Yearly Archives: 2008

MetroPCS picks LTE for 4G; Leap remains mum

MetroPCS Communications Inc. plans to hitch its 4G plans to Long Term Evolution technology. Following in the footsteps of other CDMA carriers, MetroPCS said...

Analyst Angle: Ads, ads everywhere, yet not the one I seek

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...

U.S. handset sales healthy in Q2, Moto still in No. 1 position

Three things you need to know about the handset market in the United States last quarter, courtesy of Strategy Analytics: 1) Overall unit sales...

VIDEO: Sprint Nextel planning ‘strategic resolution’ of iDEN business: Rumors swirl around iDEN’s fate

Welcome to the RCR Wireless Newscast. We take a closer look at Sprint and what the carrier might...

Moto exec exodus continues

Even as Motorola Inc. makes some key new hires, such as co-CEO Sanjay Jha, other executives continue to exit.Chief Information Officer Patty Morrison left...

Rural carriers wince at FCC’s universal service plans

A group of rural and small wireless providers asked the Federal Communications Commission to reconsider its decision to impose an interim cap on high-cost...

FunMobile agrees to $1M settlement over charges for mobile content

Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced a $1 million settlement with a Hong Kong wireless content firm in connection with a state probe...

Venture capital financing wrap-up: Amobee, Eye-Fi and Paymo

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

Internet players’ move to mobile is new frontier for all

Google Inc.'s Internet dominance has grown in recent years as the competition - well, what passes for competition - continues to plod along. But...

Worst of the Week: I signed what?

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...

Telecom industry urges intercarrier compensation reform: Group focuses on charges for IP-based traffic

The mobile phone industry and others in the telecom sector asked the Federal Communications Commission to overhaul regulations governing how service providers are compensated...

FCC asks appeals court to dump E-911 rules: Cites public safety communities claim for more relaxed standards

The Federal Communications Commission asked a federal appeals court to throw out enhanced 911 location accuracy rules approved last November but not yet put...

T-Mobile USA adds 668,000 customers in Q2

T-Mobile USA Inc.'s second-quarter results showed increases in the two Cs, customers and churn. The nation's No. 4 carrier added 668,000 customers, pushing its...

LiveWire to power Virgin Mobile USA’s ringback service

Virgin Mobile USA Inc. has tapped LiveWire Mobile to power a new ringback application that allows subscribers to choose pre-selected content channels rather than...

CallWave snares WebMessenger for $9M

CallWave Inc. shelled out $9 million in cash to pick up WebMessenger Inc., a Los Angeles-based developer of messaging applications for smartphones.CallWave, a privately...

Andrew barred from using TruePosition patent

TruePostion Inc. said it won a permanent injunction in a Delaware federal court barring Andrew Corp. from marketing a key location technology patented by...

T-Mobile USA stamps into prepaid trafficking

T-Mobile USA Inc. said it scored two court wins - one awarding the No. 4 wireless provider several million dollars in punitive damages -...

Verizon Wireless completes RCC acquisition

Verizon Wireless announced it completed its purchase of Rural Cellular Corp., bringing to a close a yearlong transaction that sparked complaints from consumer advocates...

Mobile capex to grow to $163.5B in five years, ABI predicts

Mobile capital expenditures exceeded $131 billion last year and will grow to $163.5 billion in 2013, driven by increasing traffic and preparations for fourth-generation...

There’s money to be made in micropayments: Technologies are in place, but business models still need work

Hardware, software, high-speed networks, uptake . it seems all the pieces are in place for mobile commerce to take off. Well, all the pieces...

Juniper: 1.7B mobile Internet users by 2013

Mobile Internet service users will increase from 577 million today to more than 1.7 billion by 2013, according to a new report from Juniper...

T-Mobile USA’s 3G network hits Sin City

T-Mobile USA Inc. kept good on its 3G rollout promise; the carrier launched its 3G network in Las Vegas. Although it currently lags behind...

Sprint Nextel slows decline during Q2, but warns of rough waters ahead

Sprint Nextel Corp.'s comeback campaign showed limited progress but remains a work in progress, as the struggling No. 3 wireless provider slowed its hemorrhaging...

Advertising: Another dime in mobile music jukebox

Mobile music has been a one-hit wonder. But the big follow-up to the lucrative ringtone market may not be ringback tones, full-track downloads or...

Martin pushes action on roaming, interference issues

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said he wants action before month's end to relax roaming rules and freeze further licensing of wireless microphones...
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