2012

BARCELONA, Spain – Competition in the vendor space is as hot as ever as various parties vie to supply the networks needed to keep up with the exploding demand for mobile data services. Whether it’s the large, established players looking …

Small cell base stations packed onto a single chipset are set to help service providers dramatically increase capacity without a parallel increase in cost and power consumption. At Mobile World Congress, Freescale (FSL), LSI (LSI), Texas Instruments (TXN) and Mindspeed …

Alright, let’s get this point out of the way first. American Roamer has changed its name to Mosaik Solutions, in a move the company said will “help better reflect the company’s position” as a source for “coverage solutions for the …

The total subscriber base of the company not stands at 38.79 million. Uninor is a joint venture between Norway-based Telenor and India’s Unitech Limited.

India’s state-owned telecom service provider Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited has launched three tablets at a price of $66.23, $224.15, $275.12 respectively.

The rollout of LTE services in Europe has been a deliberate process, with only a handful of innovative operators having launched services in select market. This latency in LTE deployments has been partially blamed on spectrum constraints as many countries …

Next week’s Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain, is regarded as the world’s largest wireless-only event, with nearly 100,000 attendees expected to descend onto the country’s Mediterranean coast. With such a turn out, companies in the mobile space are …

The rumor mills seem to be running overtime in cranking out news Apple iPad related. This includes the name for the device (iPad 3? How original), specifications (faster, smaller, bigger) and release dates (tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, never).

Strong growth of wireless data revenues across its Latin America business helped push Telefónica‘s 2011 total consolidated revenues up 3.5% in 2011 to $84.56 billion, which was in line with analyst estimates, and net profits of $7.27 billion. Follow RCR …

NII Holdings (NIHD), which operates in Latin America under the Nextel brand, is again pushing out its expected launch dates for 3G serivces. The company now expects to launch services in Chile by mid-year; in Mexico late in the third …

The m-payment joint venture between Telefónica and MasterCard (MA) has a brand name: Wanda. The offering is expected to provide mobile payment solutions to more than 87 million Movistar customers in the 12 markets where it will operate. The JV …

India’s leading mobile phone operator Bharti Airtel Thursday announced the pan India launch of ‘airtel money’, the country’s first of its kind mobile wallet service by a mobile operator.

Delta Power Solutions, a part of Taiwan-based Delta Group, has announced the launch of first fuel cell powered telecom tower for Ideal Cellular in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

MetroPCS (PCS) added fiscal details to its previously announced customer results for the fourth quarter of 2011, showing positive trends and a sharp increase in net income. For the fourth quarter, MetroPCS posted a 16% increase in revenues from $1.066 …

T-Mobile USA ended 2011 on a sour note as the carrier posted a marked increase in customer losses as well as the collapse of its planned acquisition by AT&T, both of which were somewhat related. T-Mobile USA said it lost …

The iPad will remain on sale in Shanghai for now, after a local court denied efforts by China’s Proview to force retailers to remove the tablets from their stores. Proview, which makes computer monitors, is fighting Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) in …

Months after having its acquisition attempt by AT&T quashed by regulators, T-Mobile USA laid out its plans for remaining a strong No. 4 challenger in the market, including $4 billion in network investments leading to the launch of LTE services …

Amdocs (DOX) launched an automated planning and design solution, dubbed Amdocs Single Click Network Rollout, that the company said supports accelerated LTE rollouts. Amdocs explained that the solution is designed to enable service providers to reduce the design time for …

Although more and more mobile phone users in Brazil are adopting short message service (SMS) as a means of communication, the Brazilian SMS market remains smaller than other countries in the region. In Brazil, text messaging represents 37.1% of total …

The worldwide Ethernet switch market reached record revenues of $6.06 billion in the fourth quarter of 2011 (4Q11), representing strong growth of 5.5% year over year and 1.2% quarter over quarter.

The issue of spectrum pricing, which has wide implications for the future funding requirements of telecom service providers is still a crucial piece that is missing in the Indian telecom sector, says the latest ICRA Ratings report.