Over-the-top content providers may represent a new revenue stream for carriers, if they start paying for access to subscribers. Last week the Wall Street Journal reported that ESPN has

President Obama’s visit to Myanmar a few months ago was considered as a major sign of U.S. interest in this part of the world. For the telecommunication industry, this is certainly the

As discussed in part one of this article series, Wi-Fi offload has emerged as an attractive alternative to more expensive solutions for adding much needed mobile bandwidth capacity as operators seek to meet surging data demands.

RCR Wireless News Editor-In-Chief Dan Meyer talks with Roger Entner, founder of Recon Analytics, about the current wireless regulatory environment, including the impact current regulations are having on mergers and acquisition and competitive balance; device unlocking; and the IP Task Force initiative. RCR Wireless News also hosted a webinar on this topic where in addition [...]

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Over the last weeks, we saw multiple announcements around mobile wallets: o Partnerships between Visa and Samsung announced at the 3GSM in Barcelona o Introduction of MasterPass by MasterCard o Launch of Isis All these announcements are interesting and represent good steps towards the construction of a real mobile payment ecosystems. However, we do not [...]

(This is part one of a two-part article series on the technical, operational and revenue impacts of deploying Wi-Fi offload to meet mobile data demand.) Data hungry consumers, powerful mobile devices and rich media applications are creating a data deluge. Some reports estimate mobile data traffic will grow 1,200% by 2017. Mobile operators are successfully [...]

Consumers who first experienced the Internet through smartphones and tablets expect to synch and switch devices with consistency of experience, and this creates opportunities for carriers to mobilize the cloud and create ways for users to store, synch and share their mobile lifestyles. This is one of several key takeaways shared by Jefferson Wang in [...]

In thinking about what I expect from this year’s edition of Mobile World Congress, I don’t really have to look much further than my previous experience. I will eat lots of ham sandwiches

The machine-to-machine sector started making waves in 2012, and is set to boom through 2013. The notion of 50 billion connected devices originally sounded optimistic, but anyone who walked