U.S.

Investors dump Silicon Motion on Qualcomm fears

22 February 2012 by Martha DeGrasse

Silicon Motion Technology Corporation (NASDAQ: SIMO) has been a Wall Street favorite for more than a year, more than doubling in price between September and February. But today things took a very different turn an ...

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U.S.

Opposition solidifies against Verizon Wireless spectrum deals

22 February 2012 by Dan Meyer

Opposition to Verizon Wireless’ attempt to acquire spectrum assets from a group of cable companies appears to be growing as a number of wireless operators and trade groups have filed petitions to block the transactions. The most interesting opposition came from T-Mobile USA, which ...

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U.S.

Samsung readies quad-core Exynos

22 February 2012 by Martha DeGrasse

Samsung used this week’s ISSCC Conference in San Francisco to preview its quad-core Exynos chip. It runs on two or four ARM Cortex A9 cores with speeds up to 1.5 GHz. Samsung has not integrated the processor with the baseband, leaving the Korean powerh ...

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U.S.

Report: Telcos lost $13.9B in 2011 due to social messaging

22 February 2012 by Tejas Patel

The increasing use of IP-based social messaging services by consumers cost telecom operators $8.7 billion in potential SMS revenues in 2010 and $13.9 billion in 2011, according to a new report by Ovum. Ovum defines social messaging as messaging that occurs through platforms other than SMS, MMS, o ...

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U.S.

LightSquared to cut 45% of workforce, misses Inmarsat payment

22 February 2012 by Tejas Patel and Dan Meyer

LightSquared said it plans to cut nearly half of its workforce to save money, according to a Reuters report.. The report notes that LightSquared plans to cut 45% of its current 330 ...

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India

Telenor to set up new company in India

22 February 2012 by Tejas Patel

Norway-based Telenor has announced it is forming a new company in India and plans to migrate its existing customers and employees into this new entity, according to a report in the Economic Times. “This new entity will serve ...

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Americas

Analyst Angle: ARPU swap signals change in Argentinean market

22 February 2012 by Roberta Prescott

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topi ...

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Americas

GSMA: M-health to reach $23B by 2017

22 February 2012 by Roberta Prescott

Mobile technology will play a significant role in the provisioning of healthcare services globally, according to a new report from the GSMA. The industry association noted in its report, “Touching Lives through Mobile Health: Assessment ...

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U.S.

Analyst Angle: Sit. Browse. View.

22 February 2012 by Iain Gillott, President & Founder, iGR

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. As 4G smartphones and tablets become more prevalent, iGR has noted a change in consumer beh ...

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U.S.

Analyst Angle: Winning strategies in multiple-SIM markets

22 February 2012 by Pankaj Agrawal, Associate Director, Analysys Mason

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. The prevalence of multiple-SIM use remains one of the most critical issues for mobile opera ...

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