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Biography for Phil Goldstein

Phil Goldstein is the editor of FierceWireless, and is the day-to-day editor of the publication. He also copyedits FierceWireless:Europe. Prior to joining FierceMarkets, he was the managing editor of The Daily Free Press, the independent student newspaper at Boston University, as well as an intern for The Times of London. He gets excited about the latest smartphone launches like other gadget geeks, but is also an avid lover of the New York Yankees, poetry, photography, traveling and escaping humidity. He is based at the FierceMarkets main office in Washington, D.C., and can be reached at pgoldstein@fiercemarkets.com. Follow @FierceWireless on Twitter and find him on LinkedIn.

Articles by Phil Goldstein

Boingo exec: Enhanced cellular/Wi-Fi roaming to launch commercially in 2014

BARCELONA, Spain--The Wireless Broadband Alliance's seamless and secure cellular-to-Wi-Fi roaming invite likely will not launch commercially until early 2014, and when to does AT&T Mobility is expected of be a leading player, according to a senior executive from hotspot aggregator Boingo Wireless.

Globalstar's TLPS promises private, licensed Wi-Fi

When Globalstar submitted a petition last month asking the FCC to allow it to use its MSS spectrum for mobile broadband, the big focus was on its plan to deploy FDD-LTE.  However, the company also proposed a terrestrial low-power service ("TLPS") to be deployed before LTE, that offers wireless carriers access to what is essentially a private, licensed Wi-Fi service.

Microsoft partners with Devicescape for Windows Phone 8 Wi-Fi hotspot solution

Microsoft is teaming up with Wi-Fi offload specialist Devicescape to power the Wi-Fi hotspot map that is part of Microsoft's Data Sense application, one of the new key features of Windows Phone 8. Data Sense is a suite of services intended to help users better manage their data usage and stay under their monthly data cap.

Boingo CTO: Cellular-to-Wi-Fi roaming to be ready by early 2013

The initiative recently announced by the GSMA and Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) to make roaming between mobile networks and Wi-Fi hotspots more seamless should be ready for commercial use by

GSMA, WBA partner to ease roaming between mobile, Wi-Fi networks

The GSMA and Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) are collaborating to create a framework that the groups said will make roaming between mobile networks and Wi-Fi hotspots more seamless by next year.

'Full-duplex' wireless could double network throughput, and vendors are taking notice

with Ashutosh Sabharwal, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rice Last week researchers at Rice University in Houston announced a breakthrough in wireless technology

AT&T Labs preps for 10x increase in national core throughput

with Krish Prabhu, president and CEO of AT&T Labs In late June, AT&T (NYSE:T) named Krish Prabhu as president and CEO of AT&T Labs, the company's research and innovation hub. Prabhu, an

Report: Wireless revenue will surpass $1.3T in 2011, driven by data

Revenue from the wireless industry worldwide is expected to surpass $1.3 trillion in 2011, equivalent to 2 percent of global gross domestic product, and mobile data revenue is expected to make up

Boingo plans $75M IPO this week

Wi-Fi access provider Boingo Wireless is expected to debut Wednesday with an initial public offering estimated at around $75 million. The IPO will be a test of whether the surging demand for data

Former Motorola exec backs D Block spectrum auction

A former executive at Motorola (NYSE:MOT) has thrown his support behind a re-auction of the D Block of the 700 MHz band, putting him at odds with his ex-employer. Dennis Roberson, who served as