BROWSING: Opinion

Analyst Angle: AT&T Mobility and T-Mobile USA – Why it’s a marriage made in heaven

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.I was sitting at my desk on Sunday, Mar. 20, working on my upcoming Wireless...

Analyst Angle: Service assurance – A critical challenge in the 4G world

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.The surging 4G world promises to deliver many innovative and groundbreaking features to customers around...

Reality Check: Anchoring among consolidating network operators

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 insights into the marketplace.My last three columns explored the wave of consolidation that is washing over the wireless industry and...

Reader Forum: The end of an era – Selling T-Mobile USA to AT&T

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...

Reader Forum: For tablets, all data is not created equal

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...

Worst of the Week: Charlie Sheen in hot pants

Hello! And welcome to our Friday 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....

Reality Check (2-fer): It's trade show week – The question that should be on everyone's mind (and) Boy, was I wrong!

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 insights into the marketplace.With the new year comes the parade of trade shows, including the Consumer Electronics Show (Las Vegas...

Reality Check: Seven trends to track in mobile handset market

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 insights into the marketplace.Wireless handsets have been around for decades, but this market has perhaps never had a more promising...

Reader Forum: Cooperation breeds success

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...

Reader Forum: Spectrum crisis vs. bandwidth crisis

Wireless spectrum is a very valuable and limited natural resource. This fact, and the surge in data traffic on wireless networks, is driving the misconception that there is a wireless spectrum scarcity issue in the U.S. The truth is, there is approximately...

Reader Forum: The importance of cloud computing in mobile security

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...

Worst of the Week: Another (?!?) trade show?!?

Hello! And welcome to our Friday 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....

Analyst Angle: Motorola Xoom and iPad 2 – tablets begin to mature

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.Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen the introduction of the second generation of tablets,...

Reality Check: Here come the fast apps

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 insights into the marketplace.Understanding the interplay between the wireline and wireless worlds is important as value shifts occur. You can’t...

Reality Check: Love your smart phone? Make sure it doesn’t steal more than your heart

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 insights into the marketplace.I fell hook, line and sinker into the mobile Internet with my first iPhone nearly three years...

Reader Forum: The dating game between app developers, carriers

The relationship between carriers and app developers is an evolving one. Carriers have increasingly opened up their APIs to developers – even if a developer is offering an application that overlaps with a carrier's feature. The trend is prominent in the rapidly growing family...

Reader Forum: Tablets in the enterprise – Why 2011 is the year of the company iPad

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...

Worst of the Week: Come sail away

Hello! And welcome to our Friday 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....

Reality Check: Who's winning the data wars on the ground

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 insights into the marketplace.Greetings from Kansas City, where we are preparing to host the Big XII basketball championships. Last...

Realty Check: Smaller and greener: The base stations of the future

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 insights into the marketplace.At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last month, smart phones and tablets weren't the only feats...

Bring on the connected home

Editor's Note: This article first appeared in RCR Wireless News' January Special Edition: "Unwrapping the Opportunities, the next generation of smart devices. To see all of the articles from that issue, click here. One constant in the wireless sector is that it constantly...

Reader Forum: How smart phone manufacturers can gain greater market share today

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...

Worst of the Week: Idol worship

Hello! And welcome to our Friday 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....

Ain't no stopping us now

Editor's Note: This article first appeared in RCR Wireless News' January Special Edition: "Unwrapping the Opportunities, the next generation of smart devices. To see all of the articles from that issue, click here.Is there really anything more awesome than a brand new mobile...