Nextel Shuts Down Flarion Trial

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Nextel expands mobile broadband trial

Nextel expands mobile broadband trial 04/14/2004 07:58 PM
Nextel announces an expansion of their mobile broadband trial. Pricing and speed makes this offering competitive to 3G, DSL and cable broadband services.

FCC Gives Nextel Spectrum Shuffle
Approval, But Does Nextel Approve?

FCC Gives Nextel Spectrum Shuffle
Approval, But Does Nextel Approve? 07/08/2004 05:39 PM
Reuters reports that the FCC commissioners voted 5-0 in favor of what sounded like a Nextel plan to reorganize an ugly band: Nextel owns tiny slices of a very ugly chopped up range in the 700 and 800 MHz, and their proposal was to reorganize it so that the public-safety purposes to which other slices are put can be consolidated and provided with more reliability. For their part, Nextel would receive a contiguous range in the 1.9 GHz band, and be less likely to cause interference in public-safety bands--which many blame not on Nextel but on the equipment used for fire, police, and emergencies--and have an easier time in providing cellular coverage at those higher frequencies. The FCC values the deal at $4.8 billion, but will give Nextel credit for $1.6 billion in returning the lower-band frequencies. Nextel has to put up a line of credit for $2.5 billion to cover relocation costs, which are allowed to exceed that amount. If Nextel's final bill is less than $3.2 billion, they have to pay the government the difference. Nextel's response was muted; they had wanted to pay $1.36 billion. Other cellular operators were complaining that the deal gave Nextel too much; it looks like the FCC chose this approach to make it worthwhile to public safety without letting Nextel off the hook....

T-Mobile to Try Flarion in the
Netherlands

T-Mobile to Try Flarion in the
Netherlands 09/08/2004 12:18 PM
T-Mobile has deployed a network using Flarion's Flash-OFDM gear in The Hague: Nextel and Vodafone are also trying Flarion networks but it's still a coup for Flarion to sign on T-Mobile as another trialer. I examined some of the many different broadband wireless options available or soon to be available in a recent article for the Seattle Times. I had intended to come up with a somewhat definitive conclusion about whether technologies like Flarion's may elbow out some potential market space from WiMax. But it's just too soon in the development of WiMax to know. I do think that Flarion has an advantage in that its equipment is available today and it already has some deployments. But it has the fact that it uses a proprietary technology working against it....

Start-up Flarion ropes in big telecom
players

Start-up Flarion ropes in big telecom
players 07/16/2004 03:23 PM
Up until recently, Flarion's wireless gear appealed primarily to cell phone companies, but that's all changing.

Vodafone Trialing Flarion Wireless
Broadband Solution In Tokyo

Vodafone Trialing Flarion Wireless
Broadband Solution In Tokyo 05/06/2004 02:28 PM
Flarion has been getting a lot of attention for snagging Nextel as a customer for their technology to offer high speed wireless broadband in North Carolina. Even though Nextel says they're still looking at other technologies for wireless broadband, Flarion has to feel good about the situation. Now, they're getting another, very high profile test, as Vodafone (immediately after announcing their own 3G service) say they'll be testing Flarion's technology in Tokyo. In case you haven't been following this, Flarion's FLASH-OFDM technology allows for wireless broadband that supposedly offers 1.5Mbps downstream rates - much faster than all the 3G offerings that people keep talking about. Of course, 3G has other purposes, as it's designed to be useful for both voice and data, while Flarion's technology is just for data. Still, as the article points out, we're getting closer to a day when there's really no reason to distinguish between voice and data - and the fact that it's wireless carriers who are testing Flarion suggests that they realize this. Of course, the wireless broadband market is still quite young, and while it's good to see trials of Flarion's technology, they are still competing with technology from IP Wireless (who has a few systems up and running themselves) and the huge ball of hype that is WiMax - not to mention all the 3G rollouts (though, those should pale in comparison on speed for the time being). For all the hype around WiMax, it's these other technologies that are actually in place today. No matter what, real wireless broadband is coming, and it looks like the market will have a few different choices.

Nextel Does Broadband

Nextel Does Broadband 04/14/2004 02:35 PM
The cellular walkie-talkie pioneer now offers speedy broadband to some customers.

Nextel races into the pit

Nextel races into the pit 06/24/2004 12:53 PM
ZDNet Jun 24 2004 5:13PM GMT

Nextel Still Experimenting

Nextel Still Experimenting 04/26/2004 12:59 PM
Despite a trial and now commercial service of a broadband wireless offering in North Carolina, Nextel is reportedly still examining other technologies: Mobile Pipeline reports unnamed sources who say that Nextel is evaluating gear from IPWireless, though not in any public trials. While it's interesting to note a vendor by name, it's not big news that Nextel is looking at other equipment in addition to Flarion. The company has been fairly open about its interest in a variety of different technologies, ranging from CDMA-based networks to proprietary gear from Flarion. I've talked to a few analysts who say that Nextel is very seriously considering WiMax. IPWireless was once often mentioned by the 802.20 crowd as an active follower but recently seems to have jumped ship to the WiMax world....

FCC OKs spectrum swap by Nextel

FCC OKs spectrum swap by Nextel 07/08/2004 07:17 PM
SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Thursday unanimously approved a plan to solve interference with public safety radio networks by moving some of Nextel Communications Inc.'s mobile phone spectrum to another band.

eBay: Nextel i930

eBay: Nextel i930 07/16/2004 08:46 AM

Someone is pre-selling a Motorola i930 Windows Smartphone -- the as-yet unreleased clamshell for Nextel -- on eBay, but there's a catch. The auction isn't for a leaked prototype or anything like that, but instead just the promise of being the first to get one when they hit the street in the fourth quarter of this year. Unfortunately, the auction is just parroting the standard ad copy we've seen floating around for the i930, and doesn't clarify if the i930 is still running the old and rusty Windows Smartphone 2002. (Thanks, Todd!)
Read - i930 Brand New smart phone not i860 i830 i730 NR [eBay]

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EXCLUSIVE: Details of Nextel's 2004 lineup, including an unannounced Motorola Smartphone [Gizmodo]

Look Who Hit Pay Dirt in the Nextel Deal

Look Who Hit Pay Dirt in the Nextel Deal 12/19/2004 03:19 PM
William E. Conway Jr., the chairman of the recently acquired Nextel, stands to become one of the highest-paid independent directors in the nation.

Push Comes to Shove at Nextel

Push Comes to Shove at Nextel 05/10/2004 05:51 AM
Nextel looks to differentiate itself in push-to-talk arena.

Sprint, Nextel to Merge

Sprint, Nextel to Merge 12/19/2004 03:18 PM
Sprint and Nextel announced their $40 billion merger of equals: Sprint's CDMA technology has been a block to offer push-to-talk (PTT) services that Nextel has made great profits on. Nextel has no migration plan for next-generation data services, although they've been testing approaches that aren't integrated with their iDEN voice technology. Sprint has already committed to spending billions on 3G high-speed voice and data systems. In seemingly unrelated news a few days ago, Cingular dropped its challenge to the FCC proposal that would allow Nextel to reorganize its scattered chunks of frequency, giving them new contiguous spectrum in exchange for paying for the cost of moving the public-safety incumbents to Nextel-vacated frequencies. It's a multi-billion-dollar deal that the FCC offered, and Verizon Wireless and Cingular Wireless now no longer oppose it, and one would expect Sprint and Nextel to accept the deal, although Nextel wants to pay substantially less. The new Sprint Nextel is at a rough parity with the subscriber base of Cingular-post-AT&T Wireless acquisition and Verizon Wireless (all on their lonesome). Sprint Nextel will have 35 million subscribers, Cingular 47 million, and Verizon Wireless 42 million. T-Mobile becomes a distant fourth (about 16 million subscribers) with no data upgrade plan in sight. This didn't elude the Wall Street Journal, which filed this report in which T-Mobile notes that worldwide they have about 70 million cell phone users which allows them to compete on scale for handsets and network components....

Nextel and FCC Swap Bandwidth

Nextel and FCC Swap Bandwidth 07/08/2004 07:16 PM

Nextel More Than Quadruples 2Q Earnings
(AP)

Nextel More Than Quadruples 2Q Earnings
(AP) 07/21/2004 11:07 AM
AP - Wireless provider Nextel Communications Inc. more than quadrupled its second-quarter profits due to a one-time tax benefit and the addition of more than a half-million subscribers to its mobile phone service.

FCC OKs spectrum deal with Nextel

FCC OKs spectrum deal with Nextel 07/08/2004 03:31 PM
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved a deal to grant Nextel Communications Inc. a chunk of radio spectrum in the 1.9GHz range in exchange for the mobile operator leaving other frequencies where its network has caused interference with public safety communications, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday in its online edition.

Nextel Partners Trending Well

Nextel Partners Trending Well 06/22/2004 09:06 AM
TheStreet.com Jun 22 2004 1:06PM GMT

Nextel pushes into Mexico

Nextel pushes into Mexico 06/23/2004 03:50 PM
ZDNet Jun 23 2004 7:51PM GMT

Motorola, Nextel confirm A-GPS bug

Motorola, Nextel confirm A-GPS bug 07/22/2004 02:44 PM
infoSync Jul 22 2004 6:19PM GMT

Briefly: Nextel races into the pit

Briefly: Nextel races into the pit 06/24/2004 12:54 PM
roundup Plus: Intel debuts Celeron for low-cost desktops...AMD offers fix for chip glitch...eEye sees defense contract win.

Foes Still Gunning for Nextel

Foes Still Gunning for Nextel 04/23/2004 06:40 AM
TheStreet.com Apr 23 2004 11:16AM GMT

Telesym Shuts Down

Telesym Shuts Down 04/16/2005 09:36 AM
Voice over IP in the enterprise company winds down: Five short weeks ago, I was over at Telesym's bustling headquarters east of Seattle having a great conversation recorded partly in this podcast about Telesym's latest products and the tweaks they had made to their offering to better integrate it into enterprise phone switches. Now the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports that the company has laid off most employees with severance packages and hopes to return some capital to investors if it can sell its intellectual property. The CEO says fairly bluntly that their product doesn't scale, so I'm not sure how encouraging that would be to potential buyers. The company's two co-founders were pushed out in previous months, and they're a little bitter about how the products developed without their shepherding them to completion. One of their competitors, Vocera, says the company floundered by not having a sharp focus and by--at least initially--targeting voice over PDAs. This disregards the success that phone/PDA combos have had in the marketplace, of course, but the company was too far ahead of that market. They were also too far ahead of convergence phones that would have benefitted from their integration on the enterprise and Wi-Fi side while roaming onto cellular as necessary. My kiss of death interview record is unfortunately quite good: I interviewed the CEO of Cometa just weeks before they coasted to a halt....

SuprNova Shuts Down

SuprNova Shuts Down 12/22/2004 01:03 AM

A few weeks ago I got hooked on the ABC series "Lost". Of course that happened after the season was well under way, which has led to a secondary addiction to BitTorrent sharing so that I could catch the episodes I'd missed.

Yesterday, SuprNova shut things down — seemingly for good — which shut down access to the site where I had been getting the torrent links for the "Lost" episodes I had missed. That put me into severe withdrawl because there are several episodes I haven't seen.

Last week The Register published an excellent analysis of how widespread this bittorrent addiction is; torrents account for a full 35% of Internet traffic. But as we all know, success like that can quickly turn sour, as sites like SuprNova face mounting legal pressure to put a stop to illegal file sharing. We've talked about the propriety of BitTorrent and TV shows a co uple of times already, and to me it seems to me that pulling down a torrent file of a show that I could've taped should be ok. But from some of the other torrent listings I've seen while looking for the "Lost" episodes there are lots of people on the Naughty List for sharing a lot of content that hadn't ought to be shared.

I have found other feed listings for "Lost", so I think there is hope for now. But if torrenting gets shut down for good, what's a poor junkie like me to do?

EZTree Shuts Down

EZTree Shuts Down 04/06/2005 05:24 PM

Ensemble Shuts Down

Ensemble Shuts Down 04/20/2004 11:29 AM
America's Network reports that sources say Ensemble has closed its doors: Ensemble has long been active in the fixed broadband wireless space. One analyst in this story suggests that the development of the 802.16 standard challenges companies that have proprietary or legacy fixed wireless gear. However, Ensemble built LMDS equipment and the LMDS spectrum has largely been used to deliver high-speed Internet access to businesses, usually in a downtown area. That's a slightly different market than WiMax will likely serve. Also, WiMax gear isn't out there yet so it's hard to say that competition from WiMax put the squeeze on Ensemble. It's tough to make the argument that WiMax will challenge vendors that have proprietary gear because many of the vendors pursuing WiMax had proprietary solutions. But they've chosen to evolve in an effort to meet the requirements of 802.16. It's not a great business plan to decide to continue down the path of proprietary gear when a new widely supported standard is being developed that will compete with your solution. It's unfortunate to see Ensemble go down, although it seems that some executives jumped ship a while back so perhaps they had a clue that something was amiss. In the LMDS heyday, Ensemble was considered a leader in the industry and one focused on innovative technology....

Nextel expands '4G' trials

Nextel expands '4G' trials 12/12/2003 10:04 PM
But Flarion's lips are sealed

Nextel and Motorola admit GPS problems

Nextel and Motorola admit GPS problems 07/20/2004 11:26 PM
MobileTracker Jul 21 2004 3:43AM GMT

Nextel Subscriber Growth Panned

Nextel Subscriber Growth Panned 02/19/2004 03:31 PM
TheStreet.com Feb 19 2004 7:54PM GMT

Nextel Quarterly Earnings Down 56
Percent (AP)

Nextel Quarterly Earnings Down 56
Percent (AP) 02/19/2004 11:23 AM
AP - Fourth quarter earnings at wireless phone provider Nextel Communications fell 56 percent, suffering from the comparison to the year-ago quarter when a $1.2 billion one-time gain sharply inflated profits.

Motorola i315 released on Nextel

Motorola i315 released on Nextel 09/15/2004 05:40 PM
MobileTracker Sep 15 2004 9:02PM GMT

Nextel Reaches a Fork in the Road

Nextel Reaches a Fork in the Road 02/18/2004 04:06 PM
TheStreet.com Feb 18 2004 8:01PM GMT

Nextel eyes substitutes for Motorola

Nextel eyes substitutes for Motorola 04/10/2004 05:51 PM
ChicagoBusiness.com Apr 10 2004 10:01PM GMT

Wiretaps may mute Nextel rivals

Wiretaps may mute Nextel rivals 08/23/2004 02:00 PM
Fed up with technical excuses, FBI wants carriers to support eavesdropping capabilities for push-to-talk technology now.

Sprint buys Nextel for US$35 billion

Sprint buys Nextel for US$35 billion 12/19/2004 03:45 PM
Sprint and Nextel agrees to a merger in a move that closes the gap between the top three US wireless companies. Sprint will gain valuable spectrum while adding high revenue business customers that rely on PTT technology.

McCaw takes wing from Nextel

McCaw takes wing from Nextel 12/03/2003 01:28 PM

Motorola i325 released on Nextel

Motorola i325 released on Nextel 09/15/2004 05:40 PM
MobileTracker Sep 15 2004 9:02PM GMT

Nextel Reaffirms 2004 Guidance

Nextel Reaffirms 2004 Guidance 05/24/2004 05:16 PM
TheStreet.com May 24 2004 9:37PM GMT

New Objections to F.C.C. Deal With
Nextel Over Spectrum

New Objections to F.C.C. Deal With
Nextel Over Spectrum 06/25/2004 02:15 AM
Reports that the Federal Communications Commission will resolve a fight over the wireless spectrum used by Nextel Communications has set off litigation threats.

Motorola to stay in Nextel loop

Motorola to stay in Nextel loop 12/19/2004 03:12 PM
Chicago Tribune Dec 16 2004 10:59PM GMT
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