Sprint Nextel closes on U.S. Cellular deal
Friday, May 17th, 2013 Sprint Nextel said it has closed on its $480 million acquisition of a handful of markets from regional carrier U.S. Cellular. The deal included operations in Chicago, St. Louis and a handful of markets in the [...]
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MetroPCS brand to live on, focused on urban markets
Friday, May 17th, 2013 MetroPCS’ future appears to be set as new parent company T-Mobile US said it plans to bolster the MetroPCS offering, focusing on urban markets. Speaking this week at the JP Morgan Global Technology, Media and [...]
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Analyst Angle: The mobile industry plays a fundamental role in developing Latin American economies
Wednesday, May 15th, 2013 Between April 24 and April 26, the GSMA LA Plenary Meeting No. 39 was held in Bogota, Colombia, with more than 400 attendees from 19 countries including representatives from mobile operators, telecommunications suppliers,
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LatAm Wrap-Up: Region has 20 LTE networks; América Móvil invests $50M in Brazil Wi-Fi

4G Americas reported that there are now 20 commercial LTE networks in nine Latin American countries: Antigua and [...]

Google Glass for the working class (video)

While a select group of app developers and early adopters are paying $1,500 for prototypes of Google Glass, a [...]

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Announcing Telecom Exchange (TEX) CEO Roundtable Participants

Announcing Telecom Exchange (TEX) CEO Roundtable Participants

20 May 2013 by jozols

Co-Hosts Jaymie Scotto & Associates and RCR Wireless News Announce Telecom Exchange CEO Roundtable Participants Live from NYC, Zayo, Allied Fiber, Hibernia, NeXXcom, TW Telecom, Optelian, Atlantic-ACM, Bankstreet, Alteva, Colo Atl and Lightower Fiber Networks headline premier data center and telecom network industry event  Austin, TX – May 20, 2013– Jaymie Scotto & Associates (JSA), the preeminent [...]

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Posted in Enterprise, Events, Featured, Industry, Industry Presentations, Networks, News, News, News Desk, Press Releases

U.S.

Sprint Nextel adds mobile ad capabilities with Handmark/OneLouder buy

20 May 2013 by Martha DeGrasse

Sprint Nextel is adding to its mobile app development and advertising expertise by purchasing Handmark/OneLouder, a Kansas-City based startup that has partnered with the carrier in the past for app development. Sprint will make Handmark/OneLouder part of its Pinsight Media advertising service. Handmark and OneLouder will continue to operate under their existing brand names. OneLouder [...]

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Posted in Carriers

U.S.

HetNet News: Range networks integrates its open-source equipment; new Firetide CEO

20 May 2013 by Kelly Hill

Range Networks, which makes open-source cellular systems, announced that its equipment now integrates with operators’ SS7-MAP core networks and supports 4G. The company, which targets rural and developing markets and private industrial networks with low-cost network equipment, has been collaborating with SS7Ware and said that its One Core Network now supports 2G, 3G and 4G [...]

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Posted in Heterogeneous Networks, infrastructure

U.S.

Corning looks to ease small cell backhaul concerns

Corning looks to ease small cell backhaul concerns

20 May 2013 by Dan Meyer

The continued integration of various wireless technologies in order to provide a more complete and seamless user experience has become a significant focus of today’s mobile industry. This includes the greater integration of small cell technologies using both licensed and unlicensed spectrum bands. However, stringing all of those hardware nodes together remains a challenge for [...]

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Posted in Heterogeneous Networks

U.S.

Tumblr mobile ad strategy just beginning

20 May 2013 by Martha DeGrasse

Yahoo’s weekend deal to buy Tumblr for $1.1 billion is seen as a move by CEO Marissa Mayer to capitalize on the growth in mobile advertising, but Mayer is buying a company that is still just learning to monetize mobile users. The popular blog site launched its first mobile-only ads less than a month ago, [...]

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Posted in Mobile Content

Americas

Reality Check: Bringing benefits of cloud-based BSS to Brazilian service providers

Reality Check: Bringing benefits of cloud-based BSS to Brazilian service providers

21 May 2013 by Nelson Wang VP of Amdocs Latin America

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. Brazil is a vast country, occupying more than 8.5 million square kilometers—and dominating the map of South America. Brazil’s sheer scale and wealth of natural resources have made it one [...]

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Posted in Cloud, Opinion, Reality Check

U.S.

Reality Check: Below the surface, why wireless carriers are worrying

Reality Check: Below the surface, why wireless carriers are worrying

21 May 2013 by Jim Patterson, CEO, Patterson Advisory Group

Three events have impacted the balance of postpaid power thus far in 2013: 1) Walmart’s introduction of the iPhone 5 (3G only) through Tracfone/Verizon Wireless. We have spent some time on the million net add effect on Verizon Wireless’ Q1

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Posted in Opinion, Reality Check

U.S.

Reality Check: The future of telecom revenue – SMBs and the cloud

Reality Check: The future of telecom revenue – SMBs and the cloud

21 May 2013 by Daniel Saks, President and Co-CEO, AppDirect

About one billion people are employed by small- and medium-sized businesses around the world. At first glance, it seems unlikely these SMBs would have much in common; they cover all sorts of

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Posted in Opinion, Reality Check, Uncategorized

U.S.

Reader Forum: Uplink DAS performance – then and now

20 May 2013 by Vladan Jevremovic PhD, Director Engineering Solutions, iBwave

Distributed antenna systems have been one of the fastest-growing types of cellular infrastructure for the past 15 years. In the late 1990’s, DAS were initially deployed inside

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Posted in Opinion, Reader Forum

U.S.

Reader Forum: The rise of the contextual and customizable mobile Web

20 May 2013 by Jay Hinman, Head of Marketing, Skyfire

With the rapid increase in social networking, gaming and commerce traffic coming from mobile devices, there’s suddenly a gaping need for a Web experience designed primarily for access from mobile devices,

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Posted in Opinion, Reader Forum

From Our Editors

LatAm Wrap-Up: Region has 20 LTE networks; América Móvil invests $50M in Brazil Wi-Fi

Verizon Wireless bolsters prepaid data, but remains 3G only

Sprint Nextel closes on U.S. Cellular deal

Prepaid phone boom extends to top models (Mobile Minute)

MetroPCS brand to live on, focused on urban markets

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Commentary

Analyst Angle: OTT as a revenue source for carriers by Jefferson Wang, IBB Consulting

Analyst Angle: The mobile industry plays a fundamental role in developing Latin American economies by Gina Sanchez, ICT Industry Analyst, Frost & Sullivan

Reality Check: Opportunities and challenges of mobility, cloud computing and social media by Fernando Alvarez, VP at Capgemini Mobile Solutions Practice Leader

Reality Check: In M2M, active antenna systems are critical to success by Jeff Shamblin, Chief Scientist, Ethertronics

Reader Forum: SDN and its benefits by Lucas Pinz , network manager, PromonLogicalis.

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