Verizon Wireless reported another strong quarter of results, although the company saw small increases in its consistently low churn rates. The carrier added a total of 1.6 million net customers. However, Verizon Wireless lost about 115,000 customers from its wholesale business, which primarily...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our Monday 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 Jupiter Research's Julie Ask, iGR's Iain...
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...
ULocate Communications Inc. bagged another customer for its WHERE application.The Boston-based developer said Sprint Nextel Corp. sub-brand Boost Mobile subscribers now have access to WHERE, a GPS-based offering that delivers information on local gas stations, shops, restaurants and other businesses. WHERE also features dozens...
Sprint Nextel Corp. affiliate iPCS Inc.'s customer additions for the third quarter decreased compared to previous quarters, while the company's churn rate increased. The carrier said it added 10,100 net customers during the third quarter of 2007-a sizeable decrease, given that the company had...
Alcatel-Lucent and Dominican Republic-based operator Onemax announced that they've completed the world's first mobile handoffs on a commercial WiMAX 802.16e-2005 network in the 3.5 gigahertz spectrum band just one day after the companies officially launched the network.Onemax executives, customers, local celebrities and government dignitaries...
Shares of Openwave Systems Inc. continued to dissolve after the company posted quarterly revenue of $63 million, down 24% from the same period last year.The buffeted mobile software developer narrowed its quarterly net loss from $24.5 million in 2006 to $14.1 million this year,...
AT&T Mobility has delayed its launch of MediaFLO USA Inc.'s broadcast mobile TV service to early 2008. More than eight months after committing to launching the service by the end of the year, and seven months after Verizon Wireless launched the service last March,...
Motorola Inc. saw its net earnings fall by 94% for the third quarter-but Wall Street appeared to buy Chairman and CEO Ed Zander's message that the company is improving and will have a better fourth quarter, sending the company's stock up more than 4%....
Opera Software ASA released a new feature that enables Opera browser users to access their bookmarks, speed dial and personal bar feature from any device, including cellphones.Opera Link is supported by the newest versions of Opera's browsers for desktop computers and cellphones, and gives...
EarthLink Inc. posted a third-quarter loss driven by restructuring costs and its investment in mobile virtual network operator Helio L.L.C., but promised that it was in the midst of a turnaround.EarthLink's loss for the quarter was $79.4 million on revenues of nearly $300 million....
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....
Wireless customers aren't pleased with their retail sales experience, and their opinion of it has gotten steadily worse since 2006, according to the most recent survey of retail sales satisfaction from J.D. Power and Associates. The semi-annual survey examined evaluations from more than 6,300...
AT&T has consolidated it estimated $3.4 billion media account with WPP Group's Mediaedge:cia, according to executives familiar with the review.Omnicom Group's OMD, along with GSD&M's Idea City as one team, and Publicis Groupe's Digitas, were also finalists.Prior to the review, Mediaedge:cia handled AT&T's wireless...
Wow. Three days, a few hundred miles of walking, too much alcohol and too few good meals. Or in other words, a typical CTIA event. While this year's event seemed a little light on big news, there was still plenty of buzz oozing from...
A party of five representing TV and cable networks and a diverse sampling of distribution providers failed to collectively define mobile television as it exists today or where it is going. All agreed that more needs to be done to inform large swaths of...
The buzzword du jour: presence. "Presence" is getting a lot of play, from the focus of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's opening keynote address on Tuesday to a panel discussion Wednesday. But what the heck does it mean? Like most buzzwords, that depends on...
So this is what they mean by "One show, two personalities."Wednesday's keynote coupled the buttoned-down executive style of Research In Motion Ltd. with the hip, edgy verve of Facebook. Dustin Moskovitz, who co-founded the popular social networking site, unveiled a new application that delivers...
Thumbplay said it signed an exclusive deal for ringtones and other mobile content across the AOL network. AOL is integrating Thumbplay's content through AOL Music, AOL Games, the AIM instant-messaging service, Winamp and Spinner.Thumbplay said its content also is integrated on the new AOL...
RCR Wireless News met with PacketVideo's VP of Marketing Gretchen Griswold for five minutes on the show floor to see where the multimedia software company is tapping into the wireless industry and what it sees coming down the pipeline. Q: Where is PacketVideo experiencing...
John Wang momentarily wears a distant look on his face. How to convey a sense of the process at HTC Corp.'s MAGIC Labs that resulted in the Touch device and its innovations? (The Touch launched globally this past summer and arrives at Sprint Nextel...
Groove Mobile is going directly to consumers with a new track from indie hip-hop artist Aceyalone. Users can send a message to a short code to receive a link enabling them to access the tune via the wireless Web. The song, "Can't Hold Back,"...
Consider WiMAX a bit schizophrenic. The technology is taking two divergent paths as different countries and different companies explore how best to put it to use in their respective markets.Dr. Mohammad Shakouri, board member and VP of marketing for the WiMAX Forum, has described...
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