2011

India’s total GSM mobile subscriber base stood at 632.1 million as telecom operators added 6.7 million new subscribers in the month of November, an increase of 1.1% from the previous month.

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. …

Consumerization, cloud computing, consumer and enterprise social networks, mobile application, the shifting of sources of supply from Asia to the Americas, big data and cybercrime are some of the trends …

After winning a contract in April to supply and manage an emergency services call system for El Salvador’s national police force, the Panama unit of Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC) …

With its planned acquisition of T-Mobile USA now dead, AT&T Mobility look set to end the year having to plan how to proceed. Details of the deal’s demise indicate that …

One segment expected to benefit from AT&T’s (T) decision to drop its acquisition bid of T-Mobile USA is the tower market, which for the past several months has waited on …

India’s telecom ministry has said that complaints relating to unsolicited calls have come down significantly, but unsuspecting telecom subscribers continue to receive pesky text messages.

The security impasse between the Canadian maker of BlackBerry handsets, Research in Motion, and India’s security agencies remains unresolved, as the agencies still have no way of decrypting the 256-bit encryption technology embedded in BlackBerry Messenger and email (sent using Blackberry Enterprise Solutions).

Brazil closed November with 236.1 million mobile subscribers, reaching teledensity of 120.81 connections per 100 people. Prepaid continued to account for the largest portion, 81.7%, and the trend may remain …

Brazil’s market for mobile virtual network operators may have at least three players after French mobile virtual network enabler Sisteer was granted a license to operate as an MVNx by …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. Brazil has finally awoken to …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. Every once …

UPDATED: After nearly nine months, AT&T has said it will drop its $39 billion acquisition attempt of T-Mobile USA. The carrier cited recent acts by the Department of Justice and …

Leap Wireless’ (LEAP) Cricket Communications operations unveiled a halo device in the Huawei Mercury smartphone set to retail at the carrier for $250. The Android-powered device sports a 4-inch screen, …

The Saudi Arabian telecom market is expected to generate $17.2 billion in service revenues by 2016, a compound annual growth rate of 4.2% from the $13 billion posted in 2010, …

Competition among telecom companies in emerging Asia is showing signs of easing in some markets such as India, but competition is likely to remain intense in many of those markets, S&P said in a report today.

India’s telecom department has given its ‘in principle’ nod to state-run telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. to surrender the broadband wireless access spectrum allotted to it.

In its second edition, Ericsson’s Networked Society City Index ranked 25 of the world’s largest cities according to their ability to use ICT for social, economic and environmental benefits. The top three cities in the index — Seoul, Singapore and Stockholm — have successfully met many social, economic and environmental targets by making extensive investments in ICT, Ericsson noted.

Brazil has to improve the capacity of its backbone and backhaul infrastructure to support the increasing demand of data, said Informa Telecoms & Media and Brazilian consulting firm Teleco during …

Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for …

Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE: FSL) today became the latest semiconductor company to announce a restructuring. The Austin-based chipmaker says it will create two new strategic product groups, one focusing on networking …

Indian attorney Prashant Bhushan told the country’s Supreme Court that India’s investigating agencies have overlooked the role of Shyam Telelink in the 2G spectrum scam because it has links to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.