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 RCR to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
Verizon Wireless named Ajay Waghray as its new chief information officer, effective July 1. Waghray has been a leader in the company's information technology organization for seven years and will now be responsible for the carrier's overall information technology strategy, systems portfolio deployment and...
CHICAGO-AT&T Inc. is launching its Video Share offering in three markets, and plans to roll the service out more broadly starting next month, CEO and Chairman Randall Stephenson announced at the NXTcomm trade conference this morning.Stephenson, speaking during the show's opening keynote, said the...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our Monday 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 Compete's Miro Kazakoff, Jupiter Research's Julie...
Executives at Palm Inc. appear to believe they've bought the time and talent to move from less than 3% of the smartphone market to leadership in mobile computing.To paraphrase Neil Armstrong, that's a giant leap . for any company, analysts said. This is perhaps...
It's official: Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry Curve is available at AT&T Mobility. Price is $200, with two-year contract and mail-in rebate. The quad-band device rides on AT&T Mobility's EDGE network. Any doubts that RIM-known for its productivity-oriented, e-mail slabs-has gotten the fashion...
Verizon Wireless, meet Prince, the prolific artist who aggressively protects his fusion of just about every musical genre imaginable. The man whose bitter battle with a record label prompted him to change his name to a symbol for eight years has now inked a...
It's official: the BlackBerry Curve from Research In Motion Ltd., is available at AT&T Mobility beginning tomorrow. Price is $200, with two-year contract and mail-in rebate. The quad-band device rides on AT&T Mobility's EDGE network. Any doubts that RIM-known for its productivity-oriented, e-mail slabs-has...
In what might be billed as "The Natural History of a Startup," tiny, San Diego-based Sequoia Communications is making the rounds, hoping to lure W-CDMA baseband chip vendors into using its newly minted transceiver chip. Sequoia, with 50 employees today and funding through 2008,...
Infrastructure spending by North America's mobile operators increased slightly during the first quarter, while wireline capital spending decreased 9%, according to a report from Ovum-RHK.Mobile carriers spent $5.1 billion during the quarter, up 2% from last year's first quarter. Mobile revenues were up 11%...
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.WiMAX --Netherlands: Alcatel-Lucent said it completed a Universal WiMAX trial...
Research In Motion Ltd. is following up its pursuit of the consumer market with a device dubbed the "Curve," which will sell exclusively at AT&T Mobility "later this spring," according to the carrier. No pricing or more precise release date is available.Vagueness, however, did...
The city of Macon, Ga., announced it deployed a citywide Wi-Fi network using equipment and technology from Motorola Inc. The city deployed Motorola's Motomesh offering in the unlicensed 2.4 GHz band for residents and city workers and in the licensed 4.9 GHz band for...
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 RCR Wireless News to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong...
Sony Ericsson continued its strong momentum in the first quarter of the year, posting big gains in revenue and profit. The vendor's growth in those two metrics far outstrips all the other, top-tier players. Unit shipments of its handsets, while way up on the...
With their patent cross-licensing agreement scheduled to end today, Qualcomm Inc. and Nokia Corp. each fired last-ditch legal salvos last week in hopes of gaining an edge in negotiations where potentially billions of dollars hang in the balance.At the heart of the issue are...
ORLANDO, Fla.-A quick evaluation of the comments and announcements streaming from the world's largest infrastructure providers offers evidence that the market is getting wider and more complicated-and that the field may belong to only the largest contenders."This is exciting times," said L.M. Ericsson CEO...
SkyPilot Networks, which provides broadband wireless mesh network equipment, launched its SkyAccess DualBand product, a dual-radio product the company said complements its existing citywide Wi-Fi products.The product incorporates a dedicated radio for backhaul and a second radio for Wi-Fi access. The product resides at...
L.M. Ericsson announced it will support the recently approved EDGE Evolution network standard, which the company said can support data speeds of up to 1 megabit per second."EDGE Evolution builds on 3GPP's industry standardization of agreed technology improvements and reflects Ericsson's prediction that the...
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. CellularAustria, Bulgaria, Croatia and Liechthenstein: L.M. Ericsson said it...
Sierra Wireless Inc. announced that it will acquire M2M vendor AirLink Communications Inc. for $10 million in cash and 1.3 million in shares. Under the agreement, AirLink shareholders will end up with around 4.8 percent of the combined company.The deal is notable as it...
THE MOBILE-PHONE INDUSTRY INCREASINGLY finds itself confronted with disruptive digital technologies, a phenomenon that is challenging carriers' tight control of wireless networks and forcing policy-makers to grapple with how to promote consumer choice without unduly interfering with companies' ability to manage their businesses. The...
At the 3GSM World Congress, as at other major industry confabs, there are gadgets galore. And then there are the market-based strategies and financial plans behind them. Attempting to translate one into the other-reading the gadgets' features for clues to a vendor's strategies or...
Motorola Inc. launched eight new handsets at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, today, with devices designed from the low-end to the high-end, from business to entry level, with individual models that emphasize productivity, music and imaging.Two new Moto Q handsets were announced,...
