While it will be months before President-elect Barack Obama gets his administration in place and begins to roll out policy priorities, the selection of individuals focusing on high-tech agencies and their issues in the transition period suggests industry giants Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility...
The ever-evolving nature of the wireless market has its eyes set on so-called 4G technologies. These are expected to be higher-capacity networks based on Internet Protocol standards that will support wireless broadband speeds of up to 100 megabits per second. While there is no...
Big-box retailer Circuit City said last week it will close 155 of its stores, including 143 locations that house a Verizon Wireless store-within-a-store location. ; circuit city; verizon; Big-box retailer Circuit City said last week it will close...
It seems all the pieces are in place for traditional television broadcasters to tap the perennially hyped mobile video space. Well, all the pieces except the business models, anyway.An association representing more than 800 U.S. TV stations this week will announce successful broadcast trials...
We expect our purchases to work as promised - and work right away. When it doesn't happen, it's frustrating and disappointing at best, and potentially a customer-losing experience at it's worst.Apple's 3G iPhone was a product that I was enthusiastically looking forward to for...
The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the third quarter.
This list comprises the amounts that were invested into wireless companies, as well as the companies that led the investment.
RCR Wireless News collects venture-financing deals in the wireless...
The cell-phone and tower industries urged the Bush administration to reject backup-power reporting requirements, arguing the Federal Communications Commission grossly underestimated time, operational and financial burdens placed on wireless providers.Indeed, wireless providers argue information collection guidelines associated with the eight-hour cell site backup-power mandate...
The companies listed below represent the largest independent national and regional tower companies in the United States for the second quarter of 2008.
American Tower and Crown Castle continue to dominate the U.S. tower industry.
American Tower remains the largest tower company in the country,...
The mobile phone industry's push for an antenna-siting shot clock is being booed by cities and citizens, continuing a fierce debate dating back to the telecom act of 1996 and that continues to play out unevenly in the courts to this day.Industry association CTIA...
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 RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - The wireless industry is crowded with associations so it's imperative for those looking to succeed to find their niche.It appears PCIA has. PCIA, which was once a powerhouse for industry lobbying, has reinvented itself as the "Wireless Infrastructure Association," focused on...
BY DAN MEYERHOLLYWOOD, Fla. - Despite thunderstorms on Wall Street, as well as outside the convention itself, participants at the PCIA's 2008 Wireless Infrastructure Show last week in Hollywood, Fla., were forecasting sunny skies for the market segment. While exuberance from the tower company...
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - Despite thunderstorms on Wall Street, as well as outside the convention itself, participants at the PCIA's 2008 Wireless Infrastructure Show this week in Hollywood, Fla., were forecasting sunny skies for the market segment. While exuberance from the tower company executives would...
Californian telecom provider SureWest Communications is slowly but surely moving further away from the wireless business. Today, the firm announced it sold 50 of its wireless communications towers to Global Tower Partners.Though the purchase is still pending, SureWest expects the final price to be...
CHICAGO - Two companies have succeeded in utilizing pre-WiMAX technology to build successful businesses that target different customers in the United States. TowerStream and DigitalBridge Communications have carved out their own markets by being fixed pre-WiMAX service providers. TowerStream has targeted the enterprise sector...
ReVerb Networks, a smart antenna and network optimization company, introduced its VirtualRAN family of products at WiMAX World this week.The products address the demand for cost-effective capacity solutions for WiMAX, LTE and UMTS/HSPA networks, said the company."The perfect storm is brewing in the advanced...
CHICAGO - For the past seven years, a Rhode Island company has demonstrated that WiMAX technology can succeed in the United States.In 2000, Jeff Thompson started TowerStream with money from a small group of investors and fewer than 30 employees. In 2008, the company...
On the surface, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' decision to reverse a three-judge panel and hand San Diego County a surprise victory over Sprint Nextel Corp. is just another in a series of conflicting court rulings on antenna siting. But legal wrangling...
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a previous ruling to give San Diego County a victory over Sprint Nextel Corp. in a long-running dispute between the parties over a 2003 ordinance governing visibility and location of wireless facilities."The ordinance does not effectively...
The backup power controversy is now officially before Bush administration budget officials, but the overarching issue of whether the Federal Communications Commission rule will stand or be overturned in court may not be resolved until after the increasingly active Atlantic hurricane season ends in...
AirCell Inc. has added its first major airline outside of the United States in its quest to outfit as many aircraft with its mobile broadband service that provides Internet access to travelers.AirCell announced an agreement with Air Canada, which will roll out AirCell's Gogo...
As several tropical storms threatened various sections of the nation, the Federal Communications Commission took action to prompt Bush administration and court review of a backup power rule maligned by the wireless and tower sectors.The FCC on Thursday sent the backup power rule -...
A decision to show up in Washington, D.C., nearly two years ago is starting to pay off for AirCell Inc. as it attempts to revolutionize the way people stay connected through air travel.Last month, American Airlines launched its Internet program powered by AirCell's Gogo,...
DENVER - It's a glitzy, ostentatious spectacle that has drawn hundreds of powerful politicians, thousands of TV cameras, tens of thousands of convention-goers and an audience that stretches across the globe. And it has coaxed out all corners of the wireless industry, too.
The Democratic...
