Monthly Archives: March, 2007
Small carriers in the news at CTIA
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ORLANDO, Fla.-What would a CTIA Wireless event be without lots of carrier news. Sure, the big operators typically garner the limelight, but smaller players...
Slim, cheap smartphones: A little something for everyone
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ORLANDO, Fla.-If smartphones aren't the proverbial "overnight success" that results from years of toil, they've acquired added cachet in the industry because the players...
Widgets for wireless
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The wireless Web is strewn with potholes and speed bumps, but John SanGiovanni hopes that widgets can pave the way.SanGiovanni is the founder of...
Giants still rule on handsets : But nimble competitors look to compete for 200M units
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ORLANDO, Fla.-The intriguing thing about the mobile handset business is that competition and ambition can help a vendor thread the eye of a needle....
Lobbying efforts surge for big firms, flat overall
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A group that tracks political money found that while the previous Congress didn't pass much major legislation-such as telecom reform-last year, companies in high-tech...
Hedgehogging
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Welcome to a special CTIA edition of Hedgehogging by RCRNews.com Online Editor Mike Dano. To read more of Dano's columns, visit RCRNews.com and...
Browsing wireless Web often disappointing
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If checking out the Internet on a PC can be called surfing, browsing the wireless Web is more akin to hunting snipe in a...
Executive Interview: Daniel Neal
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Daniel Neal is CEO of kajeet Inc., a mobile virtual network operator targeting the 'tween market and aiming, as he likes to say, to...
Network vendors tout size, solutions
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ORLANDO, Fla.-A quick evaluation of the comments and announcements streaming from the world's largest infrastructure providers offers evidence that the market is getting wider...
Five minutes with…Gina Lombardi
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MediaFLO USA launched its broadcast mobile television service with Verizon Wireless earlier this month. Virtually everyone in the industry is wondering if the service...
Mobile TV check up
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ORLANDO, Fla.-Mobile television is still in its infancy-mostly gaining traction among early adopters and primarily young men-but the subscriber base has more than doubled...
USF reform continues slow progress
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While Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin talked up wireless technology and its potential to reach high-cost rural citizens at the cellular industry's big...
3 carriers reap rewards from multibillion $ federal deal
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The General Services Administration awarded billions of dollars in telecom contracts to AT&T Corp., Verizon Communications Inc. and Qwest Communications International Inc. Notably left...
NTIA’s waiver policy could undermine secure communication plans
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The Department of Justice's internal watchdog revealed the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, overseer of a Bush administration plan to foster improved spectrum use...
THE ROAD AHEAD: Verizon Wireless’ McAdam stays the course even as carrier explores new opportunities
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Editor's Note: Lowell McAdam took over as president and CEO of Verizon Wireless in December, as Denny Strigl moved on to head Verizon Communications...
New ideas running into old trouble
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Crashing the party can be risky business in the wireless industry. Just ask Cyren Call Communications Corp., which dared to be audacious by asking...
Sony Ericsson doing U.S. spadework
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ORLANDO, Fla.-The mantra of profitability remains the guiding principle at Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P., even as it invests in development efforts in the...
Execs anticipate value in content made for mobile
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ORLANDO, Fla.-In a ballroom filled with tech-savvy players in the wireless industry, audio and video problems kept cropping up for each of the five...
LG positioning for replacement wave in U.S. market
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Amid the rough-and-tumble of the maturing mobile handset business, the mantra du jour appears to be "understanding the consumer." That simply means mass-market techniques...
Presidents charm CTIA crowd : Bush, Clinton talk telecom’s role in gov’t, world
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Former president George H.W. Bush admitted to a Blackberry addiction, and his fellow former Oval Office denizen Bill Clinton lamented his new role as...
Stars of the show
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The annual CTIA show is always a good time to take stock on where the domestic wireless industry has been over the previous 12...
Films for mobile will find audience
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ORLANDO, Fla.-Six short films were screened at CTIA Wireless 2007 for the debut of the Mobile Movie Fest. Each of the films ranged in...
M:Metrics software tracks behavior
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M:Metrics launched a meter-based software program that operates in the background of handsets as it compile wireless subscribers usage and behavior data to its...
Sprint shakes up music service
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ORLANDO, Fla.-Sprint Nextel Corp. shook up its mobile music service to be more competitive, and announced an expansion of its joint venture with its...
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