2013

International systems integrator and consulting company Tech Mahindra, said it has purchased a mobile device test platform from Anritsu to expand its LTE conformance and carrier acceptance testing. Tech Mahindra …

Verizon Wireless said it plans to sell Samsung’s LTE-enabled Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet and Samsung’s first Windows Phone 8 smartphone. The announcements were made during this week’s Consumer Electronics Show …

Microsoft should be happy following this week’s announcements at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2013 – check out all pieces) as a pair of U.S.-based carriers released plans to offer …

The fourth quarter looks to have been a case of the big wireless carriers getting bigger as both Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility announced limited Q4 results that hint at …

Verizon Wireless continued to parse out spectrum licenses as it announced today that U.S. Cellular has agreed to purchase a 700 MHz A-Block license covering Oklahoma City and 31 other …

Decisions on the architecture of the supply chain directly affect profitability. Optimized supply chains adhering to supply chain network best practices can lead to reduced logistic costs, improved time to …

Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs used his opening keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show to introduce the company’s newest flagship chipset. The Snapdragon 800 is the successor to the hugely popular …

In 2012, LTE finally went main stream. Sure, there had been plenty of talk around this popular “4G” network type before, but this past year was all about deployment, deployment, deployment.

In the United States and many other countries, more than half of the population now has a smartphone. And regardless of whether they own a smartphone or a feature phone, most people use text messaging

2013 saw a raft of acquisitions, driven mainly by Tangoe burning their way through not one but two IPO war chests and buying anything that wasn’t firmly bolted to the floor.

Tablets and smartphones are expected to continue to drive electronic product revenues in 2013 as they did in 2012. According to 2012 provisional global tech device sales revenue released by …

The appointment of Rodrigo Rato, who is under investigation for fraud at state-rescued lender Bankia where he was chairman, to the advisory boards of Telefónica European and Latin American businesses …

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. There’s no denying it: 4G …

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. About 65 years ago, the …

MetroPCS, which is in the process of being acquired by T-Mobile USA, released limited fourth quarter results today showing continued struggles in attracting new subscribers to its flat-rate, no-contract unlimited …

So, after following technology trends for 18 years and 15 years of mobile addiction, (I got my first mobile when it was too big to carry and my first BlackBerry in 2002),

Nvidia (NVDA) is kicking off its week at the Consumer Electronics Show with a claim that it has the world’s fastest mobile processor. The Tegra 4 combines a quad-core ARM …

As 2013 begins, predictions invariably are the attention grabbing headlines. However, trends and some predictability and draw from past performance. Carriers are the foundation for service delivery and the keystone of the mobile ecosystem.

40 billion apps, 7 billion dollars and a quarter of a million different apps for iOS — those are the numbers Apple is touting this week. The company says that …

Chile has reached 4,342,397 mobile broadband Internet connections, representing a 24.9% penetration, according to the latest report from Chile’s secretary of telecommunications, Subtel. Smartphone Internet connections represented 70.82% while dongles …

Leap Wireless’ Cricket prepaid operations scored another LTE smartphone with the HTC One SV, scheduled to go on sale Jan. 16 for $350. HTC’s latest flagship phone joins the Samsung …

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 …