In an unexpected twist, chipmaker giant Intel Corp. urged the Federal Communications Commission to keep intact proposed interference safeguards that T-Mobile USA Inc. insists are inadequate to prevent interference from wireless broadband operations in the advanced wireless services-3 band. Moreover, Intel warned the...
Wireless competition may soon be coming to the throngs of subway riders who comprise official Washington. A bill passed by Congress and en route to President Bush will allow any licensed mobile-phone carrier to provide service on subways serving the nation's capital and surrounding...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. By far and away, the most popular question I was asked at CTIA earlier this month...
On the surface, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' decision to reverse a three-judge panel and hand San Diego County a surprise victory over Sprint Nextel Corp. is just another in a series of conflicting court rulings on antenna siting. But legal wrangling...
The typical U.S. mobile subscriber sends and receives more text messages than phone calls. In a finding that might benefit mobile marketing, Nielsen Mobile found that during the second quarter of this year, domestic wireless subscribers sent or received an average of 357 text...
THE OPEN-ACCESS POLICY DEBATE, which raged last year and then curiously subsided after Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said the agency should not force wireless networks to give unfettered access to third-party devices and applications, is once again alive. The issue appears to...
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.Another CTIA show has come and gone. There was plenty of talk of new applications...
It's official. The plaintiffs' bar smells blood.The mobile-phone industry suddenly finds itself under siege over rising text messaging prices; there are now five different class-action antitrust lawsuits against the nation's largest wireless carriers over the issue. The growth followed Senate Judiciary antitrust subcommittee Chairman...
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 RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama won a text message election held during the CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment 2008 trade show held earlier this month in San Francisco.Obama received 56% of the vote to edge out his Republican opponent John McCain, according to a...
CTIA Wireless I.T 2008 is in the rear-view, and the industry is performing the typical post-show analyses. My two cents:1) Sprint's Dan Hesse is my new favorite CEO. Because anybody with a fondness for Vans can't be too far removed from this guy. Which...
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a previous ruling to give San Diego County a victory over Sprint Nextel Corp. in a long-running dispute between the parties over a 2003 ordinance governing visibility and location of wireless facilities."The ordinance does not effectively...
A class-action antitrust lawsuit accuses AT&T Mobility, Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel Corp. and T-Mobile USA Inc. of acting together to hike the price of wireless text messages. The new litigation comes on the heels of a Senate lawmaker's probe into rising text charges and...
Electronic Arts Inc. announced a pact to bring "Tomb Raider Underworld" and other Eidos Interactive Ltd. titles to mobile.EA Mobile won wireless rights to "Just Cause 2," "California Games X" and "Minesweeper" in addition to the eighth Tomb Raider game, which is slated for...
SAN FRANCISCO -- There is no shortage of challenges in getting m-commerce off the ground in the United States. But maybe the most important factor is time.That was the takeaway from yesterday's afternoon session on all facets of mobile commerce, from contactless payments to...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Barry Cottle is pimping his ride with eye-catching rims, fancy hood art and those cool hydraulic things that can bounce a car like a basketball at red lights. And he's doing it all with one finger.The SVP and GM of EA...
SAN FRANCISCO -- A relatively new display technology that offers vast power savings, is viewable in direct sunlight and offers longer device use between charges has hit the market with a barely detectable splash.Those first ripples could become a tsunami, if Qualcomm Inc. has...
SAN FRANCISCO -- There are success stories in how wireless technology is helping the enterprise sector save money and improve employee productivity, but some in the industry say more can be done.When it comes to wireless services, the need of every business is different....
SAN FRANCISCO -- Wireless industry association CTIA and Harris Interactive think they have found the answer to one of history's most elusive mysteries: what teenagers want. In a report dubbed "Teenagers: A Generation Unplugged," Harris surveyed 2,000 teens across the nation to find out...
SAN FRANCISCO -- CTIA announced yesterday the beginnings of an effort to implement 2D bar-code scanning via camera phones. To succeed, the service will require cooperation among a wide swath of industry players, a least a few years for the technology to get distributed,...
T-Mobile USA Inc. said government testing revealed interference from operations in a spectrum block that Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin wants to auction for wireless broadband and that is situated adjacent to wireless licenses for which the No. 4 cellular carrier paid $4.2...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Regardless of whether it's on television, a personal computer or a mobile phone, consumers will demand the same experience when it comes to the Internet and entertainment and the different players in the wireless industry are going to have to work...
Welcome to the RCR Wireless Newscast for the CTIA I.T. show here in San Francisco. The second round of keynotes here were basically just PowerPoint show-and-tell presentations. But perhaps the most interesting came from BlackBerry guru Jim Balsillie;...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Leap Wireless International Inc. has its sights set on expansion. Nestled in its cozy booth at the CTIA Wireless I.T. and Entertainment 2008 event, Leap representatives, including Greg Lund, senior manager of corporate communications; Jeff Toig, VP of product marketing; and...
