The Texas State Wireless Association held its Holiday Social last week at Top Golf Dallas. The event attracted 175 wireless industry professionals and raised funds for the TXWA Keith Harris Scholarship Fund and collected toys for the Marine Corps' Toys For Tots program. The...
Mike Wehrs has resigned as CEO and president of the Mobile Marketing Association, just shy of one year on the job, to return to the commercial sector. The MMA is beginning an executive level search for his replacement, and Wehrs will consult in the...
Mobile semiconductor provider ST-Ericsson announced last week that it will institute new plans designed to save the company $115 million per year. The move is on top of reorganization plans announced this summer by the joint venture between Ericsson Mobile Platforms and ST-NXP Wireless....
Thwapr- Duncan Kennedy and Eric Hoffert, formerly of Apple's Quicktime product team, have taken on the roles of COO and CTO, respectively. Thwapr is a new mobile-to-mobile video sharing solution.Suddenlink – James B. Fox has joined the Suddenlink team as Senior VP and Chief...
An international provider of extended service contracts and protection programs for wireless phones announced plans Thursday to hire 56 more workers at its customer service center in Albany.Gazette-Times
Microsoft joined hands with Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom on Friday to unveil a new deal to sell netbooks at up to 90 percent off their retail price with a 3G mobile broadband contract.The deal is one of many Microsoft is co-authoring around the world as...
The inaugural meeting of the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP), a new stakeholder forum to provide technical support to the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as it coordinates standards for a modernized electric power system, concluded recently with election of...
For more than 40 years, Teton Communications, Inc. has been providing voice and data services along with radio systems consulting, system integration, installation and service to business customers in Eastern Idaho. The company's wireless backbone network stretches across five counties from Pocatello in the...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Next-generation chip solutions provider Beceem Communications Inc. said it was on track to ship 3 million WiMAX chips in 2009, and that it was bolstering its lineup with its new “4G Turbo” offering. The company, which a couple of months...
The last week of trading, which included Thanksgiving, saw gainers lead losers in the RCR Stock Index by a 4 to 3 margin. Significant gainers for the week included carriers Clearwire and Deutsche Telekom. Notable losers for the period were infrastructure related...
Australia: Alvarion won a contract with Adam Internet to deploy a WiMAX network across the city of Adelaide. Adam Internet is building the network as part of the national government's Broadband Guarantee Program, intended to grant services to all Australian residents.Global: MasterCard Worldwide has...
TeleCommunications Systems Inc. said it will buy Network In Motions Inc. for an aggregate $170 million of cash, stock and promissory notes. The acquisition, set to close in December, will position TCS as a leader in location-based services.TCS has made its name in enhanced...
Telespree Communications said it won a contract to provide self-service activation to i-wireless customers, an MVNO that uses the Sprint Nextel Corp. network. The self-provisioning tool guides people who buy wireless handsets and services at Kroger stores with details on how to activate their...
Alcatel-Lucent - Sean O'Halloran has been appointed VP of Alcatel Lucent's Australian National Broadband Network team. O'Halloran formerly served as VP of the company's Enterprise Group in Australia. Clarity - Douglas Gracie has been named VP Services. Prior to joining the Clarity team, Gracie...
Leuven, Belgium-based wireless module manufacturer Option, is set to cut 150 jobs from its production engineering and logistic facility in Cork, Ireland, according to Ireland On-Line.The cuts, which are expected to take effect in January, are part of a corporate restructuring and downsizing of...
China Mobile Communications Corp., the world’s largest wireless operator, will use Red Bend Software’s firmware over the air (FOTA) software for updating and device management for China Mobile’s OPhone operating system.Under an agreement with China Mobile Research Institute, China Mobile’s research and development arm,...
Leaders from a number of high-tech and telecom firms as well as labor leaders are expected to meet this week at President Obama’s jobs summit in Washington, D.C. The meeting is based on the President’s Forum on Jobs and looks to generate discussions on...
Bellevue, Wash.-based startup Root Wireless scored $3.25 million in a series B round of funding that will allow the company to expand its cellular network mapping service. This ruond of funding included a number of big, familiar names in the wireless space.The company, which...
Cox Communications & TIO Networks: TIO Networks will provide real-time bill payment services to Cox Communications' customers, allowing them to pay their bills at TIO retail centers and self-service kiosks.Qualcomm & Red Bend Software: Qualcomm has chosen Red Bend's vDirect Mobile for the next...
Sprint Nextel Receives All Regulatory Approvals for iPCS, Inc. AcquisitionFrom: SprintSprint Nextel today announced that it has received all regulatory approvals needed to complete the acquisition of iPCS. On Nov. 24 the Federal Communications Commission approved the transfer of the spectrum license held...
For the first time in the last 3 weeks, losers outpaced gainers in the RCR Wireless Index over the last week by a roughly 4 to 3 margin. Notable gainers for the week were Leap Wireless, Fibertower and Powertech. Notable losers were...
As the West Wireless Health Institute prepares to open for business next month in San Diego, Qualcomm Inc.'s initiatives to develop a mobile healthcare ecosystem are becoming more tangible, starting with a physical building where scientists, doctors and engineers can work to prove the...
With the country still reeling from a recession and wireless growth slowing, industry players are becoming especially creative this holiday season in trying to attract consumers. We have already seen nearly every operator adjust their rate plans to take advantage of the growing appeal...
RCR got a chance to catch up with the Sprint 4G roll out team at one of their events in Austin this past week. Watch John Taylor from Sprint talk about this exciting new service and some of the products utilizing it.
