WASHINGTON-Since customers must be at least 18 years old to have their own mobile-phone account, the wireless industry last week said it would begin classifying carrier-controlled content and restrict access to inappropriate content to non-primary account phone users. CTIA last week released the details...
DENVER-Amy DeVita has rejoined RCR Wireless News as Northeastern/International Sales Manager. DeVita spent six years representing RCR Wireless News from 1998 to 2004, before deciding to take some time off to spend with her family. Prior to that, she worked at Thompson Financial Services...
WASHINGTON-Federal regulators late Tuesday praised CTIA's initiative to classify mobile content into Restricted Carrier Content-available to those above 18 years old-and Generally Acceptable Carrier Content. "This industry effort should really help families who rely on their cell phones, but do not want their children...
Sprint Nextel Corp. became the first U.S. operator to offer full-track music downloads, launching a dual-delivery service last week using phones from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Sanyo Electric Co. The carrier introduced a mobile music store that allows users to purchase and download...
What constitutes a wireless carrier?Years ago, I used to have an annual fight with an MCI spokesman because RCR Wireless News listed MCI as the nation's largest reseller in our Top 20 lists. Who wouldn't want to be No. 1, you ask? MCI did...
Dan Meyer has been promoted to managing editor at RCR Wireless News, while Mike Dano has been named online editor. Meyer has been reporting at the newspaper since 1999. In his new position, he will handle the day-to-day responsibilities of the paper, including assigning...
Surfing the wireless Web can be downright painful. More than two-thirds of all U.S. adults access the Internet from personal computers, according to a recent study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, and 70 million Americans were logging onto the Web every...
One factor many investors look at before sinking money into the wireless industry has been the ability of wireless devices to penetrate the general population. During the past several years, penetration rates have ballooned from around 50 percent to nearly 70 percent, coinciding with...
WASHINGTON-Another federal court has ruled that law enforcement may not track someone using a cell phone without probable cause. The federal district court for the southern district of Texas said that monitoring the location of someone using only cell-site data soon will be technologically...
WASHINGTON-Two key Senate appropriators have chided Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin for failing to give a heads-up to Congress about reorganization and spending plans at the agency. Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), chairman of the Senate appropriations subcommittee on commerce, justice, science and related...
WASHINGTON-A CTIA-led effort to create a mobile-content ratings system has been dropped-at least for now. The CTIA board recently voted unanimously to recommend that wireless operators implement the Carrier Content Classification and Internet Access Guidelines created by the trade group and its member companies,...
The animosity between Sprint Nextel Corp. and wireless affiliate Nextel Partners Inc. stepped up as Nextel Communications Inc. and its subsidiary Nextel WIP Corp.-neither of which are part of Sprint Nextel-sued to try to set rules to determine Nextel Partners' value. The fair market...
Verizon Wireless is expected to launch a streaming television service early next year using a network being deployed by tower company Crown Castle International Corp. Verizon Wireless currently offers a streaming service through its CDMA2000 1x EV-DO powered Vcast service that provides continually updated...
WASHINGTON-A leading expert has offered the White House and Congress recommendations to overhaul the nation's emergency-alert system, based on eight years of research on the subject. The challenge requires a master plan far more involved than adding wireless and other technologies to the mix...
According to most industry observers, all systems are go in the worldwide wireless industry. Predictions show significant sales opportunities in emerging markets like India, where handset costs are plummeting below $50, and some carriers have figured out how to make money from $5-per-month service...
Verizon Wireless continues to build on its domination in the wireless data space, adding a handful of new markets to its rapidly growing coverage area while at the same time cutting prices. The carrier now offers its CDMA2000 1x EV-DO-based BroadbandAccess service in 61...
CTIA has named RCR Wireless News an official Show Daily publication for the CTIA Wireless I.T. and Entertainment 2005 conference and exhibition Sept. 27-29 in San Francisco. For consideration in either the San Francisco show daily publication or RCR's normal print and online coverage...
Third-party content providers are becoming increasingly savvy in hiding wireless transactions from the network operators that deliver them, industry insiders say. A handful of direct-to-consumer content providers in the United States and abroad are disguising their wares on mobile networks as photo messages and...
Ahhh, China. It's sort of like the black sheep of the global wireless family. It plays by its own rules, it doesn't conform and it certainly doesn't make things easy for any government or wireless company hoping to rein it in.But what potential. China...
WASHINGTON-With little fanfare, an influential Democrat on the House Commerce Committee introduced legislation last month to reorganize the Federal Communications Commission. "The FCC originally created and organized its bureaus at a time when individual companies offered single, discrete telecommunications services," reads the bill authored...
Early termination fees could be a thing of the past as a small startup out of New Jersey has set up a Web site designed to bring together wireless customers looking to get out of their current contractual obligations without having to pay an...
Sprint Corp.'s months-long high-speed wireless data tease came to an end last week as the company finally announced the launch of its CDMA2000 1x EV-DO network. The company said the service would be available in business districts and airport locations in 34 markets by...
WASHINGTON-Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said he hopes to work with Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) to craft a bill that would end the uncertainty on the transition to digital TV. "I want to work with Sen. Stevens in getting legislation passed," said...
WASHINGTON-Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said he hopes to work with Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) to craft a bill that would end the uncertainty on the transition to digital TV. "I want to work with Sen. Stevens in getting legislation passed," said...
