Monthly Archives: August, 2010
Analyst Angle: Data traffic growth drives the content delivery platform (CDP) market: As mobile data traffic explodes, operators will increasingly turn to CDPs to...
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The torch has been passed: Mobile data traffic now surpasses voice and it will continue to grow indefinitely. As a consequence, operators need to...
Appeals court sides with DEs, but keeps auction results intact
An appeals court has ruled that some 2006 rules on designated-entity participation in spectrum auctions are invalid, although the court said too much damage...
Consumers Union calls for more mobile payments protections
While technology and its stakeholders are often blamed for holding back on the roll out of new major platforms like mobile payments, unmitigated problems...
Analyst Angle: Why the Intel-McAfee deal could be important for mobile
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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...
Wireless newcomers big and small join battle for mobile customer
Editor's Note: This article is an excerpt from RCR Wireless News' May Special Edition, “Enabling the Mobile Revolution: Mobile Chips, Devices and Accessories.” The...
Retail channels follow device’s evolution of more choices, more complexity
Editor's Note: This article is an excerpt from RCR Wireless News' May Special Edition, “Enabling the Mobile Revolution: Mobile Chips, Devices and Accessories.” The...
Retail channels follow device's evolution of more choices, more complexity
Editor's Note: This article is an excerpt from RCR Wireless News' May Special Edition, “Enabling the Mobile Revolution: Mobile Chips, Devices and Accessories.” The...
Mobile pressures U.K. broadband pricing
Broadband customers in the United Kingdom have seen prices for fixed services drop over the past six months due to increased competition from mobile...
Cal EMA, Sprint pilot wireless emergency alert system
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The California Emergency Management Agency and Sprint (S) announced they will begin a pilot of a text- and wireless-based emergency alert system.Together, Cal EMA...
Capital Markets: Nokia buys Motally; RIM picks up Cellmania; and more
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Nokia said it signed an agreement to purchase Motally Inc., which provides a mobile analytics service that is designed to help developers and publishers...
Analyst Angle: 3G comes to China … and no one cares
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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...
xG seeks partners to demo mobile broadband at 900 MHz
With 10 years and $100 million in research and development behind it, xG Technology Inc. is hoping the world is ready for its cognitive...
Gov'ts, industry must balance economic needs, security concerns
Recent actions by Middle East and Asian governments, as well as eight U.S. senators, that question whether telecom equipment manufacturers could undermine national security...
WiMAX service: The same, but different
Editor’s Note: This article is an excerpt from RCR Wireless News’ May Special Edition, “Enabling the Mobile Revolution: Mobile Chips, Devices and Accessories.” The...
Regulations remain stiff challenge for mobile industry
Editor's Note: This article is an excerpt from RCR Wireless News' May Special Edition, “Enabling the Mobile Revolution: Mobile Chips, Devices and Accessories.” The...
Editorial Webinar: Carriers Climb the Vertical Ladder
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Vertical markets present wireless carriers with a host of new opportunities and challenges. Just because wireless technology and enterprise infrastructure should work together doesn't...
UPDATED: Virgin Mobile USA set to increase mobile broadband pricing pressure
Sprint Nextel Corp.'s (S) Virgin Mobile USA brand affirmed plans to update its mobile broadband service that will include an unlimited, no-contract offering for...
Contracts: ADC deploys DAS in Denmark; NSN supplies TATA; and more
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ADC TelecomDenmark: With engineering company Ramboll to deploy its InterReach Fusion distributed antenna system at its new headquarters in Orestad to provide multi-operator mobile...
Reality Check: Resuscitating wireless service
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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...
VZW retailer to hire hundreds as part of $6M expansion
Cellular Sales, an authorized Verizon Wireless retailer, said it is expanding into Florida and Tennessee over the next four months, including opening a call...
Viacom's digital guru leaves for News Corp.'s digital news venture
Greg Clayman, the executive in charge of digital distribution at Viacom Inc. (VIA), has been lured away to run business operations at News Corp.'s...
Verizon Wireless completes Centennial asset purchase
Verizon Wireless said it has completed the purchase of former Centennial Communications Corp. assets from AT&T Mobility covering portions of Louisiana and Mississippi.The $235...
Reader Forum: As mobile services evolve, so does backhaul service verification
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Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum...
Movers and Shakers: Barcoding taps Santini; Velti hires Rau, Arthurs
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Barcoding Inc. said it hired Joe Santini as director of professional services, where he will lead development of the company’s new professional services division....
Reader Forum: It's all about the customer experience
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Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum...