U.S.

Webinar: Pathway to LTE for Competitive and Rural Carriers

27 January 2012 by rtwiss

For the first time since the invention of the analog cellular network, the world’s telecom operators are converging on a single wireless standard – LTE. There is little debate that over time, virtually every GSM, UMTS, CDMA, WiMax and proprietary broadband wireless operator will need to plan their p ...

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U.S.

Breakup fees and charges push AT&T into the red

27 January 2012 by Martha DeGrasse

A series of non-cash charges helped drive AT&T into the red during the fourth quarter, and much of the revenue it earned from data-hungry iPhone users was offset by iPhone subsidies. America’s second largest carrier (after Verizon) lost $6.7 billion in the fourth quarter. Some of the red ink was the ...

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U.S.

PCD brings new technology to carriers

27 January 2012 by Martha DeGrasse

“The phone with a helmet on,” is one of the many niche products that delivers cutting-edge technology to meet a specific consumer need. But phones like the Casio Commando don’t make it to market unless the compa ...

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India

Ruckus Wireless expands presence in India

27 January 2012 by Tejas Patel

Ruckus Wireless, a US-based global Wi-Fi technology company, Friday announced the opening of a new R&D centre in Bangalore, India. By tapping into a pool of highly skilled engineering talent in India, Ruckus’s new R&D centr ...

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India

Proposal to indigenize telecom equipment in NTP-2011 opposed

27 January 2012 by Tejas Patel

The proposal to incentivize Indian- manufactured telecom equipment in the National Telecom Policy 2011 (NTP-2011) is being opposed by Japanese industry associations, according to an industry watch website Telecom Orbit. According ...

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Americas

Embratel’ América Móvil can take control of Brazilian Net Serviços

27 January 2012 by Roberta Prescott

The board of directors of Brazilian telecom regulator Anatel has unanimously agreed to relinquish control of Globo Comunicação e Participações SA on the Brazilian cable operator Net Serviços de Comunicação SA, and Carlo Slim’s América Móvil SAB, the biggest mobile-phone carrier in the Ame ...

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Americas

Retail use of tablets will help drive market to $121.5 B by 2016

27 January 2012 by Roberta Prescott

The tablet market will explode over the next five years with retail revenue increasing from US $34.5 billion in 2011 to US $121.5 billion in 2016, according to the latest research from Informa Telecoms & Media. According to another survey called ...

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Americas

In 2011, North American, Asian operators accounted for 90% of total cloud computing investment

27 January 2012 by Roberta Prescott

When it comes to investing in the cloud, European carriers are not keeping pace with operators in North America and Asia, according to new research from Informa’s Telecom Cloud Monitor. European operators accounted for only 7% of the US$13.5 billion that operators committed to cloud assets in 2011 ...

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U.S.

Samsung nipped at Apple's heels in Q4 smartphone sales

27 January 2012 by Martha DeGrasse

Samsung Electronics was neck-and-neck with Apple in the fourth quarter race for first place in the white-hot smartphone market. Estimates based on Samsung’s fourth quarter earnings report put the company’s smartphone sales at 36.1 million, just below Apple’s 37 million reported earlier this week. Sa ...

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U.S.

IBM Rolling Out BYOD Management Service

27 January 2012 by Marshall Kirkpatrick

IBM is opening up beta availability of a new service called  IBM Endpoint Manager for Mobile Devices.  Built on the Tivoli Big Fix technology that IBM acquired in the Summer of 2010, the service allows enterprises to ...

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