ICT Technologies Inc. and its operating company EurophoneUSA Inc. said they will partner with Korean mobile phone design company Uroa Tech to sell a range of wireless devices across the world, including an advanced GPRS device running Microsoft Corp.'s Smartphone operating system. RCR Wireless...
Upstart push-to-talk platform provider Kodiak Networks Inc. announced its first carrier customer last week by partnering with European-based operator Orange and is rumored to be readying a U.S.-based launch with Alltel Corp. as early as this week.Kodiak's agreement with Orange calls for the carrier...
WASHINGTON-CTIA's Steve Largent used the biggest news in the nation's capital last week-Joe Gibbs returning to coach the Redskins-to justify his actions as he fired five people and named three new staffers."Nobody expects Joe Gibbs to come in with the Washington Redskins and retain...
LAS VEGAS-Bill Gates told a packed audience at the Consumers Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week that technology has become commonplace. Because as of this Christmas my parents have joined the world of people who use wireless phones (with a little arm twisting...
WASHINGTON-CTIA's Steve Largent moved swiftly Thursday to announce his new communications vice president and lobbyist after confirming to RCR Wireless News that he was making significant changes in the wireless trade association.John Walls, the anchor of NBC-affiliate KJRH-TV in Tulsa, Okla., will become the...
WASHINGTON-When the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association moves into its new headquarters Jan. 20, there will be a new team in place, said CTIA President Steve Largent, confirming to RCR Wireless News that four senior executives have been laid off this week in addition...
What were the best five things to happen to the wireless industry in 2003? What were the worst? Here are my picks (for better or worse).The Top 5 best things that happened:The camera phone. RCR Wireless News readers agreed; this was the readers' choice...
WASHINGTON-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger-despite lacking jurisdiction over the California Public Utilities Commission-is quietly pressing regulators to follow an executive order freezing pending regulations until their economic impact can be assessed, setting up a political showdown at the agency over an upcoming vote on a proposed...
WASHINGTON-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger asked the California Public Utilities Commission last week to adhere to an executive order directing state agencies to conduct a six-month review of current and proposed regulations, a move that comes as state regulators near a vote on a controversial bill...
It appears Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P. will be able to unload some of its final CDMA phones in North America as Sprint PCS announced it will sell a limited number of Sony Ericsson's Bluetooth-enabled T608 phones.The move comes almost six months after Sony...
Editor’s Note: Each year, RCR Wireless News chooses the person who has most impacted the wireless industry. Our choice for 2003 is the consumer, the collective 150 million wireless subscribers who are changing the wireless industry with both their praises and their complaints. The...
Just in time for the holiday season, New York area T-Mobile USA Inc. sub-dealers claim the wireless carrier has increased pressure prohibiting the independent agents from selling both T-Mobile USA and Cingular Wireless L.L.C. products and services in the same location. The increased pressure...
Editor's Note: Each year, RCR Wireless News chooses the person who has most impacted the wireless industry. Our choice for 2003 is the consumer, the collective 150 million wireless subscribers who are changing the wireless industry with both their praises and their complaints. ...
WASHINGTON-The Department of Defense inspector general has referred "to appropriate investigative authorities outside the Defense Department" the results of its preliminary inquiry into the awarding of mobile-phone licenses in Iraq, a Pentagon official told RCR Wireless News Friday afternoon.The official, who declined to be...
Following up on a Federal Communications Commission inquiry into its local number portability implementation, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. filed a report with the government agency yesterday outlining the troubles the carrier has encountered with the LNP mandate, as well as the steps it has...
Much like Al Capone's vault, the first few days of local number portability provided more hype than headlines as the feared millions of customers beating down the doors of retail outlets selling wireless services in an attempt to switch carriers was tempered by a...
WASHINGTON-The Department of Defense last week said it has begun investigating allegations of wrongdoing in connection with the award of three mobile-phone licenses in Iraq in October to a group of Arab consortia that plan to deploy GSM wireless networks in the war-torn country."It...
Even while two major third-generation protocols, CDMA2000 and W-CDMA, snap up the spotlight in China, the nation's homegrown technology will not eat humble pie.The protocol was upgraded into an alliance last October, and the group announced that it will add five new members by...
Despite wireless carrier-generated public-relations hype surrounding the success of initial number porting, which was helped by only a slight increase in customer traffic, a number of analysts questioned the first day's success of the Federal Communications Commission mandate. Wireless industry research firm Mobile...
WASHINGTON-The campaign of leading Democratic presidential contender Howard Dean downplayed comments it said were misinterpreted as favoring wholesale re-regulation of telecommunications and other key industry sectors, but last week's flap perhaps offered a glimpse into how the former Vermont governor sees technology fitting...
With much fanfare at this year's Comdex electronics show in Las Vegas and multi-page advertisements in nationwide newspapers, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. launched its high-speed EDGE-based service last week, claiming it now operates the highest-speed nationwide wireless data network in the country. The launch...
CRYSTAL CITY, Va.- Like most everything else in Iraq these days, wireless telephony in the country is not going according to plan.The official wireless licenses have yet to be awarded Coalition Provisional Authority officials acknowledged Wednesday, but the three licensees have all been given...
Sprint PCS said it will launch a new text-messaging service in the coming weeks, a move that will allow users to fire off text messages without the need of a WAP browser.Critics have long disparaged Sprint's WAP-based text-messaging service as clunky and slow. Under...
