Mobile and Wireless Industry Reports

Editor’s Note: Welcome to Yay or Nay, a feature for RCR Wireless News’ weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week we’ll review a new wireless application or service from the user’s point of view, with the goal of …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to On the Margins, a feature for RCR Wireless News’ weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week, the RCR Wireless News staff considers events in the wider business world and how they could affect the …

The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the small-business bidding suit against the Federal Communications Commission remains intact, an action with potential implications for two major spectrum auctions. The 3rd Circuit, while declining to force the FCC to rule …

Attention again centered on B-Block licenses as the Federal Communication Commission’s 700 MHz spectrum auction slogged on.B-Block licenses received 45, 47 and 48 new bids in today’s first three rounds, as the auction’s total potential winning bid amount rose to …

A divided federal appeals court today struck down a Federal Communications Commission’s ruling in which the agency rejected the contention that it illegally licensed 6,000 towers in the Gulf Coast without first assessing the potential impact on migratory birds.“We vacate …

One of the typically opaque aspects of the cellular handset industry erupted into view over the weekend as Motorola Inc. and Research In Motion Ltd. sued each other. The familiar culprit: failed negotiations to renew a cross-licensing agreement. A 2003 …

Yahoo continues to serve as the Washington Generals of the Internet — losing to Google at every turn — but the company seems to be making all the right moves in mobile. The company’s latest coup came last week at …

AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless have both announced new unlimited nationwide calling plans for $100 a month. The plans give customers unlimited calls to wireless and landline phones with no roaming or long-distance charges. Verizon Wireless’ new offering is available …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. In the coming weeks look for columns from Current Analysis’ …

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.Miscellaneous–Germany: T-Mobile Germany has chosen Nokia …

Handset heavies Research In Motion (RIM) and Motorola have both filed patent infringement suits against each other regarding wireless technologies used in their wares.Since this story was originally posted, it has been updated to include a comment from Gartner’s mobile/wireless …

Bidders in the Federal Communication Commission’s 700 MHz spectrum auction continued their squabble over just under 100 licenses that appear to remain in play. The opening three rounds of bidding today drew 93, 99 and 100 new bids, which was …

AT&T Mobility subscribers are still waiting for the carrier to launch MediaFLO USA Inc.’s broadcast television service, and sources say the wait could be anywhere from two to eight weeks longer.The launch seemed all but locked up for earlier this …

You may have never heard of it, but Google Inc. is behind it. So are AOL, Microsoft Corp., and Yahoo Inc. With that kind of support, OpenID may soon be coming to mobile in a big way.Designed as a standardized …

BARCELONA, Spain – Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. announced plans at the Mobile World Congress trade show to launch an Internet-services strategy for its handsets, a move that could put the Korean vendor into direct competition with Nokia Corp.’s overarching Ovi …

Like Britney Spears, mobile advertising is desperately in need of some monitoring.Market research firms seem to be tripping over themselves to offer the most optimistic projections for wireless ads. The Kelsey Group predicts the U.S. market will grow from $33.2 …

Mobile social networking startups Loop Mobile Ltd. and Intercasting Corp. said they will partner to make Loop’s MOKO communities available to subscribers of Intercasting’s ANTHEM platform.The collaboration – which results in an overabundance of capital letters – allows MOKO to …

Sprint Nextel Corp. faces a new class action lawsuit alleging the No. 3 mobile phone carrier misled consumers by improperly charging roaming fees in connection with two “fair and flexible” plans. “All roaming fees assessed to [Myra] Johnson were wrongful …

Pieter Knook, the leader of Microsoft Corp.’s mobile business and an 18-year company veteran, has jumped ship to Vodafone Group plc.Knook will lead the operator’s efforts in consumer Internet services, Vodafone said Thursday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, …

The Walt Disney Internet Group took the wraps off a wireless Web site for U.K. consumers offering mobile content and interactive services.The company, which last year folded both its Disney Mobile and ESPN Mobile domestic MVNOs, said the site can …

Auction 73’s slow creep towards exhaustion continues unabated with new bids remaining below triple figures, though interspersed with the occasional head scratcher. So it was yesterday afternoon when a bid popped up for the then unclaimed C-Block license package covering …

The Senate passed legislation giving parent companies of the three largest mobile-phone carriers retroactive immunity from dozens of privacy lawsuits triggered by a Bush administration warrantless wiretap program secretly launched soon after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. As a …

Alcatel-Lucent came out swinging at the Mobile World Congress event this week. The company added to the pile of news it’s made by announcing a deal with AT&T Mobility to further expand the No. 1 carrier’s UMTS/HSPA wireless network. Financial …

AT&T Inc., parent company of the largest U.S. mobile phone carrier, said it completed the $2.5 billion purchase of Aloha Partners L.P.“AT&T is committed to connecting our customers to their worlds,” said Forrest Miller, group president of corporate strategy and …

Hello! And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWirelessNews.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs …