Wireless

Newegg.com Launches Wireless Services, Adds AT&T as Dealer

Newegg.com has launched cellular phone and wireless services and has announced AT&T Inc. as an authorized dealer. Newegg has 6 million registered customers. It is an online e-commerce company that has created a channel for manufacturers of computer hardware and ...More
August 7, 2007
Posted in News
Goodbye Amp’d, Hello Prexar

A little-known Maine-based wireless provider will purchase the customer assets of ill-fated MVNO Amp’d Mobile Inc. Prexar Mobile will offer services to Amp’d customers in a deal approved by Judge Brendan L. Shannon of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Del. Prexar, ...More
August 3, 2007 By Tara Seals
Posted in News
MVN-OH-NO?

Amp’d Mobile Inc. is perhaps best known as the hipster virtual operator that makes 3G content and enhanced applications, such as social networking and Webmobile integration, its primary focus, hoping to capture the tech-savvy teen and twentysomething market. So when it ...More
July 31, 2007
Posted in Articles
Manual Intervention

In the back rooms or on the bottom shelves at almost any small, medium or large business, there rest the emergency manuals. Employees consult these manuals during an emergency situation to determine what protocol to follow, the tasks for which they are responsible and whom ...More
July 31, 2007 By Cara Sievers
Posted in Articles, Software as a Service/ Cloud Services (SaaS)
EMBARQing on the Channel

There’s always something new on the horizon, and for EMBARQ Corp., that thing is its channel program. Its channel strategy is a work in progress, launched when EMBARQ was spun off a year ago this June from Sprint Nextel. And rather than take a template from competitors, the ...More
July 31, 2007 By Tara Seals
Posted in Articles
Wireless Wonders

Boxwave Introduces Apple iPhone A ccessories BoxWave Corp. has announced the availability of its Apple iPhone accessories, ranging from leather cases to charging solutions. The iPhone Designio Leather Case and Leather Sleeve are slim and soft leather storage options that ...More
July 31, 2007
Posted in Articles
Get With the Program

If you’ve been selling in the channel for five or more years, you are likely to be an indirect sales partner who has focused historically on selling landline networks. You might have a few of your own direct carrier contracts and a few through a master agent or two. Most ...More
July 31, 2007
Posted in Articles
XO Increases Capacity of Core Network, Extends Incentive Program

XO Communications said Monday it has increased the capacity of its core network by 200 percent by deploying an additional 800gbps of capacity on major routes across its18,000 route-mile optical network. The company also said it has extended the availability of its 3 ...More
July 30, 2007
Posted in News, Ethernet/ MPLS
Google, Sprint Partner on WiMAX

Though we live in a world where wireless and walled garden seem to go hand in hand, Sprint announced today that it will partner with open-access booster Google Inc. to create a mobile WiMAX portal for search, interactive communications, user-generated content and social ...More
July 26, 2007 By Tara Seals
Posted in News
Amp’d Out

Well, it’s the end of a story which could tentatively be called “Behind the Minutes: Amp’d Mobile.” By all reports, Amp’d Mobile will likely cease operations Tuesday. Like a made-for-VH1 rock and roll tragedy, the once-cool MVNO has fallen onto disreputable hard times, ...More
July 23, 2007 By Tara Seals
Posted in News