2012

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 fire up the DeLorean and take a trip back in time to re-visit some of the …

News this week that Leap Wireless would begin offering Apple’s iPhone devices was a significant escalation in the competitive landscapes across the already red-hot smartphone and prepaid markets.

Austin is one of the bright spots in the national employment picture. While US unemployment ticked up to 8.2% last month and the economy created just 69,000 jobs, Austin’s unemployment rate is just 5.9% and the local area economy is …

Google (GOOG) won a key court victory yesterday in Northern California when Federal Judge William Alsup ruled that 37 of Oracle’s Java APIs are not protected by copyright law. APIs are the application program interfaces that help different pieces of …

Verizon Communications is betting big on the machine-to-machine space, and by big we mean $612 million big. The telecom giant announced this morning that it plans to acquire Hughes Telematics for $12 per share, or a total of $612 million, …

Reporting remotely on the All Things D conference has its advantages and disadvantages, with the primary drawback being the inability to feel the energy of the event firsthand. I’d guess that a gathering of that much power and influence would …

Another player looking to grow in the Brazilian mobile virtual network operator market is the French mobile virtual network enabler Sisteer. The company was granted a license to operate as an MVNx by Brazilian telecommunication regulator Anatel last December. Follow RCR …

China’s Huawei Technologies expects its Brazilian unit’s revenues to reach $5 billion by 2016, with its enterprise business making up $1.5 billion of the total. This would be a jump compared to its 2012 forecasted revenue for Brazil of $2 …

Telefónica is planning an initial public offering of its German O2 unit as a move to raise cash to pay-down debt and protect the company against América Móvil’s efforts to expand its presence in Europe. In addition it would help …

Vietnamese-owned Viettel, an operator with assets in Haiti and Peru, has shown interest in expanding into other Latin American markets. Viettel announced it will start operating in Peru in January 2013, approximately two years after the carrier secured a 25 MHz …

A handful of lower 700 MHz spectrum holders released a report showing that concerns regarding interference across the spectrum bands A-Block are unfounded and that current proceedings designed to preclude that spectrum block from 3GPP standards for LTE will limit …

Leap Wireless joined the growing number of regional operators offering Apple’s iconic iPhone device, though as has been the case for much of its history, the carrier is adding a unique twist: no contract required. Leap, which operates its flat-rate, …

For 4 straight years, Apple’s Worldwide Developers’ Conference was the launchpad for the company’s newest iPhone, and this year the company may again try to change the mobile landscape with a June announcement. Last June Apple disappointed some of its …

Intel (INTC) and China’s Lenovo have launched an Android 2.3 smartphone powered by Intel’s Atom Z2460 processor, and next week a similar Intel-powered smartphone will go on sale in the UK. Lenovo’s LePhone K800 will retail for about $524 on …

The Brazilian business-to-business communication service provider TESA Telecom has requested a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) license from the regulatory agency Anatel, as it looks forward to launching machine-to-machine (M2M) services. The whole M2M project includes partnership with Algar Telecom …

Last month, the Colombian operator Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Bogota (ETB) added mobile voice to its data MVNO offer; now ETB is aiming to reach 1 million subscribers over the next five years from a total target market of 1.8 million fixed lines. By …

Although no mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) have launched in Brazil yet—due to the  bureaucracy in getting approvals, according to some sources—the country is still very attractive, as many delegates noted at this week’s MVNO Industry Summit Latam (check all stories). …

The first Brazilian company to unveil plans to enter the mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) market, the insurance firm Porto Seguro is set to launch wireless services during the second half of 2012, as general manager Tiago Galli told RCR …

The Federal Communications Commission’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau is set to change leadership as current chief Rick Kaplan will be replaced by former chief Ruth Milkman in mid-June. Kaplan had succeeded Milkman just one year ago. There was no word from …

South Korean telecom giant SK Telecom said it has launched a multi carrier pilot service allowing the carrier to use its 800 MHz and 1.8 GHz spectrum holdings to offer LTE service. The carrier said the move will result a …

Following days of reports predicting job cuts, Research In Motion said it expects to report an operating loss for its first fiscal quarter ending June 2 due to continued slow sales of its core BlackBerry products. The news follows a …

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. After reaching the second position in the Brazilian mobile market last …

Among the key challenges for launching mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) across Latin America are the negotiations between MVNOs and mobile network operators (MNOs) and the time-to-market. Several countries in the region have already moved from being potential markets to …