Mobile News – RCR Wireless News

Sure, it’s fun to crack jokes about snazzy-suit-wearing lawyers, but the reality is that eventually everyone comes to appreciate a competent attorney, and the wireless industry is no different. Hence, …

WASHINGTON–The Federal Communications Commission hopes to adopt rules next month to start it down a path that will allow unlicensed devices to operate in vacant TV spectrum following the completion …

New York City handed Northrop Grumman a five-year, $500 million contract to build and maintain a wireless broadband public-safety network designed to add high-speed data and video capabilities to the …

LOS ANGELES–Starwave Mobile announced new licensing deals and a move to sell content directly to consumers. Starwave Mobile gained licensing rights from Beyonce Inc. and Sony BMG to develop and …

WASHINGTON–Technology exists to solve the interoperability problem, according to the Department of Homeland Security secretary, so there is no need to establish a dedicated funding source for interoperable communications. DHS …

Social-networking Internet site MySpace.com tapped mobile software developer UIEvolution to provide a user interface for its wireless offering. The news marks a big win for UIEvolution, a Bellevue, Wash.-based developer …

WASHINGTON–California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger planned last Friday to sign into law legislation banning motorists from operating a cell phones. The legislation allows drivers to use hands-free devices to conduct conversations …

WASHINGTON–The Federal Communications Commission may scrap the band-manager concept as a way to manage spectrum as it examines what to do with the 700 MHz guard-band spectrum being returned by …

WASHINGTON–As the Federal Communications Commission began examining industry reaction to its June decision to raise the safe-harbor amount the wireless industry can use to pay into the universal-service fund, FCC …

WASHINGTON–Wireless industry trade association CTIA asked the Federal Communications Commission to delay the comment cycle for its re-examination of the service and licensing rules for the 700 MHz spectrum band …

L.M. Ericsson said it’s looking for 500 engineers to accelerate its research into next-generation Internet Protocol-based networks and multimedia technology. The move coincides with Ericsson’s attempts to morph into a …

Pantech Wireless Inc., the U.S.-based subsidiary of Korean mobile-phone manufacturer Pantech Group, launched a new camera phone that is being offered via Cingular Wireless L.L.C. The Pantech C120 is a …

WASHINGTON–The recent scandal at Hewlett-Packard Co.–where executives collected the phone records of board members to ascertain who had been speaking with the news media–is the impetus needed to push a …

The cell-phone industry points to results of a newly released survey of 1,000 cell-phone users nationwide to buttress its argument that consumers are largely satisfied with their cell phone service …

WASHINGTON–Freescale Semiconductor Inc. confirmed last week it is talking with parties relating to a possible transaction characterized by a New York Times story as a bidding war between two private …

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.–Sage Software acquired Corum Mobile, a division of Corum Corp., to solidify Sage’s offering of Corum’s mobile customer record management services, Sage announced. Corum is privately held and based …

Cingular Wireless L.L.C. is adding a Razr-esque smart phone to its device lineup, targeting business and consumer users who want access to e-mail and entertainment content, but are willing to …

LOS ANGELES–Motorola Inc. is putting the pedal to the metal on getting ideas more rapidly transformed into services with its “Fast Track” program, part of its MotoDev effort to spur …

LOS ANGELES–A quick tour of last week’s CTIA I.T. Wireless & Entertainment event showed there’s no shortage of hype regarding the future of wireless data. But there’s also plenty of …

SAN DIEGO–Qualcomm Inc. announced that chipmaker Newport Media Inc. signed a royalty-free agreement to design, manufacture and market Qualcomm’s MediaFlo multicast mobile TV technology. The move is somewhat surprising since …

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands–Motorola Inc. and Nokia Corp. are teaming up to test the interoperability of DVB-H mobile devices and network services in hopes of accelerating mobile TV service deployments. The …

LOS ANGELES–In its eight-year history, Symbian has had one profitable year–last year, its first in the black. While this is a critical turning point in its business fortunes, one likely …

LOS ANGELES–The M2M module market is growing as enterprises grasp the technology’s promise of efficiency in gathering data from many points and wirelessly transmitting it to a single cellular connection …

HELSINKI, Finland–New warnings from a Nokia Corp. parts supplier could foreshadow trouble with the handset vendor’s third- and fourth-quarter sales. Elcoteq, which makes components for Nokia phones, warned that its …

LOS ANGELES–Sprint Nextel Corp. unveiled a pair of CDMA2000 1x EV-DO Revision A laptop cards last week–including one that consumers can get for free after rebate–and has more device and …