Editor's note: At the end of each year, the RCR Wireless News editorial staff looks back on the news events that made headlines and decides which were the most significant, industry-impacting stories during the past 12 months. While our list does not include the...
Editor's note: At the end of each year, the RCR Wireless News editorial staff looks back on the news events that made headlines and decides which were the most significant, industry-impacting stories during the past 12 months. While our list does not include the...
BOSTON, Mass.-LG Electronics Co. Ltd. came out the winner in a recent customer satisfaction study covering mobile-phone owners in the United States and Western Europe.According to numbers from research and consulting firm Strategy Analytics, LG phone owners reported the highest satisfaction ratings in 17...
Just two months after launching its own branded wireless e-mail offering, Nokia Corp. is jumping head-first into the space with the $430 million acquisition of Intellisync Corp. The handset manufacturer last week announced plans to buy the San Jose, Calif.-based developer, offering $5.25 per...
The world's No. 2 handset maker Motorola Inc. continued to dominate the fractured U.S. mobile-phone market in the third quarter, while the world's largest handset supplier, Nokia Corp., sits at a distant fourth place.According to numbers from research and consulting firm Strategy Analytics, Motorola...
U.S. wireless carriers ultimately want to get every American on their networks. In this utopian dream, everybody would be a paying customer. Subscribers would make all their voice calls from their mobile phones, they would gobble up services like downloadable music and mobile TV,...
The race to bring the much-hyped wireless home to market continued to heat up last week as two major wireless mesh-networking chipmakers gained traction in the nascent market. Zensys A/S, a Denmark-based company, added two new backers for its proprietary Z-Wave technology. Monster Cable...
Marketing companies increasingly are using Bluetooth to get their messages across in airports, shopping malls and movie theaters. While advertisers view the tactic as a valuable new way to get close to consumers, some say it's nothing more than high-tech spam. Marketers have been...
In just a year, Nokia Corp. has managed to steal the W-CDMA show. In the second quarter of last year, the handset vendor was fifth in terms of W-CDMA handset shipments, behind the likes of NEC Corp., LG Electronics Co. Ltd., Motorola Inc. and...
Apparently it's the mini, not the meek, that shall inherit the Earth. Everything is going small and portable, from video-game machines to music players to mobile phones. The latest to fall into this Lilliputian way of thinking is the removable memory card industry, which...
BOSTON-Personalization and "infotainment" offerings will fuel an explosion in the mobile-data industry during the next five years, according to a report from Strategy Analytics released Wednesday.Wireless data in North America will grow from an $8 billion market this year to more than $30 billion...
HAMPSHIRE, United Kingdom-Third-generation subscribers are expected to grow from 30 million in 2004 to more than 300 million by 2010, according to a new market report from Juniper Research.The report, "Next Generation Handsets 2005-2010," said the benefits of 3G services will be more focused...
BOSTON-New research shows the worldwide wireless market growing by leaps and bounds, with total revenues topping $570 billion this year. According to numbers from research and consulting firm Strategy Analytics, wireless subscribers will increase from 1.7 billion at the end of this year to...
BOSTON-A new report finds that ZigBee technology players are squaring off against Zen Systems, which has established a strong position in the residential control market with its proprietary Z-Wave solution.Strategy Analytics, a global research and consulting company, predicted that by 2008, the market for...
NEWTON CENTRE, Mass.-The big appear to keep getting bigger as Nokia Corp. and Motorola Inc. accounted for half of the 188 million phones sold in the second quarter, according to research and consulting firm Strategy Analytics. However, such gains came at the expense of...
The big appear to keep getting bigger as Nokia Corp. and Motorola Inc. accounted for half of the 188 million phones sold in the second quarter, according to research and consulting firm Strategy Analytics. However, such gains came at the expense of others in...
As third-generation technology and wireless broadband hit the U.S. marketplace, PC card vendors finally may hit their stride. Verizon Wireless is in the process of expanding its CDMA EV-DO network throughout its coverage area, while Sprint Corp. launched its own EV-DO service in 17...
The United States is expected to lead the world in the adoption of fixed-mobile convergence through the end of the decade, with 7 percent of voice telephony consumers using an FMC product by 2010, according to a report released last week by Strategy Analytics....
BOSTON-The United States is expected to lead the world in the adoption of fixed-mobile convergence through the end of the decade, according to a report from Strategy Analytics. The report, "Cellular Beats Convergence in In-Building Voice Battleground," predicts that 7 percent of voice telephony...
LONDON-The market for WiMAX subscriber terminals and base stations could exceed 20 million per year by 2009, representing a significant opportunity for chipmakers, according to a new Strategy Analytics report.The report, "WiMAX-3G Killer or Fixed Broadband Wireless Standard?" said demand will be driven by...
BOSTON-New research shows wireless operators across the globe are suffering declines in profits, with global margins falling below 40 percent for the first time in eight quarters. The numbers come as subscriber volumes continue to rise.According to research and consulting firm Strategy Analytics, subscriber...
BOSTON-New research shows the handset industry shipped a total of 257 million camera phones worldwide last year, comprising 38 percent of the total handset market. The numbers are way up from the 84 million, or 16 percent of the total market, in 2003."Global camera-phone...
BOSTON-Small screens and high prices will likely keep wireless adult content a niche-but billion-dollar-market in the next several years, according to a new report. The study, conducted by Strategy Analytics, indicates that less-expensive content and a more satisfying user experience on computers will prevent...
Numbers show that the worldwide mobile-phone market increased to 674 million units in 2004, a 30-percent increase from sales in 2003. The research comes from Gartner Inc. and mirrors similar findings from the likes of Strategy Analytics and IDC."The market exceeded even the most...
