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 Jupiter Research's Julie Ask, iGR's Iain...
Cartoon Network New Media sounds like a fun place to work. Take Ross Cox's word for it. The network's senior director of entertainment products said it often feels like he's working at a toy store. That analogy came through when RCR Wireless News had...
The Bush administration urged the Supreme Court not to review a lower court decision overturning a Federal Communications Commission rule preempting state regulation of line-items on cellphone bills, but the development could turn out to be only a temporary setback for the mobile-phone industry.In...
Turin Networks Inc. plans to acquire Carrier Access Corp. for around $92.7 million in cash. Under terms of the deal, stockholders will receive $2.60 for each outstanding share of Carrier Access' common stock, a 14.7% premium over the company's 20-day average stock price of...
That sucking sound you hear is the wireless industry on the mat, gasping for air.Enter the dragon, Steve Jobs, RCR Wireless News' Person of the Year.In the United States alone, in six months, Apple Inc. sold more than 1.4 million iPhones, which rapidly gained...
T-Mobile USA Inc. continues to expand its lineup of handsets serving the carrier's HotSpot @ Home service, with the new Katalyst from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. The quad-band, EDGE slider handset is priced at $80 with a mail-in rebate and two-year contract and includes...
Welcome to our Friday feature, Week in Review. Every Friday, RCR Wireless News runs through the major events of the past week, outlining what happened and speculating on what to look for in the coming weeks, months and years. Check below for news about...
A German court has given T-Mobile the go-ahead to lock its German iPhones and require purchasers to buy a two-year contract, nixing a court challenge from rival Vodafone Group plc, according to media reports.In a public relations gesture, T-Mobile said it would unlock the...
AT&T Mobility said it will acquire the remaining stake in regional carrier Edge Wireless L.LC. through an affiliate. AT&T Mobility has held a minority stake in Edge since it was formed in 2000, and now has entered into an agreement with Edge Wireless Holding...
Editor's Note: Welcome to Yay or Nay, a feature for RCR Wireless News' new 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...
Editor's Note: Welcome to Yay or Nay, a feature for RCR Wireless News' new 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...
The iPhone story went global this month with launches in the United Kingdom and Germany and word that Apple Inc. is exploring a partnership in China. France's Orange is set to sell the device beginning Nov. 29.Apple's international success, or lack of it, will...
Editor's Note: Welcome to Yay or Nay, a feature for RCR Wireless News' new 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...
LONDON-A handful of people queued overnight in the cold and rain outside Apple's flagship store on London's Regent Street to be among the first to legally buy an iPhone outside the U.S. when it went on sale at precisely 6:02 p.m. on Friday in...
Simplicity is the name of the new game-finally, ease-of-use issues are at the forefront of carriers' device offerings. T-Mobile USA Inc. weighed in today with its HTC Corp.-built "Shadow" slider handset, with its "screamingly simple" user interface aimed squarely at consumers."This is not a...
The first glimmer of quantifiable iPhone impacts is in, courtesy of NPD Group.The news is not-so-good for Palm Inc. and carriers T-Mobile USA Inc. and Alltel Corp. Research In Motion Ltd., however, appears to have nothing to fear.The top-tier carriers report third-quarter earnings beginning...
The municipal wireless market is undergoing a correction, but the re-evaluation of business models eventually will benefit the space and the emergence of WiMAX technology offers new possibilities, according to a Yankee Group webinar last week.After the now-collapsing adoption of "for-free" models that characterized...
AT&T Mobility released its first High-Speed Uplink Packet Access data card, and said that it had begun adding HSUPA upgrades to its network. The upgrades are expected to increase uplink speeds from the current maximum of 384 kilobits per second to average speeds of...
Music and messaging may be the mantra for holiday sales, according to conventional wisdom, but Sprint Nextel Corp. is taking no chances. The carrier will offer the HTC-branded Touch on Nov. 4, for $250 with a two-year contract and mail-in rebate. The Touch, naturally,...
Editor's Note: Welcome to Yay or Nay, a feature for RCR Wireless News' new 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...
The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available.Cellular--Bangladesh: L.M. Ericsson announced it signed a framework agreement with...
Editor's Note: Welcome to Yay or Nay, a feature for RCR Wireless News' new 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...
Wireless carriers should be expected to speak highly of their networks-it's arguably their greatest asset alongside spectrum holdings-but the No. 3 and No. 4 carriers are now enabling customers to build their own micro networks of sorts. Are they giving up some of the...
Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Inc., held forth from London this morning to orchestrate consumer frenzy over the iPhone's arrival in the United Kingdom, the first in as many as three European markets to announce this week.One can only imagine the spectacle of a...
