(Telecompaper) Verizon wireless has completed its LTE data call trials in Boston and Seattle based on the 3GPP Release 8 standard. The data calls involved streaming video, file uploads and downloads, and web browsing. Verizon has made data calls using VoIP to enable voice transmissions over the LTE network. In collaboration with its network infrastructure providers, Verizon's completion of the data calls over its 700 MHz spectrum in Boston and Seattle marks the next step in its deployment for building the 4G wireless network, which is being built on the 3GPP Release 8 standard. In both locations, the data calls were executed on commercial infrastructure platforms. The technology partners helping to enable data calls in these initial markets include Alcatel-Lucent (Boston) and Ericsson (Seattle) for base station/radio access network, LG and Samsung for trial devices, and Starent Networks and Nokia Siemens Networks for network equipment. Devices from LG and Samsung will soon be supplemen

(Telecompaper) Brazilian telecommunications operator Oi reported a second-quarter net loss of BRL 146 million, compared to a profit of BRL 288 million in the same period last year. The change was due to higher financing, depreciation and amortisation costs, mainly related to the Brasil telecom merger. Net revenues dipped to BRL 7.30 billion, compared to a pro forma BRL 7.48 billion a year earlier, and EBITDA fell to BRL 2.32 billion, from BRL 2.44 billion, due to costs for the expansion in the Sao Paolo area. The company ended June with 59.8 million revenue-generating units, 3.7 percent higher than March and up 17.6 percent from a year ago. The growth came mainly from the mobile telephony base, which added 2.097 million users in the quarter for a total 33.9 million customers at end-June. Over the past 12 months, the mobile base was up 34 percent. The number of fixed broadband customers also increased, by 3.2 percent from March and by 15.7 percent from a year earlier, to a total 4.066 m

(Telecompaper) Sony Ericsson has named Bert Nordberg, currently executive vice president of the Ericsson Group and head of Ericsson Silicon Valley, as co-president, effective 1 September. Nordberg will work closely with Sony Ericsson president Hideki (Dick) Komiyama and the entire senior management team to effect a smooth management transition. Nordberg, who will be based at Sony Ericsson's global headquarters in London, will assume the role of president at Sony Ericsson on 15 October, and Komiyama will retire from the company at the end of the year. Howard Stringer, chairman, CEO and president of Sony, and a member of the board of Sony Ericsson, will be appointed as chairman of the board of Sony Ericsson on 15 October. In his role, Stringer will succeed Carl-Henric Svanberg, president and CEO of Ericsson.

With its growth rate climbing, Gmail is on track to pass Microsoft's Hotmail in the first quarter of 2010.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- nPulse network Systems, LLC, a leading developer of 10Gbps network sensors for monitoring, forensics and security applications, has announced the 'Wireshark Edition' of its popular PCAP Express Box appliance. Wireshark is the world's most widely-used network protocol analyzer and a reference standard in companies and institutions worldwide.

In its last quarter, AT&T subsidized Apple's iPhone to the tune of $720 million.

A Miami resident and two unnamed co-conspirators have been indicted for hacking major retailers and stealing credit card data.

A service that makes emergency-management messaging software has sued Twitter over alleged patent infringement. The legal documents, however, are pretty vague.

The event is said to be completely music-focused, with no tablet announcements, according to AllThingsD.

commentary The belief that Apple would shrivel up or sell itself when the CEO leaves gives no credit to what the visionary has spent the last 30-plus years building.