 2009
 
  AT&T leads charge into new devices, and the embedded wireless model
  Nokia heading for netbooks, but which OS will it choose?
  Palm hit hard by wait for Pre, as Vodafone chases exclusive
  Digital Fountain ends up in its natural home, Qualcomm
  Mobility cushions a quartet of European telcos against recession
  Harris Stratex buys Telsima and gears up for BSNL’s WiMAX launch
  Amazon launches free Kindle app for iPhone, extending its mobile model
  China continues to provide best hope for wireless equipment makers
  Nokia may remove DRM to bring music to the US
  Motorola looks for Q2 uptick, but overall market recovery must wait
  T-Mobile and Sprint trade price cuts, but top two carriers unhurt
  Obama proposes new spectrum fees, FCC promises reform
  Wi-Fi 11n standard to be ratified at last – in 2010
  Zeemote drives gaming ecosystem for handsets
  Start-ups increasingly fragment mobile search market
  UK operators “furious” at Nokia’s Skype bundling plans
  iPhone scores on browsing and gains in open source
  Mobile internet in Brief March 4 2009
  WiMAX Forum sees 100 new launches this year
  WiMAX in Brief March 4 2009
  Worth Noting March 4 2009
 
 
25 February, 2009
 
  Yahoo integrates its smartphone platform at last as mobile chief quits
  When will wireless bottom out? Mixed signals still abound
  Nokia halves mobile advertising workforce, as segment faces transition phase
  Are the days of the handset exclusive numbered at last?
  ZTE first to demonstrate voice over EV-DO Rev B
  WiMAX chip start-ups illustrate the strengths of an open ecosystem
  Dell provides ARM with a Trojan Horse into Intel’s PC heartland
  Visto buys Good from Motorola to form anti-RIM alliance
  Wind, sun and an extended range femto – solutions for the next billion
  Vodafone to cut 500 UK jobs
  Days of cheap mobile broadband may be ending in Europe
  Marvell hopes for $50 ‘wall-warts’ for home content networks
  Mobile Internet in brief February 25 2009
  CenturyTel plans fixed LTE deployment for rural broadband
  BSNL kicks off Indian 3G as Asian capex holds steady
  HSPA and LTE in Brief February 25 2009
  Sprint plans wider range of WiMAX devices
  WiMAX in Brief February 25 2009
  Worth Noting February 25 2009
 
 
23 February, 2009
 
  Mobile World Congress: Our top 10
  Cellcos talk up open ecosystems, but how open do they really want to be?
  Verizon looks lonely as caution hits early stage LTE plans
  A Nokia-Qualcomm handset at last, and the chip world shifts again
  LG Arena highlights Palm Pre’s challenge; Android overshadowed
  WiMAX makes its voice heard in Barcelona with flexibility message
  Femtocells grow up in Barcelona, and market starts to divide
  ALU shows its new broadband ecosystem colors with ng Connect
  Sprint Nextel loses 1.3m customers and $1.6bn
  Wireless carriers will take share in US broadband grants, but no tax credits
  Start-Up Watch: The ARTful world of noise cancellation
  Vodafone and Nokia push browsers further into emerging markets
  Esmertec and Purple Labs merge as handset software consolidates
  Mobile Internet in brief February 23 2009
  Ofcom suggests 900MHz compromise
  Indian 3G and WiMAX could be pushed out to 2010
 
 
11 February, 2009
 
  Could Nokia drive handset recovery as early as Q2?
  Microsoft goes into the cloud to refocus its Windows Mobile strategy
  WiMAX should respond quickly as AT&T brings quad play to America
  LiMO refuses to bow to Android, and gains Vodafone’s support
  As MWC looms, what will be the key trends in Barcelona?
  Nokia to open store, but operators are fighting back over revenue share
  Nokia Siemens and ZTE take software route to LTE
  Broadcom and CSR battle in handset combi chip market
  Cisco may be targeting mobile video acquisitions
  Will 802.11y eat into WiMAX’ 3.65GHz goldmine?
  Nortel deepens cuts and extends bankruptcy protection
  Start-Up Watch: DiBcom announces ‘mother of all multiprotocol mobile TV chips’
  ¬ Amazon enhances Kindle, may expand it to cellphones
  White spaces supporters work on anti-interference database
  Mobile Internet in Brief February 11 2009
  Vodafone and Sprint pursue different approaches to cost reduction
  Mixed smartphone fortunes for Orange
  TDC kicks off Scandinavia’s first femtocell trial
  HSPA and LTE in Brief February 11 2009
  Russia and its neighbours highlight the road for WiMAX
  Unwired Australia comes under more pressure
  Comsys and ECS claim dongle that doubles as a phone
  WiMAX in Brief February 11 2009
  Worth Noting February 11 2009
 
 
4 February, 2009
 
  Motorola running out of time to survive in handset market
  PC makers enter smartphone sector as dress rehearsal for MIDs
  Ericsson and STMicro form new powerhouse as phone chipmakers slide
  UQ’s WiMAX launch and Emobile venture highlight Japan’s pressures
  Intel puts Centrino at the heart of ad hoc Wi-Fi networks
  Vodafone sales softness masked by currency changes
  Mobile operators key to Digital Britain plan for universal broadband
  Smaller US cellcos react to rising churn, and femtocells move up agenda
  Alcatel-Lucent suffers eighth consecutive loss on massive writedowns
  Apple turning iPhone into full gaming platform
  Start-Up Watch: Qualcomm gives modu’s modular phone concept a kickstart
  Tzero and Staccato make progress in UWB
  Facebook dominates mobile social networking boom
  Apple and Adobe may be nearing truce on iPhone Flash
  Mobile Internet in Brief February 4 2009
  More problems dog Storm as Vodafone repositions it
  HSPA and LTE in Brief February 4 2009
  Nortel pulls out of Mobile WiMAX market, hurting Alvarion
  Comcast follows Cablevision into NY Wi-Fi trials
  WiMAX operators face recession at crucial moment
  WiMAX in Brief February 4 2009
  Worth Noting February 4 2009
 
 
28 January, 2009
 
  NSN cautious, but infrastructure market looks resilient
  Q4 handsets: big three increase share of cake, web services provide the icing
  Vodafone to use phonemakers’ pressures to boost its own power
  Sun finally puts flesh on JavaFX mobile challenge to Nokia and Google
  Qualcomm refuses to cut jobs despite profit slump, but TI slashes 12%
  WiMAX Forum creates global roaming platform
  ‘Bugginess’ and rogue apps may be the “new reality” of smartphones
  Internet giants cut back but hope for mobile boost
  NSN pioneers latest way to eke more performance out of 2G
  DTV switchover still on track, open access will be next big US debate
  BT mulling re-entry to mobile market with T-Mobile and 3
  Wireless boosts Verizon and AT&T as Sprint cuts 8,000 jobs
  UK report calls for 700MHz spectrum to be ‘given away’
  Nokia’s BlackBerry U-turn belies wider email ambitions
  Apple multitouch patent could spell bad news for Palm
  Nokia buys bit-side to boost mapping services
  New MediaFLO chief brings some content concepts from Amp’d
  UK and Ireland weave 3G closely into general broadband policy
  Vodafone Hungary explores flexible approach to bandwidth hogs
  Phonemakers experience the highs and lows of the Japanese market
  HSPA and LTE in Brief January 28 2009
  Alcatel-Lucent still “firmly in the WiMAX game”
  China Mobile among Hong Kong WiMAX winners
  South Carolina puts large 2.5GHz block up for lease
  WiMAX in Brief January 28 2009
  Worth Noting January 28 2009
 
 
21 January, 2009
 
  Music heads up renewed MSN Mobile drive, while Nokia extends CWM
  Ericsson looks resilient despite job cuts, while Nortel fights for survival
  Despite network crashes, inauguration ushers in high hopes for wireless
  Qualcomm strengthens its MID hand with purchase of AMD assets
  Sony Ericsson sets the dismal tone for handset makers’ Q4 results
  Apple shines, but with Jobs off sick, it must prove it is not a one-man show
  Infineon to show new offerings for GSM and LTE in Barcelona
  Apple opens up cautiously to third party browsers, MS may have to follow
  Femtocell market matures as US carriers move into action
  Sprint Boost sparks price war in US flat rate sector
  Korea Telecom absorbs mobile unit to take on SKT
  Start-Up Watch: Siano poised to dominate Chinese mobile TV chip market
  Samsung accelerates Android plans
  Hyundai to launch 15-strong handset line-up in UK
  Dell may finally unveil its smartphone next month
  Handset news in Brief January 21 2009
  Dodgeball social/mobile product is casualty of Google cuts
  Complex phone set-up is holding back usage
  Mobile Internet in Brief January 21 2009
  European cellcos trial next gen networks
  Globalive aims to go live in Canada in Q3
  Mobile enterprise spend will continue to grow, at slower rate
  HSPA and LTE in Brief January 21 2009
  NEC partners with ArrayComm for new base stations
  WiMAX in Brief January 21 2009
  Worth Noting January 21 2009
 
 
14 January, 2009
 
  Breaking news: Nortel files for Chapter 11
  Barcelona line-ups hint at the phonemakers’ strategies to survive 2009
  Palm pulls off impressive Nova launch, but can it execute?
  Genachowski set to head FCC, Intel pushes WiMAX cause
  Microsoft scores Verizon search deal but new doubts over Windows Mobile
  Nokia cancels WiMAX tablet as Clearwire clarifies device strategy
  Intel lowers forecasts, but Atom remains crucial to future
  Skype makes its most convincing leap into mobility
  China Mobile gears up for Android and $8.6bn spend
  CES: 60GHz becomes real as wireless home networks vye for attention
  Qualcomm helps push Android beyond the handset
  Cisco promises low risk 11n and 65% boost for older Wi-Fi kit
  France and Germany showcase downturn tactics for cellcos
  More licenses change hands in Middle East
  Omnifone promises unlimited music across all platforms
  Cellphones could gain 2Tb of memory
  Nokia extends mobile portal with Here and Now
  Location boom to drive 25% leap for GPS chips
  Vodafone tests free mobile TV via Babelgum deal
  3G growth to sustain handsets through recession
  India could delay auction yet again
  HSPA and LTE in Brief January 14 2009
  WiMAX and LTE both look resilient in carrier survival plans
  Wi-Fi chip sales defy the downturn
  WiMAX in Brief January 14 2009
  Worth Noting January 14 2009
 
 
7 January, 2009
 
  The year ahead: Nokia on the offensive as Android enters make or break year
  The year ahead: the changing face of the cellphone chip market
  Clearwire turns on second city, but Intel charge points to more cautious roll-out
  Adobe plays on both sides in the mobile web and media game
  Chinese 3G gets green light at last, India still delaying
  Femtocells set for mainstream as 3GPP ratifies standards
  Cisco steps up consumer efforts with hosted social networks
  Orange France loses its iPhone exclusive
  UIQ files for bankruptcy, leaving Series 60 unchallenged
  NextWave offloads IPWireless to its management team
  Reasons to be cheerful – cellcos could ride out recession almost unscathed
  Macworld: Over the air iTunes arrives at last
  Verizon plans rival to Amazon Kindle
  European cellcos turn to widgets to create brand loyalty
  Google to let paid-for apps into Android Market
  Mozilla’s new mobile browser in alpha release
  Qualcomm and Toyota put MediaFLO in cars
  Orange and Vodafone extend UK network sharing
  Motorola accelerates cutbacks and defends WiMAX stand
  Adaptix shows WiMAX patents hand with Clearwire suit
  Ireland must make spectrum decisions to boost broadband
  WiMAX in Brief Janary 7 2009
  Worth Noting January 7 2009
 
 
17 December, 2008
 
  ALU’s turnaround plan points to a new approach for the whole industry
  Ericsson bids to unify mobile web platforms with common web services
  Palm joins software store race, but Orange to include TV apps too
  LTE deadline extended to March, early movers will take pre-standard risk
  Nokia’s NoTA approach could transform cellphone economics
  Vodafone could ringfence Google’s power in Android
  China to unleash $30bn in 3G capex and a helping hand for CDMA
  Nokia targets dongles, and likely to move swiftly to embedded 3G
  Delay in AWS-3 vote may force rethink of US free wireless plan
  Samsung emulates Nokia in software, and could face its rival in Korea
  Europe to bear brunt of 2009 cellphone decline
  Financial news in brief December 17 2008
  EU considers 14% tax on smartphones, in new blow to mobile TV
  Google and Microsoft deny net neutrality claims
  Vodafone works with Last.fm on ‘music social networking’
  RIP: Neonode, a real touchscreen pioneer
  Mobile Internet in brief December 17 2008
  France puts pressure on cellcos to share networks
  HSPA and LTE in Brief December 17 2008
  Intel steps up work on WiMAX devices for India
  Trapeze buys Newbury Networks
  WiMAX in Brief December 17 2008
  Worth Noting December 17 2008
 
 
10 December, 2008
 
  Cellcos create cross-OS web platforms, but AT&T may give Symbian its US break
  Nokia resilient despite second warning, NSN and ALU more nervous
  Sony Ericsson and Vodafone sign up for Android club
  Handset news in brief December 10 2008
  The leading US carriers race to deploy femtocells and enter CE game
  Not one, but two, standards planned for High Speed Bluetooth
  After string of wireless chip warnings, who is poised to survive?
  Operators on a roll with HSPA+ plans for 2009
  Sprint and Clearwire to exchange MVNO deals, looking to dual-mode models
  Will Apple jeopardize smartphone lead with $99 iPhone?
  IEEE enlists Via Licensing for wireless patent pools
  France cuts mobile termination rates, Germany under pressure
  RIM bids for Certicom to boost core business
  Samsung plans its own Wi-Fi variant for digital TV
  Round one to white space lovers, but it remains a long road
  Opera staffs up and targets accelerated growth in emerging markets
  T-Mobile’s Xmas gifts include free games and cheaper G1 plans
  Mobile Internet in brief December 10 2008
  Potential of embedded 3G is exaggerated, says research
  Obama puts broadband at the heart of recovery plan
  US consumers furious at lack of phone choices, but HTC cashes in
  W-CDMA and mobile packet core withstood Q3 decline, says Infonetics
  Kogan pips China Mobile to the post with second Android phone
  HSPA and LTE in Brief December 3 2008
  Alvarion cuts back, but Latin America’s WiMAX boom cushions blow
  Sprint and UQ seek to pool WiMAX activities in Taiwan
  WiMAX in Brief December 3 2008
  Worth Noting December 10 2008
 
 
3 December, 2008
 
  Nokia World: N97 grabs headlines, but Ovi and S40 chase real growth opportunities
  Android comes to China, as Mobile works on its own software platform
  Verwaayen would be rash, not brave, to take ALU out of mobility
  TI makes cautious femto move as Forum outlines anti-interference plans
  Japanese cellcos and NSN: early movers in LTE
  Microsoft pulls out of carrier service delivery market
  Could Vodafone add a cableco to its German quad play plans?
  Clearwire becomes ‘Clear’ but credit crisis casts shadow over merger
  Ericsson scores with 3/T-Mobile, while 3 gains Irish contract
  Handset squeeze could spark first chip market fall since 2001
  ITU sets out eight-point recession survival plan
  Start-Up Watch: Samsung reiterates support for SiBeam and WirelessHD networks
  Start-Up Watch: Radio chipmaker Mirics forms alliance for Chinese mobile TV
  Comverse expands into mobile advertising
  European data roaming charges set to fall next year
  Orange adds mobile TV to Unik
  Mobile broadband rates fall again in ultra-competitive UK
  RIM and Palm issue revenue warnings
  HSPA and LTE in Brief December 3 2008
  WiMAX majors queue for BSNL’s favors and Indian entry
  Brazilian regulator still mulling mobility rules for WiMAX
  Unwired loses TiVo deal and launches business services
  WiMAX in Brief December 3 2008
  Worth Noting December 3 2008
 
 
26 November, 2008
 
  Black Friday sees vendors battling to tap into smartphone buoyancy
  Nokia adopts radical measures in its toughest markets, the US and Japan
  Microsoft smartphone and Google netbook: both to appear in 2009?
  T-Mobile turns to Yahoo in mobile web revamp, despite G1
  Clearwire deal finalized, but what’s left for Sprint Nextel?
  Old and new vendors tap into the ‘social phone’ trend
  Indian 3G and WiMAX auctions get green light for new year
  Telefonica to spend $20bn in Latin America, but not on CDMA
  Patchy results for European mobile TV may kill DVB-H chances
  Start-Up Watch: Two UWB start-ups merge to weather the funding storm
  New iPhone software, but is Google getting special treatment?
  Nokia and IBM finally open up Lotus Notes to smartphones
  Net neutrality will be high on Obama’s telecoms agenda
  Apple’s advert barred in UK, highlighting risk of consumer backlash
  Sprint joins operator rush to attract developers
  China may delay 3G auctions yet again
  GSMA looks beyond the handset to ‘3G everywhere’
  Global capex to fall by 2% next year, but from buoyant 2008 figure
  HSPA and LTE in Brief November 26 2008
  Airspan and Freedom4 make leap in WiMAX roaming
  Intel sets its WiMAX sights on Egypt
  BelAir comes indoors with 11n access point
  WiMAX in Brief November 26 2008
  Worth Noting November 26 2008
 
 
19 November, 2008
 
  Qualcomm in pincer attack on Intel in MID market
  Nokia lowers volume forecasts, but still eyes US improvement
  Adobe lines up ARM to help it bridge PC/mobile/cloud divide
  FCC clears Verizon Wireless’ 700MHz buy with no concessions to Google
  RIM looks web-ready at last, with integrated services and superfast downloads
  European Commission collects evidence in cellco versus VoIP war
  China Mobile is “most ready operator” for LTE
  More progress for femtocells, with initial focus on coverage
  AMD takes on Atom, but stops short of smartphones
  Multinational operators look to Africa for hidden treasure
  Alcatel-Lucent unveils new structure and turnaround team
  iPhone takes US top spot, but Orange cuts prices
  Operators call on handset makers to support mobile payments drive
  US cellcos polarize as regional model falters
  Start-Up Watch: Star Trek technology to drive Android video services
  New release of IE Mobile is a critical one for Microsoft
  MySpace offers optimized platform for BlackBerry
  Dell leaps on white spaces bandwagon
  3 offers Sky TV off-portal to drive internet add-ons
  Email made simple is Qualcomm’s latest service
  SIM-only and iPhone give O2 best ever third quarter
  Verizon Wireless gains ‘iPhone killer’ at last, as Apple expands retail
  Qualcomm officially drops UMB
  VMware gives enterprises new control over handsets
  3G and LTE backhaul demands push operator costs up
  Google adds voice search to iPhone, a few days late
  HSPA and LTE in Brief November 19 2008
  HTC taps into GSM/WiMAX opportunity with Russian launch
  ADC latest IPR holder to loom on OFDM horizon
  Alvarion and Intel offer rapid deployment for new markets
  Proxim makes 11n splash in its old enterprise market
  WiMAX in Brief November 19 2008
  Worth Noting November 19 2008
 
 
12 November, 2008
 
  Vodafone CEO tears up the rulebook in face of £1.1bn shortfall
  Handset rankings fluid in Q4 as smartphones become cornerstone of the business
  Sony Ericsson to offer DLNA connected Walkman and home stereo
  Cisco focuses on mobile and video explosion to withstand downturn
  Operators race towards app stores, but Adobe aims to be force of unity
  Microsoft close to stealing Verizon search deal from under Google’s nose
  picoChip addresses the key operator fear about femtocells
  Break-up talk swirls around Nortel as losses and job cuts hit
  Big two US cellcos strengthen lead as T-Mobile and Sprint slip back
  US carrier consolidation continues as AT&T buys Centennial
  Software defined radios make 4G and white spaces usable
  Nokia’s 2009 roadmap points to AT&T breakthrough at last
  Qualcomm cautious even as it leaps up semiconductor rankings
  AT&T eclipses T-Mobile in using Wi-Fi to expand mobile broadband
  MetroPCS and Leap offer free roaming as flat rate plans gain pace
  Start-Up Watch: Meru claims to put enterprise WLans on equal footing with Ethernet
  Nokia ‘Comes With Video’ on the horizon
  Qualcomm and Loopt partner to cut costs of location services
  AT&T looks to web services for low end phones
  Trials of ATSC mobile TV standard show promising results
  In-transport Wi-Fi growing ahead of the market
  Opera adds video playback to Mini browser
  T-Mobile plans massive G1 ad campaign to boost 3G
  Freescale claims most powerful base station DSP
  AT&T to offer ‘official’ PC modem capability for iPhone at last
  HSPA and LTE in Brief November 12 2008
  NextWave’s Q3 results enhanced by divestments
  WiMAX in Brief November 12 2008
  Worth Noting November 12 2008
 
 
5 November, 2008
 
  FCC’s election day marathon lets slip the wireless dogs of war
  Motorola delays handset spin-off, sidelines Europe, LiMO and Symbian
  Nokia shows full scale of its web services ambitions with new markets push
  T-Mobile to skip HSPA+ and wants LTE by 2010, despite capex squeeze
  Microsoft teams with LG to revive Windows’ challenge to Symbian
  Nokia and Apple fight mobile games crisis, but Sony needs to step up
  AT&T may take netbook route, but Europe highlights risks
  Intel ends UWB project, in possible deathknell for WiMedia
  Vodafone makes big leap into Russia with MTS alliance
  Google passes security response test with Android patch
  One ray of light for Motorola: Sprint to keep iDEN
  Further shake-out in baseband market as downturn starts to bite
  High density SIM could give cellcos new level of control
  Revenues, capex and foreign interest all rise in India
  Softbank and O2 sweeten iPhone deals amid nerves for Q4
  Start-Up Watch: WiChorus nets $18m for new breed of gateway products
  3 promises YouTube phone as G1 creates a stir in UK
  US carriers take opposing views on Android
  ALU in holding pattern as it waits for Verwaayen’s turnaround plan
  Smartphones and MIDs could buoy handset market
  China Mobile likely to share 3G spoils among five vendors
  UK’s Ofcom to auction 2.6GHz spectrum by mid-2009
  Two Taiwanese deals highlight Intel MID roadmap
  Aperto scores another win in 3.65GHz band
  WiMAX in Brief November 5 2008
  Worth Noting November 5 2008
 
 
29 October, 2008
 
  Motorola bets the farm on Android and prepares for major cutbacks
  Cox and Xohm: raising hopes that carriers will invest through recession
  Orascom marks Nokia’s most important Ovi partnership to date
  Verizon and AT&T: data revenues strong, handsets create doubts
  Samsung and Nokia take opposite approaches to weathering the storm
  Atheros kickstarts Wi-Fi upgrade cycle with low end 11n
  More bad news for Windows Mobile as doubts grow about its future
  Nokia pursues cross-platform goals with Qt port to S60
  O2 holds out on upgrades, another way to neglect midmarket customers
  Trio of companies launch customizable user interface platforms
  AT&T survey may point to iPhone’s next enhancements
  Qualcomm faces $1bn damages claim from GPS technology firm
  Huawei and ZTE take advantage of operators’ need to cut costs
  Start-Up Watch: Hands-On challenges Java’s dominance in games
  Android Market officially opens
  Vodafone investors lose confidence in emerging markets
  HSPA and LTE in Brief October 29 2008
  WiMAX in Brief October 29 2008
  Worth Noting October 29 2008
 
 
22 October, 2008
 
  TI to quit cellphone basebands in further shake-up of merchant chip market
  Google and Nokia take up arms for real in the mobile open source war
  Intel and Ericsson team on mobile internet, fending off Qualcomm
  Ericsson stuns markets and claims immunity from recession (so far)
  AT&T grasps for upper hand in emerging wireless devices
  Phonemakers look for margin ahead of share, and to calm nerves
  Apple credits iPhone with strong fourth quarter
  Nokia to pay Qualcomm €1.7bn in royalties
  Mobile Firefox and Opera 9.5 heat up browser wars
  Eclipse launches bid to be standard mobile development platform
  Opposition mounts to FCC’s white spaces and AWS-3 proposals
  France shows its true colors on broadband wireless spectrum
  UK cellcos strike a balance as they morph into broadband providers
  Telefonica O2 extends femtocell trials in UK
  Start-Up Watch: Arch Rock addresses growing issue of ZigBee over IP
  News Corp makes strong three-pronged push into mobile content
  Google follows Apple with kill switch for Android apps
  RIM’s apps store to open for business in March
  Mobile internet opens up handsets to security threats
  Two ‘any over any’ IP forums merge
  First TD-SCDMA femtocell on the horizon, targeting China Mobile
  HSPA and LTE in Brief October 22 2008
  Norsat targets WiMAX/satellite opportunity
  NextWave in first Korean design win
  WiMAX Forum looks to India for massive growth
  WiMAX in Brief October 22 2008
  Worth Noting October 22 2008
 
 
15 October, 2008
 
  Despite challenges, Nokia should still emerge strongest from handset crisis
  3 to reposition as broadband player