2012

In some situations using a non-standard solution may have governmental, technical, process based, financial or other commercial competitive advantages. This route works great if you have the time, money, and resources to develop, maintain, and support a ‘home-grown’ innovation. Certainly …

Mexico’s telecommunications sector grew 14.8% during the second quarter of 2012 over the same period of 2011, according to data from the Telecommunications Sector Production Index (ITEL). This represents the highest growth in the last four quarters. For the six-month …

Can you imagine an airline’s website that cannot handle the traffic increase when thousands of users flood the site after a low fare promotion? Or a ticketing network that fails during check-in? These systems are critical for airline operations. Follow …

Looking to enhance its social business vertical, IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced the acquisition of Kenexa Corporation (NYSE: KNXA) yesterday. The companies have entered into a definitive agreement, under which IBM will pay a cash price of $46 per share or …

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. It is known that there is an issue related to the telecommunication infrastructure that supports …

Brightstar is buying San Francisco’s Let’sTalk in a move to help carriers add value to their device offerings. The wireless distribution and logistics provider says it will be able to offer Let’sTalk’s activation and e-commerce solutions to more than 100,000 …

Winners include Apple shareholders, software developers, and anyone associated with the Windows phone. The losers are you and me, plus the U.S. carriers, Samsung and Google.

4G and LTE technologies will only partially deliver the efficiencies required to handle the necessary network capacity. Service providers are looking towards the use of small cells to help alleviate the capacity issue.

Bolivian mobile network operator NuevaTel PCS, which offers services under the Viva brand, announced it has invested about U.S.$100 million over the last two years to install a new and upgraded telecom network nationwide. Viva owns HSPA+ networks. Follow RCR …

The largest telecommunications company in Chile, Entel (Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones S.A), announced that it will enter the residential fixed service business in Chile, offering fixed wireless telephony, satellite television and Internet services. The move is part of the company’s …

The Brazilian insurance company Porto Seguro has started mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) services, providing machine-to-machine connections (M2M) to track 2,000 vehicles owned by current customers. The goal is to reach 450,000 vehicles over the next two years.  The company …

The auction that will allow the deployment of LTE telecom networks in Peru is expected to take place during the first half of next year. The Agency for Promotion of Private Investment (ProInversión) will grant the allocation of two blocks …

The PBX market is down slightly on a global basis in the second quarter of 2012, both sequentially and year-over-year, and enterprises are generally remaining cautious with spending on telephony equipment, according to the latest Infonetics Research report. In 2Q12, …

Mobile messaging app WhatsApp says it processed more than 10 billion messages in one day this week. That’s more than one message for every person on earth. On one app.

Verizon Wireless has gotten the final green light it needs to proceed with its acquisition of spectrum from seven different companies, including four cable companies.

PCIA – The Wireless Infrastructure Association announced today that FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski will deliver the keynote address at this fall’s Wireless Infrastructure Show in Orlando, Florida. The show runs October 1 – 4, the the Chairman’s keynote will be …

The SuperPAC app records political ads from TV or YouTube and displays the name of the group that paid for the ad.

Sony Corp. is taking control of its mobile business. The consumer electronics giant says it will axe 1,000 jobs and move its mobile business unit from Sweden to Japan.

Brazil’s LTE journey has started a new chapter: América Móvil’s local mobile unit, Claro, announced yesterday that it has deployed LTE networks in three tourist cities in the states of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro: Campos do Jordão, Búzios and Parati. …

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 …

IT vendors must create vertical offers, building them specifically for different segments, increasing their understanding of each sector’s issues to better meet customers’ requirements, several industry observers noted at this week’s  Cloud Computing World Forum Latin America 2012. “Cloud providers should …

An Israeli business newspaper is reporting that Qualcomm (QCOM) is set to acquire Israel’s DesignArt Networks for between $120 and $140 million. The deal would not be a large acquisition for Qualcomm, but it could give the San Diego chipmaker …

The Association of Public Safety Communications Professionals is meeting in Minneapolis this week, taking stock of a series of offerings and announcements from vendors – many of which make use of LTE technology. Alcatel Lucent (ALU) introduced its First Responder …