BROWSING: Opinion

Worst of the Week: The wonders of rubber

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: A world of differences in mobile handset usage and spending Top 10 takeaways about the mobile handset market

Editor's Note: This article is an excerpt from RCR Wireless News' May Special Edition, "Enabling the Mobile Revolution: Mobile Chips, Devices and Accessories." The 80-page special edition is availablehere.During the past several months, Accenture has been conducting global market research on consumer usage and...

Reality Check: Evolving telecom trends create opportunity for mobile marketers: As the low-cost wireless war heats up in Canada, marketers must take notice of consumer's evolving texting trends

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.SMS use is on a steady rise worldwide, including messages sent to and from short codes. ...

Reality Check: Whistling two different (i)Tunes

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.We have yet to learn of the bottom-line successes of the iPhone 4 or Droid X launch...

Reader Forum: Take a load off your customers – manage mobility for them

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: Phone comparison – octagon style!

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: The smart phone impact on consumer mobile usage habits

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.We live in the digital age. That’s a fact that shouldn’t astonish anyone. But the...

Reality Check: Next-generation content drives need for sophisticated charging and revenue management

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.The days of “content” as simply a photograph or a ringtone download are long gone. The...

Analyst Angle: A game of inches

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 first wave of handsets that U.S. carriers used to shield themselves from Apple Inc.'s...

Reality Check: Business applications, you are clear to land

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, home of the baseball team with the best batting average in the majors...

Reality Check: Messaging’s vast contributions to society today and tomorrow

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.There’s no question as to the explosive growth of mobile messaging, giving those of us in the...

Reader Forum: Cell awareness an effective alternative to costly mobile backhaul

Editor's Ntoe: 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: Intelligence for a personalized mobile Internet

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: Shock and aqua

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: Bye-bye unlimited data plans – the drivers, threats and opportunities

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 U.S mobile data services market is in the midst of a shake-up. In view...

Reality Check: Earnings spotlight on capital spending

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 the 4th of July remote location(s) of this week’s Sunday Brief. (Note: if...

Reader Forum: The Quiet Problem: IPv6

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: Would you like cheese with that whine?

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 (Special Edition): For all the hoopla over broadband, Indian operators focused on 3G : ‘WiMAX now, TD-LTE later' may pose challenges for operators

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.Perhaps, because it led to Mukesh Ambani's dramatic re-entry in the country's telecom sector and...

Reality Check (Special Edition): The Kin kill

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.Most of my blogs are chock full of numbers, trends, analyses. I like it that way. However,...

Analyst Angle: A market perspective on LTE's rollout

Editor's Note: This article is an excerpt from RCR Wireless News' May Special Edition, "Enabling the Mobile Revolution – Mobile Chips, Devices and Accessories." The 80-page special edition is available here.Long Term Evolution or LTE, a next-generation 3G technology that uses ODFMA (Orthogonal Frequency...

iPhone to Verizon Wireless rumors are fun

Stop me if you have heard this one before: Apple Inc. is set to break free of its AT&T Mobility bonds and begin offering the iPhone through Verizon Wireless. Sounds familiar? Sure it does as varying forms of that prediction have been bouncing around...

Reality Check: Earnings spotlight on consumer data and enterprise growth

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.We are quickly approaching the end of the second quarter, and the industry isn’t without some headlines (by...

Reader Forum: School of tech

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,...