2012

“The phone with a helmet on,” is one of the many niche products that delivers cutting-edge technology to meet a specific consumer need. But phones like the Casio Commando don’t make it to market unless the companies that make them …

Ruckus Wireless, a US-based global Wi-Fi technology company, Friday announced the opening of a new R&D centre in Bangalore, India.

The draft National Telecom Policy 2011 has proposed incentivizing telecom service providers for using indigenous products.

The board of directors of Brazilian telecom regulator Anatel has unanimously agreed to relinquish control of Globo Comunicação e Participações SA on the Brazilian cable operator Net Serviços de Comunicação SA, and Carlo Slim’s América Móvil SAB, the biggest mobile-phone …

The tablet market will explode over the next five years with retail revenue increasing from US $34.5 billion in 2011 to US $121.5 billion in 2016, according to the latest research from Informa Telecoms & Media. According to another survey …

When it comes to investing in the cloud, European carriers are not keeping pace with operators in North America and Asia, according to new research from Informa’s Telecom Cloud Monitor. European operators accounted for only 7% of the US$13.5 billion …

The world’s largest mobile phone maker put an end today to weeks of speculation today about sales of its Lumia smartphones, and what those sales would mean to its financial results. Nokia Corporation (NYSE: NOK) lost $1.4 billion during the …

Verizon has expanded its global enterprise network platform, enabling multinational corporations to take advantage of Verizon’s Private IP service in six additional African countries, and Bahrain and Qatar in the Middle East.

The Indian consumers will have to be prepared for higher tariffs if the government goes ahead with the proposal to charge extra 2G spectrum held by telecom companies, says Bharti Airtel’s Sunil Mittal.

“Our record fourth quarter capped a very strong and exciting year for our company,” said Greg Brown, chairman and CEO of Motorola Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: MSI), in statement when presenting its fourth-quarter and full-year 2011 results. The company fourth quarter …

Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn Technology Co. Ltd., which manufactures the Apple iPad, has received federal tax benefits for producing tablets in Brazil. The manufacturer was given reduced import tax rate for tablet components. The determination, the country’s official gazette reported Wednesday, …

Tata Communications’ consolidated gross revenues were at $719.7 million in the quarter ended December 31, 2011 as against $673.7 million in the same quarter last year, according to the company’s results for FY2012.

The Mexican Federal Competition Commission (Comisión Federal de Competencia – CFC or Cofeco) decision on broadcaster Televisa’s plan to acquire half of cell-phone company Iusacell will not be disclosed until February 7. After a six-hour closed-door meeting on Tuesday (January …

Citing intense competition, unfavorable macroeconomic conditions and the effects of a natural disaster in Thailand, the president and CEO of Sony Ericsson Bert Nordberg justified the company’s lower revenue for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2011. …

Brazilian Communication Ministry (Minicom)’s annual budget for 2012 has been pushed up to US $3 billion (R$ 5.49 billion). The amount includes the budget for Brazilian telecom regulator Anatel and State-owned Brazilian telecom Telebrás. This year’s budget is US $628 …

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Wednesday exempted the machine to machine and person to machine messages from the limit of 200 SMS per day per SIM.

With the increase of mobile data subscribers in emerging market, a growing number of telecom operators are seeking inform customers about their usage levels. Executives from Syniverse Technologies are looking at Latin America as a great market for this service. …

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. There is no doubt that the question of what to do …

The case for deploying smaller cell configurations – such as picocells, microcells and femtocells – to supplement traditional macro-cell-network architectures, both for LTE and existing 3G networks, is becoming more compelling as traditional macro cells will soon not be able …

One of the most developed countries in Latin America, Chile faces very similar telecom challenges to Brazil, Colombia and Mexico. Its mobile penetration surpassed one device per habitant, reaching 120.8% in June, with most subscribers on prepaid plans. The Chile …