Editor's Note: Welcome to 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. In the coming weeks...
The European Commission has formally adopted Digital Video Broadcasting Handheld (DVB-H) technology as the standard for mobile television throughout the European Union's 27 member states.The move was entirely expected despite objections from three of the EU's most powerful members, some of whom where calling...
Sprint Nextel is bringing out its big guns in an attempt to reinvigorate its reputation, which has taken a beating over the past year. The carrier announced plans for new television commercials staring its recently installed CEO Dan Hesse touting the carrier's new Simply...
SPRINT NEXTEL CORP. JUST CAN'T get itself out of the spotlight. And if any of the tier-one carriers needs a time out right now, Sprint Nextel is certainly the most likely candidate.The company's stock continued falling to record lows after it reported massive customer...
NextWave Wireless Inc. tapped Alcatel-Lucent to develop WiMAX broadcast solutions that the company plans to integrate with its recently announced MXtv technology.NextWave plans to use the technology to give WiMAX operators the ability to deliver multimedia services like mobile TV and digital audio over...
So let us get this straight. 100,000 developers paid $100 a piece to download Apple's new SDK for the iPhone. We are no math majors, but doesn't that translate to like $10 million? Apple is amazing.-------------------------------FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is in so much trouble...
The mobile-phone industry urged the Federal Communications Commission not to impose burdensome wireless broadband reporting requirements on cellular carriers. Congress is considering legislation to improve data collection on the availability of high-speed Internet service.In meetings with FCC officials last week, cellular industry association CTIA...
NextWave Wireless Inc. has tapped Alcatel-Lucent to develop WiMAX broadcast solutions that the company plans to integrate with its recently announced MXtv technology.NextWave plans to use the technology to give WiMAX operators the ability to deliver multimedia services like mobile TV and digital audio...
Editor's Note: Welcome to 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. In the coming weeks...
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The wireless industry's campaign for a national policy framework picked up more traction, with a group of state regulators and a key member of Congress taking steps bring uniformity to wireless regulation and consumer protection. But the fight over cellular regulatory jurisdiction is far...
AT&T Mobility subscribers are still waiting for the carrier to launch MediaFLO USA Inc.'s broadcast television service, and sources say the wait could be anywhere from two to eight weeks longer.The launch seemed all but locked up for earlier this month, but everything from...
Editor's Note: Welcome to 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. In the coming weeks...
Editor's Note: Welcome to 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. In the coming weeks...
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...
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...
The Federal Communications Commission took another step toward reform of the universal service fund, while further leaving in limbo a highly controversial effort by Chairman Kevin Martin to order a temporary cap on government subsidies largely tapped for deployment of wireless services in rural...
An arbitrator has certified a huge class action against Verizon Wireless that potentially could cost the No. 2 mobile phone 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...
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....
THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION launched a rulemaking to determine whether mobile text messages and short codes are covered by non-discrimination provisions of the telecom act.Public-interest and consumer groups asked the FCC in December to rule that the law forbids wireless providers from blocking the...
Globalstar Inc.'s bid to secure additional mobile satellite service spectrum for land-based networks - including a possible WiMAX system covering hundreds of rural communities - is drawing criticism based on fears of interference to wireless broadband licensees. Competitive concerns could be at work as...
We are two shows into the 2008 show season and so far not much has been announced to trip up the wireless market. The Consumer Electronic Show had but a handful of new handsets and some network trials, while last week's Macworld was missing...
Washington state Attorney General Rob McKenna has begun shopping a bill in the legislature that would ban third-party marketing of cellphone numbers without consent of wireless subscribers, precisely the kind of law flagged by Bellvue-based Intelius Inc. in a planned $143.7 million public offering.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....
