2012

The Brazilian telecommunications market will over the next two years will face its best time since its opening to private initiatives. Here are eight issues, facts or trends, that deserve attention.

Broadcom CEO Scott McGregor spoke with RCR Wireless News during the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas about Broadcom’s Wi-Fi initiatives. While this was clearly one of the event’s top stories, McGregor’s comments about hiring and investing caught our …

Huawei recently announced that it will award OEM contracts totaling $6 billion to Qualcomm, Broadcom and Avago, three California-based leading communications technology companies.

The telecom equipment manufacturing sector has somehow missed the bus of telecom revolution in the country, TEMA stated in the letter.

If someone describes their workplace as a zoo, you might not envision a productive, innovative startup that’s been chosen by AdAge as one of the five best places to work in America. But DataXu (pronounced Data Zoo) appears to have …

What can possibly be said about LightSquared at this point, besides bad puns? I know that the company is not “dead” dead, but it seems that the hill it has been climbing in trying to launch a wireless service just …

Following up on its pre-release of fourth quarter results last month, Leap Wireless rolled out the rest of the numbers showing improved financial results to go along with positive operational news. Despite the results coming in just ahead of most …

Reports that Foxconn will make the next version of Amazon’s popular e-reader are gaining credence as chinatimes.com reported that Amazon is finalizing a deal with the Taiwanese manufacturing giant. Foxconn has been under fire for abusive labor practices at the …

Atos, EMC and VMware are combining their efforts toward cloud computing, announcing a strategic alliance for open cloud computing. As part of the initiative, Atos plans to create a new company, Canopy, to provide cloud solutions and services as a …

The mobile line penetration in Ecuador is 108%, with 8.4% of people in the country having a smartphone, according to a report by the Ecuadorian Minister of Telecommunications and Information (MINTEL). The report, based on a survey of nearly 22,000 …

Despite reports that Apple’s share in the smartphone market of China has slipped in Q3 and Q4 of 2011, the company had an exceptional fourth quarter globally by selling 35.5 million smartphones to end users, a 121.4% increase year on …

The US Federal Trade Commission’s just released survey report on mobile applications for children has revealed that neither the app stores nor the app developers provide the information parents need to determine what data is being collected from their children, …

Mobile-health smartphone applications will take off in 2012, reaching $1.3 billion, according to a recent survey by market research and consultancy firm Research2guidance. The group estimates the current market size at $718 million. “We think the m-health market will be …

In another sign that tablets are replacing notebooks in the workplace, more than two-thirds of small businesses surveyed by AT&T said their employees are using tablets on the job. Checking e-mail and surfing the Web were by far the most …

Clearwire (CLWR) continued to show its transformative nature during the fourth quarter as the carrier’s results showed increasing reliance on its wholesale operations, currently dominated by parent company Sprint Nextel (S), while its future plans have been bolstered to support …

The biggest names in chip design are finding their way into the small cell market. Freescale Semiconductor (FSL) said today that its processors will power the newest small cell base station from Ip.access. Great Britain’s Ip.access is the maker of …

The Brazilian unit of Italian telecom operator TIM 2011 posted $14.31 billion in gross revenues last year, a 21.7% increase compared with 2010. Net profits also improved 65.6% year-over-year to $740 million. The company noted that the result were part …

Brazilian regulatory agency Anatel released the country’s latest cellphone numbers showing that at the end of January the country reached 245.2 million mobile lines, which was a 1.22% increase compared to December. However, Anatel said the absolute number of new …

Brazilian carrier Oi announced that it has started tests in the 450 MHz band for broadband services in rural areas. The tests, conducted in cooperation with government regulator Anatel and the Ministry of Communications, will initially be in the city …

The operating profitability of the mobile players like Airtel, Idea, Vodafone, Tata Teleservices and Sistema Shyam Teleservices will improve by 5% in the next two years, according to credit rating agency Crisil.

Which would be more cost effective: to deploy TD-LTE or V-DSL in Brazil? Nokia Siemens Network found the total cost of ownership in different locations across the country can be ten-times less expensive using TD-LTE. “The [capital expenditures] of V-DSL …

Norway-based Telenor Group has said that the strategic partnership with Unitech Limited does not have a future, and it therefore will start the process of looking for a new Indian partner. 

FreedomPop, the wireless broadband startup backed by Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrom, says it will buy wholesale broadband service from Clearwire instead of from LightSquared. The Federal Communications Commission has decided that LightSquared cannot move forward with its effort to provide …

Almost half a billion smartphones were sold worldwide last year, and about a third of those were sold in the fourth quarter. Analysts agree that by the fourth quarter, Apple was at the top of the smartphone market with its …

Uninor, in its response, has stated that only Private Respondents (whose licenses have been quashed by the SC judgement) and fresh applicants (well funded entities with no link to incumbent operators) should be eligible to take part in the auction …