Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.In 2009 the app-store gold rush induced “headless chicken” behavior within the mobile industry on an unprecedented...
Editor's Note: This originally appeared in RCR Wireless News' January Special Edition, Wireless Infrastructure: The Engine for Economic Recovery. Look for our March Special Edition coming soon.While the wireless industry should be excited about the possibilities that advanced generation network technologies will bring...
Editor's Note: Jim Manis, chairman and CEO of the Mobile Giving Foundation (MGF) reports from Hawaii just hours after the catastrophic Chilean earthquake. :As circumstance would have it, I traveled to the island of Maui on the day before the horrible 8.8 earthquake that...
Hello! And welcome to our Friday 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 RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
Editor's Note:This article originally appeared in RCR Wireless News' January Special Edition, Wireless Infrastructure: The Engine of Economic Recovery. Last year, at Avren's North American femtocell conference, we tackled the topic of femtocells in the enterprise; why an enterprise would want them; why vendors...
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.Just back from the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, where almost 50,000 of us...
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.Mobile termination rates, the price a mobile operator charges to complete calls on its network,...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.With the Mobile World Congress behind us, it’s time to start re-frame the new-new broadband debate. We...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Over the past couple of years businesses have been scrambling to develop mobile apps, as the popularity...
Traditional smartphones – such as BlackBerry’s – or “bypass phones” such as Google’s Nexus One and Apple’s iPhone, leverage the intelligence on the device, which is owned/controlled by the respective vendor Smartphones tightly integrate the user experience with services Google, Apple and others vendors...
Hello! And welcome to our Friday 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 RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
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.Kelly Tedesco is easy to reach on her phone- as long as you send a...
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.With the announcements in Barcelona this week it is easy to see the mobile wireless...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Last year the issue of Voice over Long Term Evolution (VoLTE) emerged from the shadows, and after...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
Hello! And welcome to our Friday 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 RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
What is it with carriers? Every time there is a ‘new' infrastructure technology, it takes years for the actual deployment to take place. My rule of thumb is now a decade or longer between when a vendor starts promoting a totally new concept to...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Emboldened by a vision of a national wireless infrastructure that would set the standard for the world,...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.2010 will definitely be a year of significant innovation in the wireless industry, and the buzz surrounding...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Ecosystems found in nature can be easily destroyed when there is an imbalance. Business ecosystems tend to...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
Hello! And welcome to our Friday 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 RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.We've come a long way since the introduction of the iPhone in 2007 and the App Store...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Over the past three years there has been an irreversible shift towards open platforms in the mobile...
