2012

Enterprises from Fortune 500 companies to hospitals to schools are adopting iPads and other tablets to replace much of the work that personal computers used to do, and the people who use these devices want to use them for a …

Taiwan’s HTC, currently number five in worldwide smartphone shipments, wants to differentiate itself by working with the companies who deliver the content users want most on their smart devices. After investing in Beats Audio last year, HTC yesterday said it …

Brazilian state-owned telecommunications provider Telebras has signed an agreement with Angola Cables to deploy a 6,000-kilometer submarine cable linking Fortaleza in Brazil to Luanda in Angola. According Telebras’s president Caio Bonilha, the goal is for the submarine cable to be …

The board of Brazil’s telecom agency Anatel said regulators will carry out studies on the 700 MHz band regarding the use of this spectrum for digital television (check out the presentation – in Portuguese). By 2016, all analog TV, which …

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. The arrival of Virgin Mobile in Latin America is exciting news. Richard …

The Easter Bunny will bring Nokia’s high-end Windows Phone to AT&T this spring – the Lumia 900 goes on sale for $99 on Easter Sunday, according to CNET’s Roger Cheng. The phone will be ready for AT&T’s next-generation LTE network, …

Intel (INTC) and Samsung (SSNLF) continue to dominate the global semiconductor market, but Qualcomm (QCOM), Texas Instruments (TXN), Broadcom (BCOM) and nVidia (NVDA) are coming on strong, thanks in large part to the success of their chips for wireless devices. …

Deploy Fiber-Based Ethernet Backhaul Without Disrupting Your Business. Have you considered migrating your backhaul network to Ethernet? Worried it will negatively impacting your business? It doesn’t have to. This white paper from Tellabs outlines the key steps for upgrading a …

Following the mobile and cloud trends in corporate applications, the Brazilian Sonda IT, owned by the Chilean Sonda, set its portfolio to meet companies’ need for “as a service” offers tied to mobility and cloud computing. Generally speaking, Sonda IT …

América Móvil‘s Claro and Telefónica‘s Movistar, new entrants to Costa Rica’s wireless market, have appealed to the Ministry of Environment, Energy and Telecommunications (Minaet) to extend their network rollout deadline. Local paper El Financiero reported both telecom operators said they …

Emerging markets will drive growth in worldwide smartphone sales in the years ahead, International Data Corporation (IDC) said in a recent survey entitled the Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. According to the consulting and research firm, China will become the …

Nokia Siemens Networks and German trade union IG Metall said they have reached an agreement that would maintain 2,000 jobs in Munich if a majority of the 1,600 employees set to lose their jobs agree to join “an interim employment …

Calling 2012 a “breakout year for 4G LTE technology,” Strategy Analytics today released a report predicting tenfold growth this year in shipments of LTE phones. The firm’s Neil Shah projects that 67 million LTE phones will ship this year, primarily …

As the company that revolutionized the mobile industry and continues to set the bar, Apple has no problem getting an audience with local and state governments when it announces plans for expansion. So the Austin City Council was all ears …

This week we were reminded again of the power of words. And in this case when I say we, I mean Sprint Nextel’s stock price. And when I say “words” I mean “underperform.”

Colombia’s Ministry of Information Technology and Communication published for industry comments the draft resolution for the auction of spectrum in the 1.7/2.1 GHz, 2.5 GHz and 1.9 GHz bands. The auction is scheduled to begin August 8, with the deployment …

Qualcomm and Telefónica announced an agreement focused on fostering the adoption of 3G and smartphones throughout Latin America. Under terms of the agreement, both companies will collaborate in an effort to bring a variety of 3G devices to the region, …

A new report from ComScore states that Latin America’s online population grew faster than in any other global region in 2011, rising 16% to 129.3 million visitors by the end of the year. The digital traffic was boosted by mobile …

T-Mobile USA, which has made a name for itself in garnering customer service accolades from the likes of J.D. Power and Associates, said it plans to close seven call centers by the end of June, resulting in 1,900 job cuts. …

Federal Communications Commission attempts to infuse spectrum assets into the wireless space while at the same time maintaining an open, competitive environment took center stage this week as the government agency tackled a number of issues facing the mobile industry. …

The Rural Cellular Association continued its fight against Verizon Communications (VZ) attempt to acquire spectrum assets from a handful of cable companies. The association, which represents virtually every mobile operator outside of Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility, said that if …

If you’ve made it through a year without losing your phone, you’re beating the odds. That’s according to statistics from the mobile security experts at Lookout, who say their phone-finding app locates a lost or stolen phone every 3.5 seconds. …