Monthly Archives: November, 2011

Wall Street's wait is over: Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) is finally public, pricing Thursday night at $20 a share in one of the most widely...

RIL is likely to use RCom's access systems, fiber-optic backbone, international cable systems and Internet gateways to provide high-speed data services.

In Brazil, the city of Rio de Janeiro has new rules for installing radio base stations sites. The city is establishing a series of...

The income before taxes for Q2 of FY12 was $306 million as against $451 million in Q2 of the previous year. According to the company, the resultant net income for the quarter was at $208 million as against $336 million in the same quarter of the previous year.

Leading industry analysts, AT&T, Sprint, LightSquared, Verizon and PCIA confirmed to headline speaker list for the Orange County Small Cell Event Industry analysts Michael Thelander...

With LTE North America just a few days away, many carriers are focused on the standard's next generation: LTE-Advanced. LTE-Advanced may finally offer "true...

What does your smartphone have in common with Henry Ford's Model T? Quite a bit, according to LightSquared CEO Sanjiv Ahuja. Both the smartphone...

India, the world’s second-largest telecom market after China, will have a projected handset demand of 350 million a year by 2020, with an estimated 505 million handsets to be manufactured in India during the same year, says a latest study.

Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Limited has showed a 7% growth in year-on-year revenues at $126 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2011, compared to $118 million in the corresponding quarter of the previous year.

Chile’s secretary of telecommunications (Subtel) is set to schedule an auction of 4G spectrum, which will enable LTE deployment in the country. Subtel has...

Ask chief information officers about their enterprise resource planning system, and they will probably refer to it not as ERP, but as SAP, using...

Nearly 9 in 10 Latin American companies recognize the growing importance of mobile technologies, and almost 70% plan to increase their spending on such...

The banking sector has traditionally been one of the more lucrative sectors for the information technology industry. India's IT giants have been catering to...

Matthew Myers faces winds of up to 110 MPH atop a 12,000 foot mountain peak as he deploys, installs and maintains cell phone towers...

More than 100 representatives from India's leading mobile operators are expected to converge on Jaipur to discuss some of the hottest topics in the mobile industry.

Switzerland's ST-Ericsson has inked a deal to supply chipsets for future Nokia phones that use the Microsoft Windows operating system. Shares of ST-Ericsson's two...

Australian telecom major Telstra Tuesday announced that its joint venture with Bangalore-based Microland, Telstra Telecommunications Private Limited (TTPL), has been awarded three new licenses to provide international and national long-distance telecommunications and ISP services in India.

The Brazilian government named João Batista de Rezende to a two-year term as president of Anatel, the country’s telecommunications regulator. Rezende will replace Ronaldo...

Thanks to its growing subscriber base, Brazil's second largest wireless carrier, TIM, saw its profit double in the third quarter from the same period...

Vodafone India has launched VStore, Vodafone's mobile application store, which is powered by Appia. Targeted at Vodafone India's nearly 145 million subscribers, VStore offers...

American Tower (NYSE: AMT) bucked the downward trend on Wall Street today, rising on a strong earnings report and an improved financial outlook for...

Aiming for the enterprise market -- and specifically for business, healthcare and education -- Dell Inc. today unveiled the Latitude ST, its Windows 7...

Sprint is, with a quiet resolve, becoming the market leader in premium prepaid services (more about that below). They are growing, due to both a price hike on data (in the footsteps of their peers) as well as subscribers.

Brazil and India followed telecom regulatory policies with an objective to bring in privatization and competition, but the variations in models followed by the two has led to different sectoral outcomes.

Brazilian carrier Oi recently announced the start of a shared broadband Wi-Fi project in Rio de Janeiro. The Wi-Fi project will begin with about...