MobiTV Inc. hit the three-million-subscriber mark and is experiencing even greater video usage among each of those subscribers, the company announced yesterday."We really feel like we're set up now for '08 to be a huge year for TV," President and Co-founder Paul Scanlan said."Viewing...
Network infrastructure and professional services company ADC agreed to acquire LGC Wireless, which provides specialized wireless coverage and capacity equipment, for about $170 million.ADC said that the purchase will augment its existing outdoor products, add scale to its existing line of coverage and capacity...
Sprint Nextel Corp. and MobiTV Inc. have put together a multi-year agreement to continue offering mobile TV services to the carrier's subscribers. The announcement coincided with MobiTV's news that it passed the 3-million-subscriber mark."After a very short time in my role as MobiTV's new...
Just in time for the holiday shopping season, tween-focused mobile virtual network operator kajeet Inc. announced a new line-up of handsets as well as an expanded retail effort. The MVNO's new handsets include the Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. m300, an $80 phone available in...
AT&T Inc. has partnered with digital music provider Napster to offer AT&T customers over-the-air access to more than 5 million full-track songs. The carrier said that, starting in mid-November, Napster Mobile will allow customers to download five tracks a month for $7.50, with five...
You might call it industry's summer of discontent. Where to begin?The Federal Communications Commission saw fit to attach conditions-public safety and open access, specifically-to a tad more than half of the cherished 700 MHz spectrum anxiously anticipated by the wireless industry and first responders...
Television, like all methods of communication, is adapting to the times. Like the push before it in the online space, the hunger for video that matches the quality experience at home has reached the mobile frontier. The opportunity for video on mobile is arguably...
What's Google Inc. up to in mobile? You might as well ask what Rupert Murdoch is doing in media.Because the answer is, just about everything.The Internet colossus first dipped its toe in the mobile waters in 2000 with a search service for Web-enabled phones,...
Editor's Note: Welcome to a special CTIA I.T. Show Daily edition of our weekly online feature, Analyst Angle. Every Monday at www.RCRNews.com you can find columns from the industry's leading analysts, including Current Analysis' Avi Greengart, iGR's Iain Gillott and JupiterResearch's Julie Ask. Visit...
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. In the coming weeks look for columns from Current Analysis' Avi Greengart, Jupiter Research's...
Welcome to our Friday feature, Week in Review. Every Friday, RCR Wireless News runs through the major events of the past week, outlining what happened and speculating on what to look for in the coming weeks, months and years. Check below for news about...
AT&T Mobility released its first High-Speed Uplink Packet Access data card, and said that it had begun adding HSUPA upgrades to its network. The upgrades are expected to increase uplink speeds from the current maximum of 384 kilobits per second to average speeds of...
Mobile users are increasingly turning to Google Inc., but on-the-go searches remain dwarfed by PC queries, the Internet giant said in an earnings call yesterday.Google, which saw its quarterly net income soar 46% from the same period last year, saw increased traffic during...
Alltel Corp. reported a quarter of record growth, with postpaid customers more than doubling year-over-year while the company made substantial improvements in its churn rate. Alltel added 205,000 net new customers, more then doubling the 101,000 customers it gained during the third quarter of...
The International Telecommunication Union agreed to include WiMAX technology in the global family of advanced wireless technologies. The win is a major victory for vendors and service providers on the eve of the World Radiocommunication Conference that the Bush administration hopes to build on...
Verizon Wireless has added the ability to update software on new phones on-the-fly, a new offering that may stand as a key competitive advantage. The carrier is working with InnoPath Software Inc. to deliver its firmware-over-the-air (FOTA) service, which saves consumers a visit to...
Nokia Corp. inched toward its long-held goal of 40% global market share in the third quarter, shipped more phones than its three largest rivals combined and earned revenue and profit to match. With near-complete dominance over incumbent handset makers, Nokia is moving to address...
Steve Jobs has given in.Apple Inc.'s CEO said the company will let outside developers create applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch, reversing a policy that allowed the devices to run only Web-based third-party applications. The company in February will release a software development...
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 this column is a chance for us at RCRNews.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
"You can't just build a device without understanding what that customer really wants," says Cathy Quaciari, director of B2B devices for AT&T Mobility. Quaciari's role is to help business users-be it an individual or an IT manager overseeing 1,000 workers-shop for wireless devices.
Indeed, Quaciari...
The holiday season is always the most critical time of the year for the nation's carriers and handset makers. It's make or break for everyone.
Indeed, much of the industry's revenues are generated during the fourth quarter. Thus, all players across the market pull out...
Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) introduced industry-backed legislation that would establish a national regulatory framework for the wireless industry and fully pre-empt state oversight of mobile-phone carriers.The Pryor bill, unveiled during a Senate Commerce Committee hearing today, would effectively compete with a wireless consumer bill...
Digital mapping companies such as Navteq Corp. and Tele Atlas N.V. "now occupy the most important position in the global GPS navigation supply chain," according to a new report from iSuppli Corp.The ever-increasing value of mapping intellectual property holders was underscored earlier this month...
LG Electronics Co. Ltd. faces fierce competition in the United States, despite the handset maker's devotion to serving the carriers' needs, according to the vendor's latest financial results. The proportion of the handset maker's global shipments destined for the U.S. dropped in the third...
