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,...
In Apple Inc.'s secretive world, facts are scarce -- and speculation is the coin of the realm. Thus, over the past week, as analysts reported that major Apple stores' iPhones were out-of-stock in the United States and online shipments delayed by a week, speculation...
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...
Starting April 7, T-Mobile Germany will drop the price of its lower-tier iPhone to $156, from $628. The newer, 16 GB version retains its $784, price tag. The move to discount the cheaper iPhone may be driven by two factors. Apple Inc. is widely...
I know there is a lot of news to talk about.During this year's CTIA Wireless show, we got to see a bunch of fun, new devices, we heard interesting discussions about 4G and the future of the world's network equipment, and we even got...
The mobile enterprise world for years has been rife with talk of Trojan horses, data-soiling worms and other Internet-age nasties. For the time being, though, the biggest threat to mobile security is the user.Security technology vendors have long tried to plug their wares by...
The brave new world of handsets includes no comfort zones (watch out, Nokia!), disruptive influences run rampant, software transcends hardware and micro-segmentation is likely. These were among the conclusions drawn by analyst Stu Carlaw at an ABI Research session that covered the industry in...
AT&T Mobility hopes a new 30-inch touchscreen table will lead to more customers leaving its stores educated and satisfied with the entire shopping experience -- a little fun and simplicity wouldn't hurt either. The nation's largest carrier will be installing Microsoft Corp.'s Surface at...
The "old hippie" is headin' to Mars. Or, perhaps more accurately, Richard Branson - fearless leader of the ubiquitous Virgin brand - is hatching a plan with Google Inc.'s founders to send volunteers to the Red Planet to establish a city.There is a catch,...
Like a series of dominos, several of the largest regional carriers fell to consolidation pressures within the past year. The announcements came within a few months of one another: AT&T Inc. would buy Dobson Communications Corp., Verizon Wireless snapped up Rural Cellular Corp., and...
Editor's Note: Welcome to a special CTIA Show Daily edition of our weekly online feature, Analyst Angle. Every Monday at www.RCRWirelessNews.com you can find columns from the industry's leading analysts, including NPD Group's Ross Rubin, Enderle Group's Rob Enderle and more. Visit www.RCRWirelessNews.com/analyst for...
Forget the careful process of considering business cases, IT policies and other nit-picky consideration.Apple Inc.'s iPhone is the new must-have device -- even though the buzz du jour is whether to delay purchasing one because a 3G version is reportedly imminent -- and executives...
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...
Mobile gaming continues to languish, plagued by a lack of innovation, overpriced titles and the constraints of tiny screens and 12-key pads. But game makers are hoping that Apple Inc.'s iPhone changes all that. Perhaps no other space in mobile content has been hyped...
The nation's biggest wireless show kicks into high gear, as Sprint Nextel announces its handset plans.
Dan Hesse, Sprint's CEO, releases the carrier's iPhone response, designed by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
Samsung's new sleek, black Instinct device features a touchscreen, graphically rich user interface, visual voicemail...
Change has never been easy for the cell-phone industry. And it's perfectly understandable. With the kind of wild success and wealth creation during its first three decades, cellular chieftains who collectively service more than 250 million subscribers have a history of being instinctively cautious...
Editor's Note: Welcome to a special CTIA Show Daily edition of our weekly online feature, Analyst Angle. Every Monday at www.RCRWirelessNews.com you can find columns from the industry's leading analysts, including NPD Group's Ross Rubin, Enderle Group's Rob Enderle and more. Visit www.RCRWirelessNews.com/analyst for...
With CTIA Wireless 2008 offering a predominantly consumer slant, one analyst will approach the show with a handful of issues in mind and filter accordingly. Euro-competition for American enterprise customers, open access, an enterprise pitch for Apple Inc.'s iPhone, fixed-mobile convergence and the recent...
While much discussion has rightly focused on touchscreen-based display technology - and, of course, the "experience" it enables as an input/output mechanism - there's always something coming down the pike. In this case, that something may well be digital projectors, either standalone modules or...
A portrait of success for a handset vendor might contain these elements: Offer a unique product that captures the consumer's imagination (mindshare!) and suits their wallet and watch global sales ignite like a wildfire (market share!). The mainstream media does flashy anatomy-of-a-success stories, while...
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...
At the end of the day - the verbal pause du jour - a gathering of thousands of industry people bursting with innovative products, some of them handsets, will undoubtedly kick up a little dust in Las Vegas next week.Whether handset vendors are merely...
So we never expected that Google would actually become a wireless licensee, but the FCC certainly did not get its wish for a bunch of new competition in the wireless industry. AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless made up 85% of the proceeds from the...
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....
