The Bush administration official responsible for implementing key spectrum, public-safety and digital TV transition initiatives is leaving her post, prompting concern from lawmakers.Meredith Baker, acting head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, oversees the Bush spectrum policy initiative, a $1 billion public-safety interoperability...
Nortel Networks Corp. reported a loss of $844 million during the fourth quarter of 2007 and said it would fire 2,100 employees and move another 1,000 positions to lower cost locations. The losses compounded an already tumultuous year for the infrastructure vendor, as it...
Don't get too excited. That's the basic message from Nokia Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. - yes, one thing they can agree on - which have famously been jousting to defend the honor of their business models, patent portfolios and the damsel in distress, the...
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. In the coming weeks look for columns from Current Analysis' Peter Jarich, NPD Group's...
One popular handset does not a successful vendor make. But in Palm Inc.'s case, the launch of its popular, $100 Centro smartphone at AT&T Mobility in a GSM, quad-band world format, may help the company recapture mindshare and produce cash flow. The Centro first...
What is mobile search? A search for "mobile search" on Merriam-Webster's online dictionary returns only paid search terms. I will refrain from comment. Wikipedia returns the following:". an evolving branch of information retrieval services that is centered around the convergence of mobile platforms and...
BARCELONA, Spain - The world's largest network providers are jockeying for position in the race to build out fourth-generation networks in an increasingly uneasy market affected by intense competitive price pressures and worries of an economic downturn.Nokia Siemens Network CEO Simon Beresford-Wylie reiterated earlier...
Sprint Nextel Corp. continued to chip off its Nextel Communications Inc. legacy, announcing today that it was consolidating its operational headquarters and corporate headquarters at its Overland Park, Kan., campus. The company's corporate headquarters were previously housed at Nextel's campus in Reston, Va."After a...
You may have never heard of it, but Google Inc. is behind it. So are AOL, Microsoft Corp., and Yahoo Inc. With that kind of support, OpenID may soon be coming to mobile in a big way.Designed as a standardized platform for online authentication,...
The Senate passed legislation giving parent companies of the three largest mobile-phone carriers retroactive immunity from dozens of privacy lawsuits triggered by a Bush administration warrantless wiretap program secretly launched soon after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. As a result of the chamber's...
Sprint Nextel Corp. continued to chip off its Nextel Communications Inc. legacy, announcing today that it was consolidating its operational headquarters and corporate headquarters at its Overland Park, Kan., campus. The company's corporate headquarters were previously housed at Nextel's campus in Reston, Va."After a...
The National Association of Tower Erectors said it would redouble efforts to improve job safety in a sector that caught the attention of government labor officials in 2000 because of injuries and fatalities. "The time is now for everyone in the industry, from CEOs...
Editor's Note: Welcome to Yay or Nay, a feature for RCR Wireless News' weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week we'll review a new wireless application or service from the user's point of view, with the goal of highlighting what works and...
The opening day of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, was all about mobile advertising.Nokia Corp. made the biggest splash with its Media Network, an alliance of more than 70 publishers and operators including Sprint Nextel Corp., Discovery, Hearst and Reuters. The company...
The hype cycle offers fertile ground for startups. Consider modu, a private company based in Israel, which today provided that familiar, heady mix of grandiose claims, intriguing technology, long launch window and big-name backers that often ignites press speculation.Less than a week before the...
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 us at RCRWirelessNews.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
WHAT TYPES OF DEVICES might ride on the 700 MHz frequency licenses now up for bid in the United States?The question is as open and varied as the 214 qualified spectrum bidders and their disparate strategies, analysts said."We don't know what the winners of...
The mobile-phone industry told a U.S. appeals court the Federal Communications Commission exceeded its statutory powers in mandating the eight-hour backup power rule for cell sites as part of an otherwise legally flawed rulemaking."By promulgating a sweeping mandate far beyond its regulatory authority without...
The Federal Communications Commission is coming under increasing pressure from the wireless industry to put on hold new enhanced 911 location accuracy guidelines, with court appeals virtually guaranteed.On the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the FCC clarified that wireless service...
Anyone who has traveled abroad and decided to use their cellphone to call home or check e-mail knows how shocking the total on your subsequent wireless bill can be. Short of owning an unlocked GSM device and carrying multiple SIM cards - each serving...
An arbitrator certified a class-action lawsuit against Verizon Wireless that potentially could cost the No. 2 cellphone carrier close to $1 billion in refunds of early termination fees."I find the claimants have complied with the criteria for class certification," wrote Eugene I. Farber, a...
LAS VEGAS - It is no doubt a tumultuous time for the television industry - writers' strike not withstanding - and NBC Universal President and CEO Jeff Zucker didn't mince words during his keynote address at the NATPE++ Mobile event when he described the...
The answer to that old "WAP or app" debate? It might be, both.Ever since the early days of WAP - which, yes, was often crap - media companies and advertisers have struggled with how to approach users on their phones. While wireless Web sites...
Anyone who has traveled abroad and decided to use their cellphone to call home or check e-mail knows how shocking the total on your subsequent wireless bill can be. Short of owning an unlocked GSM device and carrying multiple SIM cards - each serving...
