Wireless Business Forecast articles from April 2007

Wireless Business Forecast archives from April 2007

Survey Sez: Verizon Wireless Tops In Call Quality.
April 5, 2007... As the number of reported wireless problems reaches historically low levels, the overall rate of customers experiencing a wireless call quality problem has declined for a third consecutive reporting wave, according to the J.D. Power and...

Commentary: Be Your Web Site's Harshest Critic.
April 5, 2007... By Andrew Wetzler, president & co-founder, MoreVisibility I have written on many occasions about how the Internet is a much more advanced communications tool than anything that has come before it, including hard-copy brochures, catalogs...

Analysis: Global Mobile Roaming Rates.
April 5, 2007... Mobile operators based in Europe are arguably the most regulated of any worldwide. This was reinforced by the announcement at the CeBIT exhibition in Germany last month that operators in European Union countries must cap the rate they charge...

The Mobile Media Review: Social Media, Mobile Newstands And Apple TV.(Product/service evaluation)
April 5, 2007... Welcome to the seventh burst of "The Mobile Media Review," our relevant and, many times, irreverent view of what's going on in the mobile-content arena. This time around, we examine Homer Simpson along with the mobilization of some...

Cisco Wins Patent Race...Again.
April 5, 2007... Cisco Systems once again has topped the telecommunications industry as the world's best source of innovation, based on an annual study done by The Patent Board, which conducts what it describes as a "qualitative and quantitative analysis" of...

Mobile Media Review.
April 19, 2007... Welcome to the eighth burst of "The Mobile Media Review," our relevant and, many times, irreverent view of what's going on in the mobile-content arena. This week, we widget with WidSet, we Hovr around mobile games and we let Microsoft...

Special Report: Non-European MVNOs Face Financial Challenges.
April 19, 2007... Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) have for some time played a high-profile role in the European mobile-communications industry. MNVOs often seek customers who established mobile operators find it difficult to reach and to sign up....

European Carriers Prepare For Roaming Cuts.
April 19, 2007... The European Commission (EC) estimates that wireless carriers take in as much as $12 billion a year from roaming charges -- four times more than what they garner from in-network cellphoning. Late last week, the European Parliament gave...

California Public-Safety Plan: Equipment Needs Replacement Now.(California Statewide Communications Interoperability Plan)(Public Safety Radio Strategic Planning Committee)
April 19, 2007... California's public-safety radio system is obsolete, according to a state study handed over to that state's legislature that also says between 47 percent and 80 percent of the state's radio equipment needs to be replaced. "It was...