A consortium of local investors have acquired the wifi network covering the US city of Philadelphia, just weeks after the previous owner EarthLink said it would shut the operation down. Last month, the US ISP revealed that negotiations with the City of Philadelphia, in which EarthLink offered to transfer ownership of the entire $17m network [...]
When US regulator the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) convenes on June 12, one of the items on the agenda will be the fate of a swathe of spectrum in the 2155MHz to 2175MHz band. One of the options under consideration is to auction the spectrum off, along with a requirement that some portion of the [...]
US internet service provider EarthLink said this week that it would be shutting down its free and paid for metropolitan wifi service in Philadelphia. Customers will have access to the service until June 12, after which date the ISP will pull the plug. EarthLink’s decision to kill off the network doesn’t come as a surprise [...]
US communications regulator the FCC has called for comments on how to proceed with the sale of a swathe of 700MHz spectrum no one wanted in the recent auction. As expected, Verizon Wireless and AT&T were the big winners in the FCC’s 700MHz spectrum auction, which ended in March, spending much of the $19.6bn total. [...]
US operator and WiMAX pin up Sprint has announced that Samsung has met its commercial acceptance criteria for mobile WiMAX. This means Sprint is happy with the overall performance, handoff performance and handoff delay. Korean vendor Samsung is building out mobile WiMAX networks for Sprint in Baltimore and Washington DC. Since finalising a supply agreement [...]
The US MVNO market is still rocky and an announcement made late Wednesday suggests consolidation may lie ahead. Virgin Mobile USA confirmed today that the company is in discussions with Korean carrier SK Telecom, which owns US MVNO Helio. Virgin stressed that these discussions “are in early stages, and there are no assurances that any [...]
US WiMAX champion Clearwire almost doubled its net loss during the first quarter, reporting a deficit of $176.4m, compared to a loss of $92.6m in the same period last year. Revenues were up 76 per cent to $51.5m as the company cranked its customer base up to 443,000, 72 per cent higher than the same [...]
Embattled US carrier Sprint Nextel said Monday that its first quarterly loss more than doubled to $505m, compared to $211m a year ago, as the company haemorrhaged mobile subscribers. During the quarter, a net total of 1.09 million wireless subscribers walked away from the firm, including 1.07 million post paid subscribers and 543,000 traditional prepaid [...]
If there were such a thing as an anti-WiMAX lobby group (and let’s put aside cynical thoughts that one already exists and is headquartered in Stockholm) it would have had a lot of fresh material to work with recently.
Mobile gaming has been held up as a natural revenue spinner for operators. But while the demand is there, it’s not developing quite as expected.
Issue 116 November 2004
Featuring:
Country Focus: Who’s winning the vote in the US market?
The handset market: Out with the old and in with the new
A step in the right direction but does it go far enough?
Sharing an allowance among family members is one ...
I agree with Dan about this being a excellent read, and that QNX is not well known but sooner or ...
Excellent read with some actual facts compared to the hack journalist/bloggers on the interest. Many don't understand what QNX ...
The main issue with Telenor is that whether they made underhand payments to ge the licenses. If they did, then ...
Over The Top providers have become the staple wildcard in almost any sector set on a collision path with mobile. By and large they are very good at what they do: connecting a user with their chosen content or service by whatever means available.
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