2012

“Congratulate yourself,” Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello told his audience this morning at CTIA 2012. “Every one of you is in the gaming business.” Riccitiello opened his keynote address by stressing the importance of gaming to the mobile industry. “Games …

Enterprises are changing to become more mobile, integrating cloud computing and allowing IT consumerization. RCR Wireless News takes a look at the most relevant trends to discuss how they are impacting companies and CIOs, as well as what solution providers …

America Movil (AMX), the wireless carrier group controlled by Mexican Carlos Slim, May 8 offered about 8 euros per share to increase its stake in the Netherlands-based telecom company KPN NV – a price that is about 23.5% above KPN’s …

In the same week that Spanish telecom giant Telefónica announced a $502 million (Bs 2.16 billion) investment in its Movistar unit in Venezuela, the Argentinian government fined it about $41.7 million (185 million pesos) for a massive service outage there …

What do mobile operators think about VoLTE? Operators like MetroPCS and Verizon Wireless have announced aggressive VoLTE plans, with MetroPCS planning to launch two to three VoLTE handsets before

NEW ORLEANS – Following on news earlier this week flushing out more details of its network plans, T-Mobile USA continued to hammer home the point that it wants to re-establish its position as an industry disruptor. Highlighting that cause, the …

NEW ORLEANS – CTIA reconfigured its now annual carrier keynote panel at this year’s trade show, moving what had been a morning affair to the afternoon of the first official day of the event. And despite some initial sluggishness, the …

Sprint Nextel moved forward with plans to expand its WiMAX-based “4G” service to its prepaid portfolio announcing that subsidiaries Virgin Mobile USA and Boost Mobile would begin offering services across the Clearwire-provided network beginning May 31. For Virgin Mobile USA, …

Little by little, the iPhone is making its way to rural America. Today Kentucky’s Bluegrass Cellular and Nex-Tech Wireless of Kansas both announced that they will offer the iPhone 4S starting this month. “It helps put us on an even …

Calling mobile phones the most pervasive technology in history, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genechowski opened the CTIA Wireless 2012 show by telling his audience that more people now have mobile phones than have electricity or running water. He also …

NEW ORLEANS – Clearwire continues it march towards an LTE future, announcing this morning at the CTIA trade show that it had signed a deal with Qualcomm to produce a chipset supporting the carrier’s Band 41 radio frequency in the …

The world passenger car market is projected to reach 86.5 million units by the year 2017, while OEM-connected car system shipments are expected to grow from 8.22 million in 2012 to 39.5 million in 2016. This according to data released …

An increase in mobile broadband connections, along with record telecom investments and smartphone penetration growth were the highlights of the Chilean wireless market in 2011. According to the latest numbers from Chile‘s secretary of telecommunications (Subtel), the telecommunications industry generated …

In about a week, Motorola Solutions made two announcements that underscore the company’s embrace of cloud-based technology. New enterprise-grade WLAN service management capabilities will now be delivered via the cloud. The company also introduced a modular Wi-Fi Access Point (AP) …

NEW ORLEANS – Ericsson and Nokia Siemens Networks both announced radio and professional services deals with T-Mobile USA to modernize the operator’s GSM and HSPA+ assets and support its LTE roll-out which is scheduled to begin in 2013. For its …

NEW ORLEANS – The GSM Association announced the commercial launch of its OpenAPI gateway, along with its adoption by a consortium of three mobile network operators in Canada – Bell Canada, Rogers and Telus. The gateway offers application developers the …

In another clear sign that the wireless business is not just about phones and tablets anymore, AT&T today announced a new portfolio of digital home security and automation products. Called Digital Life, the new suite of IP-based products sold in …

As the wireless industry descends on New Orleans for the first time since Hurricane Katrina, device manufacturers are introducing new products at an unprecedented pace. While carriers scramble to predict customer demand, they must also manage an increasing influx of …

Luca Luciani, Telecom Italia’s CEO for Brazilian operations (TIM Brazil), has resigned in the wake of allegations that Telecom Italia exaggerated its customer base through the use of irregular SIM cards in Italy. Telecom Italia named its chief financial officer …

Increases in the sales of PCs, laptops, and especially smartphones are spurring growth in the security market. A report from Symantec Corp. shows that while the number of vulnerabilities decreased by 20% last year compared to 2010, the number of …

New Orleans, Louisiana – In advance of CTIA Wireless, 3M released the Slim Lock Closure which provides weatherproof protection for coaxial jumper connections between tower mounted remote radio units and the antenna. The Slim Lock product consists of a hard …

By now I’ve read most of the “what we expect to see” columns heading into this year’s edition of CTIA Wireless. As expected, most of them are pretty bland, some are kinda whiny and a few are insightful. With that …

Mobile payments provider BOKU has added Sprint Nextel to its list of customers. BOKU will now be providing mobile payment solutions to all four major U.S. carriers. The company has contracts with a number of major online retailers, and enables …

For U.S. Cellular (USM), first quarter results showed that a negative plus a positive can result in a slight positive, as the carrier’s shrinking customer base was offset by increased consumer spending resulting in revenue gains. During the first three …