2012

Brazilian NET Serviços, owned by América Móvil, plans to increase its Wi-Fi hotspots from its current 2,400 in 12 cities to 10,000 in 15 cities over the next year. The company has been deploying hotspots since mid-2011 in venues with a high …

Brazilian carrier Oi has launched IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) and broadband services with speeds up to 200 Mbps based on its fiber to the home (FTTH) network. When Oi named Alcatel-Lucent and Microsoft as its IPTV vendors in July, the carrier said …

Well, that didn’t take long. Having a weekend to sleep on it, Clearwire today announced it would accept Sprint Nextel’s offer to acquire the remaining 50% of the company it does not currently control for $2.97 per share, or approximately …

Argentina’s president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced the entry of the Argentine state-run telecom firm, Arsat, into the mobile telephony segment as an MVNO player. Operating under the name Libre.ar, the new phone company will use 25% of the mobile …

With video streaming on the rise, how can telecom operators monetize it? This was the theme of a video interview with Mate Prgin, president and CEO of Avvasi, which has just launched a video service gateway named Q-SRV to help …

Ruckus Wireless (RKUS) has made a name for itself promoting “Wi-Fi for everyone,” and now the newly public company is expanding to small cells with a product that enables carriers to combine a Wi-Fi access point with a femtocell or …

When British Telecom needed more bandwidth to support the data demands of the 2012 Summer Olympics, the company turned to its customers. Using software developed by Alcatel-Lucent’s Motive unit, BT was able to split customers’ Wi-Fi routers. “Part of that …

All I can hope for is that Clearwire makes the right decision and says no to this offer. Not because it’s not a good offer (heck, offer me $2.1 billion and see what I will do), but because it would …

With little fanfare, NII Holdings’ Brazilian operations, Nextel Brazil, has started to offer 3G data plans in a handful of markets across the country. The carrier has started to sell modem data plan based on its 3G networks with the …

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Another change has come to the c-level team at NII Holdings, which operates under the Nextel brand in Latin America. The company announced that Steven Shindler, currently the chairman of the board, will take on the additional position of interim …

Claro, the Brazilian unit of América Móvil, became the first carrier to launch LTE services in the country. Claro announced that LTE services are now available in the cities of Recife, Campos do Jordão (SP), Paraty and Buzios (RJ). Commercially branded as 4GMax, …

Enterprise adoption of Google’s Android operating system is quickly catching up to Apple’s iOS, according to ThreatLabZ, the research arm of cloud security company Zscaler. The company just released its third quarter “State of the Web” research infographic, which shows that …

The small cell market is set for a boost from the Federal Communications Commission, which today unveiled a notice of proposed rulemaking to create a “Citizens Broadband Service” in the 3.5 GHz spectrum band that “will promote two major advances …

Despite record low interest rates, raising capital has been a challenge throughout the wireless ecosystem. But some small companies are getting funded, some mid-sized firms are preparing to go public, and the biggest names in the industry are looking at …

The sluggish recovery and the threat of the fiscal cliff make the capital markets uncertain territory, but the wireless industry has fared better than most in 2012. Venture capitalists have been ready to fund infrastructure plays as well as mobile …

Cloud computing has worked its way into even the most down-to-earth of industries – oil and gas exploration and production – and driven the need for wireless access in remote drilling landscapes. ERF Wireless has found a niche serving the …

After much speculation, Sprint Nextel officially put in a bid to acquire the remaining minority interest in Clearwire that it does not already own. The offer, priced at $2.90 per share, is valued at a total of $2.1 billion. Analysts …

Carriers should jump into mobile cloud to build their portfolios, allowing them to take over a number of business processes and move them into the cloud.  Some of the main opportunities include collaboration and productivity services. In addition, the move …

Ecuador’s national telecommunications regulator, Conatel, has given the public company CNT EP (Ecuadorian Corporacion Nacional de Telecomunicaciones) approval to provide technology services using the next generation of mobile technology.  Be sure to follow us on Twitter, Facebook and subscribe to our free periodic newsletters …