2012

Many retailers sold out of Google’s Nexus 7 tablet this weekend, while some customers who pre-ordered the device complained that their tablets hadn’t arrived yet. The only retailer we found that still seems to be shipping the tablet this week …

It looks like the iconic device will debut in white this fall, with a camera in the center of frame, facing front and back.

Sprint Nextel finally entered the LTE race with the launch this morning of commercial services across portions of Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City and San Antonio. Future launches will have to wait for later this year. The market plans were …

I will admit that I get little charge from mobile devices. At this point in the evolutionary timeline of devices targeting the wireless communication space, it seems that I am stuck in the time of Cro-Magnon Phone.

Editor’s Note: The RCR Wireless News Time Machine is a way to take advantage of our extensive history in covering the wireless space to fire up the DeLorean and take a trip back in time to re-visit some of the …

Samsung’s flagship LTE smartphone, the Galaxy S III, is making its way to two more U.S. carriers. Verizon Wireless and U.S. Cellular join Sprint Nextel, AT&T Mobility and T-Mobile USA in offering the 4.8-inch screened, Android 4.0 smartphone. T-Mobile USA …

While m-banking has not taken off in Brazil and other Latin American countries yet, in Haiti, Digicel’s mobile money service, named TchoTcho Mobile, and Voila’s T-Cash have reached 5 million transactions. The services are monitored and supported by Haiti Mobile …

While the domestic economy continues to struggle, a new report shows that the telecommunications space remains one of the biggest investors in attempting to boost the nation’s fortunes. The Progressive Policy Institute report, “Investment Heros: Who’s Betting on America’s Future?,” …

Russian telecommunications giant Mobile TeleSystems said it was one of four companies to have been allocated spectrum licenses designed for the rollout of LTE services across the country. MTS noted that The Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of …

Regional operator C Spire Wireless announced new data plans focused on customers in need of mobile broadband access when outside of a Wi-Fi hot spot. The cellular component of the “Choice” data plans include pricing based on days of use …

The ZTE Optik is one of the Android tablets that may bridge that gap between what parents will pay for and what teenagers want.

How much do you want your smartphone to know? As long as the information doesn’t leave the phone, are you OK with your sidekick device knowing where you are, what you’re doing, who you’re doing it with? Qualcomm, designer of …

Perhaps showing the strength of the tower segment, SBA Communications raised the yield of a senior notes offering by $150 million just hours after the initial plans were announced. The tower giant said its senior notes offering would now look …

While the National League was busy trouncing the American League last night, mobile and wireless companies were slugging it out between the innings.

In a move bolstering the enhanced influence of wireless, regional carrier C Spire Wireless recently introduced a new offering targeting the waning wireline market, a move that analysts expect to continue. Earlier this week, C Spire rolled out its Home …

We recently attended Capacity CEE 2012 in Prague, where regional wholesalers and their retail customers shared their perspectives on the market. There was, of course, a lot of fighting talk