February 2007

High-end mobile virtual network operator Voce expanded its handset lineup with the inclusion of Palm Inc.’s Treo smartphone, a move that raises the question whether the company has succeeded in …

Leap Wireless International Inc. has a new, flashier Web site for its Cricket unlimited wireless service. “We are always looking for ways to make our services easier for our customers, …

Vignette is partnering with a couple of well-known mobile partners on a framework designed to manage and deliver content to both PCs and mobile phones.The Austin, Texas-based developer this week …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our Monday 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. …

Regional wireless retailer Wireless Zone has announced an ambitious plan to expand its 275 locations to a total of 400, in 400 business days. Wireless Zone CEO Kevin Sinclai, said …

Texas Comptroller Susan Combs warned Sprint Nextel Corp. it could be audited and sued if it continues to collect fees from subscribers to cover the cost of the state’s revised …

Verizon Wireless SAID it captured 2.3 million net new customers in the fourth quarter, numbers that show it continues to dominate other national carriers with its retail performance.Cingular Wireless L.L.C., …

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin is pushing a plan to treat wireless broadband service as an information service, a classification that would enable wireless Internet access providers to escape …

FOR THOSE WHO WATCH Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P., sifting for signs that the Japanese-Swedish partnership will accelerate efforts to gain market share, last week’s news on the vendor’s plans …

It was an intimate gathering of sorts last week as dozens gathered at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif., for the Off-Deck Mobile Content conference.“Off deck, on deck, it’s …

Like real estate, mobile advertising is all about location. And carriers are scrambling to cash in on the most desirable territory in wireless data: the deck.Network operators are hastily choosing …

c In the Cingular branding story on page 1 of the Jan. 29 issue of RCR Wireless News, the value of Cingular’s brand name should have been $6.7 billion.c The …

Glowing praise for Modeo L.L.C.’s recently launched mobile broadcast television beta trial service in New York City is already rolling in.“WOW!” is how Ric Prentiss of Raymond James and Associates …

While Qualcomm Inc.’s MediaFLO and Crown Castle International Corp.’s Modeo L.L.C. service have been taking up most of the ink on mobile broadcast TV, Hiwire L.L.C. has been working behind …

Senate Commerce Committee members last week lamented-one after the other-the many policy ills confronted by the Federal Communications Commission. The universal service regime is broken. The United States is stumbling …

WASHINGTON-Privacy groups oppose Bush administration efforts to require wireless carriers and others to delay notifying customers when phone records and other personal data are stolen through subscriber impersonation and other …

Cyren Call Communications Corp. and the nation’s first responders found a big-time lawmaker to champion legislation that would redirect 30 megahertz of auction-bound spectrum in the 700 MHz band for …

Senate lawmakers blasted Bush administration policy-makers over the implementation of a $43.5 million matching grant program to upgrade emergency dispatch centers so they can receive and process enhanced 911 location …

The world of mobile gaming encompasses roughly a half-dozen genres, from first-person shooters to pick-up-and-play casual titles. And now, finally, the wise money management quiz game.Visa USA is targeting teens …

Hedge*hog*ing v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube.–If you are one of the 12 people who haven’t yet viewed Stephen …

For the young social networking addicts of the world, one of the last vestiges of computer-deficient spaces-the moving vehicle-may soon be MySpace-enabled through Wi-Fi. Backseat elbowing could be replaced with …

Motorola Inc.’s recent, sobering earnings report came with a number of explanations of how the American vendor would turn things around. Motorola executives mentioned, among several factors, their portfolio mix-and …

As a testament to the fickleness of the wireless industry, Motorola Inc., once the bell of the handset ball, has fallen on hard times.Was it not so long ago that …