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Private 5G market to rise to $7.7bn in 2027 – and higher if cost and complexity get sorted

An addendum of sorts, to the piece Enterprise IoT Insights compiled at the end of last week (October 21), on private networks in numbers; Analysys Mason has just issued a report that says private LTE/5G network deployments are “growing rapidly”, to the point spending...

White Paper: The International Roaming Problem: How to Balance Cost, Connectivity, and Security Concerns

International communication doesn't have to be complex. In this white paper, you'll discover the challenges organizations with international travelers face to strike an appropriate balance between ease of use for those focused on being productive when traveling internationally, and the cost of using non-domestic...

Press Release: Mobile Network Operators Face Seven Fold Increase in Data Delivery Costs, Rising to $370bn by 2016, Juniper Research warns

Juniper Research | August 2, 2011 | Press Release Analyst house calls for wider use of offload, optimisation technologies to reduce operating costs Hampshire, UK –  2nd August 2011:  Mobile network operators (MNOs) must explore means of addressing data delivery costs and inefficiencies in base station...

UPDATE 2-Brazil Vivo’s profit surges on costs, customers

Reuters | February 24, 2011 | Stuart Grudgings & Maureen Bavdek * Profits surge on lower depreciation, customer increase * Net sales up 10.1 percent, subscribers up 16.5 percent * EBITDA rises 20.9 percent from year ago (Adds analysts' expectations, investment plans) RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 24 (Reuters) -...

UPDATE 2-Brazil Vivo's profit surges on costs, customers

Reuters | February 24, 2011 | Stuart Grudgings & Maureen Bavdek * Profits surge on lower depreciation, customer increase * Net sales up 10.1 percent, subscribers up 16.5 percent * EBITDA rises 20.9 percent from year ago (Adds analysts' expectations, investment plans) RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 24 (Reuters) -...

Freescale Semiconductor to demonstrate new network technology at MWC

AUSTIN-Freescale Semiconductor is preparing to announce advancements resulting in a new portfolio of wireless networking technologies that they say are currently unavailable in the market. An announcement and demonstration of this portfolio of wireless network/access technologies will be made at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona...

@CTIA: Prices for same app vary, depending on app store

LAS VEGAS—Playing a game of Tetris downloaded from Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Mobile application store costs $2 more than downloading the same game from the Apple App Store. With 35 applications stores globally, and many more expected to open in 2010, developers are wondering...

MetroPCS, Leap post customer gains: Even as prepaid market sees more competition

Regional flat-rate operators MetroPCS Communications Inc. and Leap Wireless International Inc. posted similar increases in subscriber additions for the fourth-quarter, although both carriers reported increased churn and expect continued pressure in the no-contract market segment in 2010. The carriers did not comment on recent...

@MWC: Microsoft starts over with Zune-like OS for mobile

BARCELONA – At Mobile World Congress today, Microsoft finally offered an entirely new look and feel for its mobile operating system in Windows Phone 7 Series.Presented as a complete reboot with no obvious remnants from the existing Windows Mobile operating systems (except for that...

@MWC: NSN exec says network needs to keep pace with traffic explosion: 'In Canada, we nailed it'

BARCELONA – Nokia Siemens Networks took the opportunity at Mobile World Congress this morning to put its relatively new CEO Rajeev Suri in front of press and analysts to give an update on its latest customer wins and strategy.Repeating a regular theme at this...

Customer service support for smartphones 4 times that of feature phones, InnoPath says: Surveys 200 execs on data implementation concerns

Mobile operators realize they need customers to adopt increased data services to offset declining voice revenues but are not sure how to best implement strategies to facilitate that, according to a December survey of nearly 200 senior-level wireless operators, conducted by the Economist Intelligence...

Reality Check: Five predictions for 2010

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.As the end of the year approaches, the question many people are asking is whether 2010 will...

Analyst Angle: Defining mobile broadband

The VisionMobile broadband is the network connectivity environment, where networks of different shapes and sizes collaborate to provide users unfettered access to the information they seek, the content they want to engage in, connect people in new and exciting ways, where time and distance...

Moto exec exodus continues

Even as Motorola Inc. makes some key new hires, such as co-CEO Sanjay Jha, other executives continue to exit.Chief Information Officer Patty Morrison left the company last week. Morrison joined Motorola in 2005, during former CEO Edward Zander's tenure, from Office Depot Inc. She...

Advertising: Another dime in mobile music jukebox

Mobile music has been a one-hit wonder. But the big follow-up to the lucrative ringtone market may not be ringback tones, full-track downloads or any other single application. It may be advertising.Ringtone revenues in the United States will shrink in 2008, falling to $510...

I want my m-TV free

If there's one lesson to be gleaned from all the mobile TV trials in the last year or so, it's that users aren't very interested in paying for the stuff. In just the last couple of weeks: . Toshiba said it will shutter its Mobile...

Unlimited calling dribbles into no-contract crowd

Just like Ronald Reagan claimed with his trickle-down economic plan, wireless customers are beginning to see unlimited offerings filter down to cheaper price points and in some cases to offerings that do not require a cumbersome contract.Last week Tracfone Wireless Inc. subsidiary Net10 jumped...

VZW quietly rolls out Rev. A PTT service : Pair of phones target business users

Verizon Wireless has re-placed itself in the push-to-talk arena. As promised earlier this year, Verizon Wireless has released two new PTT phones, running on the carrier's CDMA2000 1x EV-DO Revision A network. The new devices are the Motorola Inc. Adventure V750 and the Casio...

Toshiba shuts down Japanese mobile TV effort

Toshiba Corp. said it will shut down its four-year-old, satellite-based digital multimedia broadcasting service, which it offers via its Mobile Broadcasting Corp. business unit.The company said the service has failed to attract sufficient customers to its paid service in the face of demand for...

Moto CEO: iPhone knockoff in the works

Motorola Inc. says its troubled handset business is improving and will be stronger by the end of the year, but CEO Gregory Brown isn't willing to say when he expects the unit to break even.Yet Brown insists the division, which lost $346 million in...

Handset help: Nuance looks to embed customer care assistance into handsets

Nuance Communications Inc. is targeting carriers - and plenty of others - with a mobile application designed to cut the cost of customer-care calls.Mobile Care is a client-server application designed to automatically launch when a user dials a customer-care call center for assistance. The...

Carrier partnership good business for The Wireless Zone

Editor's Note: In this monthly feature, RCR Wireless News talks to retailers across the country to get a first-hand view of what's hot in wireless.The Wireless Zone is a 20-year-old Verizon Wireless exclusive retailer. Originally named The Car Phone Store, (because 20 years ago,...

N2 recall throws Neonode off balance

Neonode Inc. needs patience from investors, the company's interim CEO wrote yesterday in an open letter.The fledgling, Swedish public company, known to many for its small, touchscreen N2 device - which debuted long before Apple Inc.'s iPhone - will miss its guidance from the...

Analyst Angle: Mobile content providers beware, the iPhone is a Trojan iHorse

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.The introduction of the iPhone was the most significant event in the 2007 wireless industry....