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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 hot topics in the wireless industry. …

AS THE 3G MARKET HEATS UP, so has the level of litigation among industry players, exemplified by longrunning headlines involving the Goliaths and the Davids in wireless.The underlying disputes that …

Washington state Attorney General Rob McKenna said he wants legislation to prohibit the marketing of cellphone numbers without consumer consent, responding to privacy concerns raised by a directory business launched …

THE WIRELESS INDUSTRY DODGED one bullet and got tagged by another as the Superior Court of the District of Columbia threw out six brain-cancer lawsuits against wireless carriers, manufacturers and …

FLAT-RATE WIRELESS carriers serving the sub-prime sector have seen their stocks plunge in recent weeks, reflecting fears about sub-prime customers who could affect the carriers’ financial results.The financial markets have …

Battling for brand recognition, or more particularly, connecting a brand with a certain image, is more than apropos in the wireless industry-it very often defines the success of each company’s …

Verizon Wireless is hoping it can make better music as part of a trio than it did singing solo.The carrier last week announced a partnership with MTV Networks and RealNetworks …

Google Inc. Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt left the door open to bidding on wireless licenses when the 700 MHz auction begins in mid-January, but the Web search-engine giant and …

Personalization refers to the way consumers use mobile content as kind of a bumper sticker, telling others who they are and what they think. It won’t be long, though, before …

Verizon Wireless needed a refreshed portfolio of converged devices that could deliver revenue-generating services into consumers’ hands. Motorola Inc. needed to boost its smartphone offerings, its margins and its overall …

Are cellphone carriers becoming the New York Yankees of then wireless world? Or is it worse?● A federal judge last week said it was ridiculous that AT&T Mobility (then Cingular) …

In light of the troubles encountered by telecom carriers and public-safety agencies following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and Hurricane Katrina four years later, it is hard to criticize the …

Dear Editor,It is with great interest that we read the article, “The MMS disconnect,” (RCR Wireless News, Aug. 13). Sybase 365 believes that the article has many inaccurate assumptions and …

If businesses had Ten Commandments, No. 1 would probably be “Know Thy Customer.”Easier said than done.Customer information plays a crucial role in customer relationship management, from determining the type of …

An aggressive pricing strategy to reduce inventory enabled Motorola Inc. to perform significantly better in global sales to end users in the second quarter than in the oft-cited, unit-shipment metric, …

Save the trees In addition to its advanced functionality, Apple’s iPhone is also endowed with very detailed billing. AT&T Mobility said it was re-examining its current billing practices for the …

Post-merger Alcatel-Lucent isn’t winning over many hearts and minds on Wall Street these days. The company announced the departure of two senior executives last week, both of whom at one …

Digital security company Gemalto is teaming with NXP Semiconductors to push contactless payments toward commercial viability.The companies last week said they’d work together to define standards for SIM-based Near Field …

The Federal Communications Commission latest efforts to improve wireless 911 location accuracy could be hindered by a widening chasm between public-safety organizations and the mobile-phone industry over contemplated changes and …

Has it really only been two months that the iPhone burst on wireless scene? For all the hype leading up to the launch of device, some of which we admit …

Welcome to our Friday feature, Week in Review. Every Friday, RCR Wireless News will run through the major events of the past week, outlining what happened and speculating on what …

The Superior Court of the District of Columbia today threw out six brain-cancer lawsuits against the mobile-phone industry, potentially removing a legal cloud that could have cost wireless carriers and …

With all eyes upon the two parties-Nokia Corp. and one of its suppliers, Matsushita Battery Industrial Co. Ltd. of Japan-the latter agreed today to cover the direct costs of a …

Mobile virtual network operator Working Assets Wireless announced it will begin offering a solar-powered cellphone charger for free for a limited time. The company said the offering is part of …