Fitch: Reforms Threaten Financial Profiles
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Credit profiles of some wireless operators could be negatively affected by reforms to the Universal Service Fund (USF) - due to expire in June - according to Fitch Ratings. Fitch says the reforms could pose "a material event risk to some U.S. wireless operators and place negative pressures on future cash flows." Companies without enough...
Turning a Campus into a Wireless Testbed
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Ubiquitous communications -- the ability to reach people anytime anywhere -- is getting a trial on the Newark, N.J., campus of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). In fact, the campus is about to be turned into a virtual laboratory for investigating innovative ways students can connect with each other using cell phones and...
Survey: Wireline Erosion Will Accelerate; 20% of Households Plan to Cancel or Not Use Wireline Services
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- According to the In-Stat US Consumer Telecom Survey, nearly 20% of respondents that use wireless voice service plan to drop landline phone service, reports In-Stat. Furthermore, as an indication of future wireline erosion, wireless usage continues to increase in proportion to wireline usage, particularly among...
German T-Mobile Makes Data Faster, Cheaper
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Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Mobile, in a major mobile-data- services push in Germany, has unveiled a flat-rate wireless-data pricing scheme and a new High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) service with bandwidth as much as 1.8 Mb/s. The carrier says a handful of its business customers, including Deutsche Bahn AG, has been testing...
Google, Skype Back WiFi Startup
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Google and eBay Inc. division Skype have invested in the Spanish start-up company FON , whose software turns home wireless routers into WiFi hotspots for broadband sharing among a worldwide community of "foneros." Google and Skype joined VCs Index Ventures and Sequoia...
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