Spotlight

The mobile-phone industry has evolved in countless ways during the past few decades. Phones today feature a dizzying array of new technologies and services, from multiple radios to integrated digital …

The wireless industry’s drive for cost efficiencies has seen marked improvements during the past several years as many carriers have begun posting operating profits after years of racking up huge …

Less than 10 years ago, dot-com was the technology phrase de jour. Business plans, companies and even an economic boom (and bust) were built upon one little dot. Today, at …

We’ve all seen the ads: “Raising the Bar.” “Can you hear me now?” “Nextel. Done.” “Get More.” Then again, with the wireless industry spending billions of dollars each year on …

Last year marked somewhat of a turnaround for the worldwide wireless industry-carrier capex spending increased by 18 percent in 2004 compared with 2003 levels after several years of declines, according …

WASHINGTON-Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) often describes his state as having a lot of land between light poles. In other words, rural America by its very definition has fewer people and …

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News announces that Wayne Schelle has been inducted into the Wireless Hall of Fame for 2005, now in its sixth year. The Hall of Fame recognizes …

In the juggling act between GSM and W-CDMA, dilemma is beautiful. But it is a terrible kind of beauty because both vendors and carriers must decide how much of their …

Building the network for a single-service protocol provided its own challenges. GSM, despite its worldwide acceptance, had to work out a profitable model. That compelled carriers to determine what kind …

Few carriers have put as much strain on their technology personnel over the past several years as Cingular Wireless L.L.C. From its beginnings as the merged wireless operations of BellSouth …

Similar to mechanics in the automotive world, test-and-measurement companies are the quiet heroes of wireless technologies. They take little credit when the networks hum and huff, yet they witness each …

WASHINGTON-Homeland security-as an overarching national policy and an omnipresent mindset created in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks-has been a mixed blessing for a wireless industry which …

From the consumer’s point of view, 2005 is shaping up to be the year mobile music goes big-time. And nearly everyone in the wireless industry is scrambling to make sure …

More than 1.5 billion people subscribe to wireless services. The vast majority of those wireless users see their mobile phone as a device that allows them to talk to other …

Will ZigBee wireless technology have an effect on Bluetooth? Once envisioned as the solution to all personal-area wireless connectivity, the reality of rapidly growing multimedia file sizes, connectivity needs and …

After years of what seemed like endless hype, Bluetooth wireless technology has become a mass-market consumer product technology, having shipped in more than 240 million units with price points of …

Editor’s Note: Each year, the RCR Wireless News editorial staff chooses the person who has impacted the wireless industry the most during the past 12 months. By successfully closing the …

Just a few years ago, players on the CDMA aisle of the technology wars believed the future belonged to them alone. The other players, huffing with GSM, could not figure …

Colorado Mills is one of Denver’s newest suburban malls. The warm, well-lit corridors are lined with like likes of Gap, Target, K-B Toys, Chili’s and other clothing, eatery, trinket and …

Once the darling of the wireless broadband publicity machine, 802.11-based Wi-Fi technologies have increasingly lost their luster to more appealing opportunities forecast from broader-coverage technologies like WiMAX and OFDM-based services, …

Terrified by the stigma of pornography and despite its revenue-enhancing potential, U.S. carriers continue to keep mobile adult content at arm’s length, refusing to offer it through their portals. But …

SAN FRANCISCO-Mobile music, games and enterprise applications are beginning to flood the market, creating a buzz the industry hasn’t seen in years. But while insiders salivate over “hockey-stick” projections for …

Before the spinoff of its chip business, Motorola Inc. often came across as an octopus-a many-sided giant. With Freescale Semiconductor Inc. now a standalone company, the wireless vendor still weighs …

The wireless industry is stooping to conquer. Nickelodeon is partnering with content developer Jamdat to produce mobile games based on two of the network’s most popular shows, “Dora the Explorer” …

The future of wireless could be the future of most everything. Wireless technology has evolved in leaps and bounds since the first transmission of radio communication signals across the English …