2012

Facebook,which recently announced it had reached 1 billion users worldwide, is counting on mobile devices to reach the next billion users. “The first experience with Facebook for many people will be through mobile devices, especially in many emerging countries where …

Aiming to evolve telecommunication services in Brazil, minister of communications Paulo Bernardo, told members of the press that some important measures might be taken in upcoming months, such as voting on antenna regulation, certifying femtocells and auctioning 700 MHz spectrum …

Ericsson is aiming to have more than 50% of the LTE market in Latin America by volume. The vendor recently won several contracts for new networks, and has signed LTE/EPC contracts with Claro, Oi, TIM and Telefónica’s Vivo in Brazil; UNE …

Dish Networks looks to be getting out ahead of government regulators this week as it sent out a press statement condemning reported constraints being bandied about by the Federal Communications Commission regarding the company’s spectrum plans. Dish noted in its …

Jennifer Schoenhofer wasn’t at the Stevie Awards when she won Female Entrepreneur of the Year, but she knows what she would have said if she’d been there. Schoenhofer would have referenced a Thanksgiving dinner she remembers from when she was …

As Washington and the cash-strapped state governments look for new sources of tax revenue, wireless service could be a potential target. Consumer advocacy group mywireless.org is trying to head off efforts to increase wireless taxes by showing how much most …

Hewlett-Packard shocked the business world when it not only reported a $6.9 billion loss for its fiscal fourth quarter yesterday but also released a non-cash impairment charge of $8.8 billion related to its acquisition of the British software company Autonomy in …

The doubling of mobile data use led to an increase of .5 percentage points in the GDP per-capita growth rate in 14 countries, according to a report from the GSMA and Deloitte. The report found that countries that had a …

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. More than 200 years ago, Edmund Burke said one of the …

Close to one-third of adults who own smartphones or tablets expect to use them for holiday shopping on Thanksgiving Day, according to a survey by Digitas — but the mobile shopping experience still lags behind computers  in ease of use. …

Intel says CEO Paul Otellini’s decision to leave the company was entirely his, but nonetheless it could end up being just what the chip giant needs. A change at the top might pave the way for a shift in strategy …

The BYOD, or bring-your-own-device, trend has grown: A new report from iPass shows that more employees are using their own smartphones for work, and they rank connectivity cost as the least important factor when choosing a mobile network. iPass, a Wi-Fi …

According to a recent Accenture survey of customers worldwide from a variety of industries, the greatest source of frustration

The broadband satellite network and service provider Hughes Network Systems won a U.S.$24 million contract with the Mexican Ministry of Communications and Transport (SCT). Under the contract terms, the company will supply and build an 11,000-site broadband satellite network, spanning …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. From existing data, extract new business insights that can be monitored in real time—This is …

Operators must meet the challenge OTT traffic creates for the network and mitigate the negative impacts of congestion especially on video services. Learn from leading analysts at Strategy Analytics how to get in front of the video traffic wave with …

Verizon Wireless continued to move 700 MHz spectrum assets it deems unnecessary, announcing a deal today to sell a lower B-Block license covering 12 counties in Texas to Oklahoma-based Panhandle Telecommunications. Terms of the agreement were not released. Verizon Wireless …

T-Mobile USA’s pending acquisition of MetroPCS looks to have been a deal a long time in the making, and according to some, could still see additional maneuvering. MetroPCS released a proxy statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission late last …

Broadcom is giving away its NFC software in hopes of creating an industry standard. The company says mobile wallets are just the start for NFC.

Cisco says it will acquire cloud networking company Meraki for $1.2 billion in cash. Meraki focuses on mid-market customers, offering networking solutions that can be centrally managed from the cloud. When the acquisition is complete, Meraki will form Cisco’s new …

NII Holdings, which operates under the Nextel brand across Latin America, dismissed the president of its Brazilian operations, Sergio Borges Chaia. The company noted that NII’s COO Gokul Hemmady, current Nextel Brazil COO Claudio Hidalgo and the “local leadership team” …