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IPWireless Sold On The Cheap
One-time would-be WiMAX carrier NextWave Wireless sold a 75-percent stake in its IPWireless Inc., subsidiary to an IPWireless senior management team for just $1 million – essentially giving away a unit for which it paid $100 million just 18 months ago (TelecomWeb news break, April 9, 2007). The... [read more]
Americans Still Snub Mobile TV
Despite years of hype from some quarters, mobile video adoption in the United States remains at trivial levels, according to a new study by online audience measurement specialist comScore, with fewer than 3 percent of wireless subscribers tuning in on their small-screened devices. And of that 3 percent, only one group was significant: Males 18 to 34 years old, with the most oft-watched mobile... [read more]
Guest Blog: Kerry Shih -- Framing The User Bill Of Rights
The User Bill of Rights is something that’s needed by everyone involved in combining data and voice (and with increasing frequency video and presence) on IP networks to deliver the benefits of unified communications, including the end customer who is...
Posted on Wednesday, November 7, 2007
COMPANIES To WatchFull Story 2009: Not Good So Far For WiMAX Promoter What’s called WiMAX by its corporate handlers but more precisely a wireless broadband product offering that currently follows an implementation of the IEEE’s 802.16 standard has entered 2009 with a...
DEALSFull Story Airborne Broadband Hardware Vendors Consolidate EMS Technologies, in a move to broaden its offerings in the re-emerging airborne broadband market, is buying privately held Formation Inc. to get its hands on Formation’s in-cabin wireless access points...
HOW To Make A BuckFull Story Research Report: The Highs And Lows Of Lat-Am 3G Mobile-Data Pricing Recent research performed by TelecomWeb wireless’ sister e-letter Tarifica Alert looked at 3G data pricing from 13 wireless carriers in the Latin American region. Tarifica’s methodology for this...
GAMINGFull Story The Mobile Media Review: The WAP Special Issue Welcome to “The Mobile Media Review,” our relevant and, many times, irreverent view of what's going on in the mobile-content arena. Most of this issue’s analysis was spurred by product...
NEW To MarketFull Story ‘Clear’ WiMAX Cuts Over In Portland Clearwire this morning formally launched its first commercial mobile wireless broadband service based on IEEE 802.16 specifications (better known by the trade name “WiMAX”), saying it has...
RESEARCH and reportsFull Story Transatlantic Group Tapped For Fourth Digital-Divide Survey A consortium led by U.K.-based analyst group Analysys Mason, including the economic consultancy DotEcon and the law firm U.S. law firm Hogan & Hartson LLP, won a contract to produce a study by the European...