Metrico Wireless Inc. launched a new product to test how mobile video performs on end users' handsets as wireless operators try to address the growing trend of viewing video on mobile phones.Increasingly, end users are viewing video over mobile devices, and operators are trying...
SAN FRANCISCO — Billy Cripe, VP of marketing at Fishbowl Solutions, talks about the value proposition of mobility in the enterprise and the operating systems which are taking an early lead in next-generation mobile applications for business.
After a three-month consumer trial in Washington, D.C., the Open Mobile Video Coalition is detailing results and viewing habits from its Mobile DTV Consumer Showcase.With as many as 350 consumers engaged in the trial, the most enthusiastically endorsed content was live, local news broadcasts....
Mobile digital television has been a long time coming and broadcasters have taken another step to push their dreams for a nationwide broadcast mobile TV solution into reality.A group of 30 broadcasters, which collectively own 346 TV stations in 167 markets, formed the Mobile500...
Mobile content revenues are expected to more than triple from 2009 to 2014, according to a new report from eMarketer called "Mobile Content: Games, Music and Video Take to the Cloud."Building upon a compound annual growth rate of nearly 20%, revenues from mobile content...
The Global mobile Suppliers Association published an update to its Evolution to LTE report, which says 101 LTE network deployments are currently in progress or planned in 41 countries. The number of network commitments to the technology is up 71% from about six months...
Editor's Note: This article is an excerpt from RCR Wireless News' July Special Edition, "Riding the Wave: The Forces Impacting Carrier Strategy." The 80-page special edition is available here.On the streets of Guangzhou, Harbin and Shanghai, the mobile phone has become ubiquitous. Once...
RCR Wireless News sat down with Paul Ives Choiseul, chief technology officer at Latin American operator IBW to discuss the carrier's decision to deploy WiMAX technology. The Costa Rican wireless operator is targeting the financial industry with WiMAX technology as a DSL alternative to...
RCR Wireless News interviewed Intel Corp.'s Kevin Jones, Global 4G evangelist, to get a better understanding on WiMAX's role in future technology deployments, some regions of the world that are using WiMAX technology and other areas of interest, while RCR and Intel attended Huawei's...
SHANGHAI, China — This city moves incredibly fast. With that as a backdrop, it would only stand to reason that so much innovation and investment in wireless technology is taking place in this city of more than 17 million.Most of the roads appear to...
Editor's Note: This article is an excerpt from RCR Wireless News' May Special Edition, "Enabling the Mobile Revolution: Mobile Chips, Devices and Accessories." The 80-page special edition is available here. The Subscriber Identity Module – that standard little chip that houses all of...
Speaking at the MobileBeat2010 conference in San Francisco on Monday, AT&T’s Chief Technology Officer John Donovan discussed convergence, the “consumerization of enterprise,” and the surge in mobile broadband, all while artfully managing to avoid the meat of the main issues faced by the carrier.
SHANGHAI, China – RCR Wireless News caught up with Mikko Hietanen, head of BSS/OSS sales at Nokia Siemens Networks at last week's Mobile Broadband China.During his presentation on stage, Hietanen said the most pressing business goals among operators surveyed by NSN are subscriber experience...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Rural Cellular Association recently instituted plans to increase its presence in the regulatory halls of Washington, D.C., that included a reorganization that saw the trade group replace its former executive director with a new CEO. RCA's new leadership announced the...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The wireless industry is in the midst of dramatic changes as consumers continue to show increased interest in cutting the cord not only on voice communications, but also for data services. This change has also brought increased scrutiny from regulators that...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Motorola Inc. has a long history in supplying equipment to the municipal service networks market, also known as muni Wi-Fi. The telecommunications equipment giant sees the latest advancements in Wi-Fi technology as a way to jump-start the space and partner with...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Inmarsat plc recently launched its first mobile satellite handset, filling out its roster with a portable device designed to tap into its geostationary constellation of satellites. Frank August, director of business development for Inmarsat's Americas region, provided details on the device...
LOS ANGELES -- RCR Wireless News sat down with Lucy Hood this afternoon at the LA Broadband Summit. Hood leads the Institute for Communication Technology Management at the University of Southern California.We asked her to summarize the discussions taking place on the campus of...
HONOLULU – WiMAX operators have a first-to-market advantage today, regardless of which technology paths some may choose tomorrow, according to panelists speaking at the Global WiMAX Business Development Forum held in Honolulu in May.Day One sessions featured a diverse range of WiMAX operators including...
Late last month, RCR Wireless News covered the International Microwave Symposium in Anaheim, Calif. During the event, we covered the keynote by Zachary Lemnios, director of defense research and engineering at the Defense Department, and jumped into the seemingly neverending debate about the longevity...
