October 2008

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our coverage of 25 years in wireless. RCR Wireless News is celebrating with a package of stories detailing the advances of the past three decades. For …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. The mobile …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our coverage of 25 years in wireless. RCR Wireless News is celebrating with a package of stories detailing the advances of the past three decades. For …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our coverage of 25 years in wireless. RCR Wireless News is celebrating with a package of stories detailing the advances of the past three decades. For …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our coverage of 25 years in wireless. RCR Wireless News is celebrating with a package of stories detailing the advances of the past three decades. For …

In this week’s RCR Wireless Newscast we’re taking a look back at the past 25 years of cellular. To toast this anniversary, we are replaying a keynote session from this …

National mobile-phone carriers denied any wrongdoing in reaction to a key Senate lawmaker’s probe into industry-wide text message price increases, pointing out competitive bulk texting plans have actually reduced costs …

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications and AT&T Mobility today launched the former’s W760a 3G handset at $130 with a two-year contract and a mail-in rebate. The device features integration between the …

Californian telecom provider SureWest Communications is slowly but surely moving further away from the wireless business. Today, the firm announced it sold 50 of its wireless communications towers to Global …

A Redmond, Wash.-based newcomer, MobUI said it raised an unspecified amount in a round of funding led by GlobalNET Mobile Solutions, a Latin American wireless services provider. The startup – …

The Federal Communications Commission tentatively concluded that nationwide broadband operations in the advanced wireless services-3 band will not interfere with T-Mobile USA Inc. and others in the advanced wireless services-1 …

Financial analysts typically gauge companies on their future prospects, not past performance. That is acutely so for the current moment in history, a couple weeks into the critical fourth quarter. …

PUBLIC-INTEREST GROUPS ACCUSED WIRELESS CARRIERS of conjuring up misleading excuses to avoid federal regulation of short-code text messaging, pointing to content restrictions in industry documents that they say underscore the …

Social networking is exploding in mobile, according to figures released by ABI Research. And Frank Meehan thinks he knows how to capitalize.ABI polled 500 users of online social networks and …

Wow. T-Mobile said that it had tripled its initial supply of Android phones, but it hadn’t provided an actual number. Now we know: 1.5 million people have pre-ordered the G1, …

Search engine executives hint at the next evolution of the business.

The title is Doctor Seuss ’ fault as his rhymes are lodged in this writer’s head after years of reading them to his children:

Global IP Solutions released a video engine it said can deliver high-quality peer-to-peer videoconferencing on smartphones.

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. …

Sybase iAnywhere is offering to support mobile business customers left in the lurch by Nokia’s decision to focus on consumers.

Dropped-call suit should be dismissed since unhappy users didn’t seek refund, lawyers say. Apple Inc.

The off-deck content world reacted with shock to Verizon Wireless’ plan to impose a drastic new fee for vendor-generated text messages. However, it’s unclear whether the carrier will actually follow …

Verizon Wireless offered to divest another 15 markets as part its $28.1 billion play for Alltel Communications L.L.C., but the proposed transaction is becoming trickier by the day because of …