Monthly Archives: December, 2007

Are clicks, inventory and CPMs the new minutes, messages and ARPU?

Editor's Note: Welcome to Reality Check, a feature for RCR Wireless News' weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. We've gathered a group of...

REVIEW: Google Maps’ GPS capabilities provide tremendous bang-for-buck: Service is no replacement for traditional GPS services

Editor's Note: Welcome to Yay or Nay, a feature for RCR Wireless News' weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week we'll review...

Infrastructure awards wrap-up: Nokia Siemens Networks, Alvarion, BelAir 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...

Lessons learned: Combining kids and cellphones

Today's children live in a digital world. They've embraced electronics. As parents, we live and die by the Best Buy.I confess that, earlier this...

Margins Check: ‘Jackass 2.5,’ video ads, making money from YouTube, and more

Editor's Note: Welcome to On the Margins, a feature for RCR Wireless News' weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week, the RCR...

XE Mobile: Another MVNO down and out: Firm joins growing number of flameouts

The latest casualty in the mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) space is XE Mobile, which targeted college-age youth and marketed itself as a hip,...

Alltel launches SMS voicemail

Alltel Wireless launched its Voice2TXT service, which allows customers receive their voicemails in SMS format. The carrier announced in September that it had signed...

Palm’s Treo 755p arrives at Verizon Wireless

The day before Palm Inc. delivers its latest quarterly results-for the fiscal second quarter ending Nov. 30-a "key product" it missed delivering earlier in...

Cellware.com uses ad $ to reward content creators

Advertising.com co-founder John Ferber has joined the ad-subsidized content playground.Ferber unveiled Cellware.com, a site that hopes to offer both user-generated content and professionally produced...

Qualcomm buys SoftMax for voice quality

Qualcomm Inc. apparently recognizes that mobile consumers remain a chatty lot. And with voice still the dominant mobile use, the San Diego chip company...

Atrium snaps up GTC for post-paid service

Atrium Wireless Partners L.L.C. announced it acquired the wireless assets of GTC Telecom Corp. in a deal that closed early last month. Terms of...

Carrier Access to go to Turin in $92.7M deal

Turin Networks Inc. plans to acquire Carrier Access Corp. for around $92.7 million in cash. Under terms of the deal, stockholders will receive $2.60...

Capstar nabs tower firm

GW Equity said it sold South Texas Cellular Inc. to Capstar Wireless Services Inc. for an undisclosed sum. South Texas Cellular, a cellular tower...

Analyst Angle: The year in review. 2017

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...

PHOTOGUIDE: Touring Verizon Wireless’ interactive ‘Evolution’ stores

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...

GPS tracking set to boom in Western Europe

Wireless tracking of vehicles and people will generate about $4.9 billion in revenues in Western Europe by 2012, according to a new report from...

Closer to free: Nokia, Universal Music launch new music proposition

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands-There's always a first shot at everything; first to the moon, first to summit Mount Everest, first to end homelessness. It may...

Xohm soft-launch starts: Long-term delays expected as Sprint Nextel juggles troubles

SPRINT NEXTEL CORP. PLANS to turn on three WiMAX test markets within the next two weeks, meeting its self-imposed deadline to roll out the...

Femtocell profits a waiting game

A new report from ABI Research says carriers need to keep long-term considerations in mind when formulating their femtocell strategies, because femtocell solutions probably...

What a year

What a perfectly odd year it has been. Indeed, I think 2007 will go down as a year filled with surprises in the wireless...

Gonzo regulation, or piling on?

Love him or hate him-there's probably little middle ground-you've got to feel for Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin these days. The head of...

Person of the Year: Steve Jobs

That sucking sound you hear is the wireless industry on the mat, gasping for air.Enter the dragon, Steve Jobs, RCR Wireless News' Person of...

Wireless carriers continue struggle for customer satisfaction: Virgin Mobile USA praised, Sprint Nextel hazed

Consumers ranked wireless carriers as providing a less useful and enjoyable customer experience than retailers and credit-card companies, but better than TV service providers...

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

Further proof that numbers are fun: According to the National Center for Health Statistics, cellphone-only users are Hispanic males between 25 and 29 years...

Leap’s jump hampered by wider economic woes: Carrier to introduce more prepaid options

Leap Wireless International Inc. added fewer than 40,000 net new subscribers during the third quarter and its churn rate soared, while the flat-rate carrier's...
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