Head out to the practice range! The 3^rd annual AZWA golf tournament is going to be held on Wednesday April 7th, 2010. We will be playing the ASU Karsten golf course in Tempe Arizona.

The AZWA tournament has sold out every year so don’t wait to sign up for the 2010 tournament!

It will be a great time and a fantastic way to network in the industry. There will be a barbecue lunch, prizes and dinner after the tournament.   

A great way to get your company noticed and support local charities is to become an event sponsor. If you are interested in sponsoring please contact John Stevens at john@azwa.org.

We welcome ideas for a local charity to support through this tournament. Please send your local charity ideas to john@azwa.org.  

The cost per person is $250.00 which includes lunch, dinner, prizes and whole lot of fun!! To sign up for the event go the “Events” tab at www.azwa.org.

Stay tuned for more information about sponsor levels.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Thank you to Ginnie Ann Sumner, AZ Wireless Association’s Regulatory Chair, and T-Mobile for their efforts on the Phoenix Wireless Text Amendment.  

In June of 2007 representatives from the Arizona Wireless Association met with Debra Stark, Phoenix Planning Director, and Elizabeth DeMichael, Zoning Administrator. As a result of that meeting, carrier and wireless representatives met almost bi-weekly to develop a wireless text amendment with the goals of:

• Placing all wireless in one section rather than throughout the various zoning districts
• Creating a faster approval process
• Developing guidelines that will remain consistent and equally applied by staff

In addition to working with staff, the representatives met with neighborhood leaders. On August 13, 2008 the Planning Commission voted to initiate the wireless text amendment.

T-Mobile sponsored the creation of a PowerPoint presentation that included an education component to help the committees, citizens, and elected officials understand how wireless works and why sites are selected.  

The proposed text amendment was presented to each of the Village Planning Committees, the Planning Commission, and then to the City Council for final approval on March 4, 2009.

GREAT WORK!!

Research In Motion's BlackBerry Curve was the top-selling smartphone in the fourth quarter, according to research firm IDC, beating out Apple's iPhone 3GS. Although the Curve comes in multiple forms on numerous carriers, the result is still impressive considering that Apple's iPhone sales grew 100 percent in its most recent quarter, to 8.7 million, compared with the year-ago quarter. According to IDC, the Motorola Droid was the No. 3 smartphone in the quarter, benefiting from a full-throated marketing campaign by Verizon Wireless. What other smartphones rounded out the top 10? Special feature 

Sony Ericsson named a new head of global sales and marketing, who will take over beginning in April, just as the company's first phone running Google's Android platform hits the market.

The struggling handset maker said Kristian Tear, currently the head of Sony Ericsson's Western Europe region and of global customer accounts, will replace Anders Runevad, effective April 1. Runevad, who has been leading the company's sales team for the past three years, will return to parent company Ericsson.

Tear joined Sony Ericsson in 2005 after coming over from Ericsson. His successor has not yet been named. Tear will have his work cut out for him as he works with Sony Ericsson CEO Bert Nordberg to try and turn the firm's sluggish sales around. In the fourth quarter, Sony Ericsson reported its sixth straight quarterly loss. The company shipped 14.6 million units, down from 24.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2008, and its market share was 5 percent, the same as in the third quarter, but down from 8 percent in the year-ago quarter.

Sony Ericsson also confirmed that its first Android phone, which will begin shipping through NTT DoCoMo and other operators in April, will be upgraded to the latest version of Android sometime after it launches. The phone, which runs on a custom user interface, will have Android 1.6 on it when it ships.

For more:
- see this release
- see this Sony Ericsson blog post

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