RCR Wireless News

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 …

RCR Wireless News daily news updates at RCRnews.com will resume on January 2, 2002. The entire staff of RCR Wireless News would like to wish our readers and clients in …

A new organization is being created to represent the views of American GSM and TDMA wireless carriers as they convert to third-generation wireless technologies such as GPRS, EDGE and WCDMA. …

WASHINGTON—Former FCC Commissioner Gloria Tristani has decided to run for the U.S. Senate from New Mexico—one of several elective posts she was considering when she left the Federal Communications Commission …

HACKENSACK, N.J.—Wireless data provider GoAmerica Inc. said it is establishing a team to assist new subscribers who migrate to GoAmerica from other wireless data and Internet services providers. A spokeswoman …

Pinnacle Holdings Inc. painted a grim picture during its third-quarter earnings call last week, as executives tried to offer some hope that the company is going to survive even though …

BOCA RATON, Fla.-SBA Communications Corp. reported strong results for the third quarter ended Sept. 30 with revenues of $63 million, an increase from the $45.4 million reported for third-quarter 2000. …

Editor’s Note: Since 1993, RCR Wireless News has chosen one person who most impacted the wireless industry that year. As part of our celebration of 20 years of covering the …

Editor’s note: In 2000, RCR Wireless News founded the Wireless Hall of Fame to honor those individuals who have made significant contributions to the wireless industry. Following is a look …

SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif.—Shorecliff Communications and RCR Wireless News announced the finalists for the 2001 Excellence in Business Awards, scheduled to take place Oct. 30 at the 2001 Tower Summit …

Avesair Inc. may be just shy of its first birthday, but its proven technology has years behind it and its executives are industry veterans. In fact, the expertise and experience …

WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission expects to begin releasing data on consumer complaints by the middle of next month, Rosemary Kimball, director of media relations for the FCC’s Consumer Information Bureau, …

Despite the flailing economy and its recent battering of the wireless industry at large, wireless platform application provider Air2Web has pushed on and is now announcing the release of the …

The headline on the wireless emergency alert story in the July 16 issue of RCR Wireless News on page 3 was incorrect. Cingular Wireless phones were used in the July …

The difficulties of the paging industry caught up with wholesale paging carrier PNI Technologies Inc., forcing the company into filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U. S. Bankruptcy …

With less than two years in the game, software platform provider Stick Networks has already made a name for itself with its flagship Personal Digital Network, a wireless platform that …

Editor’s Note: The RCR Wireless News editorial staff has compiled this list of the 20 largest international paging markets by country, ranked by the estimated number of subscribers in each …

To witness the merciless effects of today’s bear market, one should look no further than Broadband2Wireless Inc., an unlicensed wireless broadband provider in the Boston area that filed for Chapter …

WASHINGTON-In the world of wireless enhanced 911, the Fourth of July fireworks were not just up in the sky. Carriers, public-safety officials and government spent the holiday week reacting to …

I hesitate a bit to write a column about driver distraction since the last time I did so a few readers found it necessary to disparage me on our letters …

WASHINGTON-Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) officially asked the General Accounting Office to probe growing mobile-phone service problems in the United States, a move likely to produce additional data that could bolster …

After months of struggling to beef up its customer base and emerge, even slightly, from debt, Adaptive Broadband Corp. said it’s officially open to the possibility of a sale, merger …

As the Virgin Mobile rumor factory continues to pump out news stories, Sprint PCS finally brought some substance to the situation. The wireless carrier issued a brief, two-sentence release confirming …

A few years back RCR Wireless News ran a story that said AT&T Corp. was exploring-just studying the possibility, mind you-of implementing a CDMA overlay onto its TDMA network, and …

NEW YORK-WorldCom Inc. shareholders approved June 7 the creation of separate tracking stocks, which pursued separate pricing paths at the close of their first day of trading on Nasdaq June …