Sierra Wireless announced that its AirCard 860 wireless card is available in Canada from Rogers Wireless. The AirCard 860 is designed to operate on Rogers’ recently launched HSDPA network.
“Sierra Wireless products are available all over the world, but it is always gratifying to launch them in Canada,” said Dan Schieler, Senior Vice President of [...]
Businesses and consumers are willing to pay a premium for next-generation mobile high speed data services such as VoIP, interactive video and video sharing, according to primary market research by Lucent Technologies.
Lucent surveyed U. S. consumer mobile phone users and enterprise communications technology decision makers to determine which applications and services would be of most [...]
Voice over Internet Protocol has become a key growth driver for telecom equipment suppliers, according to iSuppli Corp. Worldwide VoIP equipment revenue will rise to $11.9 billion in 2010, a compound annual growth rate of 24.7% from $3.95 billion in 2005.
At the end of 2005, private branch exchanges accounted for 46% of VoIP equipment revenue, [...]
According to primary market research by Lucent Technologies, businesses and consumers are willing to pay a premium for next-generation mobile high speed data services such as voice over IP (VoIP), interactive video and video sharing.
Lucent surveyed U. S. consumer mobile phone users and enterprise communications technology decision makers to determine which applications and services would [...]
Siemens Monday is announcing a management application for its HiPath Wireless line of WLAN gear, and a new version of its systems software with expanded support for voice traffic.
Also new is a group of APIs that let third-party software vendors plug their applications into a HiPath WLAN deployment. All three changes are aimed at improving [...]
The P903i from NTT DoCoMo, Japan’s top mobile carrier, comes with a small black card about the size of a movie-ticket stub. The card works as a security key by connecting wirelessly with the cell phone.
If an owner keeps the card in a bag or pocket, the phone recognizes when the card moves too far [...]
Japanese mobile phone carrier Softbank Mobile Corp., which slashed its prices last week to undercut rivals, said it had to stop taking new applications Sunday because it was flooded by new customers wanting to switch to its service.
It is a bitter victory for Softbank, which had rolled out the aggressive price cuts in a last-ditch [...]
Common Platform technology founding members IBM, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing and Samsung Electronics have produced 90nm chips for Qualcomm in their respective 300mm fabs.
Working with Qualcomm, the Common Platform members have manufactured low-power system-on-chip (SoC) products that support mobile telecommunications technologies. The chips are being used in cellular phone chipsets and other devices to enable wireless [...]
Ericsson has been selected to supply, install and integrate Bouygues Telecom’s WCDMA/HSPA radio equipment in the Greater Paris area and Rhone-Alpes. Bouygues Telecom, a French mobile operator with more than 8.3 million subscribers, has chosen Ericsson as its partner in the creation of its new WCDMA/HSPA mobile broadband network.
Ericsson will provide, install and [...]
Jajah, an ambitious European start-up that slashes the cost of long-distance mobile telephone calls, is set to sign up 1 million customers this year, one of the company’s co-founders said on Sunday.
“We are confident that we will have better than 1 million paying customers by the end of year,” Jajah co-founder Daniel Mattes said in [...]
Navigating your way through today’s VoIP industry can be a daunting proposition. These days, there’s no shortage of VoIP providers, each one promising to deliver the highest quality and most innovative products. How is a growing business to know which VoIP provider will be the best fit?
Broadband phone service comparison site VoipReview.org wants to assist [...]
VoIP application software provider BroadSoft introduced its BroadWorks VoIP application platform in Bangladesh this week.
The IMS-compliant BroadWorks platform seems to be a good choice for the more rural and remote sections of Bangladesh, where telecom services are not always available. The platform features include hostedPBX ( News - Alert), Business Trunking, Mobile PBX and Call [...]