While it would seem that T-Mobile USA’s ability to carry the device that has become the Nokia 6000-series/Motorola StarTac/Razr/BlackBerry of the current smartphone craze should be a good thing (iPhones for everyone!), this move could prove to be a telling story.
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For one reason or another, I have been a bit off over the past couple of weeks in covering quarterly earnings for domestic wireless operators. This has me in a bit of a fog
Is anything ever easy for Clearwire? Late last week, everyone’s favorite WiMAX provider reported yet another quarter of “things will be better tomorrow … if …” results that have become all too common for Clearwire.
Apple had historically taken a similar approach to the automotive industry in terms of rolling out new models: introduce a new model every year with enough enhancements to entice, but not revolutionary
If nothing else, I hope Sprint Nextel never goes away simply for the entertainment it provides. Especially in an industry that more often than not takes itself way too seriously,
This week’s crazed merger news witnessed T-Mobile USA announcing plans to acquire MetroPCS, putting together a pair of carriers that recently have found it difficult to compete in the market.
This week reinforced to me that a real competition is not really real unless there are more than two involved. Sure, a boxing match is usually just between two combatants, and many sporting events take place between two teams,
I am going to go ahead and assume that a solid majority of people reading this are doing so because they have been waiting in line in front of their favorite Apple product outlet for at least 3 days
Well, there you go. Apple did indeed launch a new device worthy of a new number and for the most part seemed to check all the boxes a dire consumer – and media/analyst – base desperate for something more than the 4S were clamoring for.
This week witnessed a deluge of device launches from the likes of Nokia, Motorola and Amazon.com. These devices were all in their own right very significant to their respective makers as well as to wireless carriers,
I believe I have mentioned before that I would rather get punched in the stomach than give a wireless carrier a compliment, but this week it looks like I am going to have to toughen up and take one in the gut.
Last week, I used this soapbox to go into some detail regarding Apple’s current “issues” in regards to the iPhone and how it’s positioned in the market and comparing its current 4S model to a non-too-handsome product of the U.S. automotive industry.
While I have given up trying to explain Sprint Nextel, it appears that maybe, just maybe, people are getting wise to Apple’s gambit of rolling out improved devices every 12 months or so.
This week, AT&T Mobility joined fellow wireless behemoth Verizon Wireless in announcing plans to offer customers the “choice” to pool data resources into one plan that is shared across multiple devices.
I will admit that I get little charge from mobile devices. At this point in the evolutionary timeline of devices targeting the wireless communication space, it seems that I am stuck in the time of Cro-Magnon Phone.
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....
The tablet world was rocked this week when Microsoft announced its latest foray into the space with its highly anticipated Surface device sporting the latest Windows operating system.
Very few of us – and by us I mean humans – are advanced enough to handle more than one chore at any one time. Sure, some of us (you) are more advanced in that we (not me) can actually walk and chew gum
News this week that Leap Wireless would begin offering Apple’s iPhone devices was a significant escalation in the competitive landscapes across the already red-hot smartphone and prepaid markets.
Just about every conversation I had at the recent CTIA event in New Orleans either involved the words “spectrum crunch” or revolved around that perceived issue. Whether it was carriers, device makers or infrastructure companies,
