The telecommunications segment continues to lose jobs, declining 2,300 from May to June, and a whopping 47,100 jobs from June 2009 to June 2010. Employment in the wireless subsector was …
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 80-page special edition is available here.The …
Synchronoss Technologies Inc. has acquired FusionOne Inc. for $40 million in order to expand its business offerings for wireless service providers. Synchronoss provides transaction management software, including order provisioning and …
CTIA came out swinging in its response to the Federal Communications Commission’s public notice on how U.S. wireless consumers can avoid experiencing “bill shock,” a term the trade group says …
SAN DIEGO–Verizon Wireless is changing how it manages its BREW services in order to spur higher takeup rates from BREW customers and to encourage more developers to write applications for …
SAN DIEGO – During a press conference with reporters at Qualcomm Inc.’s Uplinq developer’s conference, CEO Paul Jacobs said Qualcomm’s relationship to its subsidiary, FLO TV, likely will change in …
SAN DIEGO – Qualcomm Inc. has paid $3 billion to developers using its BREW platform, CEO Paul Jacobs told a crowd of about 3,000 during yesterday’s keynote speech at the …
Gemalto (GTO) is buying module maker Cinterion Wireless Modules GmbH for $198.7 million, adding to its machine-to-machine business strategy by bringing the world’s leading M2M module maker to the world’s …
Alcatel Lucent (ALU) continued its strategy of connecting operators, enterprises and developers, buying ProgrammableWeb, a repository for more than 2,000 application programming interfaces, for an undisclosed sum.The acquisition will give …
President Barak Obama issued a memorandum to free up 500 megahertz of spectrum in the next 10 years, directing the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and the Federal Communications Commission …
Financial services company Societe Generale is using a mobile banking solution from Obopay to offer banking services in Senegal. The technology-agnostic solution between Societe Generale, one of the top bankers …
Spectrum Bridge Inc. said it is working with a California utility to use white-spaces technology to deploy a smart-grid network in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and offer wireless broadband service …
While the Femto Forum just released a white paper touting how femtocells can take traffic off the macrocellular network, AT&T Mobility’s femtocell traffic still counts toward its total data usage …
Dr. John Saw talks about Clearwire’s buildout efforts, its backhaul initiatives and the interesting ways people are using WiMAX service.
WiMAX operator Clearwire Corp. said it plans to start offering laptops with embedded modems at Best Buy locations and online at bestbuy.com. The devices, which include chips from Intel Corp., …
Operators are building golden pipes to connect users, devices and applications. Tang Xinhong, president of the Huawei WiMAX and CDMA product line, discusses how carriers can use technology to lower …
The Federal Communications Commission is looking to free up 90 megahertz of Mobile Satellite Services spectrum for commercial terrestrial wireless opportunities. The agency expects to start a proceeding in July …
Verizon Wireless said it is hiring 200 customer care and technical support representiatives at its Henrietta, N.Y., call center to handle local and nationwide customer service inquiries.“As our customer base …
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 …
FCC Commissioner Michael Copps – who has served on the Federal Communications Commission since 2001 – took today’s FCC meeting on developing a framework for broadband regulation to vindicate himself …
The city of San Francisco is going to require cellphone retailers to post Specific Absorption Rates on the phones they sell in stores – a move that trade association CTIA …
Pre-orders for Apple Inc.’s iPhone 4 have been temporarily suspended, according to AT&T Mobility’s website. It appears that demand for the device once again is outpacing supply. Glitches also happened …
T-Mobile USA Inc. is hoping to cash in on Fathers’ Day gift-buying by offering any of its 30 handsets free to customers who sign up for a family plan. The …
Wi-Fi in New York City is gaining a lot of attention these days. Following an announcement late last month that AT&T Mobility would roll out free Wi-Fi in Times Square …
India’s Broadband Wireless Auction ended after 117 rounds, raking in nearly $5.5 billion for the government. Infotel Broadband Services Ltd. was the big winner, paying $2.74 billion for licenses in …
