VeriSign Inc. said it partnered with CAQH, a nonprofit alliance of health plans and trade associations, to conduct a pilot program to demonstrate secure authentication for health IT interoperability. The six-month pilot will build on a set of operating rules created by the CAQH...
Armed with its new equity stake partner, Nextel Mexico officially entered its name into the list of bidders for new spectrum in Mexico.The iDEN carrier announced earlier this week that it would sell a 30% equity stake in the company to Grupo Televisa for...
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.Kelly Tedesco is easy to reach on her phone- as long as you send a...
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.With the announcements in Barcelona this week it is easy to see the mobile wireless...
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....
Mobile operators realize they need customers to adopt increased data services to offset declining voice revenues but are not sure how to best implement strategies to facilitate that, according to a December survey of nearly 200 senior-level wireless operators, conducted by the Economist Intelligence...
The realization that IT departments are going to have to support a wide range of devices as mobility spreads across the enterprise has led a couple of companies to try to find innovative ways to manage those devices, especially as business users bring their...
SHENZHEN, China--ZTE Corp. went to great lengths to provide access to key executives including Xu Ming, global GM for the ZTE's Wireless Business Unit. We basically spent the day together in Shenzhen touring ZTE's local manufacturing facility and exhibition hall, meeting with key executives...
SHENZHEN, China--Why did the publisher of RCR Wireless News visit China earlier this month? In many respects, it was to see first hand the explosive growth of the Chinese wireless market. The primary reasons, however, were threefold. First, RCR Wireless News has always been...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.This year, like last year, they might as well have renamed CES the “iPhone and iPhone Accessories...
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,...
Palm Inc.'s and Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Mobile operating systems lost ground on independent mobile aggregator Myxer's Web site in 2009, giving up a combined 24% of the smartphone traffic on the site to Research in Motion Ltd., Android and Apple Inc.'s iPhone OSes.Myxer, which...
Verizon Wireless’ plans to launch commercial LTE services this year will look to attract customers initially using data-intensive devices like PC cards and embedded modules, but the long-term growth of traffic on that network is expected to come from non-traditional devices.During a Webcast updating...
Nokia is offering people who buy its smartphones free access to its personal and car-based navigation platform in an effort to spur the development of location-based and social-networking applications on its devices and in its app store, as well as create the coveted “stickiness”...
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.For those WCDMA carriers that are facing a capacity crunch due to the success of...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.On the threshold of this new decade, mobile service providers are in the early stages of a...
The wireless industry's increasing desire to attract customers looking for service without the hassles of a contract is taking its toll on those operators focused on such goals. MetroPCS Communications Inc. this morning released limited fourth quarter 2009 results that showed net customer additions...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.As wireless voice and data communication has evolved from a high-end business tool to a mass market...
Bell Mobility began selling its handsets and services in its own retail stores. The Canadian operator last March bought The Source's 750 retail locations when parent company Circuit City declared bankruptcy, thus preserving about 3,000 jobs in the retail sector, and increasing Bell's retail...
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.With all the talk of 4G technologies and the U.S. national broadband plan, it seems...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.As the end of the year approaches, the question many people are asking is whether 2010 will...
For all that it promises to change in our daily lives, wireless technology still comes up short far too often. We live in a world that's both fascinating and discouraging. Just think, if we own the right car and the right mobile device, we...
Verizon Wireless said part of the reason its early-termination fees are more expensive for advanced devices is because the difference between what it pays manufacturers vs. what it sells devices for is twice as large for advanced handsets vs. other devices.The carrier filed a...
