Monthly Archives: March, 2012
RCA Spring 2012: Carriers look to FCC to act this year
ORLANDO, Fla. – Spectrum scarcity, data roaming and interoperability are three of the biggest key issues facing the US wireless industry, and carriers are...
RCA Spring 2012: Cricket sees surge in smartphone sales
ORLANDO, Fla. – Cricket Communications CEO Doug Hutcheson says his company has traditionally served the younger, lower income mobile subscribers, but even among these...
RIM on the edge
Another quarter of disappointing results for Canadian Blackberry-maker Research in Motion (RIMM) has the company's new CEO finally considering what his predecessors would not:...
Virgin Mobile secures U.S. $26.5 million to launch MVNO in Chile
Virgin Mobile Latin America (VMLA) has secured U.S. $26.5 million in new equity funding to develop its regional business and launch mobile virtual network...
Claro Brazil shortens its sales cycle
América Móvil’s Claro Brazil has reduced the time it takes to add a new customer into the telecom operators’ base from 8-10 days to...
Eyeing BYOD potential market, IBM bets on endpoint management for mobile devices
Mobility is a great enterprise tool for speeding up the decision-making process. Whether employees bring their own devices to the company (BYOD) or firms...
RCA Spring 2012: Sprint Nextel outlines planned investment in 4G, 3G
ORLANDO, Fla. – Bob Azzi, SVP of Networks at Sprint Nextel, outlined the carrier's network vision program today at the RCA Spring Expo. Azzi...
RCA Spring 2012: LightSquared chairman vows to continue fight
ORLANDO, Fla. – Saying that "too many devices and too little spectrum" have put the wireless industry "on track to run out of network...
Changing telecom industry’s new challenges: monetization, security and becoming “smart pipe”
What the telecom industry has not changed in the past ten years, it is changing now – and in a drastic way. The advent...
TIM Brazil to install 10,000 Wi-Fi hot spots in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro
While telecom operators in mature markets have used Wi-Fi hot spots to offload 3G data traffic, in Brazil carriers have just started to deploy them....
Feature Report: LTE Across Europe Gaining Steam
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For most of the wireless industry’s history, Europe has played an important role in shaping the technology path. And, in combination with parts of...
Latin America’s telecom organization OITA seeks collaboration among members
“The members of OITA will work to find synergies in several telecom areas which we can take advantage of as a team, such...
Final Four could boost data usage this weekend
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As Louisville, Ohio State, Kentucky and Kansas head to college basketball's Final Four this weekend, millions of fans will be compulsively following each point...
RCA Spring 2012: NetAmerica unveils consumer brand, service launch
Building on plans announced at last year’s Rural Cellular Association event in Las Vegas, NetAmerica Alliance unveiled its consumer brand as well as news...
Brazil’s TIM partners with Ativas, Dualtec to launch cloud service aiming to increase data revenues
“Cloud computing is a fantastic way to sell more data.” By stressing this definition, the director of innovation at TIM Brazil, Maurício Cascão, defined...
End of monopoly pushes Cost Rica’s mobile penetration to 101.31%
It has been a few years since the end of the telecom sector monopoly in Costa Rica. The Superintendent of Telecommunications Sutel says ending...
Haiti to get a 124 miles of undersea cable with Digicel funding of $16 M
Haiti is set to receive a major boost with the delivery of US $16 million worth of undersea cable (124.28 miles) which will link...
Verizon Wireless to launch $80 LTE phone
On Thursday Verizon Wireless will begin offering the LTE-ready LG Lucid for just $80 with a contract, hoping to trump AT&T Mobility's upcoming launch...
Enterprise Connect: IT managers talk BYOD
Enterprises from Fortune 500 companies to hospitals to schools are adopting iPads and other tablets to replace much of the work that personal computers...
Telenav HTML5 to bring turn-by-turn to any mobile app
Turn-by-turn directions service provider Telenav announced this morning the availability of a new offering called Scout for Apps, which makes it easy for developers...
HTC’s SyncTV investment highlights growth of OTT video
Taiwan's HTC, currently number five in worldwide smartphone shipments, wants to differentiate itself by working with the companies who deliver the content users want...
Telebras, Angola Cables to deploy submarine cable linking Brazil to Angola
Brazilian state-owned telecommunications provider Telebras has signed an agreement with Angola Cables to deploy a 6,000-kilometer submarine cable linking Fortaleza in Brazil to Luanda...
Brazil’s Anatel to study the allocation of 700 MHz
The board of Brazil's telecom agency Anatel said regulators will carry out studies on the 700 MHz band regarding the use of this spectrum...
Analyst Angle: MVNOs in Latin America should target concentrated markets and the diaspora, not low-cost prepaid
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...
Device News: Lumia 900 coming to AT&T, HTC invests in SyncTV
The Easter Bunny will bring Nokia's high-end Windows Phone to AT&T this spring - the Lumia 900 goes on sale for $99 on Easter...