To the Editor,Regarding your opinion that fixing public safety requires more than band-aids. There are more fundamental questions to answer. Before you spend my money on a federal mandate, tell me what you are going to spend it for. More 20-year-old technology? More proprietary...
BARCELONA, Spain-The show is in Spain, but last week's 3GSM World Congress was all about emerging markets in Africa, Asia and South America.After rising by an average of 25 percent for the last three years, global handset growth will slow to a 13-percent clip...
The cellular industry urged the Federal Communications Commission to delay action on a Justice Department plan that would keep wireless subscribers in the dark for days or weeks after the theft of phone records, saying the plan clashes with state laws."The proposal, if adopted...
The debate over net neutrality has moved full force into the wireless space.A new paper by Columbia University law professor Timothy Wu claims mobile-phone carriers' iron-clad control of networks is retarding innovation and hurting consumers. "The wireless industry, over the last decade, has succeeded...
As the flurry of mobile virtual network operators that launched in 2006 start to settle in, some are proclaiming customer gains with stand-alone business models-but MVNOs are also taking alternate tracks to promote their brands and content. Both Helio L.L.C. and Amp'd Mobile reported...
The ripples are still making their way across the lake in the wake of Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s surprise announcement that it will offer mobile broadcast TV through Qualcomm Inc.'s MediaFLO USA Inc. network. The nation's largest wireless carrier somewhat stole the thunder from its...
BARCELONA, Spain-While Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s announcement last week that it planned to use Qualcomm Inc.'s MediaFLO network to launch a mobile television service later this year cemented the technology as the de facto leader of streaming TV in the States, the company likely will...
Ron Garriques, an eight-year Motorola Inc. veteran who rose to lead the company's mobile device division, itself responsible for the company's resurgent fortunes via the Razr handset, resigned from Motorola to join Dell Inc.Dell has been searching for management solutions to its own resurgence,...
c In the article "One-stop ad shops" in the Jan. 29 issue of RCR Wireless News, The Hyperfactory should have been named as having Proctor & Gamble, Adidas, Coca-Cola and Nike as its clients. Millennial has not disclosed any customer deals.c The chart titled...
The motion-picture industry's vision for the mobile screen is coming into clearer focus. The Sundance Film Festival Global Short Film Project and the Mobile Bollywood Initiative both released their first short, made-for-mobile films in conjunction with the GSM Association (GSMA) at last week's 3GSM...
The search for hotties never ends.Hot wireless markets, that is, with potential growth in first-time subscribers and prospects for high volumes of relatively low-cost handset sales, market share and, possibly, profits.A couple of currently hot markets will remain in contention-think China and, particularly, India-and...
The Wi-Fi semiconductor market reached nearly 200 million units shipped last year, according to new figures from ABI Research.The industry has sold more than 500 million chipsets cumulatively. The study predicts the industry will surpass the 1 billion mark for cumulative chipset shipments by...
International operator Vodafone Group plc has agreed to acquire a majority interest in Indian mobile operator Hutchison Essar Ltd. for $11.1 billion-however, whether a major shareholder will cooperate is unclear.Vodafone said it had reached the multibillion-dollar deal to acquire companies that control a 67-percent...
Editor's Note: In this monthly feature, RCR Wireless News talks to retail managers across the country to get a first-hand view of what's hot in wireless.While northeastern Ohio digs out from a mountain of lake-effect snow, Heather Griffiths, district manager for northern Ohio/Cleveland East...
At the 3GSM World Congress, as at other major industry confabs, there are gadgets galore. And then there are the market-based strategies and financial plans behind them. Attempting to translate one into the other-reading the gadgets' features for clues to a vendor's strategies or...
Dobson Communications Corp. reported solid results for the final period of 2006, growing its subscriber base and increasing its average revenue per user. Dobson ended the year with an ARPU of $49.92-up $3.82 year-over-year. The data portion of Dobson's ARPU also increased, jumping from...
Bring on the cast from Foster's Home for Imaginary FriendsCartoon Network New Media announced the development of CallToons, a mobile application that allows cellphone users to select their favorite Cartoon Network or Adult Swim character to essentially replace the general theme of their device.CallToons,...
WHILE MUCH OF THE ATTENTION LAST WEEK AT THE 3GSM WORLD CONGRESS TRADE SHOW IN BARCELONA, SPAIN, WAS SPENT ON MOBILE BROADCAST TV PROVIDER MEDIAFLO AND THE FUTURE OF ITS U.S. DVB-H COUNTERPARTS, HIWIRE AND MODEO, PLENTY OF OTHER COMPANIES ARE CLAMORING FOR THEIR...
Hedge*hog*ing v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube.--Evidently, New Yorkers aren't confident that their citizens have been trained to look both ways before crossing the street. (Isn't teaching that to your children a cardinal...
Ron Garriques, an eight-year Motorola Inc. veteran who rose to lead the company's mobile device division, itself responsible for the company's resurgent fortunes via the Razr handset, resigned from Motorola to join Dell Inc.Dell has been searching for management solutions to its own resurgence,...
The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available. Cellular Austria: Mobilkom Austria Group chose Alcatel-Lucent to...
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. touted a handful of high- to mid-tier handsets at the outset of the 3GSM World Congress and duly gained attention for its technical prowess. Tucked away on the vendor's 3GSM-dedicated Web site was more: four tri-band (GSM/GPRS/EDGE, 900/1800/1900 MHz) handsets...
Cox Communications has launched converged services in two markets in partnership with Sprint Nextel Corp., offering consumers in Arizona and San Diego a bundle that includes wireless service and mobile access to some cable content.Sprint Nextel has introduced similar services in Boston and Portland,...
Chinese wireless vendor Linktone Ltd. said it plans to make a competing offer for U.K. mobile content company MonsterMob Group Plc.Spain's LaNetro Zed has already made a bid to buy a majority stake in the company. MonsterMob shareholders are expected to decide on the...
