2009

Siano & PND Makers: TV chip maker, Siano, revealed that PND makers Mio, Garmin, Navigon and others have featured its MDTV chips in their latest products. Trango Systems & Multisource Telecoms: South Africa-based wireless solutions provider Multisource Telecoms has joined …

CTIA and the Consumer Electronics Association have proposed that TV broadcasters transition from high power/high tower antennas to a low-power antenna structure to free up between 100 megahertz and 180 megahertz of spectrum that could be used for mobile broadband …

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.Many operators have been glumly reflecting on a year of declining …

Research in Motion on Tuesday night confirmed a BlackBerry outage affecting some users in North and South America – the company’s second in several days. The problems do not appear to affect calling or text messaging, but users are not …

Globalstar Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary, Spot L.L.C., have acquired substantially all of the assets of Axonn L.L.C., which makes satellite GPS asset-tracking and messaging products including Globalstar’s Spot Satellite GPS Messenger for consumers, and the AXTracker and Smartone …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.We are nearing the finish line on the year, and wishes for tidings …

For all that it promises to change in our daily lives, wireless technology still comes up short far too often. We live in a world that’s both fascinating and discouraging. Just think, if we own the right car and the …

Verizon Wireless said part of the reason its early-termination fees are more expensive for advanced devices is because the difference between what it pays manufacturers vs. what it sells devices for is twice as large for advanced handsets vs. other …

Omnilink – Suzanne Henderson has been named VP of Engineering. Henderson most recently acted as VP of Engineering for TerraGo Technologies. Genband – Patrick Dolan has been appointed Senior VP of Sales over Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. …

Verizon Wireless said it plans to add between 150 and 200 customer service representative jobs to its call center in Mankato, Minn., during the next 12 to 15 months. The carrier also named Joseph Hall director of customer service for …

IP infrastructure solutions provider Genband Inc. named Jeffrey Kupp as CFO, where he will be responsible for accounting, finance and investor relations. Kupp joins Genband from Microtune where he served as CFO for the past four years. Kupp replaces Jan …

Imagine your business with no telephones on the desk top. No large PBX to maintain if you have digital phones, no PBX configuration changes due to office moves. If you have Voice over Internet Protocol, the switches in the closets …

BendBroadband, a family-owned cable operator in Central Oregon, turned on the nation’s first HSPA+ network to bring wireless Internet services to the region using AWS spectrum. Going forward, the operator plans to deploy LTE technology on its 700 MHz spectrum.“We …

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Shares of Research In Motion Ltd. jumped Friday morning as investors cheered the company’s third fiscal quarter results and forecast – both of which soundly beat Wall Street’s estimates.

Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs …

Two wireless projects are included in the first grants of broadband stimulus funds, according to a White House report released today. The first of the awards mostly concentrate on shoring up the “middle mile,” including $33 million for a middle …

Yahoo!’s Mobile Video StrategyYahoo! is a global leader in web news and online content, and video is playing an ever increasing role in their product mix. Yahoo!’s online video experience covers a multitude of topics from fast breaking news to …

The Federal Communications Commission offered a preview of some aspects it is developing for its National Broadband Plan, including rules that bring more spectrum to the marketplace more quickly and rules that make it easier to build infrastructure. The complete …

Cellular Specialties Inc. has designed a “rail repeater” that is designed to attach to trains and subways to better enable wireless communications for travelers on those vehicles.The company said its solution is being deployed by a top carrier but couldn’t …

Mobile Social Network Mozat Makes Waves In Asia, Raises Funding From: Tech CrunchMozat, the mobile social networking platform formerly known as Morange, is making strides in Asia and the Middle East. The eponymous company behind the app has just announced …

Europe: Eurotunnel has chosen Alcatel-Lucent to update the communications infrastructure in the Channel Tunnel using its GSM-R solution. The equipment will be functional in 2012, in time for the Olympics in London. China: China Unicom has selected Huawei’s Femtocell solution. …

Allied Wireless Communications Corp., the carrier that is buying some former Alltel wireless assets, said it is planning to locate its company headquarters in Little Rock, Ark., and hire between 200 and 250 employees, most of which will be highly …

A public debate between CTIA and Public Knowledge over the impacts of imposing net neutrality rules on wireless carriers yesterday highlighted the fine line regulators will face in imposing just enough regulation and too much regulation as they try to …

Advances and declines for the RCR Wireless Stock Index were pretty much evenly split during the past week. Significant gainers were Clearwire, Leap and MetroPCS. The significant losers this past week were all micro cap stocks, such as Comarco, Fortune …

Arden Media Company today announced the winners of the inaugural RCR Wireless Ecosystem Awards, which honor the top achievements submitted in 10 broad segments of the wireless, telecom, media and IT market that comprise the “RCR Wireless Ecosystem.” The awards …