Change has never been easy for the cell-phone industry. And it's perfectly understandable. With the kind of wild success and wealth creation during its first three decades, cellular chieftains who collectively service more than 250 million subscribers have a history of being instinctively cautious...
As the wireless industry gears up for the nation's biggest wireless show, CTIA's John Walls discusses the trade group's objectives for this year and beyond.
Walls, VP of public affairs for CTIA, said a major topic this year will be evaluating the regulatory framework for...
Editor's Note: Welcome to a special CTIA Show Daily edition of our weekly online feature, Analyst Angle. Every Monday at www.RCRWirelessNews.com you can find columns from the industry's leading analysts, including NPD Group's Ross Rubin, Enderle Group's Rob Enderle and more. Visit www.RCRWirelessNews.com/analyst for...
On so many levels - some more tangible than others - the wireless industry stands at a curious (but not necessarily critical) juncture as tens of thousands arrive in Las Vegas for the big CTIA show. Wireless is the disruptive technology that will drive...
Look for former presidential candidates John Edwards and Fred Thompson to deliver keynote addresses on the final day of CTIA Wireless 2008 at 9:30 a.m. We're pretty sure they can't upstage the best keynote ever of former Presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton last...
The wireless and tower industries are making a strong push at the Federal Communications Commission to reform the pole-attachment regulatory regime. The parties claim that non-discriminatory and equitable access to utility poles on a nationwide uniform basis will hold the promise of fostering the...
With CTIA Wireless 2008 offering a predominantly consumer slant, one analyst will approach the show with a handful of issues in mind and filter accordingly. Euro-competition for American enterprise customers, open access, an enterprise pitch for Apple Inc.'s iPhone, fixed-mobile convergence and the recent...
While much discussion has rightly focused on touchscreen-based display technology - and, of course, the "experience" it enables as an input/output mechanism - there's always something coming down the pike. In this case, that something may well be digital projectors, either standalone modules or...
MOTOROLA INC.'S INTENT TO SPLIT into two publicly traded companies should speed the recovery of its mobile devices business by attracting new leadership and developing a fresh focus on a product-led recovery, CEO Greg Brown said last week.And, not incidentally, the announcement may help...
The controversy over whether the Federal Communications Commission should regulate short code-related text messaging has opened a floodgate of weighty policy questions - from network management to consumer protection to free speech - that could make resolution of the matter far more difficult than...
AT&T Mobility and MediaFLO USA Inc. announced they will launch their long-awaited mobile TV service in May, but the details of the offering still remain somewhat unclear.Neither company pointed to a specific date for launch, nor what content would be featured on two channels...
It seems AT&T Mobility and MediaFLO USA Inc. didn't want to risk getting lost in the glare of next week's CTIA Wireless 2008 trade show; the companies rushed out news this afternoon that AT&T Mobile TV with FLO will be launching this May.The service...
The TV white spaces debate -- already highly controversial and politicized, but largely limited to potential unlicensed Wi-Fi use -- just got messier.The mobile-phone industry recommended to the Federal Communications Commission that most vacant broadcast channels be auctioned for area-wide licensing. Cellular trade group...
Hello! And welcome to our 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. We...
Sprint Nextel Corp. and Clearwire Corp. are in discussions with the nation's two largest cable providers -- Comcast Corp. and Time Warner Cable Inc. -- to fund a nationwide WiMAX venture, according to the Wall Street Journal. Intel Corp., Google Inc. and Bright House...
Motorola Inc. will split into two publicly traded companies, if it has its way, the company said today. Under the plan announced this morning, shareholders will receive shares of both companies -- one focused solely on mobile devices, the other on home broadband and...
Editor's Note: Welcome to Reality Check, a feature for RCR Wireless News' 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. In the coming weeks look...
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO. LTD. appears to be upping the ante in the U.S. cellphone market, where it is No. 2 - some distance behind Motorola Inc. and trailed closely by LG Electronics Co.While confident of its future here, Samsung sees the U.S. market's rate...
CTIA is taking its big show back west this year as the CTIA Wireless 2008 event is set to take place April 1-3 in Las Vegas (and if you haven't made your plans to attend yet, you might want to stop reading this and...
At the end of the day - the verbal pause du jour - a gathering of thousands of industry people bursting with innovative products, some of them handsets, will undoubtedly kick up a little dust in Las Vegas next week.Whether handset vendors are merely...
So we never expected that Google would actually become a wireless licensee, but the FCC certainly did not get its wish for a bunch of new competition in the wireless industry. AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless made up 85% of the proceeds from the...
The Federal Communications Commission took steps to improve outdated broadband data collection, an issue of concern to wireless carriers. An issue that's tied to the highly charged, largely partisan debate over the Bush administration's approach to expanding the reach of high-speed Internet access at...
If the incumbent smartphone vendors give you the blues, all you have to do is wait a week for Velocity Mobile.This new smartphone vendor will launch at CTIA 2008 and seems certain to draw the curious. In such a brutally competitive market, some of...
HTC Corp.'s "first mobile computer" -- a mini-laptop with 7-inch screen dubbed "Shift" -- will be available starting March 24 in the United States from HTC.com, Amazon.com and Sprint Nextel Corp.Count your pennies. The device, which runs on Sprint Nextel's CDMA2000 1x EV-DO network,...
