Monthly Archives: December, 2010
CommScope shareholders approve $3.9B acquisition
CommScope Inc. (CVT) said its stockholders have voted to approve the proposed $3.9 billion acquisition of the company by private equity firm The Carlyle...
McCaw to resign as chairman of Clearwire
Wireless industry pioneer Craig McCaw is set to resign his current position as chairman of the board of directors at Clearwire Corp. (CLWR) effective...
Polycom expecting above 30% growth in Latin America in 2011
Business News Americas | Patrick Nixon | December 30, 2010
Video conferencing technology provider Polycom (Nasdaq: PLCM) expects to grow above the market average of...
Taiwan Mobile Co unveils new Web Television services
Taipei Times | By Lisa Wang | December 28, 2010
Taiwan Mobile Co (台灣大哥大), the nation’s No. 2 telecoms carrier, yesterday unveiled a new digital...
ILS and Satmex announce the ILS proton Launch of the Satmex 8 Satellite in 2012
ILS Press Release | December 29, 2010
RESTON, Va. & MEXICO CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--International Launch Services (ILS) and Satellites Mexicanos S.A. de ...
Tech Mahindra plans to buy software developers in Latin America
Bloomberg | Ketaki Gokhale | December 30, 2010
Tech Mahindra Ltd., partly owned by BT Group Plc., plans to acquire software companies in Latin America...
China Tel To Build $62M Network In Peru
International Business Times | By Jesse Emspak | December 23, 2010
China Tel will be putting $62 million into selling internet protocol telephony in Peru,...
China declares Skype illegal
PC Mag | Sara Yin | December 30, 2010
Skype may soon join Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube on China's Internet blacklist.
Today, The People's Daily, a...
Taiwan market: KKBOX chargeable mobile user base expanding rapidly
DigiTimes | December 29, 2010 | Marvin Ma, Taipei; Adam Hwang
KKBOX Taiwan, an operator of online streaming music services in Taiwan, and in the...
Sri Lanka delays move to restrict mobile SIM ownership
Lanka Business Online | Jayantha Kovilagodage | December 29, 2010
Dec 29, 2010 (LBO) - Sri Lanka is to delay a move to restrict the...
Spice mobile launches M-5262 and M-5170
The Himalayan Times | December 29, 2010
KATHMANDU: Teletalk Pvt Ltd has launched two new Spice mobile phones: M-5262 and M-5170. M5262 is a multi-SIM...
Can it be True? Thai-owned group to buy Hutch CDMA business
TeleGeography | December 30, 2010 | Thailand
Thai cellco True Move, part of domestic integrated telecoms operator True Corp, has announced in a statement to...
Brazil's internet provider UOL shares up on deals
Wall Street Journal | December 30, 2010 | Rogerio Jelmayer
SAO PAULO (Dow Jones)--Shares of Universo Online SA (UOLL4.BR), or UOL, Brazil's largest Internet provider...
MindTree restructures, becomes design services business
MindTree Ltd. said it completed the restructuring of its wireless products business into a design services business, a move first announced Oct. 19. The...
MHL Consortium aims to connect mobile devices, high-definition TVs
A new consortium is planning to connect high-definition TVs with mobile devices via a thin cable that will optimize audio and video collected on...
Huawei releases tri-mode LTE modem
Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. has released the E398 modem, which claims to be the first tri-mode LTE modem. The E398 modem supports LTE, 3G...
C-Level Insight Series: Bob Johnson of Sprint Nextel
Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) has in the past been the butt of jokes when it came to customer care issues. This view was bolstered...
Mobile Giving Foundation looks back on a charitable 2010
The Mobile Giving Foundation has some stats and gratitude that it would like to share as 2010 comes to a close. More than 1,000...
Top stories of 2010 (Part 4)
Editor's Note: The mobile space witnessed a lot of news over the past 12 months that have and will alter the mobile landscape for...
Brazil's Vivo shares rise after Telesp integration proposal
Reuters | Elzio Barreto | December 28, 2010
(Reuters) - Shares of Brazil's largest mobile phone company Vivo jumped on Tuesday after the company unveiled...
Price alert for Telecom Argentina S A (TEO) posted
Market Itellisearch | December 28,2010 | Leo Goldman
NEW YORK (Market Intellisearch) -- Telecom Argentina S A options saw heavy call activity today. A total...
Broadband connections in Venezuela grow 18 percent during first half of 2010
Adveriser Talk | December 2010
CARACAS, Venezuela – Cisco announced today the results of a new Cisco® Broadband Barometer study, reporting a growth of 18...
Brazil registered best online Christmas sales in history
Xiong Tong | Xinhuanet News | December 29, 2010
RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- Online Christmas sales in Brazil reached 2.2 billion reais...
XL Axiata’s Rp 4.5t expansion plan flies in the face of stiff competition
Jakarta Globe | December 28, 2010 | Shirley Christie
XL Axiata, one of Indonesia’s largest cellular operators, plans to spend Rp 4.5 trillion ($500 million)...
Cabinet decision could clear way for True-Hutch deal
TeleGeography | Thailand | December 29, 2010
The Thai Cabinet has approved state-owned CAT Telecom’s decision to cancel a plan to buy 100% of its...