2013

With a week to go before announcing its fourth quarter financial results, AT&T told government regulators that it plans to record a $10 billion, pre-tax, non-cash charge for the quarter …

In the mobile era, both companies and employees want to access data from any location and at any time. Although it seems a great way to boost productivity, this trend …

Price pressures ensure the survival of the feature phone: Although the feature-phone category will continue to play second fiddle to the smartphone in 2013, price pressures will secure

Fixed-mobile convergence, a previously popular trend towards seamless connectivity between fixed and wireless telecommunications networks, will come to an end.

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The Brazilian telecommunications market is heating up, boosted by data consumption growth and the start of LTE implementation, and it is having a direct effect on the labor market. More …

Cable & Wireless Panama (CWP),  a part of Cable & Wireless Communications, announced that it was awarded a two-year, U.S.$1.9 million contract to implement a corporate asset management register. The …

The number of LTE devices is exploding rapidly, from 269 devices in January 2012 to 560 devices produced by 83 suppliers as of November 2012. Getting an LTE smartphone, tablet, …

While AT&T customers are celebrating more cellular access to FaceTime, Imagination Technologies is marketing a competing video service to carriers — video chat via Facebook. The company says its carrier …

The number of LTE devices and manufacturers is exploding. This special report explores how the transition to LTE networks is changing the device ecosystem from design to test and repair, …

Alcatel-Lucent snared a significant contract with India’s Reliance Communications that the infrastructure vendor valued at more than $1 billion. The deal calls for Alcatel-Lucent to manage Reliance’s telecommunications infrastructure in …

Domestic telecom staple AT&T is reportedly looking to inject some international flavor through a potential acquisition of an European-based operator. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that AT&T is looking …

Nokia (NOK) detailed today what it says will be the last of the 10,000 job cuts announced last June. The latest cuts affect 300 workers in the company’s IT division. …

Mobile operators are being squeezed by decreasing revenues per user, and a seemingly insatiable demand by users for more data. To efficiently manage the rapidly growing

As 2013 dawns, the unprecedented growth in mobile data traffic shows no sign of relenting. The rapid spread of lower-cost smartphones, the continuing “4G” build out and the consumer trends

Brazilian information technology companies have an ongoing problem: how to fill vacant professional IT positions that remain open year after year. Essentially, the country’s universities and technical schools are graduating …

América Móvil’s Chilean wireless unit, Claro, has won the most subscribers since Chile enacted number portability a year ago. The telecom operator received 126,358 new lines from customers who switched …

Nvidia is calling its Tegra 4 chipset the world’s fastest mobile processor, and the company was excited enough by the product to build a device to show it off. Project …

Nokia Siemens Networks said it had a hand in U.S. Cellular’s expansion of its LTE network late last year, providing radio access network and mobile management entity technology across in …

With two weeks to go until the launch of BlackBerry 10, Research-in-Motion (RIMM) says Visa has approved its mobile payments solution. RIM’s solution securely manages credit card information stored on …

About 2.8 million patients were remotely monitored worldwide at the end of 2012, using a home monitoring service based on equipment with integrated connectivity, according to a new research report …

We are going through a radical shift in the way people work and use computers. Increasing availability and affordability of wireless broadband is giving

Every year seems to bring a giant leap, or at least a shift, in technology. This is especially true for the wireless industry. Not too long ago, Wi-Fi was the ugly stepchild of the wireless world.

A recent U.S.$64 million (€48 million)  contract with Telefónica in Peru may be a good sign for Eventis. The Spanish company, which focuses on technology, telecommunications and infrastructure, is looking …

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. Over …