Carriers

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 …

Law enforcement is getting tough about cellphone hacking in Tinseltown.The Los Angeles county district attorney said AT&T Mobility and T-Mobile USA Inc. agreed to permanent injunctions banning misrepresentations about the …

RadioShack Corp. announced a new $100 netbook sporting 3G connectivity. The catch? Customers have to sign up for two years’ worth of AT&T Mobility’s DataConnect mobile broadband service at $60 …

Wireless video services and trials are spinning their wheels all over the world, but MobiTV Inc. somehow continues to gain traction. The Emeryville, Calif.-based firm has parlayed $100-plus million in …

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin and the Bush administration are on a collision course over a possible Dec. 18 vote on a free, family-friendly wireless auction plan, uncharacteristically bringing …

The number of mobile lines in North American enterprises will outstrip landlines within two years, according to a new forecast from Gartner. That shift will take place as corporations move …

Nokia Siemens Networks said it’s creating a research center in Texas that will focus on the development and research of Long Term Evolution technology.The company’s Next Gen Technology Lab in …

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 …

With Aircell’s in-flight Internet service off the ground, the company is looking to expand the service to international airlines and have a total of 2,000 aircraft equipped with its Gogo …

Best Buy Co. Inc. has recently taken a deeper step into the wireless industry. The retailer sells 90 different handsets from nine different carriers in its stores and recently began …

Moody’s Investor Service downgraded Sprint Nextel Corp.’s un-secured debt rating to non-investment grade, or “junk,” according to a report from the Associated Press.The ratings agency announced Wednesday that it had …

Verizon Wireless’ CTO said this week the carrier hopes to have LTE up and running in some markets by the end of next year, a high-speed boost to the carrier’s …

The backup-power court battle could be about to flame out. But regardless of what happens with litigation on the issue, the Federal Communications Commission plans to revisit how wireless companies …

Sprint Nextel Corp., struggling to get its wireless business back on track and put consumer litigation behind it, has secured preliminary court approval for a $17.5 million nationwide settlement of …

My e-mail inbox is teeming with pitches offering self-serving “predictions” for 2009 that read more like best-case scenarios for those hoping to cash in on mobile. But here’s a forecast …

Editor’s Note: In our monthly Retail Snapshot feature, RCR Wireless News talks to retail managers across the country to get a first-hand view of what’s hot in wireless.As Sprint Nextel …

Mobile TV services are expected to generate revenues of $1.5 billion this year and increase to more than $10 billion in 2013, according to a new study from Informa Telecoms …

Top wireless providers have been busy little elves trying to sway customers with deals, savings promises and incentives during the holiday shopping season. The most recent holiday ad wars began …

Sprint Nextel Corp. continued to woo desktop developers with the launch of an open software platform in advance of its annual Application Developer Conference later this week.The platform promises to …

StarHub and Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. announced the launch of a new, commercially available 3G femtocell network in Singapore, which they said provides mobile-phone services through the carrier’s cable network.StarHub …

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications has joined the Open Handset Alliance in support of Google Inc.’s Android platform, the handset vendor said today.ARM, the British semiconductor designer, also announced its membership …

Official Washington is big on labels, quick to pigeonhole this elected official or that presidential appointee based on party affiliation, past government actions and off-the-record scuttlebutt. It is a convenient …

There’s a very long list of companies with billing platforms that leave carriers out of the revenue stream. But even as operators grudgingly open up their networks, nobody seems to …

Are more job cuts on the way for Sprint Nextel Corp.?After speaking with Sprint Nextel CFO Bob Brust, Pali Research predicts that the carrier will sacrifice employees in order to …

Alvarion Ltd. and NeuStar Inc. became the latest wireless companies to announce jobs cuts amid an increasingly tightening economy.First up: WiMAX vendor Alvarion, which said today it will cut its …