February 2007

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 States.AT&T committed to unloading the spectrum …

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. …

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 models-but MVNOs are also taking alternate …

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 the Razr handset, resigned from Motorola …

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

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 plans behind them. Attempting to translate …

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 in wireless. While northeastern Ohio digs …

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 handset sales, market share and, possibly, …

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 major shareholder will cooperate is unclear.Vodafone …

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 500 million chipsets cumulatively. The study …

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 Bollywood Initiative both released their first …

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 Proctor & Gamble, Adidas, Coca-Cola and …

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 this year cemented the technology as …

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 broadcast TV through Qualcomm Inc.’s MediaFLO …

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 by an average of 25 percent …

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 money on a federal mandate, tell …

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 communications among first responders and attracting …

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

Nothing wrecks a trip to Europe like work. And last week I was lucky enough to travel to Barcelona to cover the 3GSM World Congress. While the show is too …

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 users to select their favorite Cartoon …

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

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 carriers’ iron-clad control of networks is …

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 citizens have been trained to …

The cellular industry urged the Federal Communications Commission to delay action on a Justice Department plan that would keep wireless subscribers in the dark for days or weeks after the …