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Editor’s Note: Welcome to Reality Check, a feature for RCR Wireless News’ new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to a special CTIA I.T. Show Daily edition of our weekly online feature, Analyst Angle. Every Monday at www.RCRNews.com you can find columns from the industry’s leading …

If you own the platform, you control the message.That’s not some esoteric, technological mumbo-jumbo-though you’ll hear plenty of that this week-but one take on Symbian Ltd.’s position as sponsor of …

AT&T Mobility’s data traffic is “growing like crazy,” according to Mark Collins, the carrier’s VP of consumer data. But whether users will actually pay for this stuff is still far …

You might call it industry’s summer of discontent. Where to begin? The Federal Communications Commission saw fit to attach conditions-public safety and open access, specifically-to a tad more than half …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to a special CTIA I.T. Show Daily edition of our weekly online feature, Analyst Angle. Every Monday at www.RCRNews.com you can find columns from the industry’s leading …

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. …

A true sign that wireless has finally made it-that is if the more than 1 billion cellphones in use around the world was not enough proof for you. The New …

In a online presentation this morning, Microsoft Corp. introduced its “Unified Communications” software offering that the company said would tie together all current means of business communication based on the …

After a one-year hiatus when the show visited Los Angeles, the CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment event is back in the city by the Bay for 2007. The move is …

Welcome to our Friday feature, Week in Review. Every Friday, RCR Wireless News runs through the major events of the past week, outlining what happened and speculating on what to …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to Reality Check, a feature for RCR Wireless News’ new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the …

One tip for those attending the CTIA Wireless I.T. event this year: if you are lucky enough to get invited to a concert, please refrain from thrusting your cellphone into …

So the big mouse has left the wireless house.Just over a year after unveiling its mobile virtual network operator plans in a fireworks-studded event at the CTIA show in the …

THE MOBILE-PHONE INDUSTRY FINDS ITSELF ADRIFT in a sea of uncertainty as the 2008 election year approaches, with litigation, legislation and other factors casting a collective cloud over spectrum auctions …

Nokia Corp. said it will acquire digital mapping company Navteq in a blockbuster $8.1 billion deal.The Finnish company plans to spend $78 per share for Navteq, a 22-year-old, Chicago-based outfit. …

Verizon Wireless got caught up briefly in abortion politics after denying a request from a pro-choice organization to use its network for text messages-which the carrier swiftly remedied after a …

For plenty the debate is over, they’ve already committed to WiMAX or HSPA leading to LTE. But that never stops the larger, ongoing discussion. Wireless carriers and others are ramping …

Sometimes when you’re in the thick of things in this industry, it’s difficult to remember the big picture, so today I want to go to the top of the summit …

“I think I feel a change in the winds,” said Mr. Gibbs to Captain Jack Sparrow.Ditto for the wireless industry.Wireless carriers and their lobbying organization, CTIA, have a steep challenge …

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin again suggested the agency may decide to address in a broader context the mobile phone industry practice of assessing hefty early termination fees levied …

Two key Senate members today unveiled a sweeping wireless consumer protection bill, setting the stage for a fierce battle between lawmakers and the mobile-phone industry that’s likely to play out …

After years of demurring on its marketshare ambitions, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P. has shifted from declarations of “profits first” to emphasize its “credible aspiration” of overtaking one if not …

Washington state Attorney General Rob McKenna said he wants legislation to prohibit the marketing of cellphone numbers without consumer consent, responding to privacy concerns raised by a directory business launched …

THE WIRELESS INDUSTRY DODGED one bullet and got tagged by another as the Superior Court of the District of Columbia threw out six brain-cancer lawsuits against wireless carriers, manufacturers and …