Vietnam’s largest mobile operator Viettel, which is set to launch its operations in Peru next year, taped ZTE to deploy a 2G/3G wireless network across its Peru operations. According to ZTE, the first phase of the project will include building more than 2,000 base...
How much do you want your smartphone to know? As long as the information doesn't leave the phone, are you OK with your sidekick device knowing where you are, what you're doing, who you're doing it with? Qualcomm, designer of the chips that power most smartphones, has been right about a lot of technologies in wireless, and now it's betting on mobile devices with built-in intelligence.
Perhaps showing the strength of the tower segment, SBA Communications raised the yield of a senior notes offering by $150 million just hours after the initial plans were announced.
The tower giant said its senior notes offering would now look to raise $800 million, which...
Almost half a million Colombian people chose to keep their numbers when switching telecom operators since the mobile number portability law was enacted in the country. According to the Communications Regulation Commission (CRC), a total of 440,000 lines used number portability between August 2011 and...
Born during the mid-1990s in Western Europe, prepaid mobile services' impact on subscriber growth has been unprecedented. This unexpected growth has had several consequences:
Brazilian carrier Oi announced it has chosen Alcatel-Lucent and Microsoft as its IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) vendors. Oi expects to launch IPTV services during the second half of this year. According to a Pyramid Research report, IPTV services are expected to increase from 21,000 subscriptions...
The machine-to-machine market gained significant momentum today as seven mobile operators entered into an alliance to collaborate on services. The carriers – KPN, NTT DoCoMo; Rogers Communications; SingTel; Telefónica, through its Telefónica Digital unit; Telstra; and Vimpelcom – said they will partner on roaming and...
In an age of digital and mobile services, where end users now demand personalization and real-time interaction, customer experience management will be key to operators retaining and winning customers.
For anybody involved in the communications market in Latin America, the excitement and buzz is hard to miss. The FIFA World Cup Games will dominate Brazil in 2014.
Mexican mobile telecommunications account for 57.1% of the total telecommunications revenue in Mexico, representing 58.323 million Mexican pesos (U.S.$4.38 million) in the first quarter of 2012, an annual growth of 5.6%, according to the local consulting and market research firm Competitive Intelligence Unit (CIU).
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South America is on TE Connectivity’s telecom radar. The company just launched a manufacturing plant for telecommunication networks located in the countryside of São Paulo state in Brazil with an equipment investment of U.S.$500,000. This will help the company's local business achieve its goal of...
The percent of Uruguay's population with access to information and communication technologies has grown. According to Uruguay's National Institute of Statistics (INE) the total inhabitants who owned PCs (laptops included) increased from 47.6% in 2009 to 60% in 2011, while people with Internet connections...
Merger and acquisition activity during the first half of the year across the mobile and online space increased 3% compared with the final half of 2011, with total M&A transaction values surging 20% over the same time frame, according to a new report from...
Verizon Communications and MetroPCS, fierce rivals in the wireless world, have teamed up to challenge the Federal Communications Commission’s open access rules, noting in a lawsuit that the FCC stepped beyond in a recent decision regarding broadband service providers.
In the lawsuit, which was filed...
The mobile payment space garnered a pair of allies today as German telecom giant Deutsche Telekom announced a deal with MasterCard to provide DT’s customers in Europe access to mobile payment services. The offering will rely on technology embedded onto a device’s SIM card,...
With Android 4.1 set to launch in the coming months, prices on Android 4.0 phones could be headed lower. And Taiwan's MediaTek (2454.TW) is ready. The fabless semiconductor company says its newest chipset will enable device makers to introduce Android 4.0 phones in the...
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 more interesting headlines from...
Under its new corporate structure, Qualcomm will put its primary business unit into a wholly owned subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (QTI) QTI and its subsidiaries will operate Qualcomm's semiconductor business (QCT), its product and services businesses, and its research and development. Meanwhile the parent company, Qualcomm Incorporated, will include QTL (patent licensing) and all other corporate functions.
Qualcomm wants mobile devices powered by its processors to hit the ground running the best software as efficiently as possible. So the company is offering Android developers a software development kit (SDK) for its Snapdragon mobile processors.
One of the game-changing shifts that communications service providers face as they transform their networks for mobile broadband is an evolution from subscription-based business models to service based ones.
The bidding war for Quest Software (QSFT) continues today, as Dell (DELL) has reportedly again outbid Insight Venture Partners. Reuters is reporting that Dell has now bid $2.32 billion, or $27.50 per share, for the maker of software that helps companies manage networks, mobile...
It's been a good week for ARM Holdings (ARMH), the British company that designs the microprocessors found in most smartphones and tablets. Microsoft (MSFT) unveiled the Windows RT version of its new Surface Tablet, which will include an ARM-based microprocessor, and Freescale (FSL) announced...
