AT&T went on a spectrum buying spree and investors went on an Apple selling spree. Verizon Wireless and AT&T both reported healthy gains in postpaid subscribers and both said that …
Martha DeGrasse
Martha DeGrasse
Martha DeGrasse is the publisher of Network Builder Reports (nbreports.com). At RCR, Martha authored more than 20 in-depth feature reports and more than 2,400 news articles. She also created the Mobile Minute and the 5 Things to Know Today series. Prior to joining RCR Wireless News, Martha produced business and technology news for CNN and Dow Jones in New York and managed the online editorial group at Hoover’s Online before taking a number of years off to be at home when her children were young. Martha is the board president of Austin's Trinity Center and is a member of the Women's Wireless Leadership Forum.
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AT&T’s fourth quarter results were marked by record smartphone sales, a healthy increase in average revenue per wireless subscriber, and a quarterly loss due primarily to non-cash losses caused by …
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Nokia Corporation (NOK) reported its first quarterly profit in over a year today, earning $270 million on revenue of $10.7 billion. The numbers were better than Wall Street had expected, …
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Record sales of iPhones and iPads were not enough to renew Wall Street’s appetite for Apple. The stock fell 10% in after hours trading following the company’s fiscal first quarter …
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Editor’s Note: With 2013 now upon us, RCR Wireless News has gathered predictions from leading industry analysts and executives on what they expect to see in the new year. Two …
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Cisco (CSCO) is adding network intelligence to its mobile platform with the $475 million acquisition of Israel’s Intucell. Intucell makes self-optimizing network (SON) software that helps operators manage traffic and …
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A decade after the Skype launched its first public beta, the ability to connect video calls as readily as voice calls is becoming table stakes for service providers who are …
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NRF 2013 certainly lived up to its “The BIG Show” billing and delivered an extremely well attended tradeshow by both retail technology vendors and investors. From mobile payments and POS …
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Dish Networks (DISH) plans to close 300 more Blockbuster stores and could lay off as many as 3,000 people, according to the Wall Street Journal. The satellite tv service provider …
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Huawei says profits surged 33% in 2012, as the company focused on expense control, customer service and management transformation. For all of 2012, Huawei earned 15.4 billion CNY ($2.5 billion) …
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Verizon Communications (VZ) reported lower-than-expected earnings as a record number of new wireless customers led to higher subsidies paid to smartphone makers like Apple (AAPL). Verizon said it sold 6.2 …
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The adoption of mobile devices is seeing phenomenal growth. By some estimates, there are approximately seven billion mobile devices, one for every man, woman and child on Earth, and that …
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Reports that Apple has cut orders for iPhone 5 and iPad components have investors on edge as they wait for the Cupertino company’s fourth quarter earnings release, due late Wednesday. …
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Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10.1 is distinguished from the iPad by two key features: a smart stylus and a split screen app that enables users to multitask without opening and closing …
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While AT&T customers are celebrating more cellular access to FaceTime, Imagination Technologies is marketing a competing video service to carriers — video chat via Facebook. The company says its carrier …
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Nokia (NOK) detailed today what it says will be the last of the 10,000 job cuts announced last June. The latest cuts affect 300 workers in the company’s IT division. …
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Nvidia is calling its Tegra 4 chipset the world’s fastest mobile processor, and the company was excited enough by the product to build a device to show it off. Project …
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With two weeks to go until the launch of BlackBerry 10, Research-in-Motion (RIMM) says Visa has approved its mobile payments solution. RIM’s solution securely manages credit card information stored on …
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Samsung says its flagship Galaxy S III smartphone has been selling at rate of 200,000 a day, pushing sales of the company’s Galaxy line of smartphones past the 100 million …
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China’s ZTE (0763.HK) was the world’s No. 4 smartphone vendor in the third quarter, behind Samsung, Apple and Research In Motion. The company’s entry-level smartphones have helped it to overtake …
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Despite its $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility, Google turned to LG to manufacture its Nexus 4 smartphone. While LG workers in Asia are undoubtedly scrambling to get the phones …
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Apple shares are lower today on concerns that demand for the iPhone 5 may be slackening. Japan’s Nikkei news service and The Wall Street Journal both report that Apple has …
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Voice-over-LTE uses spectrum more efficiently than does 3G, so the nation’s largest carriers are working hard to roll out VoLTE in order to get more use from their spectrum. Chipmakers …
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Smart, high-defintion TVs were a huge trend at CES, and with LG’s 84-inch ultra-HD offering and others coming to the US in time for the Superbowl, we can all expect …
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Near field communications has been around for a while, but at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show it was clear that the technology has made it out of the technical journals …