2012

Virgin Mobile Latin America (VMLA) expects to launch mobile virtual network operators (MVNO) in Colombia and Brazil over the next 18 months, according to Jeffery Buckwalter, VMLA’s senior vice president for business development, speaking at this week’s MVNO Industry Summit Latam (chek …

Mexico’s telecommunications sector grew 11.9% during the first quarter of 2012 over the same period of 2011, according to data from the Telecommunications Sector Production Index (ITEL). This is also the highest growth in the last three quarters. The growth …

Sprint Nextel’s Network Vision program added some important numbers today as the carrier announced the date it would terminate service across its iDEN network as well as a new credit facility to purchase equipment for the extensive network upgrade. Sprint …

BROOMFIELD, Colo. – It’s a good thing a 15-hour buffer separated Day 1 and Day 2 of Gluecon, as many attendees noted brain rest was much needed after a packed first-day agenda. The second day kicked off with veteran database …

BERLIN – Germans take their days off very seriously, but in the early hours of May 29, just after a Monday holiday when most stores were closed in Berlin, many were up bright and early for the new Samsung Galaxy …

Share of Research In Motion (RIMM) are up this morning on reports that the Canadian company is preparing to lay off thousands of employees. Executives at the struggling maker of BlackBerry smartphones and tablets have said in the past that …

Mobile virtual network operator launches peaked in 2006 across the United States and Europe. Currently, that segemnts growth perspectives come from countries across Latin America, Russia, Turkey and Pakistan. The competitive telecom market and the relatively low number of Internet …

After studying a multitude of different data findings from our recently released global consumer electronics usage survey of 19 consumer electronic devices, Accenture asked a simple question:

A dozen years ago, practically every presentation at a mobile conference had a slide forecasting wireless data growth taking off like a hockey stick. Today, another chart is making the rounds,

Latin America has become a target for many companies because of the potential wireless growth driven mostly by an increase in data traffic, plus the healthy economic and political environment across many countries in the region. The Canadian Edgewater Wireless Systems …

So what kind of smartphone do you have? Is it an Apple iPhone, an Android, or a BlackBerry? As 3G and even 4G networks are deployed across Latin America, smartphone adoption is soaring. And once they experience the power, versatility …

Tribold and Alcatel-Lucent have signed a global OEM agreement under which Alcatel-Lucent can resell Tribold EPM (enterprise product management) as either a stand-alone product or in the context of their end-to-end Business Support Systems (BSS). It will put Tribold EPM …

For the third time in as many years, reports of a Facebook smartphone have surfaced, and this time they are accompanied by quotes from engineers who are said to be working on the device. The New York Times reported Sunday …

Are you prepared for the second wave of apps? A new Forrester Research report aims to answer this question. “We believe the market is poised for a second wave of consumer apps that are more personalized and contextual,” Thomas Husson, …

The benefit of a long plane ride home with no diversions other than sitting through a playlist of hot-poker-to-the-eye “rom-coms” that I already watched traveling to and from the other spring trade shows is that I had plenty of time …

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 …

Just about every conversation I had at the recent CTIA event in New Orleans either involved the words “spectrum crunch” or revolved around that perceived issue. Whether it was carriers, device makers or infrastructure companies,

Almost 60% of all smartphones sold in the first quarter were Android-powered, according to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. Apple’s iOS phones accounted for another 23% of sales volume, giving the top two operating systems a combined total market …

Tablet makers now have a new chipset option when configuring devices for AT&T Mobility. Nvidia (NVDA) says its Icera 410 LTE multimode data modem chipset is good to go on AT&T Mobility’s growing LTE network. The modems are for tablets …

Wanda, the mobile money joint venture between Telefónica and MasterCard, launched in Argentina, eyeing the millions of wireless users who don’t have a bank account. Wanda is expected to reach approximately 10 million transactions by the end of 2012. Announced …

Colombia’s Ministry of Information Technology and Communications (Mintic) and the Spectrum Agency (ANE) has announced that the start of the auction for spectrum in the 1.7/2.1 GHz, 2.5 GHz and 1.9 GHz bands will be postponed from Aug. 22 to …

NII Holdings (NIHD), which operates under the Nextel brand in Latin America, launched a solution designed to allow customers to connect with each other and their social networks. Nextel believes that its service, dubbed “Contactos Nextel,” will enhance connectivity among its customers …

Focusing on wireless carriers and device manufacturers as customers, OfficeDrop launched a custom small business online cloud storage solution, designed to allow technology companies to offer cloud storage to their end customers under their own brand. The new solution enables …

BROOMFIELD, Colo. – A crowd of more than 450 packed the ballroom at the Omni Resort in Broomfield, Colo., Wednesday morning for the third annual Glue Conference. Organizer Eric Norlin delivered the welcome and noted a surprising number in the …