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Analyst Angle: Cable MSOs could enjoy a nice piece of mobile backhaul pie

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.During the recent capacity crisis suffered by AT&T Wireless it was expected the carrier would...

Analyst Angle: Handsets are becoming commoditized: An Open OS on a slab with rounded corners

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. As I review the new crop of phones being launched, one thing strikes me about...

Reality Check: The mobile service evolution continues

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Each year the mobile industry starts with a bang as attendees flock to the 2010 International Consumer...

Reality Check: When capital calls

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Each of us who works in the telecom industry is a manager of assets – whether networks,...

Reader Forum: Cable ready to partner with wireless on cell-tower backhaul

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...

Worst of the Week: The mobile Internet myth

Hello! And welcome to our Friday 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 RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....

Reality Check: Mystery solved! The money-making middle mile

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.After a column a few weeks back where I took the industry to task on its poor...

Reality Check: Optimizing the supply-chain ecosystem

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Last month, I ended on a compelling and interesting note: “Finally, particularly during these tough economic times,...

Reader Forum: The broadband stimulus application and beyond

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...

Worst of the Week: Programmed to fail

Hello! And welcome to our Friday 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 RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....

Reality Check: Three dinosaurs

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Greetings from the ice-crusted prairie where we celebrate mid-30 degree temperatures. The mercury wasn't the only thing...

Reality Check: Shifting dynamics in mobile application distribution and monetization

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.In 2009 the app-store gold rush induced “headless chicken” behavior within the mobile industry on an unprecedented...

Worst of the Week: Rage against the machine

Hello! And welcome to our Friday 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 RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....

Analyst Angle: Roaming rate rage

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.Just back from the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, where almost 50,000 of us...

Analyst Angle: The challenges of mobile termination rates

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.Mobile termination rates, the price a mobile operator charges to complete calls on its network,...

Reality Check: 4G is the wireless NASDAQ

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.With the Mobile World Congress behind us, it’s time to start re-frame the new-new broadband debate. We...

Reality Check: Evolution of the mobile touch ecosystem

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Over the past couple of years businesses have been scrambling to develop mobile apps, as the popularity...

@MWC: Worst of the Week: Nerds! Nerds! Nerds!

Hello! And welcome to our Friday 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 RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....

Reality Check: Voice over LTE: How soon is now?

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Last year the issue of Voice over Long Term Evolution (VoLTE) emerged from the shadows, and after...

Reader Forum: Rethinking mobile backhaul for maximum cost efficiency

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...

Worst of the Week: Quasi-evil?

Hello! And welcome to our Friday 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 RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....

Reality Check: Our marginal wireless infrastructure

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Emboldened by a vision of a national wireless infrastructure that would set the standard for the world,...

Reality Check: An industry in transition: Learning how to navigate the wireless ecosystem

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.2010 will definitely be a year of significant innovation in the wireless industry, and the buzz surrounding...

Reality Check: Guidelines for a healthy mobile ecosystem

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Ecosystems found in nature can be easily destroyed when there is an imbalance. Business ecosystems tend to...