Hedge*hog*ing v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube.If you want to be inspired about the wireless industry, the United States and the power of the people, go RIGHT NOW to CTIA.org (http://www.ctia.org/wireless2007/index.cfm?day=3) to watch...
Another technology designed to get people to watch TV beyond the living room is getting ready for its close-up. Mobile-Pedestrian-Handheld technology, or MPH, is an in-band mobile digital television system set to debut later this month at the National Association of Broadcasters convention in...
Editor's Note: In this monthly feature, RCR Wireless News talks to retail managers across the country to get a first-hand view of what's hot in wireless.Retail store manager Mark Jones manages an Alltel store in the carrier's hometown of Little Rock, Ark. The location...
MediaFLO USA launched its broadcast mobile television service with Verizon Wireless earlier this month. Virtually everyone in the industry is wondering if the service will take off, and questions run the field as to the profitability of the service and where architects of the...
Welcome to a special CTIA edition of Hedgehogging by RCRNews.com Online Editor Mike Dano. To read more of Dano's columns, visit RCRNews.com and click on "Worst of the Week."
So as far as I can tell, one of the big issues at this year's...
Editor's Note: Lowell McAdam took over as president and CEO of Verizon Wireless in December, as Denny Strigl moved on to head Verizon Communications Inc.
Editor's Note: Welcome to a special CTIA Show Daily edition of our weekly online feature, Analyst Angle. Every Monday at www.RCRNews.com you can find columns from the industry's leading analysts, including Current Analysis' Avi Greengart, Compete's Miro Kazakoff and Jupiter Research's Julie Ask. Visit...
Welcome to a special edition of our online column, Worst of the Week. Industry trade shows are especially nutty, so this column is a chance for us to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way. We hope you enjoy it!So that...
Hedge*hog*ing v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube.Ontela lent us a demo of its PicDeck technology, which automatically uploads photos and videos from consumers' mobile camera phones and transfers them to their PCs...
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 us at RCR Wireless News to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the...
The CTIA Wireless show is the most important U.S. wireless event of the year. With tens of thousands of attendees, over 400,000 square feet of exhibits, participants from over 100 countries-all representing a $500 billion global industry with 2.3 billion subscribers worldwide-it's is the...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our Monday 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. In the coming weeks look for columns from Compete's Miro Kazakoff, Jupiter Research's Julie...
Hedge*hog*ing v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube.One of the most interesting statements on the inside pages of RCR Wireless News this week that may get lost in the pre-CTIA mayhem? On Page 27,...
REP. MIKE DOYLE (D-PA.), vice chairman of the House telecom subcommittee, accused Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin of misleading Congress on abruptly terminating a contract for a new enhanced 911 study days after agency staff learned of key findings flagging serious problems...
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 us at RCR Wireless News to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the...
Editor's Note: Welcome to a special edition of our Monday feature, Analyst Angle. This week we're introducing four new contributors, Current Analysis' Avi Greengart, Compete's Miro Kazakoff, Jupiter Research's Julie Ask and Iain Gillott. Please join us in welcoming these excellent analysts in the...
Hedge*hog*ing v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube.What got the RCR Wireless News editorial staff talking this week? Simple: the 4 billion requests to meet at the CTIA Wireless 2007 show at the end...
Editor's Note: In this monthly feature, RCR Wireless News talks to retail managers across the country to get a first-hand view of what's hot in wireless.Cingular Wireless L.L.C., now a part of AT&T Inc., has historically held the South as its stronghold. Kevin Balgobin,...
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 us at RCR Wireless News to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our Monday 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. In the coming weeks look for columns from M:Metrics' Seamus McAteer, Ovum's Roger Entner...
The mobile handset has become something of a looking glass in Wonderland. And mPortal Inc. was founded in 2000 to help clients-network operators, mobile virtual network operators, content providers and enterprises-offer consumers and employees a means to step through that looking glass into the...
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 us at RCR Wireless News to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the...
Hedge*hog*ing v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube.--All the talk about Alltel being acquired is not settling well with some of the RCR Wireless News staff. The thought that anything might interfere with the...
So the latest topic of endless hype within the wireless industry seems to be ad-supported content and services. Ad-supported mobile social networking, ad-supported games, ad-supported muni Wi-Fi-the list goes on and on. I wish I could get an ad-supported assistant to sort everything out.But...