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Venture Capital: A week ranging from the bizarre to the sublime

The VC business can be a strange game sometimes. That was typified for me this week courtesy of two lines in my WSJ reader (see below). While the "Larry the Bird" makeover took top billing on my screen, the two entries surrounded in...

Citrix buys Bytemoble, taps video in support of carrier cloud play

Citrix Systems, Inc. announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire privately-held Bytemobile, Inc. for an undisclosed sum. While not the first deal of this nature in 2012, it does represent one of the more meaningful as cloud platform providers seek to...

M2M, MIMO, mobile data: Interview with Ericsson CTO Ulf Ewaldsson

Yesterday Ericsson released its annual Traffic and Market report, which is based on the company's internal mobile traffic growth modeling exercises as well as data collected from external sources. Not surprisingly, Ericsson's report finds that mobile subscriptions, and thus, mobile traffic – particularly mobile...

GridSense launch shows intersection of smart grid and telecom analytics

GridSense's launch of its Grid InSite software tool highlights the increasing intersection between the network analytics and optimization capabilities required by smart grid energy operators and telecommunications network operators. At the heart of the solution, Grid InSite applies link sensors and monitors to provide...

Exclusive Analysis: Nokia looks to consolidate on its early lead in MEA

Editor's Note: This analysis was taken from an article that Ovum will be publishing in its subscriber newsletter in June, 2012. Summary Ovum recently attended a Nokia-hosted analyst event in Dubai, where the vendor explained its current business and future prospects in the Middle...

All Things D: Mobile advertising firms in store for a big pay day

Reporting remotely on the All Things D conference has its advantages and disadvantages, with the primary drawback being the inability to feel the energy of the event firsthand. I'd guess that a gathering of that much power and influence would have a decidedly more...

TM Forum 2012 Wrap-up: Over analyzing the importance of Analytics in CEM?

The benefit of a long plane ride home with no diversions other than sitting through a playlist of hot-poker-to-the-eye "rom-coms" that I already watched traveling to and from the other spring trade shows is that I had plenty of time to stare out the...

TM Forum 2012: Keynote discusses investment conundrum in digital world

DUBLIN – In the morning keynote panel kicking off the TM Forum's Management World 2012 event, financial analysts joined the TM Forum's executive leadership to discuss what factors will determine the "winners and losers" in the digital world. Specifically, the questions to the panel...

TM Forum 2012: Alcatel-Lucent’s managed CEM looks to solve implementation black box

DUBLIN – Alcatel-Lucent kicked off its TM Forum Management World 2012 presence by announcing a significant new addition to the CEM solution capabilities that it officially brought to market in February. The new offering, entitled Managed Service Quality and Assurance, essentially offers the capabilities...

TM Forum Management World Preview: An obsession with monetization

As I get ready to make the journey from Austin to Dublin for the TM Forum's Management World 2012 event, I'm scrolling through a few key checklist items in my mind: remember my passport, rationalize the need to pack sweaters as I sit here...

Analyst Angle: Spectrum issues create uncertainty in the air

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 in the wireless industry. The 2012 edition of the International CTIA Wireless show held in New Orleans served as...

Sprint touts customer satisfaction, customers in Austin promptly lose service

On the day that Sprint tooted its horn as being the leading U.S. carrier in terms of customer satisfaction, the wireless operator's service went down covering nearly the entire Austin, Texas metro area. Local station KEYE TV reported that "a marathon repair effort...

Spectrum re-farming reigns as key small cells deployment challenge – a video essay

Beside hearing the obligatory merger rumors, and seeing an unbelievably massive amount of cell phone bling on display, last week's CTIA showcased plenty of equipment vendors showing off technologies that can help operators serve up blazing fast mobile broadband connections. Clearly small cells are...

CTIA 2012: Consumers want easy Wi-Fi access, but that’s easier said than done

NEW ORLEANS - In a study released by the WiFi Alliance, 90% of participants said that they would stick with their current mobile service provider, while 70% said that they would switch service providers, if necessary, to gain access to such a service. Sounds...

CTIA 2012: Ericsson brings AIR, NSN re-farms spectrum; both win at T-Mobile USA

NEW ORLEANS - Ericsson and Nokia Siemens Networks both announced radio and professional services deals with T-Mobile USA to modernize the operator's GSM and HSPA+ assets and support its LTE roll-out which is scheduled to begin in 2013. For its part, however, NSN also...

CTIA 2012: GSMA gets Canadian operator consortium to open APIs

NEW ORLEANS - The GSM Association announced the commercial launch of its OpenAPI gateway, along with its adoption by a consortium of three mobile network operators in Canada - Bell Canada, Rogers and Telus. The gateway offers application developers the ability to connect to...

3M unveils Slim Lock closure to automate process of weatherproofing tower mounted radios

New Orleans, Louisiana - In advance of CTIA Wireless, 3M released the Slim Lock Closure which provides weatherproof protection for coaxial jumper connections between tower mounted remote radio units and the antenna. The Slim Lock product consists of a hard plastic closure which snaps...

CTIA 2012: CTIA pre-show buzz – who cares, who doesn’t

By now I've read most of the "what we expect to see" columns heading into this year's edition of CTIA Wireless. As expected, most of them are pretty bland, some are kinda whiny and a few are insightful. With that in mind, rather than...

In-app advertising companies score big: LifeStreet and Vungle both close VC rounds

For most folks, news of heightened venture capital activity, especially when centered on a particular hot industry trend, should conjure a very appealing mental image: Jobs. Today, LifeStreet Media, a mobile advertising platform vendor, announced a $66 million investment from Nautic Partners. In addition...

Amdocs primes the pump for CTIA, announces BSS transformation with Globe

Amdocs announced that it has won a 7-year BSS transformation and data warehouse modernization contract with Globe in the Philippines. The contract builds upon an existing relationship between Amdocs and Globe in which the operator has already deployed the jNetx Convergent Service Platform, along...

Ericsson, NSN trump Huawei/ZTE with Softbank LTE references, then try to one-up each other

On consecutive days Nokia Siemens Networks and Ericsson announced deals to supply Softbank Mobile with LTE RAN equipment in support of the operator’s nationwide deployment which is expected to commence during the second half of 2012. In many ways, the consecutive announcements – which...

Analyst Angle: What to expect when you’re expecting consumer devices in the year 2011

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 in the wireless industry. In many ways, 2010 was a landmark year in consumer devices: after years of...

Design on success: Carriers, handset makers show design collaboration essential for success

Editor's Note: This article is an excerpt from RCR Wireless News' May Special Edition, "Enabling the Mobile Revolution: Mobile Chips, Devices and Accessories." The 80-page special edition is available here.The wireless industry is a complicated organism that despite serving nearly nine out of every...

2009 Wireless Forecast: Handsets: The pain in Spain: Gloomy outlook likely to drive discussion at MWC

The short-term forecast for the handset market calls for pain and belt-tightening, no matter which market analysis you favor. And those analyses range from pretty harsh to very harsh. "We expect the first quarter of 2009 to be the absolute volume bottom in the...