Northern Kentucky University students are complaining that their cell coverage on campus is effectively unusable. According to the school’s student paper, the 15,000-student university is considering installation of a distributed antenna system, or DAS. The way the student paper discusses the problem, it’s not hard to imagine poor cell coverage becoming a key indicator of [...]

With thousands of applications available across multiple platforms, it’s easy to get lost in the crowd. The Apple App Store alone has over 500,000 applications, with the challenge now for app developers is to get noticed or to get a large number of downloads in order to move up the rankings amongst the sea of [...]

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. I’ve been having fun this week playing – and working – with my new AT&T 4G LTE Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket smartphone. The biggest [...]

China’s three largest wireless operators continued to show broad growth in October, posting a combined 12 million net customer additions during the month. The bulk of the country’s growth continued to come from China Unicom (CHL), which in addition to being the country’s largest operator is also the largest in the world. The carrier, which [...]

A new report from Juniper Research predicts that while LTE uptake over the next five years will be swift, the technology will have only a limited global reach and account for a small fraction of the worldwide mobile base. Juniper predicts LTE networks will garner 428 million customers by 2016, or roughly 6% of the [...]

China Mobile (CHL) continued to accumulate customers at a breakneck pace, reporting it added more than 5.3 million net customers in October. The growth pushed the world’s largest wireless operator’s customer base to nearly 639 million subscribers. So far this year China Mobile has added more than 54 million subscribers, which is equivalent to the [...]

So, cable giant Cox Communications finally threw in the towel on its half-hearted attempt to become a mobile operator on its own terms. The company, which prior to its launch bragged it would be able to garner 20% of the market, this week stopped selling its own branded service and said it would completely shut down operations early next year.

At just past the halfway point of the fourth quarter, and the first quarter of iPhone sales across three of the nation’s top four carriers, retail channel checks conducted by Wells Fargo Securities indicate the device will have a significant impact on the fortunes of carriers. The firm found that those carriers currently offering the [...]

Employees infused with mobile devices spend about 28 minutes per day on technology distractions, according to a new report from iPass. The quarterly “iPass Mobile Workforce Report” noted that the top two most time consuming distractions employees face are work e-mail and technical issues, with the third most distracting being social media. The distracting nature [...]

UPDATED: This story has been updated to clarify Cox’s spectrum holdings as well as its initial reliance on Sprint Nextel for coverage in its launch markets. Cox Communications has finally thrown in the towel on its failed attempt to enter the mobile space, announcing plans to stop selling services today and ending all service support [...]