2012

This year marked a milestone for the Chilean wireless telecom market with the arrival of new operators and increased competition. The new operators, including Virgin Mobile, VTR Móvil, Nextel, GTD Móvil and Netline, added 200,000 subscribers between April and September according …

Oracle’s latest pair of moves show the company’s efforts to bolster its cloud portfolio. By making a strategic minority investment in Engine Yard, a cloud development platform that supports Ruby, PHP and Node, Oracle is pushing its platform-as-a-service strategy. This …

Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs …

MetroPCS and T-Mobile USA provided some more insight into their proposed merger during an analyst conference this morning in Barcelona, Spain, which is expected to be followed up with a filing at the Securities and Exchange Commission in regards to …

They say bad news comes in threes, and if that’s true then wireless carriers have reached their quota of bad news from Google this week. First, the search engine giant launched its Nexus 4 smartphone, selling out of the GSM/HSPA+ …

Sprint Nextel and potential majority owner Softbank took the next step in consummating their proposed merger with the filing of license transfers with the Federal Communications Commission. The filing is a necessary step in Softbank’s proposed $20 billion acquisition of …

TIM Brasil is facing yet another difficulty. The Brazilian telecom regulator, Anatel, has suspended sales of TIM’s “Infinity Day” plan, a new promotion that offers unlimited local calls for U.S.$0.24 (R$0.50) per day. Anatel cited potential instability in the mobile service …

Editor’s Note: The RCR Wireless News Time Machine is a way to take advantage of our extensive history in covering the wireless space to fire up the DeLorean and take a trip back in time to re-visit some of the …

Six months after acquiring Ortiva Wireless, Allot Communications has launched a video optimization solution called Allot VideoClass. Allot purchased the La Jolla, Calif.-based mobile video optimization company for an undisclosed amount in May. Andrei Elefant, Allot vice president of product management …

When CEO Kevin Sinclair first started working at the company that would become Wireless Zone, retail rents were a lot lower and phone prices were a lot higher. “Twenty-four years ago we operated out of a 2nd-floor apartment, and we …

AT&T has announced a new Push-to-Talk (PTT) service that runs on its LTE network, targeting business and public safety customers with new ruggedized devices and the promise of new perks as well as service quality that is comparable to legacy …

Many smartphone users who rely on GPS to get from point A to point B will soon be able to do the same thing in large indoor areas, using Wi-Fi networks and new software developed by Cisco and Qualcomm. But …

Texas Instruments will lay off 1,700 people and stop designing chips for mobile devices. The Dallas semiconductor giant says more device manufacturers are designing their own chipsets, making the business more challenging for outside suppliers.

Brazilian carrier Oi posted positive results for its third quarter period. The company reported that its revenues have grown as well as its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, EBITDA margin and net earnings compared to the previous quarter. …

Apple announced that it will open its first store in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro. It will also be the first Apple store in the Latin American region, where up until now, the company only had agreements with local retailers, such …

Samsung increased its leadership in the mobile phone market even as worldwide mobile phone sales decreased. According to Gartner’s latest numbers, mobile phone sales to end users were down 3.1% in 3Q12 compared to 3Q11 with approximately 428 million units …

DALLAS – Small cells and network evolutions beyond LTE dominated conversations – or at least the agenda – during the opening day of the 2012 LTE North America conference in Dallas, as attendees seemed to have moved beyond the still …

With little more than a week left before Black Friday, retailers are already seeing consumers make purchases and prepare their holiday shopping season strategies – and mobile retail is playing an increasingly large role. Both the Android app store and …

Verizon Wireless is making good on its promise to start selling off some of its “excess” 700 MHz spectrum licenses, announcing today that it will sell its Texas RSA 6-Jack 700 MHz lower B-Block license to Nortex Communications for an …

Google Fiber connected its first set of homes yesterday in the Hanover Heights section of Kansas City. The ultra high-speed network claims that it offers speeds of up to 1 Gigabit per second. So far there are no reports that …

Kony Solutions, a mobile and multi-channel application platform provider, held a press conference on Tuesday to announce its commercial launch in São Paulo. Along with opening its Brazilian office, the company announced that it already has a big client: Brazilian …

Spectrum auctions for next generation mobile services have two different strategic implications for our region. First, in developing markets such as Latin America, mobile broadband is a crucial, cost-effective opportunity to increase broadband penetration, fulfill local governments’ goals of digital …