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Nextel Communications, owned by U.S.-based holding company NII Holdings, could lose its competitive advantage across Latin America due to delays of its 3G network deployment. Financial analysts have noted that the carrier's 3G plans could result in the carrier becoming lost in a sea...

The iPhone impact on carriers continued as Sprint Nextel (S) posted strained fourth quarter results, which was its first quarter in offering Apple’s (AAPL) iconic device. The results followed similar strains posted by Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility. The nation’s No. 3 carrier said it...

Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) added another tower company as it moves forward with its Network Vision Plan, this time inking a deal with Mobilitie that covers several hundred cell sites, allowing Sprint to be flexible as it migrates from its iDEN network and moves...

SBA Communications Corp. (SBAC) and Health Care REIT Inc. (HCN) announced an agreement to make available wireless site leasing of new, prime rooftop locations in more than 15 states.Health Care REIT, Inc., an S&P 500 company with headquarters in Toledo, Ohio, is a real...

UPDATED: Editor's Note: With all of the domestic industry's public, facilities-based operators having announced second quarter results we decided to provide a quick snapshot of how the quarter stacked up.Verizon Wireless (106.3 million connections)Quick facts: Posted 2.2 million net additions for the quarter, including...

Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) continued its operating turn around during the second quarter, but those improvements appeared to have come at a cost.The carrier managed to add nearly 1.1 million new customers to its network during the quarter, which was about 1 million more...

Brazilian carrier Vivo has launched its push-to-talk (PTT) service under the name "Vivo Direto." The service started on July 18 in Rio de Janeiro and one month before in Porto Alegre and Curitiba cities. Although similar to Nextel's offering, Vivo's PTT is based on...

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.One of the great things about summer, especially this year’s Midwest rainfest, is watching things grow. Trees,...

LightSquared continues to draw media attention with competing reports this week claiming the company is close to signing network deals with Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) and AT&T Mobility (T).Bloomberg is reporting that LightSquared is in preliminary talks with AT&T Mobility to purchase capacity on...

LightSquared continues to draw media attention with competing reports this week claiming the company is close to signing network deals with Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) and AT&T Mobility (T).Bloomberg is reporting that LightSquared is in preliminary talks with AT&T Mobility to purchase capacity on...

RCR Wireless News will be attending this week's Uplinq Conference in sunny San Diego. The two-day event is expected to give Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM) an opportunity to announce its latest plans for its services offering and continue to blend the technology trends that are...

DALLAS – “Telecom is buzzing again,” said Windstream Communications President and CEO Jeff Gardner and Genband President and CEO Charlie Vogt during a keynote address today at the Telecommunications Industry Association's annual show, TIA2011: Inside the Network.Windstream, which was spun off from Alltel Communications...

DALLAS—Mobile, fixed and converged operators can all experience growth if they leverage their network assets, Robert Vrij, Alcatel-Lucent Americas president, said during a keynote speech this morning at the Telecommunications Industry Association's TIA2011: Inside the Network event here. Cloud-based computing services and the business...

American Tower Corp. (ATM) CEO Jim Taiclet took the company's first-quarter conference call to comment how various 4G initiatives either under way or being pursued by wireless operators would impact the tower business. Basically, Taiclet said the underlying drivers of increased smartphone adoption and...

Showing the continued strength of the no-contract market MetroPCS Communications Inc. (PCS) posted a 5% increase in net customer additions during the first quarter, rising from 691,602 in 2010 to 725,945 this year. The growth pushed the carrier's total customer base to nearly 8.9...

Sprint Nextel Corp.’s (S) multitude of networks, brands and wholesale partners lends a convoluted nature to its quarterly financial release, but at the end of the day the carrier managed to add 1.1 million new customers to its network during the first quarter of...

LAS VEGAS – As one of the few iDEN-based rural operators in the country, as well as being one of the few owned by an electric company, SouthernLINC Wireless always brings a different perspective to the mobile space. This perspective is also helped by...

Motorola Mobility Inc.’s (MMI) iDEN technology either received a new lease on life or an expiration date today as the company announced an extension to its supplier agreement to supply iDEN handset to NII Holdings Inc. (NIHD) through 2014. NII, which was formerly the...

Mu Dynamics Inc. unveiled a testing solution that can accurately recreate how applications will impact wireless networks. The proliferation of third-party applications that end users are downloading to smartphones can leave wireless operators unaware of what is going across their networks and how those...

Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) continues to tweak its prepaid efforts adding a more pronounced international flair to its Boost Mobile subsidiary. Boost Mobile customers can now add unlimited calling, messaging and push-to-talk features to the carrier’s unlimited rate plan for an additional $5 per...

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....

Canadian wireless operator Telus Corp. (TU) is bringing back a name from the past in branding a new unlimited calling feature that looks to be taking on new competitors in the country’s mobile space. The new offering is marketed under the Clearnet brand, which...

Regional wireless player SouthernLINC Wireless said it has signed a nationwide push-to-talk and data roaming agreement with a “nationwide” operator that will allow its customers to use their PTT and mobile data services when outside of SouthernLINC’s current iDEN coverage area.While the operator was...

ORLANDO, Fla.—CTIA’s semi-annual survey of wireless operators confirmed what the industry already knows: Americans are in love with their wireless devices, and using them more and more for data connections.Some quick stats from the survey:  Wireless penetration is at 96%, up nearly 5% from...