The Federal Communications Commission today announced plans to measure mobile broadband service performance in an attempt to provide consumers with information regarding wireless data speeds.
A meeting is scheduled to be held on Sept. 21 to discuss the new program. Wireless industry trade association CTIA...
AT&T Inc. (T) has opened a sleek, new retail store on Chicago’s Michigan Avenue, showcasing the company’s range of mobile services and offering customers a glimpse of future technology.
“The Magnificent Mile is a unique shopping experience and so is this store,” said AT&T North...
The platform adopted by the Republican party this week describes the telecommunications industry as a vital part of the U.S. economy that is being hamstrung by the federal government.
As long as the wireless industry has been in business, test and measurement has been an integral part of the process. A network doesn’t launch and accompanying devices cannot be pushed to the market without hours and hours of extensive testing performed by the...
AT&T Inc. (T) announced yesterday that a pilot mobile health program using wireless technology to help diabetes patients has shown promising results.
AT&T mHealth Solutions presents DiabetesManager is a partnership between WellDoc Inc., and AT&T.
Patients are able to enter blood glucose readings into the DiabetesManager mobile...
Brightstar is buying San Francisco's Let'sTalk in a move to help carriers add value to their device offerings. The wireless distribution and logistics provider says it will be able to offer Let'sTalk's activation and e-commerce solutions to more than 100,000 customers worldwide. Brightstar works...
Mobile messaging app WhatsApp says it processed more than 10 billion messages in one day this week. That's more than one message for every person on earth. On one app.
An Israeli business newspaper is reporting that Qualcomm (QCOM) is set to acquire Israel's DesignArt Networks for between $120 and $140 million. The deal would not be a large acquisition for Qualcomm, but it could give the San Diego chipmaker a boost in the...
The Association of Public Safety Communications Professionals is meeting in Minneapolis this week, taking stock of a series of offerings and announcements from vendors – many of which make use of LTE technology.
Alcatel Lucent (ALU) introduced its First Responder Video solution, which uses LTE...
The public safety and first responder community received a boost as Acting U.S. Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank rounded out the 15-member board of the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet). FirstNet will be responsible for shaping and overseeing the development and deployment of the nationwide...
Contactless payment options reach consumers through sports venues, McDonald’s Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is being used to enable contactless payment solutions
RCR Wireless News Editor-In-Chief Dan Meyer and panelists discuss the indoor DAS market and how deployments can help carriers solve coverage and capacity challenges from large events taking place in indoor venues. The upcoming Republican and Democratic National Conventions are set to showcase the...
As mobile device users become increasingly comfortable switching devices and carriers, service providers are investing in value-add services that will give their customers reasons to stay on board.
In the short lifespan of the still nascent wireless Internet, the owners of the operating systems have already learned that best is not always enough. Palm, Windows CE and Symbian are the three OSs trying to slug it out with marketing strategies,
Silicon Valley's FreeMonee Network has just raised $34 million and it's ready to start giving it away. The software company works with banks to analyze data and predict consumer spending patterns,
The maturing U.S. handset market continued to chug along in the first half of the year – though slowing relative to years past – and analysts offered an array of views on what forces will shape the market in the second half of the year.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new sensor that can be swallowed by patients who have a hard time remembering to take medication. The sensor communicates directly with the mobile devices of caregivers, letting family members know when the medicine was taken each day.
More and more mobile device users are accessing Facebook from smartphones and tablets, and that's a mixed blessing for the social media giant. The company says that more than half a billion people accessed Facebook from a mobile device in June, and that almost 19% of those relied exclusively on smartphones or tablets to connect with friends through the site. That means those people never saw the ads Facebook serves up to personal computer users, who are of course looking at larger screens with more room for advertising.
Chile's Secretary of Telecommunications (Subtel) announced that carriers paid about $12.26 million to buy licenses to deploy LTE across the country. Subtel made 120 megahertz in the 2.6 GHz band available for bidding. América Móvil’s Chilean unit, Claro; Telefónica’s local wireless operator, Movistar, and Chilean Empresa Nacional de...
The municipal-owned company Empresas Municipales de Cali (Emcali) has been granted the concession and license to provide subscription TV service. With this license, Emcali will join the so-called "triple play" service market, which includes telephony, broadband and subscription television under an IPTV model. Based in...
