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DEMOCRATS WARNED FCC CHAIRMAN KEVIN MARTIN not to cripple the open-access stipulation on the 700 MHz spectrum up for auction early next year, following the agency chief’s failed attempts to …

It’s possible Verizon Wireless has done as much for the open access/net neutrality campaign as the liberal MoveOn.org Petraeus ad did for struggling Republicans.Verizon Wireless’ decision first to block text …

A quick stroll of the show floor reveals all sorts of flashy gadgetry and eye-popping mobile applications. But the executives behind Sprint Nextel Corp.’s Xohm would rather talk about the …

The upcoming auction of 700 MHz could give birth to an unprecedented infrastructure that could serve countless rural consumers as it provides a crucial boost to the nation’s public-safety industry.Or …

Don Stroberg, VP of sales for Sprint Nextel Corp.’s new Xohm Business unit, sat down with RCR Wireless News to talk about how the company’s WiMAX plans are shaping up. …

THE WIRELESS INDUSTRY INCREASINGLY FINDS ITSELF on the defensive on policy fronts across the board, a situation with the potential to disrupt the deregulatory framework and the fundamental business model …

Like Al Pacino in “Scent of a Woman,” the mobile advertising space is just gettin’ warmed up. And so is the sniping.Nokia Corp. cranked up the already-deafening buzz last week, …

All that cash being poured into voice-activated search is beginning to look like a good bet.A recent study from Usable Products Co. indicates speechrecognition technology finally may have become user-friendly. …

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 …

Google Inc. brought AdSense to mobile, allowing publishers with mobile-friendly Web sites to accept ads on their Web pages.AdSense places links on relevant Web pages, paying owners of the sites …

So this is what they mean when they talk about “the mobile search wars.” Google last week in a long-awaited move took its AdWords mobile, placing paid links on search …

Broadcasters-having invested hundreds of millions of dollars transitioning to digital technology and now bracing for a government ruling on whether to allow Wi-Fi service in unoccupied television guardbands known as …

San Francisco has formally walked away from a deal to build a Wi-Fi network throughout the city. The effort was already largely considered dead late last month when EarthLink Inc. …

In-Stat last week touted a new study with the observation that “Competition in mobile video could threaten mobile operators.”Duh.But the fact that In-Stat’s conclusion is self-evident doesn’t minimize the risk …

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. …

LAS VEGAS-Less than two months into a broadcast mobile TV service trial, HiWire L.L.C. has wrapped the first phase of its study and is now preparing to increase its scope …

Despite the Federal Communications Commission’s publicly stated desire to avoid anti-competitive behavior in the 700 MHz auction and its embrace of blind bidding as a safeguard against such activity, there …

In a typical reaction, analyst Iain Gillott of iGR good-naturedly called last week’s price cut on Apple Inc.’s iPhone the “iShaft.”Of course, that was before Apple quickly offered its fanboys …

Carriers in the United Kingdom are hoping to get users to PayForIt with their phones.The operators launched a standardized payment scheme designed to provide a consistent user interface regardless of …

Google Inc. is hoping to patent a text-based system for mobile payments.The Internet giant filed an application with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office to patent “a computer-implemented method of …

MUNICIPAL WI-FI TOOK SOME MAJOR HITS last week. Once considered by many cities and towns to be the roadmap to offer high-speed Internet access for all, wide-spread use of the …

These appear to be dark days for municipal Wi-Fi. The oncepromising way to bring wireless broadband to the masses has hit that hard wall separating hype from reality.Chicago just added …

What a tome: 312 pages, including appendices. Why, already the number of printed copies of the Federal Communications Commission’s 700 MHz decision would keep Dunder-Mifflin afloat a little longer.But what …

Who says you can’t buy influence? Or at least attempt to.During the first six months of this year, the communications-electronics sector spent big money attempting to curry favor from elected …

Google Inc. offered a glimpse into the operations of its free, municipal Wi-Fi effort, which the company launched earlier this year in its home base of Mountain View, Calif. Google …