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Action heats up in white-spaces debate: Mobile players urge licensed approach to contested airwaves

Just as the Federal Communications Commission appears ready to settle the great white-spaces debate - one predominantly framed to date by a powerful broadcast lobby fearing costly disruption to digital signals from unlicensed devices and by equally muscular high-tech titans anxious to exploit prime...

Wireless History Foundation scores more support, announces details of Oct. 13 dinner

It's a big year for wireless. As cellular communications celebrates its 25th anniversary with a lavish celebration planned for this October, more wireless luminaries have voiced support for the Wireless History Foundation. The Foundation, designed to preserve and promote the rich history of wireless,...

Analyst Angle: Mobile content providers beware, the iPhone is a Trojan iHorse

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.The introduction of the iPhone was the most significant event in the 2007 wireless industry....

Critics assail Sprint Nextel-Clearwire WiMAX alliance: Competitors cite spectrum holdings, roaming issues

SPRINT NEXTEL CORP. AND CLEARWIRE CORP.'S CAMPAIGN to win government approval of a their national WiMAX plan is drawing static from AT&T Inc. and rural cellular operators on key unsettled wireless policy issues, but the deal has picked up backing from many educational and...

Summer school

It won't be long until Congress breaks for its August recess (are they there now?), only to return for a short spell before taking off for the rest of this presidential election year.But the Federal Communications Commission and mobile-phone industry will be keeping their...

4G migration paths: WiMAX vs. LTE

Editor's Note: RCR Wireless News has teamed up with the Yankee Group to conduct a series of market surveys of RCR Wireless News' subscribers to gauge their thoughts on technology issues impacting the wireless ecosystem.Those of you who respond to the survey will get...

Venture capital financing wrap-up: BridgeWave, In-Fusio, Miyowa and more

The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included when available.--BridgeWave: Intel Capital and Core Capital led a $10 million round of funding into BridgeWave, which supplies gigabit wireless...

Analyst Angle: Apple’s possible iPhone miss

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. In the coming weeks look for columns from Current Analysis' Peter Jarich, NPD Group's...

Nortel to pursue LTE, passes WiMAX business to Alvarion: WiMAX patent holders team to spur market amid industry upheavals

The pace of action on the world's infrastructure stage has increased over the past several months, with a number of major carriers announcing multibillion-dollar buildout plans, intellectual property owners realigning their stances, and infrastructure vendors desperately trying to keep up with it all.The...

Patent decision could have wide-ranging impact: Qualcomm downplaying significance of decision

Qualcomm Inc. is downplaying a Supreme Court decision that restricts the ability of a patent holder to continue to collect royalties after an invention is sold or licensed, despite urging the high court not to rule as it did and making dire predictions about...

Suddenly, a spotlight on MIDs: Consumers still don’t get it, but devices due this year

Overnight, it seems, mobile Internet devices, or MIDs, are the topic du jour.But like many overnight sensations, the MID category is constructed of a fragile combination of long-term toil in the lab and a giddy if ephemeral sense of demand that has a long...

Femtocells may sound like science fiction, but they could prove pivotal in expanding cellular coverage: Bridging the gap

Femtocells - sounds like a science fiction term for robotic feminine cells - but it's just another buzzword for a new technology and product that promises so much in the future, yet has delivered mostly in practical terms thus far.For the moment, the technology...

Qualcomm invests in GSM-based femtocell firm

Qualcomm Inc. will buy a stake in ip.access Ltd., a U.K.-based femtocell vendor. The dollar amount of the investment and Qualcomm's relative share in ip.access were not made public, but ip.access said the stake was not a controlling one.Other well-known ip.access investors include the...

MVNOs winnow: Try not to wake the bear

THE GROUND CONTINUED TO SHIFT in the tumultuous mobile virtual network operator space this month as one player announced plans to call it quits, another explores a potential merger and a third prepares to morph into a reseller of wireless services.Embarq Holding Co. L.L.C....

The race to connectivity

First, let me say I think Wi-Fi is the best thing since sliced bread. Really, I do. That being said, a number of announcements last week made me scratch my head as different companies try to attack the wireless broadband space. Come along for...

Analyst Angle: Clearwire attracts billions from strange bedfellows

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. In the coming weeks look for columns from Current Analysis' Peter Jarich, IDC's Shiv...

2nd time’s a charm?: Sprint Nextel, Clearwire re-merge WiMAX business, bring new investments to operations

WHAT'S THAT SAYING? Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me?After their previous union was aborted last year, Sprint Nextel Corp. and Clearwire Corp. decided last week to try to merge their WiMAX businesses again, this time under the Clearwire...

Hedgehogging: hedge*hog*ging v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube

If we didn't live in a capitalist society, we'd be all for using Sprint Nextel's iDEN network for public safety. Just look at the benefits. First, you save Sprint Nextel with some business that won't churn for another carrier; then you save Motorola because...

Worst of the Week: Odds and ends

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....

Google nuzzles closer to Sprint Nextel

It seems Google Inc. has no plans to be a silent partner in the forthcoming Sprint Nextel Corp./Clearwire Corp. business.The Internet giant said it will become the default search provider for Sprint Nextel as early as this summer, powering both Internet and local, GPS-enabled...

DONE DEAL: Sprint Nextel, Clearwire re-merge WiMAX business, bring new investments into operations

Following a rash of rumors earlier this week, and an aborted attempt last year, Sprint Nextel Corp. and Clearwire Corp. said they were going to again combine their WiMAX operations in an attempt to launch a nationwide network. Unlike the last go around, this...

Venture capital financing wrap-up: Ambient, Red Bend Software, VirtualLogix and more

The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included when available.--Ambient: Vicis Capital Master Fund invested $3 million into Newmont, Mass.-based Ambient Corp. The financing deal called for Ambient...

AdLink announces new ATCA blade

AdLink Technology Inc., which makes test-and-measurement solutions for telecommunication equipment manufacturers, introduced a new ATCA blade using Intel Corp.'s 5100 chipset.The new CPU blade is designed to help telecom equipment manufacturers with a product that offers more memory, more storage and more connectivity options....

Unified 4G standard not likely soon

Yes, the mobile industry would be well-served if everyone got behind a single 4G technology. No, it's not going to happen anytime soon.Vodafone Group CEO Arun Sarin used his keynote speech to urge carriers to close ranks behind LTE, placing WiMAX within the TDD...