Recently added articles from RCR Wireless News:
Big-box stores ring up sales for carriers; Retail outlets increase focus on mobile with expanded inventory.
Feb 16, 2009 ... Byline: ALLIE WINTER Big-box retailers have made comparing cellphone plans and pricing much quicker by putting most of the options under one roof. So the real question is who has what? Best Buy Co. Inc. sells more than 90 handsets across nine prepaid/postpaid ...
T-Mobile USA dethrones VZW in J.D. Power's rankings.
Feb 16, 2009 ... Byline: ALLIE WINTER T-Mobile USA Inc. scored a 755 out of 1,000 possible points in J.D. Power and Associates latest wireless customer-care performance study, the highest out of all carriers tested. The No. 4 carrier beat out Verizon Wireless, which previously topped the survey ....
Top U.S. handset makers for the fourth quarter of 2008; Koreans duel with Moto for U.S. market, top three vendors grab 64% of domestic volume.
Feb 16, 2009 ... Byline: PHIL CARSON Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. eked out a slim lead in market share over Motorola Inc. in the United States last year, in part due to the latter's fading fortunes, according to new numbers from IDC. Where Samsung showed 15.5% year-on-year growth ...
Doing more with less: Enterprise's new mantra; Gartner: 20% of enterprises last year replaced wireline phones with wireless.
Feb 16, 2009 ... Byline: PHIL CARSON Faced with uncertain financial conditions, corporations are cutting capital and operating budgets and the outlook for information technology spending this year where wireless spend resides has contracted from last year. "The outlook for 2009, ...
VZW adopts Alltel's MyCircle.
Feb 16, 2009 ... Verizon Wireless said it will offer its own version of Alltel Communications L.L.C.'s MyCircle calling plan. Verizon Wireless said beginning Feb. 15 all customers can enroll in its new Friends & Family feature, which allows users to pick five or 10 off-network numbers to place ...
Posted to web 2/13/09 It's a prepaid future.
Feb 16, 2009 ... Byline: Dan Meyer The one-time rock of the wireless industry appears set to crumble. And I think that crumbling can't come soon enough. That rock is postpaid, contract-encumbered rate plans. These were necessary evils when the industry was rife with hundreds of ...
FTC revises behavioral advertising guidelines; Critics say new rules don't go far enough.
Feb 16, 2009 ... Byline: JEFFREY SILVA The Federal Trade Commission last week issued revised guidelines on how wireless and other communications companies should police themselves to protect consumers' privacy in behavioral advertising. But a top watchdog group said the report reflects the ...
The class-action backstory.
Feb 16, 2009 ... Byline: Jeffrey Silva With little fanfare, wireless carriers, mobile content vendors and some plaintiffs' attorneys are quietly settling massive litigation involving claims that charges for ringtones, games, graphics and other mobile content were charged to subscribers' monthly ...
Trust keeps "Alltel' alive.
Feb 16, 2009 ... Byline: TRACY FORD The nation's eighth-largest carrier has an unorthodox objective: to bite the hand that feeds it. The Verizon Alltel Management Trust, a 2,500-employee business, is a subsidy of Verizon Wireless that came into being when the industry's new No. 1 ...
Good old SMS on track to shine in 2009; Text messaging: mobile, measurable and cheap.
Feb 16, 2009 ... Byline: COLIN GIBBS Mobile marketing types like to talk about cool features like click-to-video, 2-D barcodes and interactive wireless scavenger hunts. But as the economy slows to a trickle and advertisers tighten their belts, 2009 is poised to become the year of SMS marketing. ...
Alcatel-Lucent targets auto, healthcare industries.
Feb 16, 2009 ... Byline: GARY E. SALAZAR As Alcatel-Lucent struggles to regain its financial footing, the company is focusing on its new strategy that will combine its capabilities of the network environment with creative services of the Web. An example of how the company plans to ...
Wireless ecosystem to benefit from economic stimulus package; Backhaul, towers included in broadband effort.
Feb 16, 2009 ... Byline: JEFFREY SILVA The $789 billion economic stimulus bill set to shortly become law designates $7.2 billion for broadband grants, but the measure lacks tax credits for wireless carriers and other service providers. "Despite the fact that broadband tax cuts is a ...
Deadlock; AT&T Mobility, union battle over contract terms.
Feb 16, 2009 ... Byline: JEFFREY SILVA The Communications Workers of America and AT&T Mobility remain deadlocked over a new contract covering more than 20,000 workers employed by the No. 2 wireless provider. The labor-management faceoff is playing out as the Democratic-led Congress prepares to ...
"Other' vendors surge on smartphones, niches; Top 5 momentum stalled by focus on feature phones.
Feb 16, 2009 ... Byline: PHIL CARSON For years, the top five handset vendors in the world took an ever-increasing slice of global market share. But something happened on their way to global hegemony. Between 2007 and 2008, that trend reversed itself and the "other'' category all ...
Femtocells could be vital to LTE deployments.
Feb 16, 2009 ... Byline: GARY E. SALAZAR Femtocells are just starting to hit the wireless market, but considerable momentum is building for the technology to play a key role when carriers start to deploy LTE networks. More than 18 wireless providers said they are planning to deploy ...
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Feb 16, 2009 ... Nextel Communications announced plans to begin rolling out a limited mobile Internet service using its iDEN network ...
Nokia shuffles Finnish site ops, job cuts on deck.
Feb 16, 2009 ... Byline: ALLIE WINTER Nokia Corp. is scaling back operations by closing up shop in one location and cutting employees in another. The world's largest handset vendor announced that it would close its Jyvaskyla, Finland, site, and will now concentrate mobile device research and ...
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Feb 16, 2009 ... Cricket builds Cricket Communications partnered with Rebuilding Together, a nonprofit group that focuses on preserving affordable homeownership and community revitalization, to focus on issues of safety and homeownership among the elderly, the disabled, families with children ...
Esmertec to acquire Purple Labs.
Feb 16, 2009 ... European mobile software company Esmertec AG announced plans to acquire rival Purple Labs SA. The deal will create a new business under the name of Myriad Group AG that will include a client list supporting most major phone manufacturers and 30 mobile network operators. Under ...
Motorola promises next-gen smartphones by fourth quarter.
Feb 16, 2009 ... Byline: PHIL CARSON Handset manufacturer Motorola Inc. is likely to pin its future on smartphones based on Google Inc.'s Android operating system, while ceding its low-end, high-volume business to others. Amid a fourth-quarter where Motorola Inc. posted a $3.6 billion ...