Editor's Note: RCR Wireless News Washington Bureau Chief Jeffrey Silva asked the presidential campaigns of Sens. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) to respond to e-mailed questions covering a wide range of policy matters confronting the wireless industry and the telecom/high-tech sectors generally.
McCain's...
BOSTON - What would a next-generation mobile Internet show be without some discussion about openness? During keynote presentations at the Mobile Internet World 2008 event, Sprint Nextel Corp.'s VP of corporate strategy, Russ McGuire, and Verizon Wireless' VP of open development, Anthony Lewis, spelled...
Hello! And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
BOSTON - The future apparently belongs to mobile Internet devices (MIDs) that will be connected to broadband wireless networks like WiMAX and offer graphically rich, touchscreen-based interfaces, at least according to a glimpse of the future provided by Intel Corp.'s Anand Chandrasekher.Chandrasekher, VP and...
BOSTON-The battle for 4G is still not expected to hit the ground for several years, but the war over which technology will be used to serve consumers is well under way - and heated.During an opening session at the Mobile Internet World 2008 event,...
A public-interest group asked the Federal Communications Commission to impose open-access conditions on the Verizon Wireless-Alltel Communications L.L.C. and Sprint Nextel Corp.-Clearwire Corp. mergers. Free Press said that while Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel have moved to loosen their control of networks, both companies...
BY DAN MEYERHOLLYWOOD, Fla. - Despite thunderstorms on Wall Street, as well as outside the convention itself, participants at the PCIA's 2008 Wireless Infrastructure Show last week in Hollywood, Fla., were forecasting sunny skies for the market segment. While exuberance from the tower company...
FREE, FAMILY-FRIENDLY WIRELESS broadband for the masses may be on the way. So may messy litigation to keep it grounded. The Federal Communications Commission tentatively concluded operations in the advanced wireless services-3 band will not interfere with T-Mobile USA Inc. and others licensed in...
Thanks to a new executive position, AT&T Mobility is attempting to expand the range of gadgets its network interacts with - and counter similar efforts by its rivals.The carrier announced the appointment of Glen Lurie to president of AT&T's newly created Emerging Devices, National...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our coverage of 25 years in wireless. RCR Wireless News is celebrating with a package of stories detailing the advances of the past three decades. For full coverage please visit RCRWireless.com/25years.
The wireless industry's evolution from that first call placed 25...
The Federal Communications Commission tentatively concluded that nationwide broadband operations in the advanced wireless services-3 band will not interfere with T-Mobile USA Inc. and others in the advanced wireless services-1 band, possibly signaling the agency is close to issuing final rules for an auction...
Hello! And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
Sue Spradley has been on the job as head of North America for Nokia Siemens Networks since July 2007. Spradley has 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, including in services, operations, sales, product line management and customer service, and formerly served as...
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. Where are the best positions in information and communications technology? That was, in essence, the...
In an unexpected twist, chipmaker giant Intel Corp. urged the Federal Communications Commission to keep intact proposed interference safeguards that T-Mobile USA Inc. insists are inadequate to prevent interference from wireless broadband operations in the advanced wireless services-3 band. Moreover, Intel warned the...
RCR Wireless News' Tracy Ford offers a look back at the big news during last week's WiMAX World trade show in Chicago. Though Sprint Nextel's Xohm stood as the main attraction, show attendees had plenty to talk about.
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Sprint Nextel Corp. switched mobile WiMAX vendors for its Dallas/Fort Worth Xohm network, bringing in existing inventory manufactured by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.Because the Texas city became ready for equipment ahead of schedule, Sprint Nextel opted to replace Nokia Siemens Networks as the primary...
CHICAGO - Two companies have succeeded in utilizing pre-WiMAX technology to build successful businesses that target different customers in the United States. TowerStream and DigitalBridge Communications have carved out their own markets by being fixed pre-WiMAX service providers. TowerStream has targeted the enterprise sector...
CHICAGO - Day two of WiMAX World 2008 brought Atish Gude, senior VP of mobile broadband operations for Sprint Nextel Corp.'s Xohm effort, to the stage to discuss the business of WiMAX. And for Xohm, freshly launched in Baltimore this week, Gude said the...
CHICAGO - Clearwire Corp. CEO Ben Wolff stepped onto the WiMAX World stage in front of a packed house Wednesday morning. As audience members squeezed to find chairs or stood along the back walls, Wolff made the business case for WiMAX, as well as...
CHICAGO - "We live in a visual world." The comment, from Dan Moloney at Motorola, quickly summarizes how WiMAX services can change the world. He backed it up with a bunch of stats from a Moto survey of millennials (young people between the ages...
ReVerb Networks, a smart antenna and network optimization company, introduced its VirtualRAN family of products at WiMAX World this week.The products address the demand for cost-effective capacity solutions for WiMAX, LTE and UMTS/HSPA networks, said the company."The perfect storm is brewing in the advanced...
Motorola Inc. launched its WiMAX interoperability testing (IOT) program, which is available at its facilities in Arlington Heights, Ill., and at its new lab in Taiwan. The company said its Asian testing location, operated in conjunction with MSkylink, helps it fulfill its commitment to...
Nitronex, which makes gallium nitride on silicon RF power transistors for the wireless industry, said it expanded the performance data of its 28V, 5W class high electronmobility transistor to include frequencies between 5.1-5.2 GHz and 5.7-5.8 GHz. The product, designated NPTB00004, achieves 27 dBm...
