Editor's Note: The mobile space witnessed a lot of news over the past 12 months that have and will alter the mobile landscape for years to come. With the end of 2010 just days away, RCR Wireless News takes a look back at the...
Verizon Wireless (VZ) attracted another rural operator to its LTE in Rural America program with Oklahoma-based Pioneer Cellular announcing it will lease upper C-Block 700 MHz spectrum from Verizon Wireless to construct a LTE network in the Pioneer service areas where Verizon Wireless has...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly 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.Mobile broadband has seen something of a marketing revival with the arrival of new device...
The Rural Cellular Association is pushing Congress and the Federal Communications Commission to mandate automatic data roaming between wireless carriers and to regulate 700 MHz equipment so that it is interoperable, two moves the trade group say are imperative to keeping rural wireless operators...
Filling in some of the final pieces of its LTE network launch plans, Verizon Wireless (VZ) today announced the launch date, pricing and the initial device line up for its new network. The carrier said the network will officially launch on Dec. 5 with...
Nearly a year after launching network trials, and two years after announcing its intentions, Cox Communications commercially unveiled its wireless service. The offering's initial launch will include its trial markets of Hampton Roads, Va.; Omaha, Neb.; and Orange County, Calif. The company said the...
DALLAS – LightSquared's ambitious plans to offer a satellite/terrestrial-based wholesale wireless network is set to get off the ground this weekend as the company's first satellite is scheduled to launch into space.Speaking during an opening keynote session at today's LTE North America event in...
Kentucky-based rural wireless operator Bluegrass Cellular said it has taken Verizon Wireless (VZ) up on its offer to partner with smaller operators in an attempt to broaden the deployment of LTE services using 700 MHz spectrum.Bluegrass said it has entered into an agreement with...
U.S. Cellular Corp. (USM) reported better earnings on basically flat revenue for the third quarter, and while average revenue per user increased, the carrier continued to lose customers. Total subscriber count dropped by 41,000 from June through September.The operator introduced service plans called ...
The typical third-quarter malaise that seems to impact other no-contract customers each year continued to bypass MetroPCS Communications Inc. (PCS), which said it added more than 223,000 customers to its network during the quarter. The results were in stark contrast to rival – and...
Citing recent business operating changes, Leap Wireless International Inc. (LEAP) posted disappointing third-quarter results and warned that it would have to work at managing future mobile broadband growth on its network.Leap said it lost nearly 200,000 customers during the third quarter of this year...
Fresh off its announced purchase of CommScope Inc., the Carlyle Group announced plans to buy Syniverse Technologies in a $2.6 billion deal, and take that company private as well.The offer of $31 per share is a 35% premium over Syniverse’s stock share average for...
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in our September Special Edition, Behind the Scenes, a focus on integrated subscriber and network management systems. To download the complete Special Edition, click here.Wireless operators have customers, offer services, source from suppliers, engage with partners, develop products,...
The Federal Communications Commission notice of proposed rulemaking on so-called “bill shock” rules seeks comment on whether smaller providers and prepaid providers should be exempt from the proposed rules or given extra time to implement them.The agency today issued an NPRM that would require...
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in our September Special Edition, Behind the Scenes, a focus on integrated subscriber and network management systems. To download the complete Special Edition, click here. In an increasingly global world where international business travel has become commonplace,...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly 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. This article is an excerpt from RCR Wireless News' July Special Edition, "Riding the...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly 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. This article is an excerpt from RCR Wireless News' July Special Edition, "Riding the...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
Looking to continue its LTE momentum, MetroPCS Communications Inc. (PCS) plans to have the service available in all of its native markets by early next year, with all of its approximately 11,000 cell sites LTE-enabled by the end of 2011. The carrier launched its...
Looking to continue its LTE momentum, MetroPCS Communications Inc. (PCS) plans to have the service available in all of its native markets by early next year, with all of its approximately 11,000 cell sites LTE-enabled by the end of 2011. The carrier launched its...
Don't call it a launch.Clearwire Corp. (CLWR) said it has begun “operational readiness activities” in New York, Los Angeles and other markets ahead of its official launch of WiMAX services in those markets. For the New York and Los Angeles markets the carrier said...
It seems like a no-brainer today, but there was a time not too long ago when Wi-Fi was not a ubiquitous feature found in most homes, businesses or public venues. Along with that scarcity was frustration and complications for those looking to actually connect...
UPDATED: AT&T Mobility (T) readjusted its schedule to begin offering services in a number of markets it had acquired from Verizon Wireless (VZ) earlier this year.The carrier said it was moving up the launch dates in markets in South Dakota North Dakota, Alabama, New...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
