Monthly Archives: February, 2007

AT&T offloads 2.5 GHz spectrum to Clearwire for $300M

Clearwire Corp. was the winner of AT&T Inc.'s mandated spectrum sell-off, agreeing to spend $300 million for 2.5 GHz spectrum in the southeastern United...

Analyst Angle: Wu What?

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...

MVNOs test variety of biz models

As the flurry of mobile virtual network operators that launched in 2006 start to settle in, some are proclaiming customer gains with stand-alone business...

Garriques leaves Motorola for Dell, Butler exits T-Mobile as CMO

Ron Garriques, an eight-year Motorola Inc. veteran who rose to lead the company's mobile device division, itself responsible for the company's resurgent fortunes via...

3 smaller carriers report increases in data ARPU

Dobson Communications Corp. reported solid results for the final period of 2006, growing its subscriber base and increasing its average revenue per user. Dobson...

The 3GSM handset party: who’s doing what to whom? : Vendors tout global portfolios, while U.S. awaits CTIA show

At the 3GSM World Congress, as at other major industry confabs, there are gadgets galore. And then there are the market-based strategies and financial...

Verizon treat: Cherry Chocolate

Editor's Note: In this monthly feature, RCR Wireless News talks to retail managers across the country to get a first-hand view of what's hot...

Battle for handset volume heads to hinterlands: Easy pickings are gone or are already in play

The search for hotties never ends.Hot wireless markets, that is, with potential growth in first-time subscribers and prospects for high volumes of relatively low-cost...

Vodafone shells out $11.1B for Indian carrier

International operator Vodafone Group plc has agreed to acquire a majority interest in Indian mobile operator Hutchison Essar Ltd. for $11.1 billion-however, whether a...

Wi-Fi chip market to top 1B by 2008

The Wi-Fi semiconductor market reached nearly 200 million units shipped last year, according to new figures from ABI Research.The industry has sold more than...

Small-screen movies coming into focus: Sundance, Bollywood show first made-for-mobile movies at 3GSM World Congress

The motion-picture industry's vision for the mobile screen is coming into clearer focus. The Sundance Film Festival Global Short Film Project and the Mobile...

Corrections

c In the article "One-stop ad shops" in the Jan. 29 issue of RCR Wireless News, The Hyperfactory should have been named as having...

MediaFLO faces tough int’l battle

BARCELONA, Spain-While Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s announcement last week that it planned to use Qualcomm Inc.'s MediaFLO network to launch a mobile television service later...

Score two for MediaFLO: DVB-H backers say it’s too soon to count them out

The ripples are still making their way across the lake in the wake of Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s surprise announcement that it will offer mobile...

Emerging opportunities: Industry looks to Africa, Asia, South America for growth

BARCELONA, Spain-The show is in Spain, but last week's 3GSM World Congress was all about emerging markets in Africa, Asia and South America.After rising...

A plan for public-safety interoperability

To the Editor,Regarding your opinion that fixing public safety requires more than band-aids. There are more fundamental questions to answer. Before you spend my...

PUBLIC PRESSURE: House panel questions agencies on delay in public-safety grants

The Bush administration shows signs of internal division over a $1 billion public-safety wireless interoperability grant program, with implementation delays undercutting post-9/11efforts to improve...

OMB AWOL on AWS

Most of the energy these days in Washington is understandably focused on the Next Big Auction. And why not? 700 MHz bidding later this...

Euro Trip

Nothing wrecks a trip to Europe like work. And last week I was lucky enough to travel to Barcelona to cover the 3GSM World...

Etc.

Bring on the cast from Foster's Home for Imaginary FriendsCartoon Network New Media announced the development of CallToons, a mobile application that allows cellphone...

Penthera mediacast app allows content to be sent, stored, played back

WHILE MUCH OF THE ATTENTION LAST WEEK AT THE 3GSM WORLD CONGRESS TRADE SHOW IN BARCELONA, SPAIN, WAS SPENT ON MOBILE BROADCAST TV PROVIDER...

Wireless role in neutral ‘Net at front, center

The debate over net neutrality has moved full force into the wireless space.A new paper by Columbia University law professor Timothy Wu claims mobile-phone...

Hedgehogging

Hedge*hog*ing v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube.--Evidently, New Yorkers aren't confident that their...

CTIA: Pretexting plan conflicts with state laws

The cellular industry urged the Federal Communications Commission to delay action on a Justice Department plan that would keep wireless subscribers in the dark...

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