More than half of the people in the developing world are now cell phone subscribers, a U.N. report said Tuesday, highlighting strong global growth in telecommunications.Associated Press
The RCR Wireless Stock Index had a good week with gainers outnumbering losers by almost a 3:1 margin. Wireless equipment company Superconductor Technologies, Inc. (SCON) lead all gainers posting a 17.7% gain after reporting strong fourth quarter results. Openwave Systems (OPWV) also...
Sprint Nextel Corp.'s struggles continued during the fourth quarter of 2009 as the wireless industry's No. 3 domestic carrier posted a net loss of nearly $1 billion and hemorrhaged more customers from its network. The news was not taken well by investors who sent...
Mobixell Networks, which provides mobile multimedia and advertising solutions, acquired mobile Internet company 724 Solutions. The combined company will focus on rich media mobile Internet and messaging solutions for mobile operators.EMS Technologies Inc.Sky Connect divisions. The new business unit will provide a variety of...
Verizon Wireless said it has chosen Spirent Communications to provide testing solutions for certification of devices that will operate on its 4G LTE network. Spirent will provide hardware, test simulators, system simulators and software for test automation, said the companies. Spirent is the...
Verizon Wireless said it has chosen Spirent Communications to provide testing solutions for certification of devices that will operate on its 4G LTE network. Spirent will provide hardware, test simulators, system simulators and software for test automation, said the companies. Spirent is the...
The past week was a good one for the RCR Wireless Stock Index, with gainers leading losers by a more than 2 to 1 margin. Notable losers for the week were two international carriers, China Unicom and America Movil. Gainers to note...
Losers led gainers by just less than a 2 to 1 margin in the RCR Wireless Stock Index for the week ended January 12. Notable losers were prepaid service providers Leap and MetroPCS. Investors continue to be concerned about the prepaid carriers...
Even though 85,000 jobs were lost in December, wireless carrier job employment has only been down about 1,000 positions from January 2009 through November, according to recent figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The employment figures for wireless carriers, which lag behind a...
It appears that most of the stocks of the RCR Wireless Stock Index are starting off the new year on the right foot, as gainers led losers by a better than 5 to 1 margin over the last week of trading. Notable in...
China is set for a wireless data boom, according to research firm iSuppli Corp., which predicts the country's revenues surged nearly 19% in 2009 and are set to double from 2008 to 2013. The firm said it expects the data revenue from both messaging...
Spending on smart grid technology could total $200 billion worldwide by 2015, according to a new report from Pike Research.The firm noted that cooperation between governments and industry leaders looking to update antiquated electrical grids is set to spark a boom in the smart...
With the holiday, it was a relatively quiet week for the stocks of the RCR Wireless Index. Gainers did outpace losers by a roughly 5 to 2 margin. Notable gainers for the week were Sierra Wireless, Brightpoint and Apple. Our losers...
Crown Castle International Amends Credit Facility and Increases Revolving Credit Facility to $400 MillionFrom: RCR Wireless StockwatchCrown Castle International Corp. (CCI) announced today the successful completion of an amendment to its operating company credit facility and extension of its operating company revolving credit...
Advancing stocks outpaced declining stocks in the RCR Wireless Index by a margin of almost 2 to 1 over the last week. Airvana was a significant gainer for the week, on the heels of the announcement of its acquisition by a buyout group led...
Yahoo!'s Mobile Video StrategyYahoo! is a global leader in web news and online content, and video is playing an ever increasing role in their product mix. Yahoo!'s online video experience covers a multitude of topics from fast breaking news to sports and entertainment.Yahoo!...
Advances and declines for the RCR Wireless Stock Index were pretty much evenly split during the past week. Significant gainers were Clearwire, Leap and MetroPCS. The significant losers this past week were all micro cap stocks, such as Comarco, Fortune Industries and...
Arden Media Company today announced the winners of the inaugural RCR Wireless Ecosystem Awards, which honor the top achievements submitted in 10 broad segments of the wireless, telecom, media and IT market that comprise the “RCR Wireless Ecosystem.” The awards showcase those companies...
The past week gainers and and losers were fairly evenly distributed in the RCR Wireless Stock Index, with gainers having a slight 4 to 3 advantage. The biggest gainers for the week were small and micro cap companies (UTStarcom, Glu Mobile, Aruba Networks,...
InnerWireless Raises $3.0MFrom: Texas TechPulseInnerWireless, a developer of indoor wireless systems, has raised $3.0M out of a $5.0M funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm on December 2. No details on the funding have been announced by the company. InnerWireless...
ZeroG Wireless & Freescale: ZeroG and Freescale have created a program to enable embedded Wi-Fi for the Tower System. ZeroG announced the availability of the TWR-ZGWIFI development kit, which includes the Wi-Fi board with the ZeroG ZG2101 Wi-Fi I/O module and antenna, an instructional...
The nation’s unemployment rate ticked down .2 percentage points in November to an even 10%, but about 8,600 more jobs in the telecommunications sector were lost, according to the most recent information released by the Department of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. In the...
For more than 40 years, Teton Communications, Inc. has been providing voice and data services along with radio systems consulting, system integration, installation and service to business customers in Eastern Idaho. The company's wireless backbone network stretches across five counties from Pocatello in the...
The last week of trading, which included Thanksgiving, saw gainers lead losers in the RCR Stock Index by a 4 to 3 margin. Significant gainers for the week included carriers Clearwire and Deutsche Telekom. Notable losers for the period were infrastructure related...
