PHILADELPHIA — To football fans everywhere and especially natives of this sports-saturated city, Vince Papale is a hero. But on stage here this morning at the APCO International Annual Conference and Expo, Papale wanted to shine attention on the hundreds of heroes here in...
LightSquared added yet another regional wireless operator to its wholesale LTE plans, signing up Flat Wireless L.L.C.'s ClearTalk Wireless to a bilateral roaming agreement. Financial terms of the deal were not released.The deal will provide CDMA-based operator ClearTalk with a nationwide LTE footprint through...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
Latin America Gmail‘s users can now make phone calls. Since last year, it was possible for U.S. users to call any mobile phone or landline directly from Google Voice, and now it is available in 38 new languages to 150 destinations. Spanish, the...
In a deal that is uniformly being labeled as a patent portfolio purchase, HTC Corp. has acquired Dashwire Inc. for $18.5 million. The Seattle-based company offers cloud services for operators, device makers and retailers with support for BlackBerry, Android, Symbian and Windows Mobile.HTC said...
The Mexican Secretary of Communications and Transport said that it may allow bidding on a portion of nearly 190 megazhertz of spectrum currently held by the firm MVS Communicaciones in the 2.5 GHz band to help promote more efficient use of spectrum. Initially the...
Sprint Nextel Corp. has teamed up with Samsung Telecommunications America to offer consumers a sub $100 Android phone running on Sprint Nextel's WiMAX version of 4G.The Samsung Conquer 4G boasts some fairly decent specs for its price, including Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), a 1GHz processor,...
Hello! And welcome to our Friday 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....
Nokia Siemens Networks could cut as many as 1,500 jobs picked up as part of its acquisition of Motorola Inc. assets earlier this year, according to published reports.NSN gained around 7,000 employees through the purchase, which included Motorola's CDMA assets. Both Nokia and...
Powerwave Technologies Inc. (PWAV) recorded a $7 million profit on $170.6 million in sales during the recently closed second quarter. The Santa, Calif.-based company grew its total revenue to $307.3 million in the first half of the year, up from $259.1 million in the...
UPDATED: Editor's Note: With all of the domestic industry's public, facilities-based operators having announced second quarter results we decided to provide a quick snapshot of how the quarter stacked up.Verizon Wireless (106.3 million connections)Quick facts: Posted 2.2 million net additions for the quarter, including...
The top three mobile operating systems control over 90% of the OS market, making it increasingly difficult for competing platforms to gain traction, according to Jumptap's MobileStat monthly data. While Google Inc.'s (GOOG) Android OS remains in the top spot, with 38% market...
American Tower Corp. (AMT) said its international markets in Mexico, Brazil and India are experiencing strong growth due to new spectrum and technology deployments during second-quarter earnings. Overall, the company reported an increase of 27.1% in its total revenue compared to the same period...
Google Inc. is fighting back in a war of words over its patent position. There’s a side effect of Android’s success, David Drummond, the company’s chief legal officer and SVP lamented in a blog post.“Android and other platforms are competing hard against each other,...
New York City-based Augme Technologies Inc. (AUGT) has signed an agreement to acquire Hipcricket Inc. in a deal that’s expected to close at the end of the month. Augme, which recently completed its acquisition of Jagtag, another mobile marketing company, plans to keep Hipcricket’s...
Leap Wireless International Inc.'s (LEAP) second quarter results were not as bad as some had feared, but were apparently bad enough to scare off investors who fled the carrier's stock this morning to the tune of a more than 30% drop in the carrier's...
Vonage Holdings Corp. (VG) introduced a downloadable application that lets consumers make 15-minute international calls to more than 190 countries, paying for the service through iTunes.Time to Call is being offered for free for a limited time in 100 countries, the company said. "With...
Mobile operators are facing a seven-fold increase in data delivery costs over the next five years, according to a new report from Juniper Research. Global mobile network operator data delivery costs are expected to surpass $370 billion annually by 2016.Carriers can reduce some of...
Comcast Corp.'s (CMCSK) Business Services grew a whopping 41.7% year over year to $435 million, driven by its metro Ethernet business and mobile cellular backhaul business. The cable company is planning to add 20 major markets to its metro Ethernet business in the future,...
T-Mobile USA Inc. (DTEGY) showed marked improvements in its operations during the second quarter, posting fewer customer losses and stabilizing revenues. The carrier, which is in the midst of a possible acquisition by AT&T Inc. (T), said it lost just 50,000 customers during the...
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.
I’ve heard predictions lately that the emergence of the tablet will most certainly kill off...
Apple Inc. (AAPL) opened up the iCloud.com interface for developers yesterday and revealed pricing for the service that will launch this fall. Apple plans to offer users up to 5 GB for free and will charge $20 for 15 GB, $40 for 25...
