Balsillie: WiFi & FMC 'Imminent'
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BOSTON -- JP Morgan Techology Conference -- Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) co-CEO Jim Balsillie says the mobile device maker and service provider will be moving rapidly into the Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) market, especially in the enterprise space, and that the technology could show up in the market as early as this year. ...
EU Parliament Approves Pan-European Cap on Roaming Charges
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The European Parliament voted by a vast majority in favour of a cap on the cost of making and receiving mobile calls while abroad within the EU. Under the new plan, calls while abroad will cost 0.49 euro per minute staring from mid-2007, falling to 0.43 euro per minute by 2009, while cost of receiving calls abroad will be reduced to 0.24 ...
KPN Eyes Austrian Mobile Company One
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The Dutch telecoms group, KPN, has confirmed its interest in taking over Austrian mobile operator One, Dow Jones reports. "We are looking at it", Stephen Hufton, a KPN spokesman, said, adding that buying One would be "in line with what we said before", about expanding KPN's mobile telecoms operations to other ...
Timing is Everything
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As the technology, market and regulatory landscape continues to change for cable operators, they find themselves caught in a race against time with telco competitors. Assisting on the telco side: new optical networks combined with new copper modulation schemes-like 10 Mbps ADSL2+. For the cable side: the new DOCSIS 3.0 and its modular ...
Nokia, Qualcomm in Patent Tussle
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HELSINKI, Finland -- Nokia Corp., the world's largest mobile phone maker, said Thursday it has filed a countersuit against Qualcomm Inc. in a patent infringement fight. The companies have been disputing royalty payments since a 2001 agreement expired this year. Qualcomm sued Nokia in a Wisconsin court on April 2. With ...
Sprint Walks Into The Wireless Dragon's Den
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Canadian wireless backhaul supplier DragonWave is granting Sprint Nextel a warrant to buy a pile of its shares -- part of an arrangement under which DragonWave now looks to have the inside track on the potentially lucrative backhaul contract for Sprint's planned 'Mobile WiMAX' network. DragonWave says Sprint/United ...
Industry Presses for Permanent Internet Tax Moratorium
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Testifying at a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee yesterday, Annabelle Canning, Verizon's vice president of state tax policy, urged lawmakers to place a permanent moratorium on the taxation of Internet access services. Saying a permanent Internet tax moratorium would protect lower-income Americans from ...
BT Gives PSP Its Voice
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BT Group plc; and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe signed a four-year partnership contract today to bring voice, video, and messaging capabilities to the WiFi-enabled PlayStation Portable (PSP) device. For the first time, wireless network gamers will be able to communicate via their gaming device. The communication ...
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