UK May Get New Mobile WiMax Operator
News Speaking to ZDNet.co.uk at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Monday, Motorola's director of LTE (the long-term evolution of 3G) market development, Kieren Ashlee, said a "new mobile WiMax operator" would make an appearance if the...
[February 11, 2008, 15:36]
WiMax Advances May Boost 3G
News Sarin recently told the 3GSM World Congress that mobile operators must move quickly, or risk seeing WiMax "eat our lunch". According to Dr Richard Lowe, president of carrier networks at Nortel, advances in WiMax may actually spur mobile operators...
[October 26, 2007, 11:16]
RIP 3GSM
Blog Rising like a phoenix from 3GSM's ashes are.the Mobile World Congress (Barcelona) and the Mobile Asia Congress (Macau). Of course, "Mobile World Congress" doesn't have the same potential for slightly off-colour pronunciation as "3GSM" (mull that...
[June 13, 2007, 10:15]
WiMax Gathers Steam
News If the 3GSM show is any indication, then I think we will be hearing a lot about WiMax at CTIA," said Mohammad Shakouri, vice president of marketing for the WiMax Forum, referring to the 3GSM World Congress trade show held in February in Barcelona.
[March 27, 2007, 10:57]
The Future Of 4G Wireless, According To Ericsson
Articles The RBS 6000 we launched at Mobile World Congress this year will do 2G, 3G and LTE. The battle for 4G is between two technologies, WiMax — developed by Intel — and LTE, the long-term evolution of 3G promoted by the existing mobile industry.
[October 14, 2008, 16:13]
Vodafone Warns Of Threat From Google And Apple
News In his keynote speech at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona on Tuesday, Sarin said: "We must, as an industry, learn to both partner and compete with these new players because our customers want to experience entertainment such as...
[February 13, 2008, 9:15]
High Prices Holding Back 3G Laptops
News Entries close on 30 December and the winner will be announced at the Mobile World Congress (previously known as 3GSM) in Barcelona next February. The mobile industry association and Microsoft have conducted a study which suggested a 70-million-unit...
[November 13, 2007, 17:18]
Mobile Industry Looks Beyond 3G
News Speaking on the Monday, the first day of the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France, Neil Ransom, chief technology officer of network equipment manufacturer Alcatel, said that the industry was already heavily investigating the potential of so...
[February 14, 2005, 15:10]
HP: How The Mobile Industry Can Do Better
News ZDNet UK grabbed some time with Phil McKinney, chief technology officer for HP's network and service provider business unit, at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona. There's a lot of work going on in converged silicon, with Qualcomm combining GSM...
[February 13, 2007, 15:54]
'Dongle Mania' May Threaten Wi-Fi Hotspots
News At this year's Mobile World Congress tradeshow, senior executives from the industry, such as Ericsson's chief executive Carl-Henric Svanberg, were queuing up to hail 2007 as a "breakthrough year" for mobile broadband.
[March 31, 2008, 8:48]
IPass: We Like Embedded 3G Now
Blog Yesterday at the Mobile Broadband Congress in West London, I asked Gary Negus of iPass whether this was still the case. Until they're trying to sell us LTE/WiMax, at which point the tune might change again.
[May 22, 2008, 16:57]
Midnight On La Rambla
Blog Mobile World Congress awaits. I'm after LTE and WiMAX stories, plus whatever arises on new technology in the handset, enterprise services and good old gossip. David Meyer is slavering about mobile Linux (as well he might), and Alper Cagatay, our...
[February 10, 2008, 23:50]
Mobile World Congress Preview: The Year Of Linux
News Perhaps because the industry is now looking beyond traditional 3G and GSM, the Barcelona show will henceforth be known simply as Mobile World Congress (MWC). Until an Ofcom-led spectrum auction later this year, it is not even certain yet whether...
[February 7, 2008, 13:52]
Mobile World Congress: The Final Analysis
News According to the organisers, this year's Mobile World Congress was the most successful so far, with more than 55,000 visitors. The real story of Mobile World Congress 2008 was the politics of a mobile industry standing on the brink of a probable...
[February 15, 2008, 14:46]
3GSM World Congress: Day One Roundup
News The 3GSM World Congress began in Barcelona on Monday with Microsoft making an early bid for the limelight with its new PlayReady DRM system. Its chief executive admitted that the mobile industry had overhyped technologies such as 3G, and claimed...
[February 12, 2007, 16:38]
Google Patent Filing Reveals Wireless Vision
News It has been lobbying the Federal Communications Commission and Congress for well over a year to adopt policies that reflect its vision of an open network. So if, for example, someone wanted to surf the web from their phone, they could connect via a...
[September 29, 2008, 15:02]
Photos: Mobile Mania At 3GSM
News 3GSM tends to focus on the more traditional cellular technologies, but this year WiMax has been making quite a buzz. Even Vodafone's Arun Sarin is starting to sound worried, warning that members of the GSM Association "need to make sure that LTE...
[February 16, 2007, 13:46]
3GSM World Congress: Day Two Roundup
News And one of HP's senior executives gave us a high-level view of the future of the mobile industry, from software radios to WiMax. 3GSM was in full swing on Tuesday as BT strengthened its hand in the mobile space.
[February 13, 2007, 16:17]
