Opinion

As the year winds down (and aren’t we all ready to put this year behind us and start fresh in January?) RCR Wireless News recaps the top 20 stories of …

Osama bin Laden and his goons appear to be in retreat. For that alone we should give thanks, though no one will be satisfied until justice is brought to the …

Qualcomm Inc. has been looking for a European opening for its CDMA technology for some time. But so far, the technology has been effectively shut out in the region, other …

Misguided roaming and acquisitions Dear Editor: I enjoyed your “Fraud management” article in the September-October 2001 issue of Global Wireless. I do agree with you on both counts. Even though …

TORONTO-As the handset manufacturing business gets tougher because of declining demand, more phone makers are looking at joint ventures as their economic salvation and perhaps their best strategy to catch …

LONDON-The introduction of General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) in Sweden and NTT DoCoMo’s launch of third-generation (3G) services has set the scene for a new approach to mobile devices, both …

A new study by marketing research firm BWCS claimed that more than 90 percent of U.K. business travelers with laptops are interested in using wireless local area network (WLAN) services …

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SAO PAULO, Brazil—In the opinion of Qualcomm Brazil’s general director, Valerijonas Seivalos J

DENVER, United States-In an attempt to focus specifically on offering a news service for the international mobile industry, Global Wireless will evolve into a completely electronic product beginning in 2002. …

WASHINGTON-Bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc. insisted last week in meetings with industry, federal regulators and the press that it plans to build out its network, and further litigation only delays that …

Telecom layoffs have climbed above 175,000 since the first of the year. Earnings are down, stocks are down and a turnaround is not expected until well into 2002. It is …

While I believe that m-commerce will someday become mainstream in the United States, I have to admit that my eyes always tend to glaze over a bit when a wireless …

The secret is out. “The brain appears to have a finite amount of space for tasks requiring attention,” according to The New York Times’ story on a recent Carnegie Mellon …

It was a pretty violent descent. The plane was being tossed around like an ice cube in a cocktail shaker. I decided there was only one safe course of action. …

It is the best of times. It is the worst of times. Sprint PCS reported second-quarter financials so great, they even surprised analysts covering the industry. Last week, three of …

The offer last week by a handful of wireless carriers to pay off NextWave Telecom Inc.’s debts in exchange for the company’s disputed wireless spectrum reminds me of some negotiations …

FCC Chairman Michael Powell needs to direct his staff to get over it and get on with it. “It” is the agency’s loss in federal appeals court to NextWave Telecom …

Add Mitch Daniels to the highest office in the land, President of the United States by Committee. Daniels, director of the Office of Management and Budget, joins Vice President Cheney, …

Congress seems to be catching up with industry regarding how spectrum auctions have been manipulated to solve federal budget shortfalls. The House has signaled the Senate that putting arbitrary deadlines …

Close below the surface of the third-generation mobile-phone spectrum debate is a technology war, the kind of feud industry thought was behind it and wanted to avoid as it tries …

If your mother is like mine, she probably told you to share when you were a child. Sharing is a good thing, at least in the eyes of most moms. …

ATTW added to S&P 500 AT&T Wireless Group, which has been spun off to AT&T Corp. shareholders, replaced Potlatch Corp., an integrated forest products company, in the S&P 500 Index …

Junichiro Koizumi hopes to be the Next Big Thing in Japanese politics. So too hope the Japanese people, who have watched the one-time economic juggernaut atrophy away the past decade. …

SEATTLE-Finally, the breakup talk may fizzle out for Microsoft Corp. Thanks to a unanimous decision by the federal appeals court, the software giant may not worry about antitrust accusations as …