Clearwire Corp. secured the first portion of a fully committed $1 billion term loan that the wireless broadband service provider said would be used to refinance its debt and effectively extend all of its debts to a five-year maturity. The transaction was led by...
More than a dozen House Commerce Committee lawmakers urged Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin to reject Frontline Wireless L.L.C.'s push to have the agency create a national 700 MHz commercial-public safety broadband license with an open-access component."We believe that it is worth considering...
Initial research into the guts of Apple Inc.'s iPhone shows Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Infineon Technologies AG as two of the major component suppliers for the much-hyped device. But figures from tear-down firm iSuppli Corp. reveal that Apple itself is the true victor,...
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. saw its stock jump more than 20% in early trading after it reported a 76.5% increase in revenue from the same quarter a year ago. Meanwhile, smartphone rival Palm Inc.'s stock is down nearly 4% after it reported...
Dear Editor,Every now and then the Federal Communications Commission has to do something very important. In the next two weeks this FCC has a chance to protect the homeland and ensure billions of dollars of benefits to consumers. Or if spun into confusion by...
Managed service, payments and settlements provider Valista named John Lowry as its new CEO. Lowry has a background in information technology and communications, as well as building technology businesses. The company said in a statement that founder Raomal Perera will remain as executive...
AT&T Mobility unveiled price plans exclusively for the much-hyped Apple Inc. iPhone, which will be unleashed on the world later this week. (Perhaps showing who wears the pants in this relationship, the price plans are currently only shown on Apple's site.) The plans include...
So I'm becoming more and more convinced that the future of the music industry rests in the hands of wireless.I know, I know, it's a bold prediction, but before you roll your eyes and dismiss me as a slack-jawed cheerleader for wireless, let me...
Listening to Democrats and Republicans forever talking past each over the United States' standing on the global broadband stage and where wireless technology fits in, you might think our great country of cutting-edge Yankee ingenuity has become as much a basket case on tech...
SAN DIEGO-The BREW 2007 conference opened last week with a rock-concert feel as a large instrumental band spread out on the conference floor-some musicians wheeled around the audience in a modified golf cart and one drummer played suspended from the ceiling.Following the kickoff, the...
WIRELESS INDUSTRY EFFORTS to derail a federal-state panel's recommendation to cap universal service fund support for wireless carriers in rural areas could be undermined by a new report that found billions of dollars in subsidies have been largely ineffective in bringing cellular service to...
AT&T Mobility has joined rivals Verizon Wireless Sprint Nextel Corp. and trend-starter T-Mobile USA Inc. in offering an unlimited messaging option for family plans. AT&T Mobility's unlimited family messaging plan allows all lines on a family plan to send and receive unlimited domestic SMS,...
SAN DIEGO-The BREW 2007 conference opened with a rock-concert feel this morning as a large instrumental band spread out on the conference floor-some musicians wheeled around the audience in a modified golf cart and one drummer played suspended from the ceiling.Following the kickoff, the...
Editor's Note: Welcome to the first edition of Reality Check, a feature for RCR Wireless News' new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile content industry to give their insights into the marketplace....
The U.S. telecom industry appears to largely be treading water when it comes to fixed-mobile convergence-with much talk about the subject and a few tentative sallies in that direction, but not an inordinate amount of action so far. However, many operators are in the...
The Supreme Court delayed a decision on whether to review a lower court's pro-state pre-emption ruling, inviting the views of the U.S. solicitor general who previously signaled disinterest in pursuing an appeal. Sprint Nextel Corp. and T-Mobile USA Inc. petitioned the high court...
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. could overtake Motorola Inc. in market share for the second quarter, according to projections from analyst Ittai Kidron at CIBC. The share shift would be remarkable, based on 2006 results, which had Motorola at nearly 22% global market share for...
Sprint Nextel Corp. is determined to push WiMAX into existence and then ubiquity, and the company may explore a range of financial and strategic options in order to make that happen, CEO Gary Forsee told an industry conference last week. Forsee said that he...
Watching the competitive jockeying of the world's largest handset brands has its pleasures-the neck-and-neck excitement of a horserace, the tragedies of thrown jockeys and doomed steeds and, naturally, the wagering, er, investing. Behind the scenes, however, the major handset brands all depend to some...
Sprint Nextel Corp. is determined to push WiMAX into existence and then ubiquity, and the company may explore a range of financial and strategic options in order to make that happen, CEO Gary Forsee told an industry conference earlier this week. Forsee said that...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our Monday 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. In the coming weeks look for columns from Compete's Miro Kazakoff, Jupiter Research's Julie...
Executives at Palm Inc. appear to believe they've bought the time and talent to move from less than 3% of the smartphone market to leadership in mobile computing.To paraphrase Neil Armstrong, that's a giant leap . for any company, analysts said. This is perhaps...
THE CLOCK IS TICKING as Qualcomm Inc. pursues legal remedies and technical alternatives to counter a decision last week by a federal agency banning future models of 3G handsets containing the vendor's chips from entering the United States. The U.S. International Trade Commission stunned...
The Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing of Amp'd Mobile Inc. may not necessarily signal the death knell for the business model, but is certain to make investors and partners wary and put additional pressure on other fledgling mobile virtual network operators to review their own...
