Monthly Archives: July, 2010

Apple results wow Wall Street, surpass Microsoft

Antennagate be damned, Apple has done it again, with the firm managing to pull its best ever quarterly revenue results out of its sleek, shiny hat on Tuesday.

T-Mobile USA expands HSPA+ to nearly 50 major markets

Just a day after Harbinger Capital Partners announced plans to spend $7 billion building out a nationwide LTE network, the industry’s current No. 4...

Mobile phones could soon be 'contraband' in federal prisons

Cell phones in federal prisons could soon be considered contraband, as the House of Representatives yesterday passed legislation similar to that in the Senate...

Schulman to leave Sprint Nextel for American Express

Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) announced this morning that current president of its Prepaid group Dan Schulman would be leaving the company on Aug. 23...

Analyst Angle: A world of differences in mobile handset usage and spending Top 10 takeaways about the mobile handset market

Editor's Note: This article is an excerpt from RCR Wireless News' May Special Edition, "Enabling the Mobile Revolution: Mobile Chips, Devices and Accessories." The...

Trying to nail down the most mobile of segments: A state-of-the-industry report on devices

Editor's Note: This article is an excerpt from RCR Wireless News' May Special Edition, "Enabling the Mobile Revolution: Mobile Chips, Devices and Accessories." The...

Webinar: The Exploding IP Services Market and their Impact on Session Border Controllers: Innovate or Perish

This free webinar will provide insight into the market trends around these services and customer drivers for their adoption. It will also explore the...

Capital Markets: FiberLight closes financing; Ntelos buys FiberNet and more

FiberLight L.L.C., which provides fiber optic network solutions, said it completed a private debt offering of $22 million with CoBank. The deal includes a...

Five must-have cellphones for insanely rich people

Tired of having the same phone as all the other Russian billionaires’ wives? Well look no further, comrades, because RCR has got you covered. Here are the five phones most likely to make an impression at your next caviar buffet.

Mobile app revenues to reach $25bn by 2014

The economy may be tanking, but app developers aren’t suffering much, with a new report today claiming a whopping 25 billion mobile applications will have been downloaded by 2015, a figure that has skyrocketed from a paltry 2.6 billion applications downloaded in 2009.

Sprint's Motorola i1 – rugged, rough and ready to rumble

If you consider yourself to be more of a rugged, rough and tumble Android user, who doesn’t mince his words and prefers to push-to-talk, you may just grunt with joy at Sprint’s new military grade Motorola i1 offering.

How important is Apple to AT&T's business?

AT&T's strained, outdated network and spotty coverage has long been a sore point for US iPhone users, with many calling for Apple to bring...

How important is Apple to AT&T's business?

AT&T's strained, outdated network and spotty coverage has long been a sore point for US iPhone users, with many calling for Apple to bring...

iPad – Coming to Korea

Nine months ago, Korea’s KT telecom made the iPhone available to Apple hungry customers and has dominated the Korean Apple pie since, being the only telco exclusively offering the product, giving the firm a huge business advantage and marketing edge, much like AT&T’s in the US. But is KT’s monopoly on Apple crumbling?

How important is Apple to AT&T’s business?

AT&T’s strained, outdated network and spotty coverage has long been a sore point for US iPhone users, with many calling for Apple to bring its popular phone to other carriers, thus giving users more of a choice. The rumor mill has even posited that the AT&T/Apple divorce could be no more than a year away, with a possible open relationship with Verizon Wireless happening well before that.

How important is Apple to AT&T’s business?

AT&T’s strained, outdated network and spotty coverage has long been a sore point for US iPhone users, with many calling for Apple to bring its popular phone to other carriers, thus giving users more of a choice. The rumor mill has even posited that the AT&T/Apple divorce could be no more than a year away, with a possible open relationship with Verizon Wireless happening well before that.

Harbinger venture signs NSN in $7B outsourcing deal: Plans to offer wireless broadband means 100k jobs, hope for rural operators

Fresh off its agreement to buy Motorola Inc.'s networks business, Nokia Siemens Networks said it will build Harbinger Capital Partners' LTE network in an...

Reality Check: Evolving telecom trends create opportunity for mobile marketers: As the low-cost wireless war heats up in Canada, marketers must take notice of...

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...

Reality Check: Whistling two different (i)Tunes

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...

Device supply channels vital link in distribution chain

Editor's Note: This article is an excerpt from RCR Wireless News' May Special Edition, "Enabling the Mobile Revolution: Mobile Chips, Devices and Accessories." The...

Contracts: Aruba equips IIS; NSN upgrades O2; and more

Following are infrastructure contracts announced during the past week:Alcatel-LucentUnited States: With OG&E, Oklahoma’s largest electric utility company, to build a private wide area network...

Plug the BP Oil Spill with your iPhone

While the oil disaster in the gulf of Mexico is certainly no game, app developers are finding innovative ways to raise awareness of the issue, and even raise money for the environment at the same time

Android up, Symbian down in mobile advertising metrics

Android has made significant gains in the US when it comes to mobile advertising, but remains the OS with the lowest Response Rate (CTR) in Europe according to the latest Smaato Metrics.

CEO Compensation: 10 top paid execs in US

Randall Stephenson, CEO of AT&T Corp., is the top paid executive in the telecom space among U.S.-based public companies. Stephenson is followed by Qualcomm Inc. CEO and Chairman Dr. Paul Jacobs. During the next month, RCR Wireless News will feature top paid executives each Monday.

Windows Phone 7 released as technical preview

It’s been a long time in coming, but finally Microsoft has seen fit to bestow a "technical preview" of its Windows Phone 7 operating system to the unwashed developer masses.
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