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Sprint Nextel Corp. has become the first national mobile-phone operator to embrace targeted emergency-alert technology, choosing SquareLoop Inc.’s solution for testing in Contra Costa County, Calif., in advance of a …

PREDICTIONS ARE SO LAST YEAR.Instead, let’s talk “expectations” – a term that seems to promise a more realistic look ahead at the new year. And there are questions worth asking …

Not that we spend too much time surfing Canadian carrier Web sites, but a quick glance of the Telus Mobility site shows some interesting coverage challenges for the Great White …

Editor’s Note: The following are the stories that had the biggest impact on the wireless industry in 2007, as chosen by the RCR Wireless News editorial staff. 1. Jan. 15 …

While we won’t know for a couple of weeks how specific wireless carriers did during the holiday season, it is safe to assume as a whole they did pretty well. …

Qualcomm Inc. said its revenue in the fiscal first quarter would come in at the high end of previous guidance of $2.3 billion to $2.4 billion.The company said its forecast …

ZTE USA, the American face of the Chinese handset and network vendor, will begin supplying co-branded CDMA handsets to MetroPCS Communications Corp., which offers service to 3.7 million subscribers in …

The Federal Communications Commission said it received 266 applications for the 700 MHz auction, with small and rural telephone companies dominating a field that also includes leading mobile-phone operators, Google …

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands-Nokia Corp.’s strategy hasn’t wavered much in the past few years and the message for 2008 is essentially more of the same. While at one end of the …

Consumers ranked wireless carriers as providing a less useful and enjoyable customer experience than retailers and credit-card companies, but better than TV service providers and medical insurance providers, according to …

SPRINT NEXTEL CORP. PLANS to turn on three WiMAX test markets within the next two weeks, meeting its self-imposed deadline to roll out the technology by the end of this …

Hello!And welcome to a special edition of our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. As 2007 draws to a close, I’m going to see if the year unfolded like we …

MetroPCS Communications Inc. inked a three-and-a-half year contract extension with Alcatel-Lucent, which covers the buildout of the flat-rate carrier’s AWS spectrum holdings in seven major metropolitan areas. Financial terms of …

Google Inc. and the upcoming 700 MHz auction seem to have sparked an “open” movement among U.S. carriers. Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility have been preaching their new “open” message …

Better late than never.Handsets that didn’t arrive by “Black Friday” or “Cyber Monday”-the ultimate days for in-store and online shopping, respectively-may still make an impression on harried shoppers.Nokia Corp. and …

One feather, two caps. Verizon Wireless’ CEO Lowell McAdam told BusinessWeek, in a story published today, that the carrier would join Google Inc.’s open-source effort known as Android.The move gives …

In its annual rating of wireless service, Consumer Reports christened Verizon Wireless and Alltel Corp. its top picks-and largely panned service from Sprint Nextel Corp.Based on nearly 48,000 responses from …

As major media outlets deliver their take on the departure of Motorola Inc.’s CEO Ed Zander, two camps are forming. Anointed CEO-to-be Greg Brown is the right man at the …

Remember the disposable phone? If you answer yes, you’re showing your age-they popped up and seemed to disappear a decade ago. But Hop-On Inc., “best known as the inventor of …

It was no coincidence that Verizon Wireless chose to make two major announcements last week-each one laid out a separate step toward a 4G future driven by connectivity for consumer-electronics …

VERIZON WIRELESS’ DECLARATION LAST WEEK that “any application, any device” will run on its network next year was clearly an overstatement, though executives acknowledged later that itsCDMA network allows only …

VERIZON WIRELESS LAST WEEK confirmed what executives from its parent companies have been hinting at for some time: the carrier will move away from CDMA technology for its next-generation network, …

FOLLOWING VERIZON WIRELESS’ ANNOUNCEMENT that it will use Long Term Evolution technology for its fourth-generation network, many who follow the industry immediately began to peg some infrastructure vendors as winners …

A world of overlapping fourth-generation wireless technologies is still years in the offing even by the most optimistic observers, yet there’s already a growing market for companies looking to prepare …

News broke last week that Verizon Wireless would pursue Long Term Evolution technology as its next-generation play, which hurts Qualcomm Inc.’s prospects. Qualcomm is proffering CDMA2000 1x EV-DO Rev. C, …