August 2007

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 Yay or Nay, a feature for RCR Wireless News’ new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week we’ll review a new wireless application or …

Sprint Nextel Corp. awarded the build-out contract of its biggest WiMAX market yet to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.The carrier confirmed this morning that it has awarded the equipment contract for …

China’s Sina Corp. launched five mobile games connected to Nokia Corp.’s SNAP Mobile gaming platform.The online media company is distributing the titles 3D Pool Hall, Jellypop, Sudoku and new versions …

Yahoo Inc. updated its e-mail service, adding a feature that enables users to send text messages to mobile phones. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company incorporated instant messaging components into its Yahoo …

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. …

Andrew Corp. won a major upgrade contract to modify the Mass Transit Railway Corp.’s territorywide network in Hong Kong.As part of the project, Andrew will upgrade infrastructure in stations, tunnels, …

China should surpass 500 million cellular connections during the third quarter, according to Wireless Intelligence, a joint venture of Ovum and the GSM Association.The firm said China adds about 19 …

High-value customers feel underappreciated by their carrier, according to In-Stat.The study found more than 60% of high ARPU users say they do not feel their wireless operator appreciates them and …

AS THE 3G MARKET HEATS UP, so has the level of litigation among industry players, exemplified by longrunning headlines involving the Goliaths and the Davids in wireless.The underlying disputes that …

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 …

FLAT-RATE WIRELESS carriers serving the sub-prime sector have seen their stocks plunge in recent weeks, reflecting fears about sub-prime customers who could affect the carriers’ financial results.The financial markets have …

Battling for brand recognition, or more particularly, connecting a brand with a certain image, is more than apropos in the wireless industry-it very often defines the success of each company’s …

Verizon Wireless is hoping it can make better music as part of a trio than it did singing solo.The carrier last week announced a partnership with MTV Networks and RealNetworks …

Google Inc. Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt left the door open to bidding on wireless licenses when the 700 MHz auction begins in mid-January, but the Web search-engine giant and …

Personalization refers to the way consumers use mobile content as kind of a bumper sticker, telling others who they are and what they think. It won’t be long, though, before …

Verizon Wireless needed a refreshed portfolio of converged devices that could deliver revenue-generating services into consumers’ hands. Motorola Inc. needed to boost its smartphone offerings, its margins and its overall …

Are cellphone carriers becoming the New York Yankees of then wireless world? Or is it worse?● A federal judge last week said it was ridiculous that AT&T Mobility (then Cingular) …

In light of the troubles encountered by telecom carriers and public-safety agencies following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and Hurricane Katrina four years later, it is hard to criticize the …

Dear Editor,It is with great interest that we read the article, “The MMS disconnect,” (RCR Wireless News, Aug. 13). Sybase 365 believes that the article has many inaccurate assumptions and …

If businesses had Ten Commandments, No. 1 would probably be “Know Thy Customer.”Easier said than done.Customer information plays a crucial role in customer relationship management, from determining the type of …

An aggressive pricing strategy to reduce inventory enabled Motorola Inc. to perform significantly better in global sales to end users in the second quarter than in the oft-cited, unit-shipment metric, …

Save the trees In addition to its advanced functionality, Apple’s iPhone is also endowed with very detailed billing. AT&T Mobility said it was re-examining its current billing practices for the …