by Pivot
Month: July 2010
T-Mobile Making Up for Lost Mobile Broadband Time
T-Mobile was a little late to the mobile broadband game, but appears to be making up for lost time. They just announced the widening of their HSPA+ footprint, which offers mobile broadband speeds of up…
Will LightSquared Network Destabilize Wireless?
Harbinger Capital wants to build a new national wholesale fourth-generation wireless network called “LightSquared,” repurposing spectrum originally allocated for satellite service. Though many obstacles remain to be vanquished, the firm has approval to reuse the…
Sprint Frees Up 35 MHz of Spectrum for Future Broadband Use
Over five years, 100,000 pieces of television broadcasting equipment replaced at more than 1,000 television broadcast stations nationwide OVERLAND PARK, Kan., Jul 20, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) –Today, Sprint (NYSE:S) announced that it has completed the…
Kansas Forms Statewide Broadband Task Force
Kansas has a lot of broadband stimulus money to spend and the Governor wants to make sure it’s put to good use. Kansas Governor Mark Parkinson has established the Kansas Broadband Advisory Task Force, a…
NTELOS Expands Mid-Atlantic Regional Fiber Network
NTELOS, a Waynesboro, Va. based independent telco, is expanding their regional fiber network through the acquisition of FiberNet, a 3,500 route mile fiber network owned by One Communications. NTELOS is purchasing the fiber network for…
New Wholesale 4G Wireless Provider LightSquared Reveals Plans
Harbinger Capital unveiled its plans for a wholesale 4G wireless provider which will be called LightSquared. The new wireless service provider intends to build a nationwide 4G wireless network, utilizing both terrestrial and satellite assets,…
magicJack Maker Merges With VocalTec
YMAX Corp., the parent company behind the successful VoIP device magicJack has announced a merger with VoIP pioneer VocalTec. The new combined company, which will trade on the NASDAQ under the symbol CALL (NASDAQ: CALL),…
Covad Turns to ADTRAN for Carrier Ethernet Services
HUNTSVILLE, Ala.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ADTRAN®, Inc., (NASDAQ: ADTN), a leading provider of next-generation access solutions, announced today that Covad, a leading national provider of voice and data communications, has selected the ADTRAN Total Access® 5000 Multi-Service Access…
Nokia to Acquire Motorola Wireless Network Assets Worth $1.2 Billion
Nokia Siemens Networks and Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today jointly announced that the companies have entered into an agreement under which Nokia Siemens Networks will acquire the majority of Motorola’s wireless network infrastructure assets for…
Sprint Brings Android to Nextel Push-to-Talk Network
OVERLAND PARK, Kan., Jul 19, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Industry-leading Push-to-Talk with access to thousands of Android(TM) applications for less than $150? Now that is taking care of business! Sprint (NYSE: S) today shared pricing…
AT&T Chooses Video, Reach over Faster Broadband
AT&T limited its options when it decided not to go with FTTH for its IP triple play platform, U-verse. They chose VDSL instead, presumably to save cost over a more expensive FTTH build. There are…
FCC Seeks Action on Terrestrial Use of Satellite Frequencies for Mobile Broadband
Satellite operators could have greater flexibility to offer terrestrial broadband services as a result of a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking issued this week from the Federal Communications Commission. The NPRM, which focuses on 90 MHz…