Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. announced it will provide handsets to MetroPCS Communications Inc., making it the second Chinese handset vendor this month to do so.Huawei's M318 handset, a clamshell model, is the first in what is expected to be an array of its devices...
Read all about it!A Swedish newspaper is offering its daily edition via mobile phone. Dagens Nyheter subscribers can purchase a Nokia Corp. 6120 phone through the newspaper's Web site, sign up for a $31-per-month service plan and then surf the paper's Web site via...
Editor's Note: The following are the stories that had the biggest impact on the wireless industry in 2007, as chosen by the RCR Wireless News editorial staff.1. Jan. 15 issueApple Inc. introduces the iPhone.2. Feb. 19 issueAT&T Mobility announces plans to use Qualcomm Inc.'s...
America has fallen in love with text messaging. More than 28.8 billion text messages are sent per month, according to figures from CTIA. And nearly everyone knows someone who knows someone who sends 15,000 texts a month. (Usually that someone is a teenage girl).Obviously...
The Federal Communications Commission should be a big hit again in 2008, provoking lots of colorfully caustic cacophony rivaling only that gushing from the presidential campaign and the deepening fallout of the mortgage-credit crisis.It will be not so much what the Republican-controlled FCC does...
The pieces continue to fall in and out of place in the ever-evolving wireless world, but it now appears the many changes - from the subtle to the spectacular emergence of Apple Inc.'s iPhone, Google Inc. and open access - have unwittingly joined in...
Many of the sexiest offerings in mobile content will continue to struggle to take flight in 2008. Wireless video will slowly gain steam in the United States, thanks largely to Qualcomm Inc.'s MediaFLO service, but carriers still must find the best ways to monetize...
While we won't know for a couple of weeks how specific wireless carriers did during the holiday season, it is safe to assume as a whole they did pretty well. It was rare to pass a carrier-branded wireless store and not see hordes of...
The WiMAX Forum has opened its first, and lead, lab to formally test and evaluate mobile WiMAX products for certification. With the lab now open for submissions, certified mobile WiMAX products are projected to hit the commercial market in the coming months."This is a...
In the Dec. 17 issue of the newspaper in a speculation piece on why Clearwire stock was increasing (page 20), it should have been noted that Raymond James and Associates did not think American Tower was a likely buyer of Clearwire.
In the Dec. 17 issue of RCR Wireless News, Leap Wireless International Inc.'s new rate plans were incorrectly characterized in a page 7 story. The plans are postpaid rate plans.
The ultra-wideband silicon market began to take off in 2007, despite regulatory hurdles that persist worldwide, according to In-Stat.The firm noted the first UWB-enabled notebook computers shipped this year from several major manufacturers. PC peripherals are expected to hit the market next year, said...
A new report from Visant Strategies predicts the next generation of WiMAX devices will spur both fixed and mobile growth for the 802.16 industry.The report said WiMAX vendors are promoting Wave 2 device advantages, which include multiple-in/multiple-out antenna technology and interoperability, before certification of...
More than 100 million recycled handsets are expected to be shipped in 2012, generating more than $3 billion in revenue, according to a study from ABI Research.Demand for recycled handsets is being driven by shorter handset replacement periods, growing demand for low-cost handsets in...
Wireless tracking of vehicles and people will generate about $4.9 billion in revenues in Western Europe by 2012, according to a new report from Juniper Research.The firm said the growth will be driven by the need to improve business efficiency as well as concerns...
It appears wireless Web surfers are more interested in accessing news and mobile content than finding the nearest pizza parlor.AOL last week unveiled the most common searches from its wireless portal, revealing some surprisingly popular search terms. While MySpace (No. 2) and games (No....
A new report from ABI Research says carriers need to keep long-term considerations in mind when formulating their femtocell strategies, because femtocell solutions probably won't generate profits until three or more years after services are launched."Our studies found that the margins carriers would expect...
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands-Nokia Corp.'s strategy hasn't wavered much in the past few years and the message for 2008 is essentially more of the same. While at one end of the spectrum, the Finnish company is eyeing more feature-rich devices and applications that connect peoples'...
Further proof that numbers are fun: According to the National Center for Health Statistics, cellphone-only users are Hispanic males between 25 and 29 years old, live with people they are not related to in a rented house under the poverty line somewhere in the...
Consumers ranked wireless carriers as providing a less useful and enjoyable customer experience than retailers and credit-card companies, but better than TV service providers and medical insurance providers, according to a recent survey of nearly 5,000 consumers by Forrester Research.Among companies in nine industries,...
That sucking sound you hear is the wireless industry on the mat, gasping for air.Enter the dragon, Steve Jobs, RCR Wireless News' Person of the Year.In the United States alone, in six months, Apple Inc. sold more than 1.4 million iPhones, which rapidly gained...
Love him or hate him-there's probably little middle ground-you've got to feel for Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin these days. The head of the Republican-led FCC is under increasing fire from congressional Democrats over mounting complaints about a breakdown in agency procedures. Moreover,...
What a perfectly odd year it has been. Indeed, I think 2007 will go down as a year filled with surprises in the wireless space.A few of the major twists and turns this year:● A cellphone with a closed operating system, running on a...
Mountain highTrango Systems Inc. said it is supplying the Mount Washington Observatory with highspeed fixed wireless point-to-point wireless backhaul and point-to-multipoint broadband access equipment. Mount Washington Observatory is a scientific weather research station based in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Mount Washington is...
