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U.S. CARRIERS ARE EVER SO SLOWLY BEGINNING TO SHARE consumer demographics and other coveted information in an effort to deliver highly targeted wireless ads. And Sprint Nextel Corp. – very …

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin is coming under mounting pressure to back off a controversial plan to auction a national wireless Internet license that would require the winning bidder …

Full-track music download services continue to spin their wheels in mobile, but Verizon Wireless is hoping to get some traction by overhauling its offering.The carrier last week launched a new …

Could the skies be clearing over beleagured Sprint Nextel?According to the Wall Street Journal, which cited comments from Verizon Communications President Denny Strigl, the nation’s No. 3 carrier could be …

A lower price isn’t the only change accompanying the release of Apple Inc.’s 3G iPhone. Activating the device will also differ this year. When released last summer, customers were required …

FEW ARE CERTAIN whether Apple Inc.’s simultaneous, 22-country launch of its 3G iPhone this Friday is unprecedented in the industry. But many observers, cognizant of manufacturing logistics, regulatory-approval and carrier-testing …

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News has teamed up with the Yankee Group to conduct a series of market surveys of RCR Wireless News’ subscribers to gauge their thoughts on technology …

The blueprints for the much-hyped IP Multimedia Subsystems architecture have been drawn, plans have been made, dreams have hatched; nearly everything needed to be done has been done; everything but …

Won’t it take time to develop an open-source version of Symbian, giving competing open-source groups time to get their products out? One of the factors that sets our initiative apart …

Speech recognition technology wins the “the most over-promised and under-delivered of all time award,” according to vlingo Corp. CEO Dave Grannan. But the space may finally be delivering on its …

Sprint Nextel Corp. has launched an expensive, frontal assault on rivals in a bid for a hit handset that will resuscitate its fortunes. While it remains early in the game …

A couple years ago, starting your very own mobile virtual network operations company was a sizzling hot idea and everybody was trying to cash in. But now, two years and …

The Federal Communications Commission is rushing toward auctioning too much spectrum in too short a period of time and is going to be disappointed with the results. While auctioning 25 …

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News has teamed up with the Yankee Group to conduct a series of market surveys of RCR Wireless News’ subscribers to gauge their thoughts on various …

The Asia-Pacific region represents a significant opportunity for mobile WiMAX technology, according to a recent report from ABI Research.“Because mobile WiMAX is aimed at untapped markets, almost all vendors including …

Local mobile search services are growing in popularity, and nearly 1.3 billion mobile-phone users are expected to use local mobile search services by 2013, according to a new report from …

Carriers are changing their minds about outsourcing pieces of their operations. The decision for carriers to put units of their business in others’ hands is beginning to increase in popularity …

Editor’s Note: In this monthly feature, RCR Wireless News talks to retail managers across the country to get a first-hand view of what’s hot in wireless. Wireless Toyz, which originally …

APPLE INC. IS THE NAME and, now, sheer volume is the game.Before the “wow” factor for his much-hyped handset fades or is eclipsed by competitors, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has …

While Apple Inc.’s 3G iPhone includes a number of new technologies to excite tech-savvy phone users, it’s the device’s price and enterprise focus that could stand as the greatest boon …

NEW YORK – Turns out all those “open vs. closed” debates aren’t limited just to mobile networks and software platforms. Wireless advertising is joining the fray, too. Kind of.Interoperability – …

NEW YORK – Here’s something you probably haven’t heard before: this is not the year of mobile advertising. And next year may not be either.Executives at the Mobile Marketing Forum …

Teens love cellphones every bit as much as the mobile-phone industry embraces this critical demographic. And teens – being teens – can resist and resent authority.As such, results of new …

An emerging subplot in the escalating early termination fee controversy is the harsh criticism that’s surfacing in federal lawsuits over the impact on consumer credit ratings when a dispute arises …

GoTV Networks Inc., a company that has found a considerable amount of success building a multi-platform network of video channels for mobile and online, has partnered with talent agency, CESD, …