The UK government has laid out the roadmap for upgrading the nation's wireless services by rolling out next-generation wireless technologies coupled with bolstering up 3G coverage all across the country, it has been reported. ... Read More »

The European Union said it plans to invest more than $25 million beginning in 2010 into research in support of LTE-based wireless networks. LTE-based network are expected to begin launching in Europe in early 2010. ... Read More »

With investments already made into WiMAX, the wireless broadband technology will be able to withstand the current economic downturn in a year that will see some additional network deployments, according to the WiMAX Forum. ... Read More »

It is a new era for the Federal Emergency Management Administration as it streamlines communications for emergencies and its day-to-day operations. ... Read More »

With the purchase of a new mobile phone comes a new charger, leaving a consumer left with an old charger that has little use. ... Read More »

The Federal Trade Commission today issued revised guidelines for how wireless and other communications companies should police themselves to protect consumers’ privacy in behavioral advertising. But a top watchdog group said the ... Read More »

The LiMo Foundation continues to make strides as it announced updates to its open platform, notched six new operators to deliver handsets and added two new directors to its board. ... Read More »

The Communications Workers of America and AT&T Mobility failed to reach an agreement over the weekend on a new contract covering 20,000 wireless workers in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, Mountain States and West Coast. ... Read More »

Communications Workers of America members overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike on behalf of more than 20,000 unionized AT&T Mobility employees if concerns about compensation, employment and working conditions are not ... Read More »

The House gave President Obama a big victory with approval of an economic stimulus bill with $6 billion in broadband grants for wireless carriers and other service providers, setting the stage for Senate debate next week on a ... Read More »

Mike Wehrs took over the reins at the Mobile Marketing Association a few weeks ago and immediately was greeted with two fresh controversies. ... Read More »

With new restrictions in place for businesses that use wireless local area networks to process credit card transactions, two rivals are now offering solutions that meet the security guidelines issued by the Payment Card Industry ... Read More »

The mobile-phone industry called for changes to the $6 billion broadband component of Congress’ $825 billion economic stimulus bill, requesting open-access provisions be stripped out and language added to require local action ... Read More »

The current economic climate has trickled down to technology tradeshows as the first major showcase of the year experienced a decline in attendance. How severely wireless-specific trade shows are impacted by the recession will be ... Read More »

Consumer-advocacy groups last week took on a host of players in the mobile marketing space, demanding the Federal Trade Commission look into the still-nascent space. Then, as if on cue, AT&T Mobility threw gasoline on the fire. ... Read More »

Privacy groups have stepped up their efforts in calling for federal regulation to rein in mobile marketing practices the organizations deem “unfair” and “deceptive” to handset users. ... Read More »

The Mobile Marketing Association has tapped former Nuance Communicatons Inc. executive Mike Wehrs to replace outgoing President Laura Marriott. ... Read More »

The National Safety Council has called for a wholesale ban on motorist use of wireless devices, creating a public-relations dilemma for a cellphone industry that advocates safe driving and no longer opposes state hands-free ... Read More »

The District of Columbia cancelled today’s scheduled cellphone jamming demonstration at a city jail, but the controversy apparently is not over. ... Read More »

Cellular association CTIA released a document aimed at helping messaging companies develop interoperable EM (enhanced messaging) offerings. ... Read More »

Staying up to date with your favorite band, the latest news and online friends should be easier as an Oklahoma company is set to launch a social enterprise platform for mobile users next year. ... Read More »

Sixteen months ago, George Washington University convened Web strategists from leading Presidential campaigns and social networking sites to discuss how technology was revolutionizing political campaigning. Enthusiasm, expertise ... Read More »

Former Vice President and Noble Peace Prize Winner Al Gore will be the Day 3 keynote speaker at the International CTIA Wireless 2009 event, set to ... Read More »

Former Vice President and Noble Peace Prize Winner Al Gore will be the Day 3 keynote speaker at the International CTIA Wireless 2009 event, set to take place April 1-3 in Las Vegas. ... Read More »

Wondering whether the ripples from the Wall Street implosion will rock the wireless world? They already are, according to Laura Marriott. ... Read More »

The wireless industry faces a policy landscape whose evolving contours could be significantly shaped in coming years by the outcome of the Nov. 4 elections. ... Read More »

So far, despite massive lobbying over scheduled Nov. 4 votes on white spaces, wireless mergers, the universal service fund and intercarrier-compensation reforms, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin has yet ... Read More »

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — The wireless industry is crowded with associations so it’s imperative for those looking to succeed to find their niche. ... Read More »

FOR NOW, AT LEAST, Verizon Wireless has stepped away from plans to tack on a drastic 3-cent fee to each vendor-generated message on its network. But there’s little doubt that some significant changes are in store for nearly every ... Read More »

The IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Forum and the Next Generation Networks (NGN) Forum announced plans to merge their respective activities in an effort to better target “multimedia, mobility and fixed services over broadband cable, ... Read More »

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — Despite thunderstorms on Wall Street, as well as outside the convention itself, participants at the PCIA’s 2008 Wireless Infrastructure Show this week in Hollywood, Fla., were forecasting sunny skies for the ... Read More »

CHICAGO — The Wireless History Foundation celebrated the 25th anniversary of the first cellphone call with an evening of festivity featuring a celebrity attendee list similar to what you’d find in People magazine — if People ... Read More »

PUBLIC-INTEREST GROUPS ACCUSED WIRELESS CARRIERS of conjuring up misleading excuses to avoid federal regulation of short-code text messaging, pointing to content restrictions in industry documents that they say underscore the ... Read More »

Where are the best positions in information and communications technology? ... Read More »

A group of PC makers and wireless industry players announced a new effort aimed at embedding HSPA modems into laptops. The initiative, organized by the Euro-focused GSM Association, aims to spend up to $1 billion promoting “ready ... Read More »

More than two dozen mobile operators and spectrum license holders have banded together to form NextGen Mobile L.L.C. The organization hopes to pool efforts to launch GSM-based, next-generation networks covering small and rural ... Read More »

On the surface, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision to reverse a three-judge panel and hand San Diego County a surprise victory over Sprint Nextel Corp. is just another in a series of conflicting court rulings on ... Read More »

Machine-to-machine companies around the world have banded together to form an alliance geared at providing a unified, seamless network across the globe for delivering applications created by providers in the emerging technology. ... Read More »

Researchers at Cleveland Clinic said they found a link between cellphone radiation and male fertility problems, fresh scientific data that surfaced in advance of a congressional hearing on a long-running health controversy that ... Read More »

The wireless industry seems to have weathered Wall Street’s troubles relatively well — at least, so far. In comments last week, executives from two of the nation’s largest wireless carriers said the ongoing economic turmoil in ... Read More »

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama won a text message election held during the CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment 2008 trade show held earlier this month in San Francisco. ... Read More »

CTIA Wireless I.T 2008 is in the rear-view, and the industry is performing the typical post-show analyses. My two cents: ... Read More »

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a previous ruling to give San Diego County a victory over Sprint Nextel Corp. in a long-running dispute between the parties over a 2003 ordinance governing visibility and location ... Read More »

SAN FRANCISCO -- Welcome to our complete coverage of the CTIA I.T. '08 show here. RCR Wireless News will be covering the event in full force this year, and will bring you up-to-the-minute headlines and video from the show floor. ... Read More »

The controversy over the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to cap subsidies flowing to wireless carriers for building rural networks has been elevated to a new level, with rural cellular operators asking a federal ... Read More »

Chris Pearson, president of 3G Americas, sits down with RCR Wireless News to discuss the trade group's position in the wireless market, and the future of the GSM family of wireless technologies. The group represents GSM-focused ... Read More »

The mobile communications industry is turning the page on its history of proprietary, closed development. Today, mobile is writing its next chapter, and here’s where open development is moving the story: ... Read More »

A group of rural and small wireless providers asked the Federal Communications Commission to reconsider its decision to impose an interim cap on high-cost universal service fund payments to eligible telecommunications carriers, ... Read More »

The LiMo Foundation announced nine new members today and said that more handsets with its operating system are launching in North America and Japan. ... Read More »

While wireless providers — large and small — differ on such hot-button issues as universal service support, exclusive handset arrangements and special access, the controversy over roaming has the potential to become the major ... Read More »

This year has been labeled a “make or break” year for mobile WiMAX and, as we hit the mid-point, there’s no denying the positive buzz. The WiMAX Forum just managed to pull off its first global trade show. Mobile WiMAX ... Read More »

Suddenly, it’s all about consolidating handset platforms. ... Read More »

The Federal Communications Commission is seeking feedback on new options to auction a nationwide wireless broadband license with requirements to provide free Internet service, content filtering and open access to third-party ... Read More »

LAS VEGAS — On day two of the NXTcomm08 event here, wireless seemed to jump out of the backseat and into the limelight. Executives Denny Strigl, current president and COO of Verizon Communications Inc. and former CEO of Verizon ... Read More »

LAS VEGAS — The growing importance of wireless in the general telecom space was evident during this morning’s keynote session at the NXTcomm08 trade show here, as AT&T Inc. chief Randall Stephenson referred to the recently ... Read More »

With the clock winding down on my tenure as a “guest” (read: uncompensated) columnist on mobile content for RCR Wireless News, I thought my last column might be a good time — heck, the only time — to throw up a “Hail Mary” for ... Read More »

ATLANTA — Innovation has to become institutionalized if wireless content is going to be successful, AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega last week told attendees at the GSM Association’s first last Mobile Innovation Marketplace — ... Read More »

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION CHAIRMAN KEVIN MARTIN APPEARS DETERMINED to win approval for a free, family-friendly national wireless broadband plan, despite being forced to delay an upcoming vote on the measure after concerns ... Read More »

A dispute has erupted over whether a federal appeals court should delay ruling on the wireless industry’s challenge to the Federal Communications Commission’s backup power rule until Bush administration budget officials complete ... Read More »

The mobile marketing industry lost one of its most prolific and outspoken supporters today when Laura Marriott announced she would resign from her post as president of the Mobile Marketing Association. ... Read More »

High-stakes battles over early termination fees are playing out in official Washington and California at a time when carriers face pressure to make good on commitments to open their networks and embrace consumer-friendly ... Read More »

The National Association of Broadcasters warned Congress that allowing unlicensed wireless operations in vacant television spectrum could jeopardize the transition to digital TV, continuing the highly charged debate with tech ... Read More »

As its BREW developer conference kicks into high gear today, Qualcomm Inc. announced a handful of efforts designed to entice a broader array of players into the mobile content field. ... Read More »

THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION SET A JUNE 20 DEADLINE for public comment on D-Block revisions, but already the agency has begun receiving suggestions from industry, public safety and academics. Most filings focus on how D- ... Read More »

Qualcomm Inc.’s annual BREW developer’s conference got underway this morning, and the obligatory stream of news from the company’s home base in San Diego has kicked into high gear: ... Read More »

An initial effort spearheaded by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin and Verizon Wireless to secure support from leading consumer groups to give subscribers relief on early termination fees — in exchange for ... Read More »

Despite being less of a target in recent years, the cellphone industry remains entangled in health-related litigation that could turn on how the District of Columbia Court of Appeals rules on a challenge to a lower court’s ... Read More »

While it is relatively simple for me to make a straightforward case that a slowdown in the U.S. economy will adversely impact U.S. mobile data revenues, it is less easy to document any slowdown so far using figures from Cheetan ... Read More »

Rural mobile-phone operators have asked the Federal Communications Commission to investigate exclusivity deals between the industry’s major carriers and handset vendors, taking aim at an entrenched business practice that they ... Read More »

GOOGLE INC.’S OPEN HANDSET ALLIANCE has attracted plenty of attention in the hot mobile Linux space, but the LiMo Foundation is assembling an impressive coalition of its own. ... Read More »

Google Inc.’s Open Handset Alliance has attracted plenty of attention in the mobile Linux space, but the LiMo Foundation is assembling an impressive coalition of its own. ... Read More »

The potential of ad-funded mobile entertainment (AFME) has been a hotly discussed topic for the past two years, and the Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) has been leading the way. A 2006 MEF member survey highlighted the ... Read More »

LAS VEGAS -- The past 12 months have been a tumultuous time for rural carriers and even more so for the Rural Cellular Association. The trade association has brought in a new executive director with a different view on RCA’s ... Read More »

The National Emergency Number Association named Brian Fontes as its chief executive officer, a newly created position in the organization. ... Read More »

The Mobile Marketing Association released its first set of global guidelines, tweaking its instructions for mobile Web advertisers and adding new rules for campaigns centered on mobile messaging and downloadable applications. ... Read More »

Readers of this column will recall that my “ah-ha” moment of the future structure of the cable industry occurred in the wake of Comcast’s failure to buy Disney when I realized that in order to meet the “any time, any where, any ... Read More »

Workers with wireless technology expertise could have an edge in the job market in coming years, according to a new study. ... Read More »

The Mobile Marketing Association is teaming with ioglobal Inc. to measure the effectiveness of mobile ads. ... Read More »

The controversy over whether the Federal Communications Commission should regulate short code-related text messaging has opened a floodgate of weighty policy questions — from network management to consumer protection to free ... Read More »

The TV white spaces debate -- already highly controversial and politicized, but largely limited to potential unlicensed Wi-Fi use -- just got messier. ... Read More »

Chris Boyer

There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who think a huge trade show would be fun to go to, and those who have been to one (or many) and know the truth. The truth is that huge trade shows, like CTIA Wireless 2008, exist ... Read More »

CTIA is taking its big show back west this year as the CTIA Wireless 2008 event is set to take place April 1-3 in Las Vegas (and if you haven’t made your plans to attend yet, you might want to stop reading this and get on it … ... Read More »

The explosive success networks are having with text voting on TV shows comes with a level of responsibility that they and others in the value chain are trying to bear. ... Read More »

Wireless carriers have turned up the heat on the Federal Communications Commission, arguing in a lawsuit that new enhanced 911 location accuracy guidelines grossly miss the mark and that the agency’s extension of a 2008 deadline ... Read More »

The wireless industry’s campaign for a national policy framework picked up more traction, with a group of state regulators and a key member of Congress taking steps bring uniformity to wireless regulation and consumer protection. ... Read More »

Mention mobile commerce in North America, and the common response is a roll of the eyes. It’s not hard to guess why. Back in the heady days of the Internet dot-com bubble, mobile commerce was one of the many buzz words connected ... Read More »

Like Britney Spears, mobile advertising is desperately in need of some monitoring. ... Read More »

The National Association of Tower Erectors said it would redouble efforts to improve job safety in a sector that caught the attention of government labor officials in 2000 because of injuries and fatalities. ... Read More »

Device manufacturers and network vendors have submitted 28 mobile WiMAX products in the 2.3 GHz and 2.5 GHz bands since the WiMAX Forum opened its ... Read More »

The mobile entertainment industry is currently plagued with a wide variance of proprietary formats in reporting mobile content sales, their associated metadata and consumer activity. Fully 93% of industry experts surveyed by MEF ... Read More »

BARCELONA, Spain — In a room too crowded to let in all the press, LG Electronics Co. displayed three new handsets with nice form factors, but little pricing or operator information. ... Read More »

The opening day of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, was all about mobile advertising. ... Read More »

BARCELONA, Spain — Mobility’s impact on the world was the theme for both L.M. Ericsson and Nokia Siemens Networks at press conferences here today before tomorrow’s official opening of the Mobile World Congress. ... Read More »

Anyone who has traveled abroad and decided to use their cellphone to call home or check e-mail knows how shocking the total on your subsequent wireless bill can be. Short of owning an unlocked GSM device and carrying multiple SIM ... Read More »

The Mobile Entertainment Forum launched a participation-television (P-TV) code of practice that the organization hopes will enable the market to sustain its growth in the United States and avoid the issues that have hampered the ... Read More »

So, here we are, just over 4 weeks into 2008 and so far I have been very disappointed with the wireless industry. There have been no hostile take-overs, no financial scandals, no fire-and-brimstone collapses -- though it seems ... Read More »

Frontline Wireless L.L.C.’s freakish free-fall has begun to raise questions about whether the upcoming 700 MHz auction will produce a ... Read More »

LAS VEGAS -- Bill Gates may not be slowing down on the professional and charitable projects that he holds near and dear, but it’s clear he’s having fun in his final months as chairman of Microsoft Corp. Gates took plenty of light- ... Read More »

So, with great fanfare I’m heading off to the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas next week. I say great fanfare because after the last time I visited the show I swore I would never, ever attend another CES event for as long as ... Read More »

The WiMAX Forum has opened its first, and lead, lab to formally test and evaluate mobile WiMAX products for certification. With the lab now open for submissions, certified mobile WiMAX products are projected to hit the commercial ... Read More »