To help accelerate the global adoption of the 4G technology for high-speed, high-bandwidth mobile communications, Nortel has published a competitive handset royalty rate of about one percent subject to terms for its portfolio of LTE standards-essential patents. Nortel’s competitive handset royalty rate for patent value is one of the first to be voluntarily published. Nortel […]

Clearwire Corporation and Sprint Nextel Corporation today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement to combine their next-generation wireless broadband businesses to form a new wireless communications company.
The new company, which will be named Clearwire, will be focused on expediting the deployment of the first nationwide mobile WiMAX network to provide a true […]

Alcatel-Lucent announced that it has been awarded a contract by LTT (Libya Telecom and Technology), the national Internet Service Provider in Libya, to deploy the first commercial WiMAX network based on the 802.16e-2005 WiMAX standard, in Libya. LTT plans to launch the commercial service on the network in September 2008.
The new network will support […]

Motorola, Inc. is working with Advanced Info Service (AIS), the largest mobile operator in Thailand, to conduct trials of mobile WiMAX solutions. The trials will enable AIS to gain insight into the next generation personal wireless broadband services.
AIS started trials over Motorola’s WiMAX Access Point-400 (WAP-400) platform in Bangkok and Lamlukka in the first quarter […]

The WiMAX Forum today announced it has named the MAXWell Lab at the University of Maryland as home to the first WiMAX Forum endorsed applications lab in North America. Companies located in the United States and across the globe will benefit from and be able to more quickly take advantage of new applications for […]

“Operators and distributors continued to top up their inventories in 1Q 2008 after a particularly strong 4Q 2007,” says ABI Research vice president Jake Saunders. “Year on year, 1Q 2008 was up 13.7%, but 2Q 2008 is likely to be softer than in previous years.” Shipment volumes in the developed markets have softened slightly due […]

The CDMA Development Group (CDG) today announced the agenda for the 2008 3G CDMA Latin America Regional Conference, which will take place May 13-15 in Cancun, Mexico. The program will cover all facets of the Latin American CDMA2000 ecosystem, including regional growth, international roaming, ultra low-cost handset availability, the increasing opportunities for CDMA450, and how […]

Many factors are converging to create a market ripe for femtocell technology, says a new report from analyst firm Infonetics Research called Femtocell Access Points Market Size and Forecasts. Chief among these factors:
– Mounting numbers of mobile subscribers, forecast by Infonetics to hit
4.4 billion worldwide in 2011
– A booming […]

Linux, which has been much maligned by Symbian and Microsoft as a non-starter in the handset operating system market, is set to see strong growth as issues with framework fragmentation and silicon requirements are alleviated. The growing momentum behind the LiMo Foundation initiative, as well as the marketing boost that has been realized from the […]

The exponential growth of data traffic carried by wireless networks is likely to force mobile service providers to accelerate their efforts to upgrade their networks to a flat, all-IP architecture, according to a major new report titled, Flat IP Architectures in Mobile Networks: From 3G to LTE, published by Heavy Reading, the market research division […]

A very complex mobile value chain and a growing business reliance on mobile products have created the need for services that help businesses maximize the value of their mobile investments. In a recent report from ABI Research, mobile device management (MDM) services are forecast to grow from $583 million in 2007 to over $20 billion […]

With the spread of 3G cellular networks, connected notebooks with built-in cellular modems have not met early adoption forecasts. Part of the issue has been high broadband data pricing but that does not explain why business customers, who make up the initial target market, have not been more receptive to the convenience of embedded connectivity […]

Although the first 3G LTE (Long Term Evolution) networks will come into operation in Japan in 2010, the technology is unlikely to see the light of day until 2011 in the rest of the world. Even then, subscriber numbers are forecast to be only 4.2 million with a large proportion using LTE via data cards […]

Norwegians buy more expensive and advanced phones and replace their mobile phones every other year on average, according to a new study done by Synovate on behalf of Telenor.
Comparing the use of mobile phones in Norway, Sweden and Denmark, the study shows that Norwegians spend the most money on new phones, an average of […]

The early favorite in 4G wireless is the long-term roadmap for UMTS, LTE, but other technologies are now gaining support, according to a new study by Visant Strategies.
“We see LTE as the leading OFDM-based platform in 2014, accounting for 39 million subscribers and $9 billion in equipment revenues, with the market accelerating the next three […]