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 RCRWirelessNews.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
SAN FRANCISCO - You could cut the anticipation with a knife leading up to Apple Inc.'s Worldwide Developer Conference this morning. The company delivered the iPhone 3G to thunderous applause more than 75 minutes into a nearly two-hour presentation.
The sold-out event brought 5,200 people...
The woes besetting Motorola Inc.'s consumer handset division have been the stuff of headlines for the past year. The company has said it remains committed to creating two independently traded businesses that would send the handset division off on its own, while keeping its...
There likely won’t be any 3G service at this summer’s Olympic Games in Beijing, but the host country is finally making progress on a years-long plan to issue licenses that will enable carriers to begin deploying third-generation networks, the government said...
The buzz is inescapable. Next week, Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs is expected to announce the next iteration of the company's iPhone at Apple's annual developer conference.In the run-up to the purported announcement, several issues have been bandied about by the global media, which...
TD-SCDMA WORKS. That's the view of one analyst who participated in trials in Baoding, China, as long ago as December 2006.A very modest supply of subsidized handsets and data cards by domestic and foreign vendors should hit the market this summer for early adopters,...
T-Mobile USA Inc. officially launched its first 3G network in New York City, the company announced. The nation's No. 4 carrier said the UMTS/HSDPA network uses the advanced wireless services spectrum it acquired during the 2006 auction for $4.2 billion.The carrier has been...
Mobile data card sales will quadruple between 2007 and 2011 to reach $2.9 billion, according to predictions from Infonetics Research.The report suggest mobile data cards could threaten the Wi-Fi hot spot market as HSDPA and EV-DO technologies become more available and affordable."The mobile data...
You might be surprised at how much mutual strategy a carrier and handset vendor can pack into a single device. Consider the Z750a by Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications for AT&T Mobility.For Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications' GSM-only posture, the narrow path to most American consumers...
CTIA's Wireless 2008 conference and exhibition touched on all things wireless, from new handset launches to the industry's ongoing technology arguments. RCR Wireless News Online Editor Mike Dano covers the biggest news of each day at the show.
CTIA's John Walls explains the...
As the wireless industry gears up for the nation's biggest wireless show, CTIA's John Walls discusses the trade group's objectives for this year and beyond. ; CTIA's John Walls and the issues facing wireless; And in other news,...
JUDGING BY THE HANDSET NEWS out of CTIA Wireless 2008 last week, competition in the United States is a SKU vs. SKU battle -handset-to-handset combat, if you will. In the absence of anything earth-shattering, the variety of handset news really spoke more to the...
Chris Pearson is the president of 3G Americas, L.L.C. In his role as the senior operating officer of the trade organization, he is responsible for strategic planning of 3G Americas and provides executive management for the integration of strategy and operations in the areas...
During Wednesday's keynote address, industry titans from the infrastructure side of the market debated the status of 4G in wireless.
Vodafone's CEO Arun Sarin said the wireless industry should incorporate WiMAX technology into the LTE standard, so that industry players would be able to focus...
If you can get Dan Hesse, CEO of Sprint Nextel Corp., to extoll the virtues of your jointly developed handset during the opening day's keynote address, you're well-positioned to make hay.Thus the new Samsung Instinct - which looked similar to the iPhone - gave...
BARCELONA, Spain - Many of the world's most powerful wireless executives are seeing green - both in terms of the cash they wish to save and the environment they hope protect.A number of today
If you spend any time speaking with national carriers or multinational device vendors, you know that they exist only to meet consumer demand. It's all about the consumer, etc.A plausible and ubiquitous talking point, to be sure. Of course, how the carrier and device...
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--Austria: L.M. Ericsson said it has been chosen by Mobilkom...
Promising to take consumers "beyond music" with a music-centric phone -- a tri-band HSDPA Walkman W760 -- Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications offered two Walkman handsets yesterday in a prelude to the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas.The W760 offers built-in GPS with the vendor's...
LG Electronics Co. Ltd. announced recently that the company's new Viewty handset has sold more than 310,000 units over its first five weeks in the European market, where it is on sale in 14 countries. The phone with a 5-megapixel camera launched in late...
For spectators at the iPhone circus, two basic questions seem prevalent. Will Apple Inc. sustain the brisk sales of its signature handset at AT&T Mobility here in the United States?And, in the circus' high-wire act, how will the iPhone fare overseas, as it rolls...
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.CellularChina: China Mobile Group Beijing Ltd. chose Nokia Siemens Networks...
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--Finland: Elisa has chosen Nokia Siemens Networks and L.M. Ericsson...
Dropping vowels from the name of a wireless handset, apparently, may never die. Same with dropping names. AT&T Mobility said that the SLM (hmm . as in "Slim"?) would be on shelves Nov. 23-the day after Thanksgiving, historically the biggest single shopping day of...
