Monthly Archives: November, 2007
Verizon Wireless: Two announcements, one vision: Operator’s open-access, LTE plans point to consumer-electronic future
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Verizon Wireless' two major announcements this week laid out not only a vision of open access for devices and applications on its current network,...
The Week in Review
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Welcome to our Friday feature, Week in Review. Every Friday, RCR Wireless News runs through the major events of the week, outlining what happened...
Brightpoint reorders executive lineup
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Handset distributor Brightpoint Inc. shuffled around some members of its executive team, promoting some veterans within the company to more prominent roles. The moves...
Zander out at Motorola: Investors exhale, then gird for long haul
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Swapping out a chief executive sends a message of change. In the case of Motorola Inc.'s CEO Ed Zander's long-anticipated departure, announced today, the...
LG’s first CMO is a non-Korean
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LG Electronics Co. Ltd. is creating a chief marketing officer position and the job will go to Dermot Boden, who starts work at the...
Google puts ‘money where principles are,’ says it will bid in 700 MHz auction: Search giant looks at open-access C Block
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Google Inc. is in! The Internet search engine giant said it will participate-alone-in the 700 MHz auction set to begin Jan. 24."We believe it's...
By the Numbers: Top Ten U.S. Wireless Service Providers
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The third quarter of 2007 saw few changes to the relative positions of the ten largest wireless carriers, but pending acquisitions soon will continue...
Worst of the Week: The junk I’m going to run on Verizon Wireless’ network
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Hello! And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so...
Amid objections, Euro-commission closes in on DVB-H standard
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The European Commission has taken another major step toward formally adopting DVB-H as a European-wide standard for mobile television services. The commission intends to...
Glu scoops up Chinese game publisher
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Glu Mobile Inc. will step up its efforts in China with the acquisition of fellow mobile game publisher Beijing Zhangzhong MIG Information Technology Co....
IPhone hits France, AT&T promises 3G version in 2008
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The French finally got their chance to embrace another American export last night. Move over McDonalds and EuroDisney. Orange, the iPhone's exclusive French carrier...
Verizon Wireless selects LTE for 4G network: Qualcomm ‘key loser’ as future of CDMA becomes hazy
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Verizon Wireless announced it will use Long Term Evolution technology for its fourth generation network. The carrier said that it and parent company Vodafone...
Lawsuit nails Virgin Mobile USA on IPO
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A class-action law firm has begun an investigation into mobile virtual network operator Virgin Mobile USA Inc. to determine if it bears any civil...
Google updates mobile maps app with location info
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Google Inc. apparently got so fed up waiting for more GPS-enabled devices to hit the market that it has taken matters into its own...
Skepticism remains over Verizon Wireless’ open-access plans
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Is the mobile-phone industry's increasingly reluctant embrace of open access really a concession to consumers, or an inescapable inevitability driven in part by legal...
Sprint Nextel sued over billing practices
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A California consumer group has filed a lawsuit in federal court against Sprint Nextel Corp. accusing the No. 3 mobile-phone carrier of improperly assessing...
FCC: MSV does not have to build spare satellite
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Mobile Satellite Ventures said the Federal Communications Commission waived a requirement that it build a ground-based spare satellite in the event of satellite failure.FCC...
Verizon’s new XV6800 smartphone features touchscreen, keyboard
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Verizon Wireless introduced a new business-oriented device to its lineup-the XV6800.The device, which is available online and in stores beginning Dec. 5, runs the...
Financial ratings wrap-up: Virgin, Ericsson, OmniVision and more
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The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier --Standard & Poor's Ratings...
Verizon grabs ‘high ground’ with promise of greater device choice: Final impact still unclear
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Verizon Wireless' declaration this morning that "any application, any device" will run on its network next year is clearly an overstatement-Verizon's CDMA network allows...
Lawmakers, Google, Skype applaud Verizon Wireless decision, others more cautious
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Verizon Wireless' open platform announcement was met with a mix of optimism and skepticism by parties at the forefront of a campaign to persuade...
Developer reaction mixed on Verizon Wireless news
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Verizon Wireless said it will take a wrecking ball to its notorious garden walls, opening its network to third-party devices and applications. What that...
REVIEW: Ask Mobile GPS as reliable as a nervous aunt riding in the back seat
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Editor's Note: Welcome to Yay or Nay, a feature for RCR Wireless News' new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week we'll...
Analyst Angle Special Edition: Mobile advertising has arrived: Close encounters of the third screen
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Editor's Note: Welcome to a special edition of our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give...
Sprint Nextel adds NFL video updates, VZW to push NHL video alerts
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Homes with access to the NFL Network may be hard to find, but Sprint Nextel Corp. is giving the new channel more exposure by...
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