22 February 2012 by Dan Meyer
Green Bay-based regional operator Cellcom said it was on track to begin offering LTE services during the second quarter following recent testing on three sites located in Sturgeon Bay, Wis. The carrier said the testing verified that its “radios and trial devices were operating correctly,” and that it expects to leave the three sites in [...]
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22 February 2012 by Sarvesh Sharma, VP Global Engineering, Powerwave
In the last couple of years, encountering the cliché term “data tsunami” in reference to mobile broadband data networks has been unavoidable. Nevertheless, it is perhaps the most appropriate phrase to describe what is occurring in the industry. The good news is that swift adoption of smartphones, tablets and other data hungry devices has boosted [...]
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22 February 2012 by rtwiss
Replicating field issues in the lab has always been difficult. The field is, by its very nature, dynamic. Duplicating a reported issue by driving the route again and waiting for the failure to happen is simply a roll of the dice. However carriers, device vendors and infrastructure providers all drive test. Wouldn’t it be nice [...]
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22 February 2012 by Martha DeGrasse
Silicon Motion Technology Corporation (NASDAQ: SIMO) has been a Wall Street favorite for more than a year, more than doubling in price between September and February. But today things took a very different turn and the Taiwanese chipmaker saw its shares tumble more than 7% after an analyst at Detwiler Fenton told clients that Qualcomm’s [...]
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22 February 2012 by Dan Meyer
Opposition to Verizon Wireless’ attempt to acquire spectrum assets from a group of cable companies appears to be growing as a number of wireless operators and trade groups have filed petitions to block the transactions. The most interesting opposition came from T-Mobile USA, which reportedly filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission asking that [...]
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22 February 2012 by Martha DeGrasse
Samsung used this week’s ISSCC Conference in San Francisco to preview its quad-core Exynos chip. It runs on two or four ARM Cortex A9 cores with speeds up to 1.5 GHz. Samsung has not integrated the processor with the baseband, leaving the Korean powerhouse a step behind Qualcomm (QCOM) in this area. But Samsung says [...]
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22 February 2012 by Tejas Patel
The increasing use of IP-based social messaging services by consumers on their smartphones cost telecom operators $8.7 billion lost SMS revenues in 2010 and $13.9 billion in 2011, according to a new report by Ovum.
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22 February 2012 by Tejas Patel and Dan Meyer
The company said it will cut 45% of its 330-employee workforce, according to a news report.
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22 February 2012 by Tejas Patel
This new entity will serve as the platform to approach the upcoming auctions for fresh licenses as mandated by the Supreme Court, the company said in a statement.
22 February 2012 by Roberta Prescott
During the fourth quarter of 2011, data revenues of Argentinean operator Personal represented 49.8% of service revenue, reaching $363.2 million.
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