Monthly Archives: December, 2007
Sprint Nextel taps Hesse: Industry vet called up from Embarq
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SPRINT NEXTEL CORP. HAS TAKEN THE HEAD of its wireline spinoff back into the wireless fold, tapping Embarq Corp. Chairman, President and CEO Dan...
FCC set to clarify 2.3 GHz spectrum band rules: Move expected to prevent interference between terrestrial radio, wireless broadband services
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The wireless broadband industry hailed a new Federal Communications Commission effort to write rules to prevent satellite radio terrestrial repeaters from interfering with WiMAX...
SCREENS MERGE: Premium SMS services blossom on TV
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It's hard to imagine, but people are more connected to their television than ever before. Countless TV shows have adopted participation characteristics that make...
DATA PRICING DILEMMAS: RealNetworks exec pushes flat rates to drive content uptake
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In the early days of wireless, rate plans were an a la carte-style hodgepodge of offerings at a host of price points. Like new...
Mobile TV ‘superstars’ could emerge from dragged-out writers’ strike
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Television just isn't the same these days. The writers' strike in Hollywood, now in its ninth week, has given millions another reason to turn...
LG Voyager,Apple iPhone top pre-holiday online buzz
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Full data on how various handsets and carriers fared during the holiday shopping season awaits collection and analysis. Various firms will report their definitive...
N-Gage delayed . again: Nokia expects gaming platform to launch in early 2008
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NOKIA CORP.'S DIRECT-TO-CONSUMER EFFORT suffered yet another growing pain as the company again pushed back the launch of its mobile gaming service. The world's...
Palm toils on turnaround: Two new devices echo past, presage future
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Palm Inc. almost looks like two companies these days, depending on which way the light strikes.Palm is focused on keeping the productivity-based Treo line...
Huawei wins handset deal at MetroPCS
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Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. announced it will provide handsets to MetroPCS Communications Inc., making it the second Chinese handset vendor this month to do...
Biggest stories of 2007
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Editor's Note: The following are the stories that had the biggest impact on the wireless industry in 2007, as chosen by the RCR Wireless...
Txt hedake
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America has fallen in love with text messaging. More than 28.8 billion text messages are sent per month, according to figures from CTIA. And...
Must See FCC
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The Federal Communications Commission should be a big hit again in 2008, provoking lots of colorfully caustic cacophony rivaling only that gushing from the...
2008: The dawn of wireless 4.0: WiMAX worries, 700 MHz dancing in the dark, desperately seeking the iPhone killer and more
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The pieces continue to fall in and out of place in the ever-evolving wireless world, but it now appears the many changes - from...
Moving target: Mobile content ripe for change
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Many of the sexiest offerings in mobile content will continue to struggle to take flight in 2008. Wireless video will slowly gain steam in...
Hedgehogging: hedge*hog*ging v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube.
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While we won't know for a couple of weeks how specific wireless carriers did during the holiday season, it is safe to assume as...
Certification lab boosts mobile WiMAX prospects: Sprint Nextel applauds move
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The WiMAX Forum has opened its first, and lead, lab to formally test and evaluate mobile WiMAX products for certification. With the lab now...
Clarification
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In the Dec. 17 issue of the newspaper in a speculation piece on why Clearwire stock was increasing (page 20), it should have been...
Correction
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In the Dec. 17 issue of RCR Wireless News, Leap Wireless International Inc.'s new rate plans were incorrectly characterized in a page 7 story....
UWB-enabled devices to hit 400M by 2011
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The ultra-wideband silicon market began to take off in 2007, despite regulatory hurdles that persist worldwide, according to In-Stat.The firm noted the first UWB-enabled...
Wave 2 WiMAX standard to spur growth
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A new report from Visant Strategies predicts the next generation of WiMAX devices will spur both fixed and mobile growth for the 802.16 industry.The...
Recycled handsets to top $3B in revenues by 2012
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More than 100 million recycled handsets are expected to be shipped in 2012, generating more than $3 billion in revenue, according to a study...
Top 10 stories of 2007
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Below are RCR Wireless News' 10 biggest stories of the year. These are the stories that rocked the industry in 2007, and set the...
Broadcom charges Qualcomm ‘workaround’ violates ITC order
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Chip maker Broadcom Corp. confirmed it complained last month to the U.S. International Trade Commission, alleging that Qualcomm Inc. is violating the ITC's ban...