Monthly Archives: October, 2007

Harmonic centers on services, not devices

Television, like all methods of communication, is adapting to the times. Like the push before it in the online space, the hunger for video...

Largent stays focused despite setbacks

You might call it industry's summer of discontent. Where to begin?The Federal Communications Commission saw fit to attach conditions-public safety and open access, specifically-to...

Qualcomm may benefit from infringement ruling in Broadcom case: Investigation into Nokia complaint could be tossed

Qualcomm Inc. apparently got some breathing room-how much, if any, remains to be seen-in its ongoing court battle over patent infringement in a Santa...

WIDENING THE GAP: AT&T Mobility, Verizon expected to soar at Sprint Nextel’s expense

A mixed third quarter is expected for the wireless industry, with weakness at Sprint Nextel Corp. contrasting with solid performances by AT&T Mobility and...

Holiday Buzz: Colors, youth and accessories abound as carriers load up for critical selling season

Wireless carriers are heading into the all-important holiday selling season, flashing new handsets designed to dazzle consumers and riding sales trends which have been...

WIRELESS STRIKES BACK: Industry lines up support to counter legislation

WHILE IT WAS NOT A MAJOR COUP THAT WIRELESS carriers found a Democratic lawmaker to sponsor a wireless consumer- protection bill less regulatory than...

Nokia sweeps the ‘world series’ in third quarter: But Q4 could be tough for Nokia, Moto without large display screens

NOKIA CORP. RODE A CONTINUING WAVE of worldwide consumer demand for handsets in the third quarter, posting impressive gains in revenue and profit and...

WiMAX supporters score win ahead of WRC: Technology included in family of advanced wireless technologies

EVEN WHILE WIRELESS BROADBAND DEPLOYMENT is in a relatively early stage in this country, the Bush administration is pressing for changes at an international...

Tuning Out: Mobile music space facing rash of challenges

The worldwide mobile music market will more than double in the next few years, exploding from $13.7 billion this year to more than $32...

Monday, Oct. 22, 2007

GOING WITH THE FLO: Mobile TV provider’s operations similar to local affiliate

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. spared no expense on its MediaFLO USA Inc. subsidiary. From the outside, MediaFLO's Operations Center looks like any other box-shaped lackluster...

Give ’em prepay

It's happening again. "It" is the overwhelming feeling I occasionally get to defend the wireless industry and the way it treats its customers.But the...

Best seat in the house

Here's a question: Is the business of paying someone to wake up obscenely early to secure a place in line for a lobbyist who...

Strategy Analytics: iPhone is top-seller at AT&T Mobility

The Apple Inc. iPhone has been AT&T Mobility's top-selling handset since its launch June 29, according to new data from Strategy Analytics, and is...

iPhone captures Treo users, Alltel, T-Mobile USA subs: EV-DO insulates Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel

The first glimmer of quantifiable iPhone impacts is in, courtesy of NPD Group.The news is not-so-good for Palm Inc. and carriers T-Mobile USA Inc....

Hedgehogging: hedge*hog*ging v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube.

A true sign that wireless has finally made it-that is if the more than 1 billion cellphones in use around the world was not...

Cities need to develop wireless biz models: Enterprise, gov’t could anchor WiMAX cities

The municipal wireless market is undergoing a correction, but the re-evaluation of business models eventually will benefit the space and the emergence of WiMAX...

T-Mobile USA, Leap move closer to AWS launches: T-Mobile USA gearing up for New York launch, Leap begins to hire in Las Vegas

Signs are popping up that carriers are getting closer to making use of the spectrum they acquired in the advanced wireless services auction last...

Excess inventory clouds mobile advertising space: Providers both big and small struggle to fill screens

It's no secret that advertising dollars are finally coming to mobile. But for now, at least, it's the high-profile publishers that are bringing in...

Moto takes 50% stake in UIQ: Open operating system should save costs, speed to market

Motorola Inc. apparently kickstarted its ongoing efforts to broaden its smartphone offerings and bring Internet-based services to them by buying 50% of UIQ Technology...

Etc.

Virgin Mobile rings the bellFlanked by Virgin Mobile Angels on Wall Street are (l to r): Peter Lurie, chief counsel; Jonathan Marchbank, COO; Howard...

FTC works to quash call list urban legend: Possible Do Not Call Registry purge complicates efforts

The Federal Trade Commission faces a dilemma as it once again attempts to kill a wireless urban legend that just won't die."The Federal Trade...

The Week in Review

Welcome to our Friday feature, Week in Review. Every Friday, RCR Wireless News runs through the major events of the past week, outlining what...

AT&T Mobility to increase uplink data speeds

AT&T Mobility released its first High-Speed Uplink Packet Access data card, and said that it had begun adding HSUPA upgrades to its network. The...

Google reports increased mobile traffic, mum on GPhone, 700MHz

Mobile users are increasingly turning to Google Inc., but on-the-go searches remain dwarfed by PC queries, the Internet giant said in an earnings...
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