Opinion

Dear Editor, As a former telecom magazine editor-in-chief, a wireless executive and a resident of the state of Florida, I wanted to comment on Jeffrey Silva’s lack of objectivity in …

The wireless industry has already admitted-repeatedly-that it jumped the gun a bit on the whole wireless Internet thing, acknowledged that its fruition still is more than a bit in the …

By nature, political debate in the nation’s capital is one-dimensional. The predominantly two-party system forces consideration of issues into the narrow confines of Republican vs. Democrat or conservative vs. liberal. …

Vision. Brains. Stubbornness. Courage. Discouragement, Spunk. Talent. Persistence. The four people inducted into RCR Wireless News’ Wireless Hall of Fame this year display most, if not all of these attributes …

Tom Wheeler, that fierce wireless lobbyist, has a serious problem. It’s Bud Weiser. It seems wherever Tom goes, whatever wireless issue he’s spinning, there’s Bud Weiser. Tom can’t seem to …

BEIJING-Once again there seems to be a significant delay in China Unicom’s rollout of its CDMA network. The much-plagued endeavor was on track just a couple of weeks ago, when …

NEW DELHI, India-The Indian wireless market, so far a preserve of GSM, has been opened to the competing CDMA technology in a big way. CDMA growth is expected to pick …

TOKYO-Korea Telecom Freetel, South Korea’s second-largest mobile carrier, launched 1XRTT technology in May, targeting to win 1 million 1X subscribers during the first year. To facilitate more advanced data services, …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-The announcement by NTT DoCoMo of a five-month delay to its wideband-CDMA (W-CDMA) launch must have been music to the ears of Irwin Jacobs, the chairman and chief …

MOSCOW-CDMA carriers continue to operate in Russia, working to recoup costs and hoping for a possible replacement of Communications Minister Leonid Reiman, who warned last year that the U.S.-developed IS-95 …

Navigating the September trade-show scene is going to be a challenge for the wireless industry. The two major trade associations are sponsoring shows the same week targeting the same audience. …

For faltering fixed wireless carriers, April proved every bit as cruel as T.S. Eliot decried in The Waste Land. Eliot, it turns out, was as much a prophet as he …

I’ve noticed a curious pattern emerging. At agency after agency with telecom and high-tech oversight, key positions have yet to be filled. Some are not even close to being filled. …

Along with exporting a trillion Happy Meal toys, China proved once again last week it is king in the export business. It seems Denver’s recent hazy skies were not from …

The stock market is up. The Dow is back over 10,000, but no one really knows why. Ignore it. The stock market, especially technology stocks, has been changing faster than …

With last week’s resolution of the standoff with China, U.S.-Sino relations again will be put under the microscope. Hardliners on Capitol Hill, angered and emboldened by the incident, will oppose …

WASHINGTON-The law firm of Baltimore Orioles owner Peter Angelos, which earlier this year took control of an $800 million mobile phone-brain cancer lawsuit, has joined forces with attorneys in a …

Whether the issue is a high-stakes spectrum fight key to the New Economy, a free-falling stock market key to the Old Economy or a U.S.-Sino spat key to the global …

I’ve seen the future and it is m-commerce. M is for money, isn’t it? Money or mobile, same thing, different pronunciation. At Accenture’s Global Communications Forum last week in Miami …

The Senate Republican Conference will begin offering its recess packets and other information wirelessly to the Palm Pilot VIIs used currently by 11 Republican senators. Avantgo powers the service. The …

Which way does new FCC Chairman Michael Powell jump as he ponders wireless deregulation and technology disruption? Should the FCC, for example, eliminate the spectrum cap as requested by top …

Wireless industry insiders increasingly seem to be making the case that governments should consider “rebates” to carriers that bid too much money at spectrum auctions for third-generation wireless services. While …

Sadly lost in the debate over wireless E911 is life itself. The mobile-phone industry and we in the press are engrossed in an E911 debate focussed on deadlines, waivers, costs …

Every year after the show, I wonder if I should write a column with profound insight into the state of the wireless telecommunications industry and enamor you with all of …

An old adage goes: “You get what you pay for.” The anonymous author of this phrase obviously never closely examined an American phone bill. For some services we pay more …