2011

A new fixed wireless access service from Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) is being targeted at the enterprise. If successful, Sprint 4G Enterprise WAN (wide area network) could replace traditional wired options by connecting businesses to the carrier’s multiprotocol label switching …

You can’t accuse LightSquared of not looking at its current glass of morass as half empty. With the possibility of network delays, or worse, hanging over its head, LightSquared continues to add customers to its planned wholesale network initiative announcing …

More than 2.5 billion wireless subscribers are expected to use mobile payment services by 2015, according to a new report from Juniper Research. Representing a 40% growth rate from 1.8 billion projected users this year, the firm said tickets for …

Editor’s Note: John Williams is a human resource consultant to RCR Wireless News and TelecomCareers who is blogging on HR matters that impact the wireless industry, including hiring and retaining employees as the economy improves. This week he attended the …

News last week that Congresswoman Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) was introducing a bill, dubbed the “Next Generation Wireless Disclosure Act,” that would require wireless carriers to provide more details on their “4G” networks, seemed almost too good to believe.

ALEXANDRIA, Va.—FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski wants to be known as the broadband chairman, and as such has been at the forefront of removing obstacles that prevent wireless broadband deployments, said Josh Gottheimer, senior counsel to the chairman during PCIA’s DAS …

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.One of the great things about summer, especially this year’s Midwest rainfest, is …

Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) introduced a network processor that improves performance four times above the fastest Internet Protocol networks available today. The company’s FP3 processor can handle 70,000 simultaneous high-definition video streams on a single chip, making it suited for fourth-generation networks …

Penn Olson | June 27, 2011 | Willis Wee Mobile advertising expenditure is rocketing around the world, but nowhere like it is in China. Citing eMarketer, Chinese Internet research firm iResearchproduced a graph showing rising mobile  spending in China. By 2015, the figure …

Market Intelligence Center | June 27, 2011 China Mobile Ltd (NYSE: CHL) closed Friday’s trading session at $47.03. In the past year, the stock has hit a 52-week low of $43.51 and 52-week high of $54.70. China Mobile (CHL) stock has …

Daily News & Analysis India | June 27, 2011 | Satish John Early this month, Huawei Technologies Co Ltd’s sprawling campus in Shenzhen was host to an unusual visitor from India: Mukesh Ambani. The chairman of Reliance Industries held secret confabulations …

There is no lack of headlines and stories that focus on that disparate group of organizations which we collectively refer to as the Mobile Internet ecosystem. End users, content providers, advertisers, developers, device vendors, mobile operators and of course, Internet …

Movial announced the appointment of Joakim Hedenstedt as Head of EMEA Sales and Marketing, Movial Creative Technologies (Movial CT). Mr. Hedenstedt is responsible for accelerating growth in Europe, the Middle East and Africa and will lead Movial CT’s sales and …

GUANGZHOU, China – China Telecom is revamping its enterprise-focused practice to better help those vertical-market customers conduct their business more efficiently, said Liang Zhiping, director of VIP Customer Department at China Telecom Group.Zhiping, speaking at the Global CDMA Operation and …

LightSquared’s ongoing GPS issues are now well known and seem to have tripped up the company’s plans to launch a wholesale nationwide LTE network.

The new CEO of Tekelec (TKLC) , Ron de Lange, took a few minutes to talk with RCR Wireless News concerning Tekelec’s new direction the company will take with de Lange at the helm. It’s safe to say that de …

As markets go from 2G to 3G, smartphones are driving the need for in-building coverage and capacity. The smartphone craze has hyper accelerated the whole notion of consumerization of IT, whereby people have become ever more reliant on their devices …

Huawei releases Honeycomb tablet Chinese vendor Huawei took the wraps off its mysterious HD MediaPad this week, giving CommunicAsia goers a hands on look at the 7-inch Android Honeycomb device, running on Qualcomm’s dual-core 1.2GHz Snapdragon processor. Stay tuned to …