Yearly Archives: 2007

Financial ratings wrap-up: MetroPCS, Motorola, Aruba Networks and more

The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier --R.W. Baird adjusted its...

Venture capital financing wrap-up: D2C Games, Diversinet and NeoMedia

The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included...

Infrastructure awards wrap-up: Alvarion, Ericsson, ZTE and more

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...

AT&T drops ‘fewest dropped calls’ ad claim: Carrier to rely on ‘more bars in more places’ instead

Um, you know that fewest-dropped-calls claim? Never mind.After spending a big chunk of its massive $1 billion budget bludgeoning the American public with the...

Google digging deeper into mobile payments

Google Inc. is hoping to patent a text-based system for mobile payments.The Internet giant filed an application with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office...

AT&T Mobility gives parents greater control over kids cellphone usage

AT&T Mobility has joined the ranks of wireless companies offering parents control over their children's wireless usage. The operator today introduced a Web-based...

U.K. operators launch PayForIt

Carriers in the United Kingdom are hoping to give mobile transactions a boost with a new, standardized payment scheme for consumer purchases. PayForIt, which...

Social Marketing and Adding Mobile to the Mix

Editor's Note: Welcome to Reality Check, a feature for RCR Wireless News' new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. We've gathered a group...

S.E. exec steps down

Corporate-speak is designed to be opaque, so when Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications issued a release today stating that President Miles Flint was stepping down...

Spreading the word

Telecom carriers traditionally have been among the nation's biggest advertisers. Through the years, those advertisements have educated us about rate plans, weekend calling, in-network...

FCC shoots down M2Z, explores 2155-2175 MHz options

The Federal Communications Commission officially dismissed wireless broadband applications of M2Z Networks Inc. and others, concluding the public interest would be best served by...

Margins Check: NBC on iTunes, Internet radio, bendable batteries and more

Editor's Note: Welcome to On the Margins, a feature for RCR Wireless News' new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week, the...

REVIEW: MusicID service rings up most song titles

Editor's Note: Welcome to Yay or Nay, a feature for RCR Wireless New' new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week we'll...

MetroPCS proposes $5.1B merger with Leap

MetroPCS Communications Inc. has proposed a merger with its flat-rate rival Leap Wireless International Inc.Metro said it sent Leap a letter detailing its offer,...

Calling all seniors: Verizon Wireless has a phone and a plan for you

Perhaps banking on a sense that only someone over 65 would know what a "coupe" is, Verizon Wireless launched a handset by that name...

Analyst Angle: MVNO Handset Strategy

Editor's Note: Welcome to our Monday feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the...

August infrastructure awards

The following contracts were announced in August:

Monday, Sept. 3, 2007

700 MHz rerun: Some want to put open access at 2155-2175 MHz

THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS Commission appeared poised to reject M2Z Networks Inc.'s plan to offer free nationwide broadband service on the 2155-2175 MHz band, a...

Nokia unveils portal to the world

Nokia Corp. is hoping to build a doorway directly to mobile consumers. Again.But whether carriers will tolerate the move is far from clear.The manufacturer-cum-mobile-media...

Muni Wi-Fi future up in the air

MUNICIPAL WI-FI TOOK SOME MAJOR HITS last week. Once considered by many cities and towns to be the roadmap to offer high-speed Internet access...

WiMAX IPR: Emerging battlefield or new playground?

THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM-promoted by the WiMAX Forum and confirmed to a degree by at least two independent market research firms-is that no one company...

iUproar: Going after ‘unlockers’ raises issues, possible backlash

By now you've probably read about the "teen whiz" who unlocked his Apple Inc. iPhone using software commands and a soldering iron. (George Hotz,...

Sony Ericsson revamps to try to overtake Samsung, maybe even Motorola: North America job cut signals new global PR strategy

After years of demurring on its marketshare ambitions, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P. has shifted from declarations of "profits first" to emphasize its "credible...

U.S. at center of LG’s global efforts

LG Electronics Co. has seen its rivals steal a march in recent quarters, dropping the South Korean vendor to the No. 5 slot globally,...
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