December 2007

Editor’s Note: Welcome to Reality Check, a feature for RCR Wireless News’ weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to Yay or Nay, a feature for RCR Wireless News’ weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week we’ll review a new wireless application or service …

The following list details this week’s infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi, and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the …

Today’s children live in a digital world. They’ve embraced electronics. As parents, we live and die by the Best Buy.I confess that, earlier this year, I let my 11-year-old daughter …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to On the Margins, a feature for RCR Wireless News’ weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week, the RCR Wireless News staff considers events in …

The latest casualty in the mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) space is XE Mobile, which targeted college-age youth and marketed itself as a hip, provocative alternative to traditional carriers with …

Alltel Wireless launched its Voice2TXT service, which allows customers receive their voicemails in SMS format. The carrier announced in September that it had signed a deal with technology provider SpinVox …

The day before Palm Inc. delivers its latest quarterly results-for the fiscal second quarter ending Nov. 30-a “key product” it missed delivering earlier in the holiday spending season has arrived …

Advertising.com co-founder John Ferber has joined the ad-subsidized content playground.Ferber unveiled Cellware.com, a site that hopes to offer both user-generated content and professionally produced offerings from partners including 4INFO, Arphiola …

Qualcomm Inc. apparently recognizes that mobile consumers remain a chatty lot. And with voice still the dominant mobile use, the San Diego chip company has purchased privately held SoftMax Inc. …

Atrium Wireless Partners L.L.C. announced it acquired the wireless assets of GTC Telecom Corp. in a deal that closed early last month. Terms of the sale were not disclosed.Atrium Wireless …

Turin Networks Inc. plans to acquire Carrier Access Corp. for around $92.7 million in cash. Under terms of the deal, stockholders will receive $2.60 for each outstanding share of Carrier …

GW Equity said it sold South Texas Cellular Inc. to Capstar Wireless Services Inc. for an undisclosed sum. South Texas Cellular, a cellular tower maintenance and infrastructure company, maintains more …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. …

Editor’s Note: In this monthly feature, RCR Wireless News talks to retail managers across the country to get a first-hand view of what’s hot in wireless. Verizon Wireless’ new Evolution …

Wireless tracking of vehicles and people will generate about $4.9 billion in revenues in Western Europe by 2012, according to a new report from Juniper Research.The firm said the growth …

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands-There’s always a first shot at everything; first to the moon, first to summit Mount Everest, first to end homelessness. It may not be as altruistic as the …

SPRINT NEXTEL CORP. PLANS to turn on three WiMAX test markets within the next two weeks, meeting its self-imposed deadline to roll out the technology by the end of this …

A new report from ABI Research says carriers need to keep long-term considerations in mind when formulating their femtocell strategies, because femtocell solutions probably won’t generate profits until three or …

What a perfectly odd year it has been. Indeed, I think 2007 will go down as a year filled with surprises in the wireless space.A few of the major twists …

Love him or hate him-there’s probably little middle ground-you’ve got to feel for Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin these days. The head of the Republican-led FCC is under increasing …

That sucking sound you hear is the wireless industry on the mat, gasping for air.Enter the dragon, Steve Jobs, RCR Wireless News’ Person of the Year.In the United States alone, …

Consumers ranked wireless carriers as providing a less useful and enjoyable customer experience than retailers and credit-card companies, but better than TV service providers and medical insurance providers, according to …

Further proof that numbers are fun: According to the National Center for Health Statistics, cellphone-only users are Hispanic males between 25 and 29 years old, live with people they are …

Leap Wireless International Inc. added fewer than 40,000 net new subscribers during the third quarter and its churn rate soared, while the flat-rate carrier’s financial losses for the quarter expanded …