Opinion

Whether you are aware of it or not (and for most people I am guessing not) July has been deemed wireless etiquette month by none other than Jacqueline Whitmore. That’s …

You think Ed Whitacre, head honcho of AT&T Inc., was worried powerful members of the Senate Judiciary antitrust subcommittee didn’t like the idea of his spending $67 billion to buy …

So the National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus ruled that Cingular does in fact have the “fastest national wireless data network” and “the largest push-to-talk network …

Hats off to Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) for finally making telecom reform legislation truly meaningful, even if it is potentially at the expense of the bill itself. …

WASHINGTON-Motient Corp.’s largest shareholder filed a new lawsuit against the wireless company, alleging in a Texas court that a recent transaction involving mobile satellite service ownership changes violates federal securities …

The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms. Click here for wireless ratings from past weeks from RCR …

WASHINGTON—Motient Corp.’s largest shareholder filed a new lawsuit against the wireless company, alleging in a Texas court that a recent transaction involving mobile satellite service ownership changes violates federal securities …

Wireless devices have the capability to transform the advertising industry. Marketers have long wanted to be able to touch their target audiences on a one-to-one basis-and get those consumers to …

Cellular association CTIA may yet get language introduced-perhaps even added-to telecom reform legislation that would expand federal pre-emption beyond that approved by Congress in 1993. Whether an amendment further curtailing …

In a bit of good news for the bottom line of wireless carriers, it appears the recent wave of consolidation that swept the industry has brought about a detent in …

Though a mix of key wireless, telecom and Internet bills are supposedly in play on Capitol Hill, keeping lawmakers focused on them could get increasingly difficult in coming weeks and …

As RCR’s online editor, I am starting a weekly column at RCRNews.com. It’s called Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, …

The United States last week struck a historic trade deal with Vietnam, the communist nation and one-time foe whose name pops up a lot these days as we find ourselves …

The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms. Click here for wireless ratings from past weeks from RCR …

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 …

The Federal Communications Commission likely was wise to postpone the auction of advanced wireless services spectrum in a calculated move that could deflect potential lawsuits from disgruntled designated entities. The …

Last week, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin politely rebuffed Rep. Edward Markey’s (D-Mass.) request to investigate possible privacy violations by large telecom carriers in connection with their alleged participation …

Hello! And welcome to the first edition of our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column …

It could be a while, though possibly never, before we learn whether large telecom companies worked hand-in-glove with the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on phone conversations and collect phone-call …

A colleague of mine recently announced plans to launch his own mobile virtual network operator service. Without rehashing the scheme, which appears foolproof (at least to me), he noted that …

The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms. Click here for wireless ratings from past weeks from RCR …

The wild growth of mobile-phone service in Iraq is rightly held up as one of the great success stories in a chronically war-battered country that’s now trying to put a …

“Communications has broken out of its preordained, unleashing applications that can integrate communications across the enterprise,” says a new IDC white paper on Voice over Internet Protocol. That one sentence …

I’m seriously thinking about launching my own MVNO. I mean, how hard can it be, really? All the mobile virtual network enablers out there keep telling me it’s quick, easy …

The advanced wireless services auction is scheduled to begin in less than two months. The filing deadline for short-form applications is Wednesday. The upfront payments deadline is three weeks later. …