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March 19 2010 - 11:45 am ET | RCR Wireless News staff
AUSTIN, Texas – RCR Wireless News has expanded its news outlet sources with the launch of RCR Local Market News and RCR Unplugged. Taking advantage of the latest in social media and networking, both RCR Local Market News ... Read More »
March 19 2010 - 11:53 am ET | Dan Meyer
Palm Inc. shares dove more than 18% early Friday after the company announced an increased number of shipments to carriers during its third fiscal quarter ended Feb. 26, but a drop in sell through of devices to consumers. The ... Read More »
March 18 2010 - 12:05 pm ET | Tracy Ford
T-Mobile USA Inc. is attacking the machine-to-machine space with four SIM form factors to enable companies that want m2M solutions to use the one that best fits their needs, said John Horn, national director of M2M at the carrier. ... Read More »
March 18 2010 - 6:00 am ET | Aptilo Networks
Wireless guest Internet access is ushering in a new paradigm shift in the hospitality industry. There’s a tremendous demand for wireless access – for overnight guests, corporate use, and for conferences and trade ... Read More »
March 18 2010 - 12:04 pm ET | Dan Meyer
T-Mobile USA Inc. looks to be hunting for spectrum, and according to comments by its CEO, is not afraid to find a partner to fill that need. According to a Reuters report this morning, T-Mobile USA CEO Robert Dotson told ... Read More »
March 17 2010 - 6:00 am ET | Larry Swasey and Andy Fuertes, Visant Strategies
During the recent capacity crisis suffered by AT&T Wireless it was expected the carrier would upgrade, as it was announced, in tough capacity urban markets such as New York and Los Angeles. ... Read More »
March 17 2010 - 12:54 pm ET | Tracy Ford
Wireless carriers and equipment companies should benefit from the Federal Communications Commission’s National Broadband Plan while smaller local exchange carriers and TV broadcasters may be vulnerable, according to ... Read More »
March 17 2010 - 12:48 pm ET | Dan Meyer
Though the calendar may say mid-March, the bounty of new mobile devices hitting the market recently would seem to indicate late December is just around the corner. This week alone has seen T-Mobile USA Inc. officially announce a ... Read More »
March 17 2010 - 12:09 pm ET | Dan Meyer
The continued evolution of mobile networks in Asia is expected to help propel the adoption of smartphones in the region, according to IMS Research. The research firm said it expects annual smartphone shipments to Asia to more ... Read More »
March 16 2010 - 6:00 am ET | Jim Patterson, founder and CEO, Mobile Symmetry
Each of us who works in the telecom industry is a manager of assets – whether networks, systems, circuits, or handsets. These assets provide the basis for the customer relationships used to create cash to pay back the ... Read More »
March 16 2010 - 6:00 am ET | Kevin Mitchell, Director Solutions Marketing, Acme Packet
Each year the mobile industry starts with a bang as attendees flock to the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), GSMA Mobile World Congress (MWC) and International CTIA Wireless conferences and vendors introduce new ... Read More »
March 16 2010 - 12:11 pm ET | Tracy Ford
The National Broadband Plan delivered to Congress today calls for another 500 megahertz of spectrum to be freed up for wireless use by 2020, as well as an auction of D-Block spectrum and greater use of unlicensed spectrum. ... Read More »
March 16 2010 - 1:03 pm ET | Dan Meyer
It’s not very often that you find one of the world’s largest companies intimately involved in how telecom companies handle something as personal, though important, as customer care calls. But, that is what IBM Corp. ... Read More »
March 15 2010 - 6:00 am ET | Shridhar Kulkarni, Product Manager Access Network Solutions, Aurora Networks
Wireless service providers looking for greater sources of backhaul bandwidth can get help from an unlikely – yet uniquely qualified – fiber-rich source: cable system operators. ... Read More »
March 15 2010 - 9:15 am ET | Professor Simon Saunders, Chairman of the Femto Forum
Over the past 12 months any doubt over operator commitment to femtocells has been silenced. There are currently 10 deployments around the world and analyst firm Informa recently found operator commitment to femtocells has ... Read More »
March 12 2010 - 11:45 am ET | Tracy Ford
DENVER--LTE and WiMAX buildouts, as well as an increased attention on distributed antenna systems, should keep equipment manufacturers, site acquisition companies and others in the tower-siting business busy in the next few years, ... Read More »
March 11 2010 - 12:53 pm ET | Dan Meyer
T-Mobile USA Inc. continued its 3G push today unveiling the first HSPA+ device to be offered by a nationwide U.S. carrier that it plans to offer to consumers beginning March 14. The USB modem device, dubbed the WebConnect Rocket ... Read More »
March 11 2010 - 10:50 am ET | Kristen Beckman
Aruba Networks said it was chosen by Tulsa Public Schools in Oklahoma to deploy an adaptive wireless network across its schools with the goal of using fewer access points and achieving better capacity than competing ... Read More »
March 10 2010 - 1:08 pm ET | Dan Meyer
Over the past 10 years the wireless industry has witnessed dozens of mergers or acquisitions that has whittled down a number of industry segments and opened up others. This consolidation is most telling in the mobile carrier ... Read More »
March 10 2010 - 10:11 am ET | By Nizar Assanie, Vice President (Research), IE Market Research Corp.
In February, Intel and Nokia announced that they were merging their open-source Linux initiatives into a single project called MeeGo. On its face, what's not to like about MeeGo? It has a catchy name. It will result in the ... Read More »
March 9 2010 - 9:56 am ET | Jim Patterson, founder and CEO, Mobile Symmetry
After a column a few weeks back where I took the industry to task on its poor asset management discipline, a colleague came into my office and proclaimed “So – there is nothing new under the sun?” That got me to ... Read More »
March 9 2010 - 1:01 pm ET | Kristen Beckman
Synchronica plc said it received its largest contract to date for its Mobile Gateway product, which provides push e-mail and mobile synchronization services. The $1.05 million contract is with an undisclosed distributor for an ... Read More »
March 9 2010 - 1:10 pm ET | Tracy Ford
Reply comments on the Federal Communications Commission’s notice of proposed rulemaking on cellphone signal boosters produced some finger-pointing between carriers and equipment manufacturers as well as renewed calls on ... Read More »
March 9 2010 - 9:34 am ET | Marcelo Claure, Chairman, President and CEO, Brightstar Corp.
Historically, manufacturers, operators and retailers each focused on capturing and defending their respective market shares, fragmenting the wireless ecosystem. ... Read More »
March 8 2010 - 11:53 am ET | Dan Meyer
Verizon Wireless continued to hype its soon-to-launch LTE network today, noting trials in Boston and Seattle have produced download speeds of up to 50 megabits per second and upload speeds up to 25 Mbps. Average data rates in ... Read More »
March 8 2010 - 11:59 am ET | Navigant Economics Managing Director Hal J. Singer and Brookings Institution Non-Resident Senior Fellow in Economic Studies Robert W. Crandall
As the U.S. economy struggles to recover from the worst recession since the 1930s with the unemployment rate hovering around 10 percent, the federal government is understandably focused on policies that could create jobs. At the ... Read More »
March 5 2010 - 11:06 am ET | Dan Meyer
This past week I was in the enviable position of being put in charge of acquiring a new mobile device for a pair of my teenage nieces. ... Read More »
March 5 2010 - 12:33 pm ET | Tracy Ford
Amid complaints about its 3G coverage, an advertising challenge from competitor Verizon Wireless and a last-minute push before the federal government on network neutrality rules, AT&T Mobility detailed investment plans for 2010 ... Read More »
March 4 2010 - 12:54 pm ET | Dan Meyer
Sprint Nextel Corp., which posted improved, though still troubled fourth quarter results, is looking to more closely tie company performance with executive compensation. In an ... Read More »
March 3 2010 - 10:32 am ET | Kristen Beckman
Airvana Inc. reported fourth-quarter revenues of $47.7 million, down from revenues of $63.3 million for the fourth quarter of 2008. Net income for the quarter was $13.1 million, or 19 cents per share, compared with net ... Read More »
March 3 2010 - 6:29 pm ET | By: Steve Largent, president & CEO, CTIA-The Wireless Association
The wireless industry continues to evolve and innovate at a rapid pace and 2009 was no exception. Smart phones were the “it” device with nearly 41 million operating on carriers' networks last year. The reason for ... Read More »
March 3 2010 - 11:45 am ET | Dan Meyer
Sprint Nextel Corp.’s bevy of prepaid offerings is gaining some clarity as the carrier is looking to phase out a legacy postpaid service and increase the appeal of its prepaid data plans. Sprint Nextel said it has started ... Read More »
March 3 2010 - 1:00 pm ET | Dan Meyer
Nokia Corp. finally found a domestic taker for its Ovi application platform announcing today that T-Mobile USA Inc. would begin offering the Nokia 5230 Nuron in the coming weeks. The device’s price of $70 after rebates also ... Read More »
March 2 2010 - 1:01 pm ET | Dan Meyer
The battle (wink, wink*) between next generation technology standards LTE and WiMAX has started to heat up as the first commercial LTE networks are just now coming on line and the U.S. set to host a rivalry once Verizon Wireless ... Read More »
March 2 2010 - 6:00 am ET | Andrew Shikiar, Global Marketing Director, LiMo Foundation
In 2009 the app-store gold rush induced “headless chicken” behavior within the mobile industry on an unprecedented level ... Read More »
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