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#TBT: AT&T’s Project Angel; A mobile e-commerce gold rush; Telecom players pick tech sides … this week in 2000

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on those sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! AT&T Wireless begins...

#TBT: Mobile data use surges; Mobile advertising ramps up; Sprint, Clearwire tensions … this week in 2010

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on those sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! Mobile data use...

#TBT: Waiting for the ‘killer app’; Who needs 3G?; Tearing down the garden wall … this week in 2001

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on those sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! Waiting for the...

#TBT: Dabbling in mobile data; Paging consolidation; A ‘new telecom era’ … this week in 1997

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on those sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! Wireless learns to...

#TBT: Nextlink trials mobile data; Sprint PCS launches web service; Audible, Motorola demo downloadable content … this week in 1999

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on those sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! Nextlink starts mobile...

How future 6G networks will deal with demand for mobile data?

Ian Wong, director of RF and wireless architecture at Viavi Solutions, said that future 6G systems should focus more on delivering new applications rather than just increasing the capacity for services already enabled by 4G and 5G Although 5G is still very much a...

#TBT: Is throttling necessary?; VoLTE proves its quality; Cisco shifts skills mix … this week in 2014

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on those sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! Is throttling necessary? Recently...

AT&T: Super Bowl data usage up 28% over 2020

Carrier says that FirstNet users at the game used twice as much data as fans, on average AT&T says its customers set a new usage record of 13 TB of data over LTE and 5G before and during the Super Bowl, an increase of 28%...

#TBT: ’99 products, and a watch phone is one; Right now, WAP’s everything; If AT&T had 10 million subscribers … this week in 1999

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! I got '99...

#TBT: Motorola tests its first Bluetooth-capable phone; AT&T splits up; CDMA takes on the world … this week in 2000

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! Motorola intros first...

Is mobile data now a basic human right? (Reader Forum)

Currently, 3.8 billion people worldwide – about half of the world’s population – lack access to the Internet, yet Internet growth has slowed every year since 2015. The majority of people who don’t have Internet access are from developing economies, where lack of Internet...

CTIA: Mobile data use up 82% year-over-year

Wireless data use continues to climb, with the latest analysis from industry group CTIA showing an 82% increase in mobile data use between 2017 and 2018. According to CTIA's newly released annual survey of the U.S. wireless industry, "wireless use was up across nearly every...

#TBT: ‘E-Support’ and other relics of the early internet; 41 million TDMA/EDGE subs; Microsoft, Samsung work on Windows phone … this week in 2000

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! E-Support for e-commerce...

AT&T-FirstNet says 2,500 agencies have signed on for service

AT&T-FirstNet says that it has more than 150,000 connections for public safety use AT&T-FirstNet said in a blog entry that it has nearly doubled the number of agencies signed on as customers of its network since its last update in July, and that the number...

#TBT: Germany bans Facebook ‘likes’, HP kills Palm, Google picks up Moto … this week in 2011

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! Germany gives Facebook...

Key takeaways from CTIA’s State of Mobile 2018 report

U.S. cell sites up nearly 5%; IoT devices grew 20% YOY, says CTIA's annual State of Mobile report U.S. mobile data use continues its inexorable upward climb, setting a new annual record with 15.7 trillion megabytes of data sent over wireless data networks last year,...

#TBT: Huawei protests U.S. suspicions; Moto goes for the Xoom gold… this week in 2011

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! Mobile data on...

Sprint goes for broke, offers switchers a year of free, unlimited service

Sprint targets Verizon customers with online ads Sprint is taking the carrier price wars as low as it can go: the operator is reportedly offering new customers who bring their own devices a year of free, unlimited voice, text and data service. Bloomberg reports that  deal,...

#TBT: That ‘net’ thing could be huge for cell phones; FCC wants input on public safety spectrum … 21 years ago this week

"The internet is the killer app" for wireless data; FCC asks for input on public safety spectrum needs ... 21 years ago this week Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from...

Reader Forum: Pokémon Go and mobile traffic flow after three months

Pokémon Go was a phenomenon with repercussions still being felt throughout the mobile telecom space in terms of security, information management and AR. I have a confession. Temptation got the better of me. It happened on July 6. Yes, I was amongst the...

Report: Verizon to target 'extraordinary' data users

Amid sweeping changes to its data plan pricing and usage policies, Verizon Wireless is now reportedly going to target users with unlimited data plans who consume an "extraordinary" amount of mobile data. The report first appeared in Droid Life. Citing knowledgable sources, the website reports:...

T-Mobile responds to Verizon with new smartphone giveaway

Last week, Verizon Wireless increased the size and cost of it's data buckets, immediately prompting social media responses from the CEOs of T-Mobile U.S. and Sprint. Now, T-Mobile US is launching a new promo that couples specific data plans with new smartphones. Starting July 13,...

#TBT: Mobile data battles fragmentation; PCS, 2-way shadow paging … this week in 1996

Mobile data services struggle against competing standards, while the traditional paging industry brace for PCS, 2-way battle ... 20 years ago this week Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the...

Verizon CFO says unlimited data not coming back

Verizon reported revenue growth in an earnings call this week, but CFO Fran Shammo did make clear the carrier doesn't plan on offering an unlimited data plan despite market pressures. According to reports, Shammo said in an interview following the earnings call, "At this point,...