Monthly Archives: October, 2007

Alltel posts strong customer growth

Alltel Corp. reported a quarter of record growth, with postpaid customers more than doubling year-over-year while the company made substantial improvements in its churn...

WiMAX approved as IMT standard

The International Telecommunication Union agreed to include WiMAX technology in the global family of advanced wireless technologies. The win is a major victory for...

Verizon Wireless and Innopath join for OTA updates

Verizon Wireless has added the ability to update software on new phones on-the-fly, a new offering that may stand as a key competitive advantage....

Nokia’s Q3: Dominates incumbents, fends off Apple

Nokia Corp. inched toward its long-held goal of 40% global market share in the third quarter, shipped more phones than its three largest rivals...

Jobs’ about-face: iPhone will open to developers

Steve Jobs has given in.Apple Inc.'s CEO said the company will let outside developers create applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch, reversing a...

Worst of the Week: Cellular bill of rights and wrongs

Hello! And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so...

RCR Wireless News Podcasts: Cathy Quaciari, AT&T Mobility

"You can't just build a device without understanding what that customer really wants," says Cathy Quaciari, director of B2B devices for AT&T Mobility. Quaciari's...

PHOTOGUIDE: Holiday Handset Wars

The holiday season is always the most critical time of the year for the nation's carriers and handset makers. It's make or break for...

Industry cheers alternative to consumer-protection bill

Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) introduced industry-backed legislation that would establish a national regulatory framework for the wireless industry and fully pre-empt state oversight of...

Heavyweights eye digital mapping companies

Digital mapping companies such as Navteq Corp. and Tele Atlas N.V. "now occupy the most important position in the global GPS navigation supply chain,"...

LG’s Q3 handset sales and profit down over Q2

LG Electronics Co. Ltd. faces fierce competition in the United States, despite the handset maker's devotion to serving the carriers' needs, according to the...

Sprint Nextel fights back with HTC touchscreen device

Music and messaging may be the mantra for holiday sales, according to conventional wisdom, but Sprint Nextel Corp. is taking no chances. The carrier...

Rogers expands HSPA coverage

Canadian carrier Rogers Wireless has expanded its High Speed Packet Access coverage to include five markets in Quebec, and now covers those markets as...

Financial ratings wrap-up: Nortel, Sierra Wireless, VeriSign and more

The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier --Standard & Poor's Ratings...

Venture capital financing wrap-up: Bluestreak, M3 Technology, TokBox and more

The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included...

Microsoft’s Unified Communications software: latest bid to own the enterprise

In a online presentation this morning, Microsoft Corp. introduced its "Unified Communications" software offering that the company said would tie together all current means...

Microsoft challenges Google with Live Search

Microsoft Corp. officially joined the voice-operated search field, unveiling a free directory-assistance service for mobile and fixed-line users.The software giant launched Live Search 411,...

ClairMail, mFoundry tag team banking sector

Mobile banking providers ClairMail Inc. and mFoundry announced a new partnership and their first joint customer: BB&T Corp., which operates financial centers in 11...

Helio offers online discounts on handsets

Helio L.L.C., which has made a point of maintaining its handset pricing, is offering a limited-time, online-only promotion with at least $50 off each...

Sluggish network sales weigh on Ericsson

L.M. Ericsson warned yesterday that third-quarter sales would total about $6.8 billion, with operating profit of $875 million, sending its shares down almost one-third....

Nokia unveils touchscreen UI: Message to Apple: Watch your back

Nokia Corp. will answer the iPhone's splashy user interface with advancements in its own Series 60 UI that runs its smartphone offerings, the Finnish...

AT&T Mobility chases VZW, eases ETF and contract-changing policies: Move comes ahead of Senate hearing on consumer-protection bill

AT&T Mobility has stepped up its customer-friendly policies, following changes by Verizon Wireless and just ahead of a federal hearing on wireless consumer protection....

REVIEW: Yahoo Go for Mobile goes simply, easily

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...

The text-to-vote cliffhanger

Text-to-vote campaigns are changing TV viewing habits dramatically, and TV programming is pushing the popularity of text campaigns.And so it was that I watched...

Infrastructure awards wrap-up: Alvarion, Nortel, Alcatel-Lucent and more

The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country...
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