BARCELONA, Spain—Dan Hays, an analyst at PRTM, says the MVNO model 3.0 could see success in the United States under wholesale models like that offered by LightSquared and Clearwire Corp. Nevertheless, Hays notes that with 2011 being the year of 4G technologies, operators are going to have to experiment with new business models to avoid [...]

BARCELONA, Spain—Invest Sweden is a government initiative formed to get foreign research and development dollars in Sweden in the telecom and IT sectors. Swedish companies are making huge advances in graphics on mobile devices this year, said Niklas Johnsson, head of information and communication technologies at Invest in Sweden Agency, during an interview during Mobile [...]

BARCELONA, Spain— LG Electronics Co. Ltd.’s Optimus 3-D mobile phone takes a little getting used to, reports RCR Unplugged Editor Sylvie Barak from the show floor during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, last month.Depending on the angle the user is holding the phone at, some of the 3-D images are disorienting. However, if the [...]

BARCELONA, Spain—Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s new 10.1 -inch Galaxy Tablet 2 has a nice user interface and is an improvement from its first version, reports RCR Unplugged Editor Sylvie Barak from the show floor during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, last month. The tablet, which uses Google Inc.’s Honeycomb operating system, sports Nvidia’s Tegra [...]

BARCELONA, Spain—With 35 million downloads, The Weather Channel is the second-highest smart-phone application in the United States. Now the company is reigniting its international efforts. The Weather Channel’s Mike Zarrilli spoke with Executive Editor Tracy Ford about those plans during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Initially, the company is focusing on Western Europe, where [...]

BARCELONA, Spain — The GSMA’s mWomen Programme is aiming to close the gender gap between men and women in developing countries by helping to develop sustainable business models that operators can use to help women become mobile-phone users. Trina Dasgupta, program director for the program which debuted at Mobile World Congress 2010, said operators are [...]

BARCELONA, Spain – Machine-to-machine communications are gaining traction among the world’s top wireless operators and vendors, which recognize the potential of the emerging market, characterized by lower revenues, but also lower churn and the potential to gain new business partners and customers as enterprises look to M2M for increased productivity, asset management and more.German juggernaut [...]

BARCELONA, Spain—United Kingdom Trade and Investment (UKTI), a government agency that works with U.K.-based businesses to support domestic and international success, supported more than 100 companies at Mobile World Congress 2011. The coalition’s pavilion showcased some of the best technology of the United Kingdom the mobile and telecommunications ecosystem, which were selected from competitions run [...]