The Mobile Marketing Association is working to make sure the world, indeed, is flat.The Denver-based nonprofit last week released its first set of global guidelines, tweaking its instructions for mobile Web advertisers and adding new rules for marketing campaigns centered on mobile messaging and...
Finally, the rapid collapse of an MVNO gets blamed on venture-capitalist firms placing unrealistic goals on those left managing the day-to-day operations. That's what happened in the case of recently bankrupt mobile virtual network operator Movida Communications Inc., APC Wireless CEO Paul Greene told...
Nextlink, a subsidiary of XO Holdings Inc., offers fixed wireless broadband service to carriers, businesses and government agencies for backhaul and Internet access. Yet, the company is different in the fact it offers service in the Local Multipoint Distribution Service (LMDS) band in frequencies...
The market for broadband services is a large space, one that's driven steady innovation, competition and various levels of service. While wireless carriers clamor to make technology roadmap choices for fourth-generation networks that will offer entirely mobile access, plenty of companies are finding success...
Does the world really need a wireless Web?It's a question that has come up repeatedly in the years following the introduction of WAP, the standard used to display Internet content on mobile phones. At the turn of the century, a number of companies invested...
Pesky Wall Street.No matter how well you perform, the stock market - understandably, because it reflects investors' view of future prospects - is all about "what's next"?Qualcomm Inc., riding a wave of global demand for W-CDMA-enabled handsets - and strong performances by Samsung Electronics...
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said the agency at next month's open meeting will consider rule changes to the 700 MHz D Block, which failed attract a bidder willing to pay at least $1.3 billion for the national commercial/public-safety wireless license and fomented...
To your health - with mobileMen's lifestyle magazine "Men's Health" has partnered with SnapTell, which provides image-recognition-based mobile marketing solutions, to create a fully interactive advertising magazine for the U.S. market. The magazine's July/August summer issue, which hits the newsstands June 24, will feature...
Wireless providers continue to push back against proposed reforms to the stressed universal service program for rural America, arguing that they are being penalized at a time when consumers increasingly demand the kind of mobility and broadband capabilities that wireless technology provides.The FCC is...
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.Regional wireless operator Cellular South in March launched an initiative to integrate its interactive online shopping experience with its...
AT&T Mobility continued its steady growth during the first quarter of the year, reporting customer additions on par with the previous year and gains in customer revenue that helped push the carrier's revenues up more than 17%.For the quarter, the industry's No. 1 carrier...
Apple Inc. posted impressive gains in revenue (43%) and profit (36%) in its fiscal second quarter, but analysts said the iPhone's sales momentum has stalled more than what can be attributed to the post-holiday quarter effect.Apple also delivered a forecast that fell below analysts'...
MOBILE CONSUMERS PROBABLY don't give voicemail a second thought. But a couple of startups are hoping to change that. Voicemail, like caller ID and long-distance calling, has become a standard inclusion in almost all wireless offerings, nearly as much a part of plans as...
WHILE THE DOMINANCE of AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless in the 700 MHz auction has renewed debate about whether a spectrum cap should be reinstituted, it appears concerns may have been overstated about the number of markets where the nation's two largest cellular operators...
Increasing customer interest and availability of W-CDMA and GSM handsets are pushing mobile location-based services from the realm of hype into the world of reality.A new report from ABI Research predicts LBS revenues will grow from $515 million last year to $13.3 billion worldwide...
The U.S. Supreme Court without comment declined to review a Tenth Circuit ruling that said the trustee of bankrupt Magnacom Wireless L.L.C. is not entitled to proceeds from the re-auction of the company's cancelled wireless licenses.Magnacom paid nearly $48 million for 13 F-Block personal...
The once-monolithic handset market is becoming a lot more interesting.As growth slows in developed markets, players with strong presence in emerging markets may see more dependable gains. But macro-economic uncertainty has analysts and handset vendors forecasting anywhere from 4% to 10% overall growth for...
Global GSM subscriber growth is expected to slow from 22% year-over-year in 2006 and 2007 to 14% in 2008 and 2009, according to a new forecast from ABI Research.The slowdown will mainly be due to increased migration to UMTS 3G technologies, which experienced 83%...
Mobile data card sales will quadruple between 2007 and 2011 to reach $2.9 billion, according to predictions from Infonetics Research.The report suggest mobile data cards could threaten the Wi-Fi hot spot market as HSDPA and EV-DO technologies become more available and affordable."The mobile data...
So what's up with Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin? He must have been pretty cranky when BusinessWeek interviewed him for a story published last week. Sarin, who admits Vodafone WAY overpaid for its 3G spectrum, sounded like he was dogging Verizon Wireless (of which Vodafone...
Public-interest groups reiterated their call for federal regulators to protect text-messaging rights, framing the debate as far-reaching in terms of the potential implications for free speech, disability access and competition in the wireless industry.Public Knowledge and other organizations want the Federal Communications Commission to...
For public safety, the political atmospherics have changed from what they were just a year ago when federal regulators understandably gave great weight to first responders' suggestions on how to write rules for a national commercial/public-safety license that would go to the bidder willing...
Mowser is dead. But forensics has yet to indicate whether the business's demise is a sign of an epidemic or simply a predictable casualty of the tumultuous wireless Web space.Russell Beattie, a former mobile developer for Yahoo Inc., launched Mowser just a year ago...
What about the shoe phone?Echoflex Solutions Inc. introduced a self-powered wireless key switch, which the company said can reduce the cost of powering unoccupied hotel rooms. The switch is activated by hotel key cards and generates its own power each time the card is...
