Converge! Network Digest reports today that Meru Networks raised $25 million in its fourth round of funding. "The company said that over the past 12 months its business has grown at a rapid...
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According to Telecom Asia, research firm Informa predicts that fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) services will generate $28 billion in revenues worldwide by 2011. "Companies such as BT Group and...
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Wi-Fi Planet's Eric Griffith takes a look at DiVitas, a startup that's focused on putting enterprises in control of their own FMC (fixed/mobile convergence) services. That puts DiVitas up...
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Matt Chapman at vnunet.com reports today that the Wi-Fi Alliance and the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA) are joining forces to set up test and certification programmes for...
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PC Magazine's Sascha Segan looks at Kyocera's demo at CTIA this week of a phone that merges CDMA technology with voice over Wi-Fi. While UMA merges GSM and Wi-Fi, there's no standard yet...
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Red Herring today looks at mobile operators' investment in Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) as a potential competitor against the growth of free VoIP services like Skype. "Wireless phone...
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Carmen Nobel at eWEEK writes that cellular network infrastructure provider Airvana has announced the launch of a new Universal Access Gateway (UAG) that will let wireless carriers extend their...
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A new In-Stat report entitled "The SMB/Branch Office Service Bundle Enhanced by IMS" suggests that small business/branch office fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) bundles could be worth...
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Unstrung's Richard Martin today looks at the wireless service implications of the proposed AT&T/BellSouth merger. "The prospect of a reconstituted AT&T that includes cingular...
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From Wi-Fi Networking News -- T-Mobile is offering its voice subscribers free wireless Internet access at all T-Mobile HotSpot locations on weekends, from Midnight Saturday morning until 3am on...
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Azaire Networks recently announced a deployment and a demonstration of its fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) solution. In a VoIP Planet article published today, I looked at the announcement, their...
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Telecommunications Online today looks at a serious problem with FMC (fixed-mobile convergence) GSM/Wi-Fi handsets: their batteries drain very, very fast.Netcentrex VP Erik Larsson says, "You...
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MarketWatch today looks at the market potential for both multi-mode and Wi-Fi-only phones, and at the threat they pose to mobile operators in terms of lost revenue.Interestingly, the article suggests...
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From MobileWhack -- Nokia just announced its new UMA (universal mobile access) phone, the Nokia 6136, at 3GSM in Barcelona, Spain. As MobileWhack describes it, "The UMA feature in the Nokia 6136...
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With the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona coming up next week, there's a lot of buzz about the fixed/mobile convergence (FMC) offerings on display at the show -- Wi-Fi Planet goes through the...
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Techworld's Peter Judge today says interest in Wi-Fi phones has "exploded." The VoWi-Fi handset market went up by 76 percent in 2005, and will double to $200 million this year,...
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ChannelMinds today picks up on Strategy Analytics' recent study, 'W. European Cellular User Dynamics,' which finds that one in five Western European mobile phone users would consider...
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