When teardown firms managed to analyze the components of the iPhone, they found that Apple Inc. had taken the wireless handset industry's diversification strategy one step further.Where most handset vendors rely on one main source for certain key components-while cueing up a second source...
I'm finding it hard to understand the current leadership at the Federal Communications Commission. On one hand, over the past several years the FCC has basically rubber-stamped a handful of mega-acquisitions among wireless carriers, which resulted in the number of nationwide operators dwindling from...
MediaFLO USA Inc. and Verizon Wireless have teamed up with ESPN to launch a temporary channel on MediaFLO's mobile broadcast TV service to give viewers live action from this summer's X Games beginning Aug. 2. The offering will be available through Verizon Wireless' Vcast...
Just a little over budgetA Polish bus driver was fired for using his company cellphone to try to win a contest, according to an Associated Press report. Leszek Wojcik sent 38,000 text messages-1,200 a day-at a cost of about 86 cents per message. He...
Great results are great, except if you can't count on repeating them.Thus when a company posts big jumps in revenue, profit and unit shipments and raises guidance for the year, but both the CEO and president preface their remarks to analysts by delivering nearly...
Nokia Corp. has time on its side.With its closest competitor receding in the rear-view mirror, Nokia said during the second quarter that it would realign its business structure to become more nimble and responsive to market demands and opportunities-a change made from a position...
Are there lessons to be learned following Amp'd Mobile Inc.'s rapid fall from the grace of mobile entertainment? Will new and existing players be more hesitant in their pursuit of mobile, more conservative in their investment on made-for-mobile production?Analysts say the mobile entertainment market...
The myriad of startups on the user-generated mobile video playground seem to be attracting impressive numbers. But turning those consumers into dollars may be more difficult than acquiring them in the first place.Mywaves, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based outfit, scored its first carrier deal last week,...
The big three in broadcast mobile TV has been cut to two rather unceremoniously with Crown Castle International Corp. bailing on its Modeo L.L.C. business before it really even got its feet wet in the mobile TV space.Modeo, one of only two DVB-H providers...
WITH VIRGIN MOBILE USA L.L.C. SEEKING A $500 MILLION INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING, the company is looking to complete the first IPO of a mobile virtual network operator in the United States. The IPO market has been stronger this year than in recent years, which...
AS AMP'D MOBILE INC. WINDS DOWN its mobile virtual network operator service, questions loom about the health of the MVNO space.Bankrupt Amp'd Mobile has halted customer service and was on the verge of cutting off network access to its customers entirely last week, before...
As momentum grows behind Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin's proposed open-access plan for the 700 MHz spectrum auction, Verizon Wireless reiterated its opposition to open access while at the same time working to influence the details of a potential ruling.Stipulations wanted According to...
Texas Instruments Inc. said that lower demand across its product lines and a year-ago windfall produced a drop in profits in the second quarter.TI earned revenue of $3.42 billion, down 7% from the year-ago quarter, on lower demand.Net income was $610 million, down from...
The wireless industry's incessant march toward faster and better networks appears to be showing no signs of slowing as industry players gear up for increasing interest in CDMA2000 1x EV-DO Revision B technology, a software upgrade to the Rev. A networks that Sprint Nextel...
Welcome to our Friday feature, Week in Review. Every Friday, RCR Wireless News will run through the major events of the past week, outlining what happened and speculating on what to look for in the coming weeks. Check below for news about carriers, handset...
Harmonic Inc. announced that it will acquire Rhozet Corp. for $15.5 million to expand its presence in the online and mobile video provisioning space. The combined companies will boost Harmonic's existing customers' ability to create and deliver online and mobile video programming, it said....
Shares of VeriSign Inc. dipped after the company posted a decline in second-quarter revenues and issued weak guidance for the coming quarter.The Mountain View, Calif.-based digital infrastructure company reported a net loss of $4.71 million on total revenue of $368 million, down from a...
Sierra Wireless Inc., the maker of wireless PC cards, posted strong revenue and earnings yesterday on robust demand for its products, the company said. "Intense focus on our core business of wide-area wireless for mobile computing has driven a remarkable business recovery, following our...
Auto shopping and information site Vehix.com is expanding its Web content to cable TV and mobile phones-and to underscore its multimedia capability, is dropping "dot-com" from its name.The new Vehix, which is partly owned by cable giant Comcast, intends to sell advertisers on integrated...
Verizon Wireless eased its stance on FCC Chairman Kevin Martin's proposed rules for the 700 MHz spectrum auction, agreeing to stipulations that would require spectrum winners to allow any device onto their networks. According to the Wall Street Journal, Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam...
NII Holdings Inc., the international operations of the former Nextel Communications Inc., reported a record quarter for subscriber additions and operating revenues, and pushed its customer base past 4 million subscribers. The company provides iDEN wireless service in Latin American countries including Mexico, Brazil,...
Mobile virtual network operator Helio L.L.C. continued to drag at parent EarthLink Inc. as both firms reported a loss for the second quarter. The news sent EarthLink's stock down more than 2% to $7.20 per share.EarthLink recorded a loss of $16.3 million in the...
MediaFLO USA Inc. and Verizon Wireless have teamed up with ESPN to launch a temporary channel on MediaFLO's mobile broadcast TV service to give viewers live action from this summer's X Games beginning Aug. 2. The offering will be available through Verizon Wireless' Vcast...
Qualcomm Inc. can chew gum while swatting at nemeses who hover over its business model, if yesterday's financial results are any indication. But the chip vendor acknowledged that it had won and lost in various legal matters during the quarter. For its fiscal third-quarter...
