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. This article is an excerpt from RCR Wireless News' July Special Edition, "Riding the...
One small issue with Verizon Wireless’ plans to roll out nationwide LTE services using its 700 MHz spectrum was the fact it did not control 700 MHz spectrum covering Alaska, until now.The nation’s largest wireless carrier said it has reached an agreement with Triad...
An appeals court has ruled that some 2006 rules on designated-entity participation in spectrum auctions are invalid, although the court said too much damage would occur if it were to rule subsequent auctions invalid. Thus, winners in spectrum auctions 66 and 73 are allowed...
A joint report by industry body Assocham and research firm Frost & Sullivan has projected total Indian broadband subscription to touch 275 million by Y-2015, great news for players who recently won a chunk of BWA spectrum.
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.Perhaps, because it led to Mukesh Ambani's dramatic re-entry in the country's telecom sector and...
The US is pretty fond of its wireline pipes, but Israeli IP radio firm Siklu is trying to change the world’s mind, and the wireless game, when it comes to the whole millimeter radio vs. wireline debate.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – While the weather this time of the year in Washington, D.C., can only be described as oppressive, the mood of the telecommunications community in the nation’s capital can best be described as ambitious. That ambition is being directly led by the...
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.Those who think in terms of history are likely to remember last Friday, the day...
India’s Broadband Wireless Auction ended after 117 rounds, raking in nearly $5.5 billion for the government. Infotel Broadband Services Ltd. was the big winner, paying $2.74 billion for licenses in all 22 circles. Interestingly, Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries Ltd. announced that it is buying...
The Indian CDMA lobby, AUSPI (Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India), has come out in support of Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE in the wake of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI’s) decision not to include them in 2G spectrum meetings.
Indian Telecom has flourished not just economically but has also gained a fair bit of news momentum since A Raja took the chair of the Indian Telecom Ministry. Now, however, the scam-tainted Union Minister for Communications has received overwhelming support from the Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh.
The BWA auction that is scheduled to start two days after conclusion of the 3G auction under way in India, has sparked an intense debate over whether WiMAX or TD-LTE might be best positioned to serve the country's wireless broadband needs. At the center...
Bids for an all-India license to offer faster wireless services reached 110.5 billion rupees ($2.46 billion) on the 22nd day of an auction, according to a statement on the department of telecommunication’s Web site.Bloomberg/BusinessWeek
The German government this week took the lead on the deployment of so-called “4G” technologies with the launch of a spectrum auction involving 360 megahertz of spectrum spread across four bands: 800 MHz, 1.8 GHz, 2 GHz and 2.6 GHz bands.The government said the...
The German government this week took the lead on the deployment of so-called “4G” technologies with the launch of a spectrum auction involving 360 megahertz of spectrum spread across four bands: 800 MHz, 1.8 GHz, 2 GHz and 2.6 GHz bands.The government said the...
Brazil is expected to auction several spectrum licenses this year, which could lead to increased mobile broadband adoption, according to a new report from research firm Maravedis. Regulator Anatel could auction spectrum at 2.5 GHz, 3.5 GHz, 450 MHz as well as some available...
India's auction of 3G spectrum and licenses to the private sector is unlikely to go ahead as originally scheduled on Jan. 14, according to sources close to the situation. PC World/IDG News Service
The Canadian regulatory agency ruled that newcomer Globalive Communications Corp. is not a Canadian-owned company and so cannot operate a wireless network, despite having paid $442 million CDN last year to acquire a nationwide AWS license.What happens next is unclear; Globalive said it is...
India said Saturday a long-delayed auction of radio bandwidth for third generation (3G) telecommunications services will start in January and will be open to foreign companies.The auction will start January 14, 2010 with bids to be submitted by December 21, the Department of Telecommunications...
The UK government has laid out the roadmap for upgrading the nation's wireless services by rolling out next-generation wireless technologies coupled with bolstering up 3G coverage all across the country, it has been reported.IT Pro Portal
SAN DIEGO--FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said the government would work to free up more spectrum for wireless broadband access and aid tower-siting efforts, two initiatives the wireless industry likely will embrace, even as he continued to call for an open Internet, recognizing that the...
The competition watchdog says Australia's 16 million telecommunications consumers will be the "clear winners" from greater competition and tighter regulation of Telstra. The chairman of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC), Graeme Samuel, commenting on Federal Government plans to split Telstra's wholesale and...
