Wireless

Verizon Wholesale Plans to Add Wireless to Bundle in 2008

As part of its ongoing bundling strategy, Verizon Partner Solutions, the wholesale arm of Verizon Communications, is working on creating a quad-play bundle for resellers of its voice, data and video services, according to a VPS executive attending the COMPTEL PLUS ...More
February 27, 2008 By Khali Henderson
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Corporate Phone Bill to Hit $133 Billion

Spending by businesses on wired and cellular calling will hit $133 billion by the close of 2008, according to a new market research report from Insight Research. The study predicts that cellular calling will account for nearly 39 percent of the corporate phone bill for ...More
February 21, 2008
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Sprint Introduces Samsung Ace Smartphone

Sprint and Samsung Mobile have announced the upcoming availability of the Samsung Ace, a smartphone powered by the Sprint Mobile Broadband Network and Windows Mobile 6, said the companies. Operating in the United States on the Sprint Mobile Broadband Network, the Samsung ...More
February 21, 2008
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Majors Drop Wireless Pricing, Eyes on Sprint

File under “voice just can’t seem to retain its value”: The wireless fare wars have begun. T-Mobile USA announced Wednesday that it will begin offering a flat-rate, all-inclusive voice plan for under $100, following identical announcements by Verizon Wireless and AT&T ...More
February 20, 2008 By Tara Seals
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CradlePoint Introduces MBR1000 'Fail-Safe' Mobile Broadband Router

CradlePoint Inc. has begun shipping the MBR1000, an 802.11 draft 'N' Mobile Broadband Router that supports wired WAN and wireless WAN backhaul, and provides greater range and speed than any other commercially available cellular router, said the company. Powered by ...More
February 19, 2008
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AT&T, Verizon Drop Pricing

Let the race to zero begin? Verizon Wireless and AT&T Inc., within mere hours of each other, have both announced unlimited calling plans for under $100. Verizon announced that its flat-rate, $99.99 plan will include unlimited calling, including all roaming and ...More
February 19, 2008
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Verso Announces Reseller Agreement With Nortel

Verso Technologies Inc., a global provider of next-generation network solutions, announced it has signed a worldwide reseller agreement with Nortel. The agreement enables Nortel to sell Verso products worldwide and includes provisions for Verso to provide product ...More
February 19, 2008
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Microsoft Thinks Outside Business Box in the Battle for the Wireless Prosumer

Microsoft Corp.'s wireless division wants you. And everyone else as well. In a shift in strategy announced last week at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the software giant noted, a bit creepily, that it will be our constant "companion in a world of change." In fact, it ...More
February 19, 2008 By Tara Seals
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LIFEBOOK Notebooks Offer Mobile Broadband Connectivity From Sierra Wireless

Sierra Wireless announced that Fujitsu Siemens Computers has once again selected Sierra Wireless embedded modules to provide HSPA network connectivity to selected models in the LIFEBOOK product line of professional notebook computers. New platforms incorporating Sierra ...More
February 15, 2008
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AT&T to Complete HSPA Transition, Expands 3G Plans

AT&T Inc. will complete its wireless network upgrade to High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) by the middle of 2008, it said Wednesday. The upgrade will make for consistent 3G network uplink speeds of 600kbps and 1,400kbps, and uplink speeds ranging from 500kbps to ...More
February 6, 2008 By Tara Seals
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