Yearly Archives: 2007

Prepaid, resale boost Cingular’s record quarter

Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s last quarter before being absorbed by parent company AT&T Inc. resulted in a company-record 2.4 million net customer additions, up from...

ETC.

Is nothing sacred? The British will answer their cellphone just about anywhere, according to a study conducted by Dial-a-Phone. While most respondents generally agreed that...

‘Transitioners’ most likely to subscribe to mobile Internet service

A study released last week by comScore Inc. found that cellphone subscribers aged 25 to 34 were the most likely demographic to access the...

Weather forecast calls for 4,800 mobile clips a day

When wireless first came into the picture at The Weather Channel in 1999, it was little more than a couple people working in a...

Pricing changes slow following smartphone buzz

A week after Verizon Wireless tried to under cut the iPhone buzz at Cingular by slashing prices on a handful of smartphones, Cingular bounced...

Handsets under $20 to drive volume

Big opportunities come with big risks, particularly in chasing the future of the cellphone business.One opportunity, pursued by the market's two giants and their...

TI sees slower growth, Qualcomm bullish on 3G

Texas Instruments Inc. last week reported modest gains in the fourth quarter-revenue up 4 percent, profit up 2 percent from the year-ago quarter-but said...

Teardown analysis: peeling the onion for fun, profit

Competitive intelligence in the handset business is, in a sense, an open secret. Everyone is engaged in it to some degree, yet it is...

Game porting help goes virtual

Content providers and application developers often cite fragmentation as their most difficult and costly challenge. But like a handful of other startups, Mobile Complete...

Watchdog group doubts gov’t numbers on broadband users

As Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin pushes for a wireless alternative to the telephone-cable TV broadband duopoly, and the Bush administration predicts it...

NextG tries to get jump on AWS rollout

It's only been a few months since the close of the Federal Communications Commission's advanced wireless services auction, and carriers aren't expected to begin...

Career builder

While nothing new for the inside-the-Beltway crowd, it may be noteworthy to the great consuming masses just how incestuously intertwined telecom policy-making and lobbying...

The case for the closed Internet

The other day I came home to find my daughter in front of the computer, talking on the phone with her friend, Natasha, as...

MOBILE AD HYPE: BELIEVE IT OR NOT: Inventory not sold out, but progress trends upward

Like an Angelina Jolie adoptee, mobile advertising has come under a glaring spotlight in its early days. Sprint Nextel Corp. attracted attention last fall...

CHALLIS: PAY ATTENTION TO HISTORY

Prof. Lawrie Challis laid out for RCR Wireless News the path forward for the next phase of scientific investigation by the independent Mobile Telecommunications...

Pair of health studies show mixed results

Two newly publicized health studies on cellphone and base-station radiation have produced mixed results, likely keeping alive the long-running scientific debate over whether handsets...

Hedgehogging

Hedge*hog*ing v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube.Further proof that technology is surpassing people's...

High-tech interests against increased spectrum for public safety

Mobile-phone and high-tech sectors urged the new Democratic-led Congress to oppose any effort to dilute the pool of auction-bound 700 MHz spectrum, a major...

The coveted handset upgrade cycle: As always, the question is ‘when’?

The late chess grandmaster Edward Schuyler Jackson used to regale anyone who would listen with stories, stories with a point. One featured a Wall...

Weekly infrastructure awards wrap-up

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...

Frost & Sullivan gets behind DVB-H

The DVB-H market is set to explode from $60 million in revenues last year to more than $2 billion in 2010, according to new...

Raymond James smiles on troubled Sprint Nextel

While Sprint Nextel Corp. has faced downgrades in recent weeks from various investment companies, the carrier still is feeling the love from investment-banking firm...

Weekly wireless ratings wrap-up

The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.CarrierMorgan Stanley raised its industry...

Palm adds Direct Push to e-mail technology

Palm Inc. finally made good on its vow to offer push e-mail service similar to Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry service.The company announced an...

Openwave promises to rein in losses

Openwave Systems Inc., which makes Internet browsers for cellphones as well as software for carriers, reported a 20-percent drop in revenue during its most...
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