Monthly Archives: October, 2008

Tower industry expected to weather storm: New deployments, deep-pocketed customers to buffer segment

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - Despite thunderstorms on Wall Street, as well as outside the convention itself, participants at the PCIA's 2008 Wireless Infrastructure Show this...

Mutiny precedes the finale : FCC meeting to cover mergers, white spaces and more

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin has set a highly ambitious agenda for the Nov. 4 open meeting. And the December meeting potentially could...

Femto-based access points to top 103M by 2013

The fixed-mobile convergence market is being driven forward by new services like T-Mobile USA Inc.'s @Home service and Orange SA's unik service in Europe,...

Venture capital financing wrap-up: BillShrink.com and MobUI

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

By the Numbers: Top 10 Most Popular U.S. Handsets in September

Editor's Note: The following lists ranks the 10 most popular handsets in the United States for the month of September. Rankings were provided by...

We’re still far away from NFC

Editor's Note: RCR Wireless News teamed with the Yankee Group to conduct a series of market surveys of RCR Wireless News subscribers to gauge...

Worst of the Week: The greatest wireless application in the history of the world

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...

Verizon Wireless deepens enterprise efforts with Field Force Manager

Verizon Wireless is rolling out a new enterprise solution geared to increase worker productivity and decrease operational costs for its business customers.The country's second...

Nokia as Rorschach card: Investors reward results, then resume gloom: UBS notes Nokia’s one-time settlement to Qualcomm of $2.3B

Nokia Corp. posted a 5% drop in revenue and a 21% drop in operating profit over the year-ago quarter, but its profit margin remained...

Mobile search set for new growth spurt: Smartphones offer fertile ground for local business info

With the launch of Apple Inc.'s 3G-capable iPhone earlier this summer, along with a slew of other Web-ready smartphones topping consumers' wish lists, the...

Campaigning by phone: You ain’t seen nothing yet

Presidential candidates' use of mobile technologies to woo voters is just the beginning, panelists say..

3G buildouts tied to spectrum availability: T-Mobile USA, Leap moves ahead with AWS-1 launches

Wireless industry professionals always seem to be wearing hard hats. Whether building new phones, constructing monthly plans or remodeling ever-faulty customer service options, carriers...

The Android fine print: kill switch and other tidbits

An uproar erupted when iPhone users discovered a so-called remote kill switch on their phones -- will it spur the same reaction in users...

Eclipse offers mobile development tools

Can import EclipseME and NetBeans projects. Seeking to establish Eclipse as the standard mobile development platform, the Eclipse Foundation on Wednesday offered the first...

Verizon and AT&T Provided Cell Towers for McCain Ranch

Senator's Wife Did Not Receive Favors, Campaign Says.

AT&T Mobility looks beyond handsets: Carrier appoints president of new division focused on non-traditional devices

Thanks to a new executive position, AT&T Mobility is attempting to expand the range of gadgets its network interacts with - and counter similar...

Survey: Sprint Nextel scores customer service win: Pali Research finds carrier quickest in answering customer service calls

Sprint Nextel Corp.'s luck may be changing, at least in terms of customer service. According to recent survey results conducted by Pali Research, Sprint...

REVIEW: A bit raw, Beyond411 provides some useful results

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Yay or Nay. Every week we'll review a new wireless application or service from the user's point...

A silver lining for developers

Like gold bullion, Treasury bonds and the booze industry, the new mobile application stores that are beginning to surface may actually benefit from Wall...

Nov. 4 action: FCC to vote on VZW-Alltel, Sprint-Clearwire, TV white spaces and more: AWS-3 auction likely won’t be up for discussion

Election Day 2008 is shaping up as monumental for the wireless industry.The Federal Communications Commission is poised to vote Nov. 4 on the Sprint...

Coors sued for $12.5 million over iPhone app: Developer claims brewer and agency infringed on its iBeer feature

The Cannes Silver Lion-winning iPint application for beer brand Carling is the target of a $12.5 million lawsuit against parent Molson Coors Brewing Co....

Financial ratings wrap-up: AT&T, Broadcom, Alvarion 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--Barclays Capital lowered its price...

Wireless carrier Q3 forecasts mixed, but stable: Sprint Nextel expected to remain buzzkill

The third quarter has been busy: AT&T Mobility Inc. released the 3G iPhone; Sprint Nextel Corp. said that its iDEN network may be...

Location-based iPhone Apps top 300

A while back, I noted that where you compute was becoming as important as what you compute . Now that App Store has been...
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