Motorola Inc.’s CEO Greg Brown today said the company is exploring options to accelerate the recovery of its mobile devices business, including the possible creation of a standalone devices business.Rumors circulated among market analysts earlier this week that Motorola might consider selling off its mobile devices business, which a year ago was its most-profitable business.Motorola’s [...]

After 21 rounds the Federal Communications Commission’s auction of 1,099 spectrum licenses in the 700 MHz band swept past the $15 billion mark, and it does not look like its slowing down anytime soon. The $15 billion point was at the high end of most pre-auction estimates. Next stop, $20 billion? And why not? Five [...]

Garmin Ltd. yesterday in New York revealed its “nuvifone” product, a personal navigation device (PND) with a touchscreen, GSM/HSDPA functionality for voice and data and native GPS.While the product had been long-rumored, the timing seemed to surprise the market.Photographs of the device immediately brought to mind the industrial design of Apple Inc.’s iPhone, according to [...]

Hello! And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWirelessNews.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way. We hope you enjoy it!And without further ado:So I’ve bid around [...]

Smartphones have undergone a fascinating evolution in the past year or so. High-powered executives are no longer satisfied with a black and white screen displaying their latest e-mails. The smartphone has quickly evolved from a no-frills wireless e-mail inbox to technology’s equivalent of the mullet: business in the front, party in the back. Mobile instant [...]

T-Mobile USA Inc. continues to rank highest among the five largest wireless carriers in customer service performance, according to the latest study by J.D. Power and Associates. The No. 4 provider has been at the top of the field for the past seven consecutive reporting periods. The firm has been releasing studies on the wireless [...]

Following a few tense rounds without any bids, the nationwide package of eight C-Block licenses picked up a new bid during round 17 to push the potential winning price for the block past the $4.6 billion reserve mark, thereby triggering the spectrum’s open-access provision. The package did not pick up additional bids during rounds 18 [...]

In addition to more money piling into the coffers of the U.S. Treasury, the latest round of bidding in the Federal Communication Commission’s 700 MHz auction has injected some intrigue into the proceedings. Following a steady climb to the $4.6 billion reserve price set by the FCC that would trigger the open-access provision on the [...]

Clearwire Corp. and Sprint Nextel Corp. still haven’t resurrected their now-defunct plan for a collaborative nationwide mobile WiMAX buildout, Clearwire CEO Ben Wolff said in a conference call this morning. However, the two companies aren’t ignoring each other, either.“The companies have aligned on common network architecture,” Wolff announced at Clearwire’s investor conference in Portland, Ore. [...]

The Federal Communications Commission took another step toward reform of the universal service fund, while further leaving in limbo a highly controversial effort by Chairman Kevin Martin to order a temporary cap on government subsidies largely tapped for deployment of wireless services in rural areas. Hundreds of millions of dollars are potentially at stake for [...]