Yearly Archives: 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Google, Philips, Microsoft, Moto tee up for fresh round of white-spaces testing

The debate whether to unleash a potentially huge amount of vacant broadcast spectrum-called white spaces-for Wi-Fi and other low-power wireless applications has reached a...

Linux camps fight to lure developers: LiPS Forum issues specs, focuses on telephony

Separate mobile Linux efforts have been cited by competitors as likely to lead to fragmentation.That's an ongoing debate, to be sure. But one Linux...

RINGING IN SUCCESS: Ringback tone market continues expansion, ringback ads on deck

As ringtone revenues descend and full-track mobile music services spin their tires, ringback tones are quietly gaining steam. But they may not be quiet...

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...

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...

Early impressions of Euro-iPhone launch mixed: Apple brand, price and iPod Touch factors cited

For spectators at the iPhone circus, two basic questions seem prevalent. Will Apple Inc. sustain the brisk sales of its signature handset at AT&T...

Monday, Dec. 17, 2007

DE rules challenged: Trio of DEs, Verizon Wireless question wholesale terms for 700 MHZ auction

RULES THAT WOULD MAKE IT EASIER for small businesses to bid for the D-Block license in the upcoming January auction are under attack from...
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