2013

Changes appear to be brewing at the Federal Communications Commission, as current Commissioner Robert McDowell announced plans to step down while rumors continue to circulate that current Chairman Julius Genachowski …

Intel is looking to take its Atom processors beyond smartphones and tablets. This week the world’s largest chipmaker unveiled a hardward/software toolkit for set top boxes at the TV Connect …

Wireless carriers are concerned about increasing customer loyalty – and they should be – according to a new study released by WDS, a Xerox-owned company that provides customer experience management …

Nvidia says the future of mobile lines up perfectly with its core strength in graphics processors. More than half of all mobile data traffic is now video, according to Cisco, …

The smartphone sales boom may have lots of room to run worldwide, but in the developed world the explosive growth of smartphones is slowing and the makers of high-end devices …

LTE networks continue to be unveiled around the world, with the Global mobile Suppliers Association reporting that 156 carriers have launched commercial LTE services in 67 countries, with 98 commercial …

Nextel’s strategy is to migrate its Latin American operations from iDEN to 3G to become more competitive. Apart from Argentina, the operator has acquired 3G spectrum in all the countries where it operates, investing over $750 million in Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Peru.

Warren East is stepping down from the top position at ARM Holdings (ARMH) after leading the British company to become the world’s premiere architect of processors for mobile devices. Simon …

South Korean telecom operator SK Telecom said it will host a meeting of the Next Generation Mobile Network Alliance this week to “discuss measures to facilitate commercialization of next-generation mobile …

T-Mobile USA appears to be inching toward the launch of its LTE service, announcing this week that its Samsung Galaxy Note II device would receive an over-the-air update enabling access …

Distributed antenna systems are one of the fastest-growing types of cellular infrastructure. Global annual DAS sales will top $1 billion this year, ABI Research predicts. And by 2017, more than 2.5 million

Spend a week in Barcelona, Spain, at the Mobile World Congress event, and you will come back home with a lot of intriguing ideas. You can be overwhelmed by the plethora of new, elegant, sleek tablets, smartphones and the like,

Ruckus Wireless has had strong market share growth, according to a new report from Dell’Oro Group, and has the No. 2 market position in the service provider segment. The report …

Three major trends are converging to offer service providers the opportunity to better understand their networks and their opportunities to monetize them and reduce churn: The transition to all-IP, LTE …

AT&T could be looking to generate some short-term cash with a possible sale of its more than 10,000 cell sites, according to published reports and analyst predictions. Last week a …

Ericsson (ERIC) and STMicroelectronics (STM) have agreed to dissolve their ST-Ericsson joint venture, calling it quits on the effort to establish a competitive European semiconductor supplier for the wireless industry. …

Uruguay is the latest Latin American country to move forward with LTE. After Colombia announced it had set an LTE auction date for June 26, Uruguay’s Regulatory Unit of Communications Services …