Our editor, Dan Meyer, interviewed Matthew Oommen of Sprint Nextel on Sprint's 3G and 4G plans. Watch the video below to see what Mr. Oommen had to say about Sprint's utilization of WiMax in its 4G strategy. ... Read More »

Doug Wolff of Alcatel Lucent was interviewed by our editor, Dan Meyer, at the 4G World show. Watch the interview below to see what Mr. Wolff had to say about current 4G trends and, specifically, LTE. ... Read More »

Berkeley Varitronics Systems Inc. unveiled its Bloodhound hand-held cell phone detector designed to enable security officers to scan real-time for unauthorized cell phone activity in correctional facilities and detect the precise ... Read More »

Matt Johnson of The Lyle Company spoke with our editor, Tracy Ford, about current trends in the wireless infrastructure industry and their effect on industry participants. Watch the video below to hear his thoughts. ... Read More »

Our editor, Tracy Ford, recently interviewed Dale Schumacher. Watch the video below to hear his thoughts on current trends in site development. ... Read More »

David Port, CEO of WFI, was interviewed by our editor, Tracy Ford, at the PCIA Wireless Infrastructure Show. Among other things, Mr. Port talks about current and upcoming trends in the wireless infrastructure business, including ... Read More »

Our editor, Dan Meyer, recently caught up with Trimble Navigation's Larry Fox. Watch the interview to hear what is new at Trimble Navigation. ... Read More »

Our editor, Tracy Ford, recently caught up with Best Buy Mobile's Scott Moore. Watch the interview below to see what is new at Best Buy Mobile. ... Read More »

Our editor, Dan Meyer, recently caught up with Virgin Mobile's Corinne Nosal. Watch his interview below to see what is new at Virgin Mobile. ... Read More »

Part 3 of a 3 part interview with Tom Kershaw, Senior VP and General Manager, Interconnections Solutions, Telcordia. ... Read More »

Part 1 of a 3 part interview with Tom Kershaw, Senior VP and General Manager, Interconnections Solutions, Telcordia. ... Read More »

Part 2 of a 3 part interview with Tom Kershaw, Senior VP and General Manager, Interconnections Solutions, Telcordia. ... Read More »

RCR got a chance to catch up with the Sprint 4G roll out team at one of their events in Austin this past week. Watch John Taylor from Sprint talk about this exciting new service and some of the products utilizing it. ... Read More »

Part 2 of a 2 part interview with Jim Orr, Principal Network Architect, Fujitsu Network Communications. ... Read More »

Part 1 of a 2 part interview with Jim Orr, Principal Network Architect, Fujitsu Network Communications ... Read More »

Part 1 of a 2 part interview with Curtis Rapp, VP - Sales & Marketing, air2web ... Read More »

Part 2 of a 2 part interview with Curtis Rapp, VP - Sales & Marketing, air2web ... Read More »

Part 2 of a 2 part interview with Arnon Friedman, Marketing Director, Texas Instruments Infrastructure ... Read More »

Part 1 of a 2 part interview with Arnon Friedman, Marketing Director, Texas Instruments Infrastructure ... Read More »

Part 2 of a 2 part interview with Cameron Clayton, VP Mobile, of The Weather Channel. ... Read More »

Part 2 of a 2 part interview with Louis Gump of CNNmobile. ... Read More »

Part 1 of a 2 part interview with Cameron Clayton, VP Mobile, at The Weather Channel. ... Read More »

Part 1 of a 2 part interview with Louis Gump of CNNmobile. ... Read More »

Part 3 of a three part interview with Bob Stohrer of Virgin Mobile USA. ... Read More »

Part 2 of a three part interview with Bob Stohrer of Virgin Mobile USA. ... Read More »

Part 1 of a 3 part interview with Bob Stohrer of Virgin Mobile USA. ... Read More »

Part 2 of Tracy Ford's interview with Neville Ray of T-Mobile USA. ... Read More »

Tracy Ford interviews Neville Ray, Senior VP Engineering and Operations for T-Mobile USA. ... Read More »

SHENZEN, China – The Chinese government awarded 3G licenses to China's three state-run carriers in January and now they have launched their own 3G brands. These licenses have changed the competitive landscape of China's ... Read More »

Apple Inc. continued its assault on the mobile space during its fiscal fourth quarter ended Sept. 26 selling nearly 7.4 million iPhone devices, which was a 7% increase over the previous year and in-line with analysts' estimates. ... Read More »

The UK government has laid out the roadmap for upgrading the nation's wireless services by rolling out next-generation wireless technologies coupled with bolstering up 3G coverage all across the country, it has been reported. ... Read More »

With these five words, a revolution began. Digital home products were floundering en masse (remember the iPaq music center?). The PC market was in the tank. Our nation was still reeling from the terrorism of 9/11 and we were ... Read More »

MetroPCS Communications Inc. continued its roll out of higher-tier handsets with the launch of its first Microsoft Corp. Windows Mobile 6.1-powered device, the Samsung Code. The device, which is priced at $300, includes ... Read More »

RCR Wireless News Editor Tracy Ford interviews Anthony Melone, CTO, Verizon Wireless, in the second part of a two-part series. ... Read More »

RCR Wireless News Editor Tracy Ford interviews Anthony Melone, CTO of Verizon Wireless, in the first part of a two-part series. ... Read More »

RCR Wireless News Editor Tracy Ford interviews Bill Morrow, CEO of Clearwire in part one of a three-part interview. ... Read More »

RCR Wireless News Editor Tracy Ford interviews Nick Macilveen of OpenMarket. ... Read More »

RCR Wireless News Editor Tracy Ford interviews Bill Morrow, CEO of Clearwire, in the third part of a three-part series. ... Read More »

RCR Wireless News Editor Tracy Ford interviews Bill Morrow, CEO of Clearwire, in the second part of a three-part series. ... Read More »

SpinVox provides a relatively accurate and useful service, although transcribed voicemails can take up to 10 minutes to arrive and are in some cases truncated. If you prefer to read transcriptions of voicemails via text messages - ... Read More »

Tracy Ford sits down with Sue Spradley of Nokia Siemens Networks to talk about NSN's plans for North America, its management service contract with Embarq and plans to light up rural America via the Broadband Stimulus package. ... Read More »

FLO TV's Bill Stone talks to RCR Wireless News Editor Tracy Ford about the company's plans to move beyond carrier agreements with Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility to try to drive awareness to the mobile TV space and increase ... Read More »

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Cable telecom giant Cox Communications Inc. is set to enter the highly competitive wireless space in a big way. The company is in the midst of building out its own CDMA wireless network to support customers as well as launch ... Read More »

Nothing seems to drive adoption of a service as well as cutting the price of using that service. And for the wireless industry, the service of choice remains voice, and in case you were not aware, we are in the midst of a price ... Read More »

Wasn’t it just yesterday the wireless industry was all abuzz about third-generation networks and how they would revolutionize the way we communicate? Taking a look at the headlines today that tout the same life-altering ... Read More »

As president and CEO of PCIA – the Wireless Infrastructure Association, Michael Fitch is charged with overseeing the group's mission of supporting the infrastructure necessary to make wireless communications and information ... Read More »

The tower industry gets its turn on the trade show spotlight this week as PCIA’s 2009 Wireless Infrastructure Show is set to kick off at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Hotel in Nashville, Tenn. ... Read More »

Editor's Note: Reporter Matt Kapko is reporting live from GigaOM's Mobilize show today in San Francisco, where Motorola Inc. introduced its first Android-based smartphone. Watch this space for live updates. ... Read More »

WiMAX networks counted more than 3 million customers worldwide at the end of the second quarter, according to a report from ABI Research. The firm noted that the 4G technology’s two variations, 802.16d and 802.16e, posted a ... Read More »

Aircel Cellular has shortlisted four players — US-based American Tower Corporation (ATC), Crown Castle International, Bharti Infratel and the Tata-Quippo combine — for buying out its tower business in a deal worth $1. ... Read More »

US telecom giant AT&T is learnt to have approached public sector Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) for investing in the Indian behemoth to re-enter the world’s fastest-growing telecom market. http://budurl.com/rcr04 ... Read More »

It would be the second-largest IPO after the Rs 6,000-crore one by state-run National Hydroelectric Power Corporation. ... Read More »

Diamond announces today that First Telecom Services LLC (“First Telecom”), a subsidiary of First Communications, has contributed its wireless tower assets (the “Assets”) to Diamond. The Assets include 368 ... Read More »

The Global mobile Suppliers Association said the number of LTE network commitments worldwide has increased 50% to 39 from an earlier report in March. The commitments have come from 19 countries, with 14 LTE networks scheduled to ... Read More »

Alcatel-Lucent said it has received FCC certification for its LTE base stations designed to use the 700 MHz frequency band auctioned by the FCC in 2008 and expected to be the backbone for initial LTE deployments by Verizon ... Read More »

Nokia Siemens Networks said it was establishing a “center of competence” in Dallas dedicated to developing LTE for the North American market. The center is expected to employ approximately 500 people, including current Nokia ... Read More »

Motorola Inc. snared a significant LTE network contract with Japanese operator KDDI Corp. ... Read More »

Verizon Wireless and Qualcomm Inc. announced their joint venture company focusing on machine-to-machine (M2M) communications would be named nPhase and headed by the original company’s president, Steve Pazol. ... Read More »

The role of mobile devices is rapidly evolving – converged products like the iPhone are shaping consumer behavior and creating unprecedented expectation for video, web browsing, gaming, and GPS. As our handsets transform from ... Read More »

Building a world-class Analyst Relations (AR) program is a worthy investment that delivers positive returns companywide. AR is a way for you to strategically influence the worldwide technologists who are recommending products and ... Read More »

LTE is slated to become the next generation of wireless technology. The spectral efficiency alone, meaning the number of data bits supported on a given frequency, clinches the deal. The business case is compelling: with LTE you ... Read More »

The European Union said it plans to invest more than $25 million beginning in 2010 into research in support of LTE-based wireless networks. LTE-based network are expected to begin launching in Europe in early 2010. ... Read More »

Sprint Nextel Corp. added Las Vegas, Atlanta and Portland, Ore., to its list of WiMAX-enabled markets. The carrier offers the service as a mobile virtual network operator running on Clearwire Corp.’s network. ... Read More »

AT&T Mobility continues to ride the iPhone tide as the nation’s second largest operator posted strong customer growth during the second quarter bolstered by Apple Inc.’s device. ... Read More »

Verizon Wireless posted second quarter results highlighted by strong postpaid net customer additions and growing wireless revenues. ... Read More »

In North America, the swift growth of mobile broadband has been instrumental in shoring up ARPU (average revenue per user) numbers, which were threatened by the commoditization of voice. With new applications and ideas coupled ... Read More »

Ease of use is our industry’s killer app. Without ease of use, our hard work and best ideas can be lost for months or years, if adopted at all. At AT&T, we are committed to delivering products that are easy, intuitive, and ... Read More »

The iPhone. The BlackBerry Storm. The Android. The Palm Pre. When we think about these phones, we think AT&T, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile and Sprint, respectively. Phone exclusivity is a major headache for consumers who want ... Read More »

The elevator speech regarding the smart grid is simply that it is a communications system overlay on the existing electrical grid to make the electrical grid more controllable and much more efficient in the delivery of energy. ... Read More »

While the big news out of this year’s Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Span, was Verizon Wireless’ choice of LTE vendors — Alcatel Lucent and Ericsson, among others — its IMS news is just as interesting. It’s not too ... Read More »

House telecom subcommittee Chairman Rick Boucher (D-Va.) reportedly plans to craft a wireless consumer protection bill this year, an effort likely to reignite a debate over the role of states in a new national regulatory ... Read More »

Regional wireless provider iPCS Inc. posted $9.8 million in losses for 2008, but the company remains optimistic it will continue to add customers and reduce churn. ... Read More »

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said about 30,000 LG Electronics Co. Ltd. handsets are being recalled because of 911-calling-related problems. ... Read More »

Like cartoon coyotes that draw themselves to full height before an exaggerated pounce on prey, handset vendors have offered little this year — but portended much — before an expected lunge at the market. ... Read More »

Mobile banking is beginning to get legs in emerging markets, but it’s not just the noble goals of empowering individuals and helping the downtrodden that is driving the space. ... Read More »

The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi, and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when ... Read More »

Collecting a soggy newspaper from the end of the driveway in one’s pajamas is familiar to many of us. As newspapers and magazines pile up on the counters and in the recycling bin, we wonder if there couldn’t be an easier way. ... Read More »

Dish Network, controlled by entrepreneur Charlie Ergen, said it had a net loss of 102,000 subscribers, compared with a year earlier, when it added 85,000. ... Read More »

­The Iraqi government has announced plans to require the country's three mobile phone networks to list their shares on the Iraq Stock Exchange (ISX) by the middle of 2010. The move could triple the value of shares on the stock ... Read More »

The iPhone may generally be considered a consumer device, but several vendors at the Cebit trade show this week are demonstrating applications and services to put the device more firmly in the business arena. ... Read More »

Cricket Communications Inc. has deployed its 3G network in Chicago by partnering with wireless infrastructure vendor Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., the companies announced today. ... Read More »

Bankrupt Nortel Networks Corp. ended 2008 with $5.7 billion in losses, as the Canadian giant works on a plan to restructure in the face of increased competition and a weakened global economy. ... Read More »

T-Mobile USA Inc. is offering a $50-per-month unlimited voice plan to its veteran customers nationwide. In combination with the recent price cut on its unlimited data and unlimited text monthly add-on price to $35 per month, ... Read More »

The wireless industry has consolidated with regional carriers absorbed by larger national giants. Many decry that as a result, there is less incentive for these national carriers to compete (e.g., by lowering pricing) and ... Read More »

Even giants stumble, as Nokia Corp. discovered over the weekend when it pulled its mid-tier 5800 ExpressMusic smartphone from shelves at its New York and Chicago flagship stores. ... Read More »

With investments already made into WiMAX, the wireless broadband technology will be able to withstand the current economic downturn in a year that will see some additional network deployments, according to the WiMAX Forum. ... Read More »

Six in ten people around the world now have cell phone subscriptions, signaling that mobile phones are the communications technology of choice, particularly in poor countries, according to a U.N. report published Monday. ... Read More »

Brightpoint Inc. will serve as an Online Master Dealer for T-Mobile USA Inc., the companies announced. ... Read More »

Apple has introduced a handful of improvements to its MobileMe online service, further draining the swamp of embarrassment caused by the utility's botched introduction. ... Read More »

Sprint Nextel Corp. is looking for a hero and it may well find one that fits in the palm of your hand — pun intended. In this case, Sprint Nextel is banking on the exclusive, hero handset from Palm Inc. dubbed the Pre. And the ... Read More »

The selection of Alcatel-Lucent and L.M. Ericsson to build out Verizon Wireless’ Long-Term Evolution network wasn’t too surprising and some competitors should not fret, according to industry analysts. ... Read More »

Zune-branded smartphone, Microsoft Corp. plans to take the software and online store it built for its Zune media player and bring them to your television set in the hopes of emulating Apple Inc.'s phenomenally successful iTunes ... Read More »

Research in Motion Ltd. is hoping that the latest version of its BlackBerry Enterprise Server will help convince skeptical IT managers that smartphone technologies can meet rigid corporate standards for management and security . ... Read More »

When it comes to losing your cell phone in the sea, you expect it to be buried there. You certain don't expect it to turn up a week later inside a fish. And you most definitely don't expect it to still be working. ... Read More »

A nascent industry involving the likes of Google and Nokia is pinpointing the movements and behaviors of millions of cell-phone users ... Read More »

Call it the Apple App Store effect, says the ABI Research study on mobile storefronts. Despite having one of the smallest catalogs of all the development platforms -- now around 15,000 app titles compared to 85,000 each for Palm ... Read More »

Verizon Wireless will begin selling the Versa by LG Electronics Co. for $200 with rebate and two-year contract on March 1. ... Read More »

On one level, Alltel Communications L.L.C. ceased to exist after Verizon Wireless closed its $28 billion acquisition of the Little Rock, Ark., company in early January. Indeed, attention promptly turned to how some Alltel ... Read More »

Nokia Corp. said today it would offer its mid-tier, touchscreen smartphone — the 5800 XpressMusic — in the United States for $400, with no carrier support. The news undercut Nokia’s public statements that it has approached the U. ... Read More »