Foxconn, which manufactures products for Apple as well as other vendors, is investing $500 million (R$1 billion) to open a new plant in the state of São Paulo, creating 10,000 new jobs. “The new facility consolidates the company’s intention to invest heavily in the Brazilian market. Brazil has an enormous potential to grow, and it has been [...]

In the near future, small cells, which encompass femtocells, picocells and microcells, will cost less than smartphones, thus providing a wide avenue to support mobile data growth, Qualcomm CEO, Paul Jacobs predicted. Jacobs was in Brazil this week to participate in Innovation Qualcomm 2012 in São Paulo. Follow RCR Wireless News—Americas on Twitter, Facebook and subscribe to our free periodic [...]

 Alcatel-Lucent has long claimed that femtocells and metrocells can boost wireless networks, but this time, it seems that carriers are also betting on the technology. According to Osvaldo di Campli, Alcatel-Lucent’s president of the Caribbean and Latin American (CALA) region, three femtocell contracts have been signed in Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela. Di Campli said that there are [...]

MIAMI – Software-defined networking (SDN) has been around for a while, but its future was as a hot topic during this week’s NetEvents Americas Press & Summit, held in Miami. “This time is different because the problem is very real,” noted Casey Quillin, an analyst at Dell’Oro Group. Dan Pitt, executive director at the Open [...]

China’s Huawei Technologies expects its Brazilian unit’s revenues to reach $5 billion by 2016, with its enterprise business making up $1.5 billion of the total. This would be a jump compared to its 2012 forecasted revenue for Brazil of $2 billion. Sales estimates were released on May 31 by Huawei’s president for South America, Li [...]

Tribold and Alcatel-Lucent have signed a global OEM agreement under which Alcatel-Lucent can resell Tribold EPM (enterprise product management) as either a stand-alone product or in the context of their end-to-end Business Support Systems (BSS). It will put Tribold EPM at the heart of the Alcatel BSS suite that also includes Microsoft Dynamics CRM, (customer [...]

WiGig is expected to revolutionize Wi-Fi by offering up to 10 times higher speeds (around 7 gigabits/second) than today’s Wi-Fi devices do. Although products using this technology have already been announced at CES 2012, it is expected that the first few products will show up by the third quarter this year. “Over the next few [...]

Brazilian workers in the city of Jundiaí have threatened to go on strike against Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn beginning May 3 if the company does not fix problems related to water, food, and transportation. Local newspaper Jornal de Jundiaí first reported the situation on April 25. Evandro Santos, director at United Steelworkers of Jundiaí and Region, told RCR Wireless News that [...]

Aruba Networks’ CEO has visited Brazil on a couple of occasions, though the frequency of those visits are expected to increase. Speaking with reporters this week, Dominic Orr said that he expects Brazil will be one of the company’s five largest markets within the next three years. One of Aruba’s main focus is to become [...]

Argentina’s unit of Spain-based Telefónica Group has selected Comptel to provide its operations support system (OSS) services. Telefónica de Argentina said it expects the service to allow it to more easily and efficiently collect and process more than 90 million network transactions daily into billable records. Follow RCR Wireless News – Americas on Twitter, Facebook and subscribe to our [...]