Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Communications service providers, especially wireless network operators, have struggled with poor voice quality for years. Many have...
While the mobile market is indeed international in scale, don’t think carriers ignore local issues. A perfect example is a prepaid offering Verizon Wireless (VZ) unveiled last week in the Southern California and select Florida markets that looks to compete against similar offerings from...
Research in Motion Ltd. (RIM) used BlackBerry World 2011 to unveil two powerful new BlackBerry Bold smartphones on Monday, sporting a touchscreen and a 1.2 GHz processor.RIM hopes the move will bring its phones up to date with its competitors' smartphone offerings and...
Mobile communication is really going mobile according to Juniper Research which says half a billion people worldwide will use their mobile devices as travel tickets on metros, subways and buses by 2015.According to the Mobile Ticketing for Transport Markets report, the practice of using...
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,...
AT&T Mobility (T) is set to “4G-enize” a 4G device announcing this afternoon that it was set to begin rolling out an update for the HTC Corp. Inspire smartphone that will allow for higher-speed uploads through the HSUPA standard.The Inspire launched earlier this year...
EBay Inc.'s (EBAY) online payment service PayPal has acquired Boston-based Fig Card, a payment startup that seeks to eliminate the use of credit cards in lieu of smartphones. Financial details of the buy were not disclosed.Fig Card allows retailers to enable mobile payments...
Apple Inc. (AAPL) is moving past its competitors with a record-breaking 18.6 million iPhones shipped for the latest quarter, according to analysts at IDC and Strategy Analytics. In the process, Apple overtook ZTE Corp. for fourth place and, according to IDC, claimed a 5%...
Verizon Wireless (VZ) announced earlier today that technical issues that had crippled its LTE network have been solved and that the network was “up and running.”The announcement came via the carrier’s Twitter page.The carrier noted yesterday that the network was experiencing “issues” that were...
Sprint Nextel Corp.’s (S) multitude of networks, brands and wholesale partners lends a convoluted nature to its quarterly financial release, but at the end of the day the carrier managed to add 1.1 million new customers to its network during the first quarter of...
Handset exclusive deals are a regular part of the U.S. wireless landscape. When a handset vendor (OEM) produces an innovative handset, they seek a carrier who will commit to buying a high volume of the model, and then promoting it with marketing dollars. Carriers,...
It would seem now the war of words between Google Inc. (GOOG) and Apple Inc. (AAPL) over which company is activating the most devices daily has come to an end with Android the victor, Google and its hardware partners are looking to put some...
Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) said it is making its OpenPlug Studio toolkit available for free to application developers as the network vendor tries to flesh out the ecosystem for more enterprise end users. The toolkit allows developers to write applications for a variety of...
Verizon Wireless (VZ) and Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) shed some launch light on a pair of handsets that both expect to begin offering over the coming days and weeks.Verizon Wireless said it will begin offering the HTC Corp. Droid Incredible 2 on April 28...
Lawmakers stepped in to ask operating system companies how they are tracking, using, storing and sharing location information on smartphones after media reports that Apple Inc. (AAPL) automatically tracks and stores location data. While privacy issues have always been a concern in the mobile...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.The telecommunications earnings season began with a bang this week with Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ), AT&T Inc....
AT&T Inc. (T) late last week filed its petition to acquire T-Mobile USA Inc. with the Federal Communications Commission. The detailed document, excluding the lack of detail from redacted information, lays out AT&T’s argument as to why the FCC should allow the nation’s No....
Verizon Wireless (VZ) is looking to keep the momentum building for its LTE network announcing today the launch of service in six new markets and plans for a new smartphone.The new markets Clarksville, Tenn.-Hopkinsville, Ky.; Cleveland, Tenn.; Columbia and Hilton Head, S.C.; Wilmington, N.C.;...
Nokia Corp. (NOK) posted a profit of $502 million on sales of nearly $15.2 billion for the first quarter, but the device manufacturer said this quarter could be more challenging. The world's largest handset manufacturer has been under consistent pressure from...
Verizon Wireless (VZ) continued to show strong postpaid customer growth during the first quarter of this year, buoyed by its recently launched LTE service as well as the launch of Apple Inc.’s iPhone device on its network. However, non-traditional – at least for Verizon...
One chip firm not blaming Japan for poor results this quarter is Qualcomm Inc., which beat the street with better than expected quarterly results and a revised optimistic prediction for full-year financial targets.The firm posted net earnings of $999 million, or 59 cents per...
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.
At the end of 2010, China had 457 million Internet users and 303 million mobile...
AT&T Inc. (T) counted on connected devices to drive first-quarter growth, with 1.3 million connected devices added in the period, compared to only 62,000 postpaid retail net additions. The nationwide operator now counts 97.5 million wireless subscribers on its network.In a quarter where...
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.At the end of 2010, China had 457 million Internet users and 303 million mobile...
