Editor's Note: Following are the most-read stories from RCRNews.com this year. They have been edited to fit in paper format.1. Vodafone records $41B loss, reworks strategic plansMay 30Vodafone Group plc posted a massive $41.1 billion loss for 2005, mainly from impairment charges over assets...
WiMAX set-top box maker Alvarion Ltd. added Wi-Fi functionality to its BreezeMAX product line to support carrier interest in offering bandwidth-intensive mobile applications through broadband connectivity powered by both Wi-Fi and WiMAX network access technologies.The company said its BreezeMAX W12 and BreezeACCESS W12 provide...
Research In Motion Ltd. said that new product launches helped fill its sails as the company reported robust revenue and earnings in its fiscal third quarter, despite an ongoing, internal review of its stock option grants that may lead to extensive restatements of past...
As 2006 draws to a close and we take stock of all the changes that have happened in the wireless industry, we can't help but wonder how things will look a year from now. So here are some predictions for the coming year. We...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission proposed to create a nationwide broadband wireless network at 700 MHz for first responders, but the public-safety community said the initiative does not obviate the need for additional spectrum.The focus on public-safety communications was heightened after the Sept. 11, 2001,...
Brightpoint Inc. will shell out $88 million in cash to purchase a major piece of crippled competitor CellStar Corp.The Plainfield, Ind.-based logistics and distribution giant announced plans to buy CellStar's 500-employee U.S. operations, including its Miami headquarters, and the bulk of its Latin American...
The four national wireless carriers might be in near lock-step when it comes to voice plans, but each take distinctly different tacks when putting together messaging strategies. However, the various flavors of messaging packages-based on in-network, type of message or number of message-may be...
Trying to please everyone is a good gambit when launching a handset business with global ambitions. Somewhere along the way, however, one has to shift gears.Managing sustainable growth and profitability in the handset market can demand investment in original designs, support for a manageable...
There's a fair amount of chatter in the wireless industry about a developing technology that promises to add capacity to cellular networks wherever needed. This new technology is referred to as femtocells and one day could come to life as small base stations for...
Editor's Note: Following are the most-read stories from RCRNews.com this year. They have been edited to fit in paper format.1. Vodafone records $41B loss, reworks strategic plansMay 30Vodafone Group plc posted a massive $41.1 billion loss for 2005, mainly from impairment charges over assets...
Time was when the wireless industry's major, marketshaping impact in the telecom sphere was defined by the number of mobile phones that became substitutes for landline telephones, which historically consumers have relied on for day-to-day communications.Just as Ma Bell back in the day grossly...
So it was that FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell last Monday delivered his lyrical oratory about why he would continue to forbear from deliberations of the $79 billion AT&T-BellSouth telecom deal. Democrats on Capitol Hill hailed McDowell, a Republican, for maintaining his integrity amid the...
WASHINGTON-A bipartisan group of House lawmakers urged the Federal Communications Commission to act on SouthernLINC Wireless' two-year-old request for eligibility to draw on universal service funds to serve rural areas in several Southeast states of its territory, including those the iDEN carrier managed to...
South Korea is taking the problem of teenagers driving up household mobile-phone bills seriously. Officials said the country will introduce new laws aimed at controlling teenagers' use of mobile phones. Part of the regulations call for teenagers to have a separate contract, and families...
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.-Businesses are finally implementing wireless data application use on a widespread basis, according to a new report by researchers at Scottsdale, Ariz.-based In-Stat.According to the market research firm, the number of business users having at least one data application in the field has...
Canadian consumers soon will have the flexibility granted to American wireless customers late in 2003: the ability to take a phone number with them if they switch mobile service providers.Canada's wireless number portability option will go into effect March 14. Customers will be able...
Wirefly, the online retailer, is offering mobile handsets at prices that defy gravity.Tis the season, apparently, for free or low-cost offers on the market's leading handsets to erode the last bastions of resistance to signing up for wireless service.The Motorola Inc. Krzr, for instance,...
I'm at home right now, and I'm looking out the window and it's snowing like crazy.RCR Wireless News is based in Denver, so we occasionally have weather-related troubles. Our most memorable weather disaster happened a few years ago when it snowed three feet in...
Motorola Inc. is spending $39 million to expand its IPTV video processing and distribution capabilities with the purchase of Tut Systems Inc.The move gives Motorola the ability to supply service providers with the gear they need to deploy advanced video services over Internet Protocol,...
Opera Software ASA continued to gain momentum with a deal to embed its wireless browser on handsets from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.The developer said the South Korean manufacturer will use Opera Mobile, which formats Internet content for small screens by stripping out data-heavy graphics...
Cingular Wireless L.L.C. announced it has made good on its goal to have UMTS/HSDPA mobile broadband coverage in mostof the top 100 U.S. markets by the end of the year.Cingular said that it now offers UMTS/HSDPA coverage in more than 160 markets."We're delivering on...
Hello!And welcome to a special edition of our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. As 2006 draws to a close and we take stock of all the changes that have happened in the wireless industry, we can't help but wonder how things will look...
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 Thailand: Nokia Corp. said it won a $110...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier Lehman Brothers raised its estimates on Dobson Communications on the potential the company will seek strategic alternatives in advance of the upcoming 700 MHz...
