ORLANDO, Fla. – Spectrum scarcity, data roaming and interoperability are three of the biggest key issues facing the US wireless industry, and carriers are hoping to see action from Washington before the November elections. Today at the closing session of the RCA Spring Expo in Orlando, a panel of legal experts shared views on expectations [...]

ORLANDO, Fla. – Cricket Communications CEO Doug Hutcheson says his company has traditionally served the younger, lower income mobile subscribers, but even among these 6 million customers demand is growing for smartphones and the heavy data use that goes with them. Cricket is already offering several Android smartphones as well as the BlackBerry Curve, and [...]

Another quarter of disappointing results for Canadian Blackberry-maker Research in Motion (RIMM) has the company’s new CEO finally considering what his predecessors would not: a sale of the company. New CEO Thorsten Heins wrote in the company’s 4th quarter earnings release that he will undertake a “comprehensive review of strategic opportunities including partnerships and joint [...]

ORLANDO, Fla. – Bob Azzi, SVP of Networks at Sprint Nextel, outlined the carrier’s network vision program today at the RCA Spring Expo. Azzi said the company is working with equipment vendors Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent and Samsung to create a LTE network based on multimodal equipment with a significantly smaller footprint than that of the carrier’s [...]

ORLANDO, Fla. – Saying that “too many devices and too little spectrum” have put the wireless industry “on track to run out of network capacity … threatening future innovation and job creation,” LightSquared chairman Sanjiv Ahuja told a packed auditorium at the RCA Spring Expo that LightSquared will “contine to fight to launch an intergrated [...]

For most of the wireless industry’s history, Europe has played an important role in shaping the technology path. And, in combination with parts of Asia has led the way in terms of the deployment and adoption of the latest and greatest. This has been helped by the multitude of companies based in Western Europe that [...]

As Louisville, Ohio State, Kentucky and Kansas head to college basketball’s Final Four this weekend, millions of fans will be compulsively following each point and play on their smartphones and tablets.  A recent survey by Motricity found smartphones and tablets connect fans to their favorite sports even at the risk of fumbling a date, interrupting [...]

Building on plans announced at last year’s Rural Cellular Association event in Las Vegas, NetAmerica Alliance unveiled its consumer brand as well as news that another member of its alliance was set to launch service by the end of the month. NetAmerica last year unveiled plans for rural wireless operators to pool the resources of [...]

On Thursday Verizon Wireless will begin offering the LTE-ready LG Lucid for just $80 with a contract, hoping to trump AT&T Mobility’s upcoming launch of Nokia’s Lumia 900 for $100 on April 8. The LG device is powered by a 1.2 GHz processor and will feature a 4-inch touchscreen and Android 2.3, making LTE the [...]

Enterprises from Fortune 500 companies to hospitals to schools are adopting iPads and other tablets to replace much of the work that personal computers used to do, and the people who use these devices want to use them for a lot more than work. Many employees are more than willing to “bring their own device” [...]