Ericsson is on a bit of a roll these days and is north of $9 after dropping below $7 in January. Clearly, an important element of Ericsson’s resurgence is its solid positioning in 3G and 4G wireless - the announcement of an important role as an equipment provider in Verizon’s 4G LTE network is definitely [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Verizon’
March 17, 2009
Ericsson demos a new fixed line broadband technology called “Vectorized VDSL” – What does this have to do with 4G wireless?
March 5, 2009
Clearwire’s prospects and why WiMAX might be the Blu-ray of the wireless world
Clearwire is expected to reveal its deployment plans today after the market close, and it’s a good time to look at Clearwire’s prospects in the market. The news of Clearwire investors getting additional shares as a result of the stock dipping below $3 hasn’t been good for the stock, and it’s down more than 11% [...]
February 13, 2009
What to expect from Verizon Wireless next week at MWC…
Next week’s Mobile World Congress (formerly 3GSM) being held in Barcelona is one of the most important wireless conferences presently, and data points on the progress of the next-generation 4G wireless standard are expected. While European carriers will be well-represented in the keynotes (TeliaSonera and Telenor), this is the first year that Verizon will present [...]
January 26, 2009
Why wireless carriers are looking at wireless access points in the home
The femtocell market has suddenly heated up, with major U.S. cell phone service providers looking to put access points in each consumer’s home. Generally speaking, cell phone users receive signal from high-powered base stations or “cell towers”, but the advent of widespread 3G service means that users are transferring more data than ever before over [...]
January 15, 2009
What course will Obama’s new FCC head Julian Genachowski chart amidst a choppy Telecom landscape?
Major news sources are reporting that President Elect Obama has selected his choice to become the new FCC commissioner, and it’s Julian Genachoswski, an ex-Harvard law classmate and chief counsel to Clinton’s FCC chairman, Reed Hundt. With Kevin Martin, the outgoing FCC head, certainly no friend no the cable industry by launching probes into Comcast’s [...]
November 5, 2008
The FCC opens up white spaces for wireless broadband. A big deal? You bet.
After hearing arguments on both sides of the issue, the FCC has announced that it will allow the use of unused white spaces (the gaps between over-the-air digital TV broadcasts) to be used for wireless broadband data use, particularly in rural areas in the 700MHz band. The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) had opposed the [...]
October 27, 2008
Verizon delivers solid Q3 results, with wireless services leading the way
Verizon’s Q3 results were in-line with analyst expectations, with adjusted EPS ($164M (excluding $0.06) for severance for workforce reductions, $132M ($0.01) for merger acquisition charges) were in-line at $0.66. Sales were up 5.4% YoY to $24.8B (versus $24.5B consensus).
VZ Wireless: Wireless added 2.1M customers (up 5.3% YoY), of which 1.5M were organic growth (the rest [...]
September 29, 2008
Sprint’s Xohm venture launching WiMAX wireless services in Baltimore for Sprint
Consumers will get a first glance at Sprint-Nextel’s big bet on next-generation wireless services today in Baltimore, as the service is opened up the general public. And for the time being, this new wireless venture remains a service offering of Sprint, as its divestiture of its WiMAX interests into Clearwire are still being reviewed by [...]
September 23, 2008
T-Mobile’s Google Android phone in the spotlight
Today, T-Mobile held an event in New York to unveil its Google Android phone which is being built by Taiwanese cell phone company HTC. The “G1″ will be $179 with a 2-year contract (versus $199 for iPhone on AT&T), and the big thing about this phone is that it will be the first real open-source [...]
September 9, 2008
AT&T rolls out an enhanced multi-room DVR – Moving video around the home is getting a whole lot easier
Subscribers to AT&T’s U-verse triple-play voice, video, and Internet service will soon have a new feature to play with. AT&T’s enhanced DVR will now allow the recording of 4 programs simultaneously, and then distribution of that content to up to 8 connected TVs. This means that the TVs will need to have a U-verse box, [...]
