2012

Security experts are warning Android users about a potential new malware strain that they say has already infected more than 1,600 smartphones. DKFBootKit piggybacks onto legitimate apps that require root privilege, such as those that manage other installed apps, or …

Spain’s Telefónica(NYSE: TEF) said Monday it has reached an agreement with Colombia‘s government to merge fixed-line operator Colombia Telecomunicaciones (Coltel) with mobile operator Telefonica Moviles Colombia. Telefónica owns 52% of Coltel, with the Colombian government controlling the remaining 48%. Under …

Cloud services have rapidly moved from buzzword status to mainstream offering, but implementing a successful cloud service involves more than just buying some storage/computing from Amazon, throwing together a website and building an iPhone and/or Android app. From our experience …

Digicel Group announced it has acquired Haitian mobile operator Voilà from U.S.-based Trilogy International Partners for an undisclosed sum. The transaction closed last Friday. At least for the near term Voilà will continue to operate as a separate company from …

Brazilian carrier Oi has reported a drop of 80% in its 2011 fourth-quarter profit. According to its financial report, the telecom operator’s net income was $77.06 million (R$ 140.7 million), a sharp drop from the $386.04 million (R$ 704.8 million) posted …

Oracle has entered into an agreement to acquire ClearTrial, which develops cloud-based clinical trial operations applications. The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2012. The two companies did not disclose the financial terms of the deal. …

ORLANDO, Fla. – Spectrum scarcity, data roaming and interoperability are three of the biggest key issues facing the US wireless industry, and carriers are hoping to see action from Washington before the November elections. Today at the closing session of …

ORLANDO, Fla. – Cricket Communications CEO Doug Hutcheson says his company has traditionally served the younger, lower income mobile subscribers, but even among these 6 million customers demand is growing for smartphones and the heavy data use that goes with …

Another quarter of disappointing results for Canadian Blackberry-maker Research in Motion (RIMM) has the company’s new CEO finally considering what his predecessors would not: a sale of the company. New CEO Thorsten Heins wrote in the company’s 4th quarter earnings …

Virgin Mobile Latin America (VMLA) has secured U.S. $26.5 million in new equity funding to develop its regional business and launch mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) services in Chile. The new funding consists of equity from existing shareholders, including the …

América Móvil’s Claro Brazil has reduced the time it takes to add a new customer into the telecom operators’ base from 8-10 days to 2-3 days. This is a result of a change in business process management, through the implementation …

Mobility is a great enterprise tool for speeding up the decision-making process. Whether employees bring their own devices to the company (BYOD) or firms deliver them to their workforce, the ever-growing number of smartphone options and the recent explosion of …

ORLANDO, Fla. – Bob Azzi, SVP of Networks at Sprint Nextel, outlined the carrier’s network vision program today at the RCA Spring Expo. Azzi said the company is working with equipment vendors Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent and Samsung to create a LTE …

ORLANDO, Fla. – Saying that “too many devices and too little spectrum” have put the wireless industry “on track to run out of network capacity … threatening future innovation and job creation,” LightSquared chairman Sanjiv Ahuja told a packed auditorium …

What the telecom industry has not changed in the past ten years, it is changing now – and in a drastic way. The advent of new technologies, such as mobile broadband, voice over IP (VoIP) and messaging, among others, have …

While telecom operators in mature markets have used Wi-Fi hot spots to offload 3G data traffic, in Brazil carriers have just started to deploy them. During the TM Forum Latin America Summit held on March 27-28 in São Paulo, TIM Brazil’s director of …

For most of the wireless industry’s history, Europe has played an important role in shaping the technology path. And, in combination with parts of Asia has led the way in terms of the deployment and adoption of the latest and …

“The members of OITA [telecommunications organization of the Americas] will work to find synergies in several telecom areas which we can take advantage of as a team, such as making joint purchases,” Marcelo Erlich, Antel’s ICT general manager, told RCR Wireless …

As Louisville, Ohio State, Kentucky and Kansas head to college basketball’s Final Four this weekend, millions of fans will be compulsively following each point and play on their smartphones and tablets.  A recent survey by Motricity found smartphones and tablets …

Building on plans announced at last year’s Rural Cellular Association event in Las Vegas, NetAmerica Alliance unveiled its consumer brand as well as news that another member of its alliance was set to launch service by the end of the …

“Cloud computing is a fantastic way to sell more data.” By stressing this definition, the director of innovation at TIM Brazil, Maurício Cascão, defined the telecom operator’s strategy in launching cloud computing services offers in the country. Cascão said, during …

It has been a few years since the end of the telecom sector monopoly in Costa Rica. The Superintendent of Telecommunications Sutel says ending the monopoly has led to great advances for the country’s mobile industry. The mobile telephony penetration …

Haiti is set to receive a major boost with the delivery of US $16 million worth of undersea cable (124.28 miles) which will link the nation to 21 other countries in the Pan Caribbean region, as well as with the …

On Thursday Verizon Wireless will begin offering the LTE-ready LG Lucid for just $80 with a contract, hoping to trump AT&T Mobility’s upcoming launch of Nokia’s Lumia 900 for $100 on April 8. The LG device is powered by a …