NEW ORLEANS--Breaking ranks with other cell phone industry leaders, Qualcomm CEO Irwin Jacobs said Tuesday that cell phone providers don't need to spice up their mix of offerings with access to Wi-Fi ...

The two major categories of wireless Internet access are Wi-Fi local area networks (LANs) and cellular wide area networks (WANs). In a nutshell, Wi-Fi reception is within a Wi-Fi hotspot, which varies ...

For years, technology advocates have been pushing building owners to upgrade to the latest and greatest in digital infrastructure, with ominous warnings about 5G readiness and futuristic talk of smart ...

With more and more vendors laying groundwork to make the convergence of Wi-Fi and cellular technologies a reality, channel partners said they are getting ready for a communications shift that will ...

You may have seen a network named “Cellular” listed as one of the Wi-Fi options on your phone or other devices. W&M has recently adopted a service called “Passpoint” - which we named "Cellular" at W&M ...

The ambitious goals President Obama expressed for next-generation mobile broadband during his recent State of the Union address could get a shot in the arm if mobile operators use Wi-Fi to patch 3G/4G ...

Bellevue, Wash. – T-Mobile became the first U.S. carrier to offer cellular handsets that make voice calls through cellular and Wi-Fi networks. Marking the convergence of cellular and wireless local ...

‘Our peers aren’t necessarily making the same leaps that we’re making. They’re sort of waiting for something to happen … but our engineers that are jazzed about this because they’ve been designing ...

BARCELONA—Claiming the era of the big cellular base station is over, Cisco Systems joined the growing ranks of vendors rolling out hybrid systems that handle both cellular and Wi-Fi traffic. The ...

The Wi-Fi industry is very worried about cellular operators’ plans to deploy an unlicensed version of LTE, the global 4G mobile phone standard, in spectrum already used by Wi-Fi networks. Specifically ...

For those who have been in the wireless sector for the last three years, the issue of Wi-Fi and cellular interaction is nothing new. In fact, back about three years ago, a set of panelists at the CTIA ...