RCR Wireless News: Intelligence on all things wireless

Since 1982, RCR Wireless News has been providing wireless and mobile industry news, insights, and analysis to industry and enterprise professionals, decision makers, policy makers, analyst and investors.  Our mission is to connect, globally and locally, mobile technology professionals and companies online, in person, in print and now on video.  Our dedication to editorial excellence coupled with one of the industry’s most comprehensive industry databases and digital networks leads readers and advertisers to consistently choose RCR Wireless News over other industry publications.

Editorial Focus

Channels: Carriers, Devices, Enterprise, Policy, Analyst Angle.  See website for additional channels

Markets: Global trends and news insights with specific sites for United States and Latin America

Trends: We track emerging trends and industry leaders including, but not limited to LTE, DAS, Android, Google, Apple, WiFi, small cell networks, towers, test & measurement, site equipment.

Meet the team:

Jeff Mucci | CEO and Editorial Director | RCR Wireless News
Jeff is CEO and Editorial Director of RCR Wireless News.  He is also the Managing Partner, Arden Operating Company, owner of RCR Wireless News and Telecomcareers, a leading industry job board founded in 1999. Over the past 20 years Jeff has been involved in many facets of running day to day operations for telecom, wireless, commercial real estate and energy services companies and has raised over $300 million of debt and equity for companies in which he has been involved.  Previous roles include Chairman and CEO of ConnectSouth, a regional DSL company, President of a facilities based CLEC; and SVP Sales and Marketing for Clearwire.

Dan Meyer, Editor in Chief RCR Wireless News.  Channels: Carriers & Infrastructure

Dan started at RCR Wireless News in 1999 covering wireless carriers and wireless technologies.  As Editor, Dan oversees editorial direction, reports on news from the wireless industry and provides opinion stories on topics of concern to the market such as his popular Friday column ‘Worst of the Week’.

Marshall Kirkpatrick, Writer, VP of Audience Development

Portland, Oregon based, Marshall Kirkpatrick is the former Lead Writer at ReadWriteWeb and TechCrunch.

Roberta Prescott, Editor in Chief  Americas. Channels: Latin America & Enterprise

Roberta Prescott  is responsible for Latin America reporting news and analysis, interviewing key stakeholders.  Roberta  has worked as an IT and telecommunication journalist since March 2005, when she started as a reporter with InformationWeek Brasil magazine and its website IT Web. In July 2006, Prescott was promoted to be the editor in chief, and, beyond the magazine and website, was in charge for all ICT products, such as IT events and CIO awards. In mid-2010, she was promoted to the position of executive editor, with responsibility for all the editorial products and content of IT Mídia. Prescott  has worked as a journalist since 1998 and has three  journalism prizes. In 2009, she won, along with InformationWeek Brasil team, the press prize 11th Prêmio Imprensa Embratel. In 2008, she won the 7th Unisys Journalism Prize and in 2006 was the editor-in-chief when InformationWeek Brasil won the 20th media award Prêmio Veículos de Comunicação. She graduated in Journalism by the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, has done specialization in journalism at the Universidad de Navarra (Spain, 2003) and Master in Journalism at IICS – Universidad de Navarra (Brazil, 2010) and MBA – Executive Education at the Getulio Vargas Foundation.

Martha DeGrasse: Technology Writer & Producer RCR TV. Channel: Devices & Mobile Technology
Prior to joining RCR, Martha DeGrasse was a business news writer and producer for CNN and Dow Jones Television in New York during the 1990’s.  In Austin, she has produced the 6:00 news for KEYE-TV and managed the editorial operations of the Hoover’s Online website. She has spent the past several years at home with her children, and for the past year and a half she has been a writer for The West Austin News.  Martha is an Austin, TX native and graduated from Stanford with a degree in economics.

Matt Kapko, Contributor

Matt Kapko is a relentless journalist and writer who specializes in the converged space of mobile, digital media and entertainment. He keeps an eye on all things mobile with a special focus on media, entertainment, enterprise and devices. In 2009, Matt founded Eye on Media, a firm that offers a wide breadth of journalism and consulting services, including high-level research and reporting, analysis, writing, media positioning, content strategy and management. He also regularly writes and edits features, columns, articles, case studies and reviews.

Matt contributes feature reports and articles to RCR Wireless News. He holds a double major in journalism and history from Humboldt State University and has worked as a journalist in small towns and big cities up and down the California coast for more than a decade. His work has been published in dozens of publications ranging from news wire services to national newspapers, digital media and entertainment sites, and business-to-business media outlets.  Matt is as much a fan of music as he is an avid traveler. He likes cellphones a bit too much and lives in Long Beach with his wife and two cats. Follow Matt on Twitter @mattkapko and read more of his editorial work at Eye On Mobile.

Derek Kerton

Derek Kerton runs the wireless practice for the Kerton Group, a consulting firm focused on advanced telecom, and is chairman of The Telecom Council, an association for global telecom executives. Internationally recognized for his strategic insight into what’s coming in telecom, he consults for companies throughout the telecom value chain (NTT DoCoMo, SKTelecom, Disney, ESPN, Sony…) and the financial community on the telecom market issues (Credit Suisse, Merrill Lynch, Dow Jones, Morgan Stanley…). For more details, visit www.kertongroup.com..

Carolyn Green

Carolyn Green, freelance contributor, is a born and bred Scottish lass from the city of Glasgow who can talk herself out of any tricky situation. This has proven incredibly useful when it comes to her passion for travel and exploration…in Asia and beyond.

Paul Hunnisett

Paul is our Android dev geek extraordinaire, based out of Bristol in the UK. Got an Android app you think will rock the world? Let Paul be the judge of that. With his take-no-prisoners reviewing style, Paul’s reviews are a must read for anyone thinking of downloading the latest and greatest from the Android marketplace.

Austin Mobilist Advisory Board

Editorial highlights:

Localized coverage of international markets helps readers compare and contrast global industry trends at a local and regional level while gaining greater insight on mobile and wireless industry as a whole.

One of the industry’s largest databases of over 145,000 industry professionals coupled with extensive social media reach and industry partnerships

RCR Wireless News is available online, in person, in print and video – maximizing access and visibility to the RCR industry coverage.

Each month, over 150,000 readers visit the RCR Wireless digital network for insight and high-level analysis on wireless and mobile industry.

RCR Daily eNews:  Sent to over 60k recipients daily, the RCR Daily e‐News provides RCR readers news, commentary, and analysis.

Weekly job blast sent to over 85,000 subscribers

RCR Wireless News is a leading media partner at industry events that include: Mobile World Congress, CTIA, PCIA Wireless Infrastructure Show, Rural Cellular Association, Communicasia, Futurecom, NATE, Informa LTE Series, Broadband World Forum, 4G World, and many international events.

RCR TV: Live broadcasts and video coverage of industry conferences, mobile operator news, product announcements and more

RCR Feature Reports: Editorial examination of current mobile trends, themes and innovation available in print and digital format

RCR Wireless Global Tour: To better understand local and regional trends, RCR Wireless News team visits carriers, device companies, equipment manufacturers, and mobile technology innovators in markets around the world

RCR Wireless Conference Series: In many of the cities on the RCR Global Tour, RCR Wireless News hosts and facilitates a series of online and in person conferences broadcast live via RCR TV.

RCR Wireless News Desk:  Editorial coverage, including live and recorded broadcast, directly from major industry events and local market coverage, RCR Wireless Editors host discussions and executive interviews with industry influencers and decision makers.  To extend our coverage and insight, we often seek partnerships with local, regional, national and global organizations.

RCR Wireless Jobs: Employment advertising, resume database search and Job listings.  Since 1999, RCR Wireless News careers partners, Telecomcareers and ITjobs.net have been providing the industry’s top companies with resume search, featured employer advertisements and job posting services.  With a member community of over 150,000, our job board clients include Verizon, AT&T, Ericsson, Sprint, Huawei, General Dynamics, Black & Veatch, and Time Warner Cable.