Wireless Internet news from FierceWireless

Last July AT&T announced that subscribers to its highest-speed DSL services could Read more...

Mesh networking company Tropos Networks announced the appointment of veteran sales executive Tom Ayers as president and CEO. Ayers will take the helm from Ron Sege who will continue to serve as an Read more...

Sprint Nextel's senior vice president, mobile broadband operations Atish Gude believes that the company's forthcoming WiMAX network will be a big hit with content providers and enterprises. Gude, who Read more...

Clairmail announced that it has been working with VeriSign to offer financial institutions various mobile banking solutions. The vendors were surprised at the high level of interest from large banks Read more...

At the RBC Capital Markets North American Technology Summit yesterday in San Francisco Verizon CTO Dick Lynch gave investors some insight into his new role and how he will bring together the wireless Read more...

The FCC did not approve a "first-round prototype device" that Google, Microsoft and others have developed to run over unused TV spectrum, or white spaces. The companies want to broadcast high-speed Read more...

The FCC commissioners unanimously voted in favor of the auction plan, which is based squarely on FCC chairman Kevin Martin's much debated proposal. Commercial Spectrum The final rules include Read more...

FiberTower has inked a deal with Sprint to provide the carrier with wireless backhaul services, or transport from cell site to switch, in seven of Sprint Nextel's initial launch markets for WiMAX. Read more...

Sprint has inked a deal with Google to bring its future WiMAX mobile Internet customers applications like search, interactive communications and social networking. The aim of the deal is to bring Read more...

Google's CEO Eric Schmidt has sent a letter to the FCC stating its intent to participate in the 700MHz auction (by committing a minimum bid of $4.6 billion) if the FCC requires bidders to adopt four Read more...