Motorola splits for mobile home entertainment and advanced wireless networks

Motorola has been talking about dividing itself down the middle for quite some time now - the idea first surfaced about two years ago. At the time, it proposed one company for all things mobile, with everything else going into the other company. Now that it has announced a final plan, it’s a little different from that.

Holy guacamole! Ericsson loses 92% of its profits as mobile operators stop spending

2009 was not a good year for Ericsson. The mobile network builder has reported that its profits were down by over 90% for the fourth quarter - and that 1,500 more people will have to be let go.

Spat erupts over whose network is best for iPhone

Rating: Vodafone’s, Orange’s or 3’s? Probably not O2’s
Despite sterling efforts to obtain the actual evidence, GoMo News learns that Vodafone UK intends to pump up its own iPhone offering by claiming that its network is better. That depends where you are, of course. If you’re waiting for a plane at London Heathrow airport this might [...]

Everything you need to know about Ericsson vs. Nokia, Alcatel-Lucent, RIM and Canada

Ericssons attempt to buy parts of collapsing Canadian company Nortel has opened up a huge can of worms. Analysts are saying that the result of this would be an Ericsson so large that its competitors need to merge together to stay in the game - particularly Nokia Siemens Networks and Alcatel-Lucent. The Canadian government has yet to approve the acquisition, but public opinion (spearheaded by a very vocal RIM) is firmly against it. This is a huge deal, with a lot to win or lose for the people involved. So in this article we’re going over what you need to know for a good overview of the entire situation.

Ouch - network Qwest withdraws sale after no-one makes big enough bid

Long-distance call carrier Qwest Communications announced today that it withdrawn the sale of its network. The reason? No one was willing to match the $2 billion price tag.

Long-distance calls aren’t Qwests only business concern - it also maintains local phone services, and runs nationwide services for businesses and government. But the company is currently labouring [...]

Adding a little bit of Mjoy to life

Rating: Fledgling German service may well succeed
It’s notoriously hard to pick a winner, so who’s to say a new mobile site based in Germany - Mjoy - may not triumph where others have fallen by the wayside? Have a look at mjoy and see.

After all, one of Mjoy’s major attractions is that it is is [...]

iBAHN expands EMEA network to maintain technology lead

iBAHN, the leading provider of digital converged services for hoteliers, today announces a major expansion to its EMEA network. The upgrade is designed to further strengthen iBAHN’s proprietary worldwide network, which is already the most technically advanced available to the hospitality industry.

The network developments focus on iBAHN’s Point of Presence (POPs) in Frankfurt and London. [...]

Actix Unveils New, Integrated Radioplan Network Optimization Solution for Mobile Broadband

Actix, the recognized leader in Automatic Optimization for mobile wireless networks has today announced significant enhancements to Radioplan, the world’s most widely used automatic cell planning and optimization solution.

The latest version of Radioplan enables operators to further improve network coverage, quality of service and capacity, while also coupling the solution to enterprise capabilities of the [...]

AIRCOM Tops OSS Observer Network Engineering Rankings

Leatherhead, UK – Independent mobile network planning and optimisation consultancy AIRCOM International, has been named the market leading supplier of engineering tools to operators by global telecom software market analysis house, OSS Observer. 

The recently published OSS Observer Service Fulfilment Market Review report reveals that AIRCOM International currently has a 19% share of a $542 million [...]

Technosummits announces Broadband Connect Summit 2008

An industry summit in London will provide a unique forum to discuss some of the critical issues facing media companies and network operators as a result of new online and mobile broadband services.

The focus of the second annual Broadband Connect Summit is “Enabling fixed and wireless networks for broadband media services”. The conference will include [...]

Jinny’s Proven Success in Messaging Nets Two More Deals in Peru and Brazil

Proven SIGTRAN-capable SMSC a first in Latin America

PANAMA, 22nd April 2008 - Jinny Software, a leading global supplier of messaging and media platforms to mobile network operators, today announced that it has won two new deals with operators in Peru and Brazil, both of which are part of a larger Brazilian group operator.  Jinny’s SMSC [...]

AIRCOM packs into Malaysia

AIRCOM International selected to provide WiMAX network planning and optimisation support to Packet One International across Malaysia. 
WiMAX Forum Congress Asia, Singapore – AIRCOM International, the leading independent mobile network planning and optimisation consultancy, has been appointed by Malaysia’s Packet One International,

to provide planning support to its WiMAX network.  Packet One has chosen AIRCOM’s ASSET tool [...]

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