Monthly Archives: November, 2012
Apple settles with HTC, iPhone 5S rumors start
Apple and HTC are finished fighting in court. The two companies say they have a confidential settlement that will allow each of them to...
Reader Forum: M2M shouldn’t be DIY
It takes the right combination of hardware, software, networks and services to monitor a loved one with Alzheimer’s, track mobile workers, pinpoint an offender’s whereabouts, maintain visibility
Reader Forum: Hetnet deployment considerations – More on the 4Ps
The appetite for wireless services and applications is driving hundreds of billions of dollars of revenue annually for operators. Building an infrastructure that meets the capacity and reliability
Chilean Falabella to launch MVNO using Entel networks
The Chilean retail company Falabella is set to launch mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) services using the network infrastructure of Chilean mobile operator Entel....
Globys: How carriers can take advantage of big data
How can carriers take advantage of big data? The answer, according to Olly Downs, senior vice president of data sciences at Globys, is to...
GenBand offers cash prizes to developers
GENBAND knows its servers are only as valuable as the software that runs on them, and that's why it's offering cash prizes to developers who create innovative apps for its A2 Communications Server.
Worst of the Week: The truth about Q3
For one reason or another, I have been a bit off over the past couple of weeks in covering quarterly earnings for domestic wireless operators. This has me in a bit of a fog
Report: DAS to remain vibrant competitor in small cell space
The battle for small cell supremacy is expected to shape the wireless infrastructure for years to come as operators decide on how to densify...
Feature Report: Managed Chaos: Diameter to Add Order Across Mobile Broadband Networks
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With consumers increasingly tying themselves to mobile networks through smartphones and the hundreds of thousands of applications those devices can support, carriers are in...
Analysts like Microsoft Messenger replacement for Skype
Microsoft announced earlier this week that the company is dropping its "Messenger" product and replacing it with Skype, which it acquired last year, for...
Carriers share lessons from Sandy
AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless say that 99% of their cell sites impacted by Hurricane Sandy are back up and running, thanks to crews...
Time Trippin’: Sprint Nextel/Clearwire on the rocks; iPhone hits Europe … 5 years ago this week
Editor’s Note: The RCR Wireless News Time Machine is a way to take advantage of our extensive history in covering the wireless space to...
PromonLogicalis buys Cibercall in Colombia and Ecuador, eyeing Andean expansion
Colombia is becoming a very interesting country for investors. With the Vive Digital plan, the government is looking to boost Internet penetration in Colombia...
Telefónica’s M2M strategy in Brazil targets 2M accesses by end of 2013
Vivo, the Brazilian unit of the Spanish group Telefónica, announced its machine-to-machine strategy for the local market, aiming to double its accesses from 1...
Claro Chile conducts LTE trials, plans to launch service early next year
Claro Chile said it has conducted trials using LTE technology with the goal of launching services during the first quarter of 2013. According to...
Prepaid, wholesale continue to prop-up T-Mobile USA
T-Mobile USA’s attempt to retain contract customers continued to falter during the recent third quarter with the nation’s No. 4 operator reporting a loss...
CEO Spotlight: Acme Packet’s Andy Ory
With the market for voice-over-IP and UC services projected to hit $377 billion over the next 5 years, makers of session border controllers like...
Tablet wars update: Apple slides, Surface stumbles
President Obama probably used his iPad to post the most popular tweet in history Tuesday night. The fact that the President is stepping out...
NII Holdings net debt hits $3B, 44% OIBDA dip in Q3
NII Holdings, which recently announced plans to cut 20% of its workforce at its Reston, Va., headquarters, posted a 44% decrease in its consolidated...
Microsoft to invest $98 million in Brazil
The software giant Microsoft announced it will invest U.S.$98.24 million (R$200 million) focused on research, development and innovation in Brazil. The company said it will...
After cutting dividends, Telefónica shows net profit increase
At the end of the second quarter, Spanish telecom giant Telefónica cancelled payment of all remaining dividends and share buybacks for this year, citing...
Webinar: Policy and Diameter Signaling
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Diameter’s role in managing the explosive growth of signaling across an LTE network has more than doubled in not only signaling traffic, but also...
AT&T to invest $14B in broadband over 3 years
AT&T kicked off an investor conference in New York with news that it will invest $14 billion in broadband during the next three years....
Leap loses customers, explores LTE alternatives
Leap Wireless International Inc. lost customers during the third quarter as customers fled higher-priced entry level handsets and services, and is exploring “cost-effective alternatives”...
The President and the wireless industry
The president of PCIA says President Obama is passionate about extending wireless broadband in America.