Chile's department of telecommunications (Subtel) and the Chinese company Huawei have reached an agreement focused on knowledge transfer and cooperation to strengthen and improve expertise in mobile network technology, such as WCDMA RAN, HSPA, HSPA+ and LTE.
According to Subtel, the agreement was signed on...
June 20, 2012 - The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Huawei has joined Alcatel-Lucent in walking away from a BSNL contract bid that the Indian operator pegged at roughly $1 billion USD.
It was first reported yesterday that Alcatel-Lucent was walking away from the...
With investments plans of $130 million, Colombia’s public telecom operator UNE EPM launched LTE services yesterday in Bogota and Medellín. The company said its next steps include expanding the service to Cali, Barranquilla, Cartagena and Bucaramanga during the second half of the year, with...
China's Huawei is continuing its push into the consumer device market with the introduction of its first LTE handset in the United States, the Huawei Activa. MetroPCS will sell the Activa for $149 (with a mail-in rebate) and will not require a contract.
The Activa...
China's Huawei Technologies expects its Brazilian unit’s revenues to reach $5 billion by 2016, with its enterprise business making up $1.5 billion of the total. This would be a jump compared to its 2012 forecasted revenue for Brazil of $2 billion. Sales estimates were...
MIAMI – “Maybe you get the impression that we are doing too much, but we are not.” This was how Eli Gelman, Amdocs’ president and CEO, ended a question and answer session with analysts for the press at the InTouch event (read all our...
By now I've read most of the "what we expect to see" columns heading into this year's edition of CTIA Wireless. As expected, most of them are pretty bland, some are kinda whiny and a few are insightful.
With that in mind, rather than...
After growing 11.3% in 2011, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., is projecting top line growth of 15-20% in 2012. This is an aggressive estimate in light of the company’s carrier network division, which grew at just under 3% last year while representing 73% of the...
SHENZHEN, China – Ericsson reported first quarter revenues of $7.6 billion, a 4% decline year-over-year from the same period last year. The company also recorded net income of $1.31 billion driven largely on the strength of the proceeds from its divestiture of its Sony...
China's Huawei Technologies is signaling its intention to compete throughout the wireless ecosystem. Already the number two global provider of wireless infrastructure (behind Ericsson) and an up-and-comer in the handset market, Huawei is now expanding its chip business to include mobile processors. "In...
SHENZHEN, China – Huawei released its 2011 financial report in advance of its 9th Annual Global Analyst Summit being held this week at its Shenzhen headquarters. In advance of the gathering, Huawei announced top line sales revenue of $32.4 billion. Net income stood...
On consecutive days Nokia Siemens Networks and Ericsson announced deals to supply Softbank Mobile with LTE RAN equipment in support of the operator’s nationwide deployment which is expected to commence during the second half of 2012. In many ways, the consecutive announcements – which...
A couple of days before the Brazilian national telecom agency Anatel’s intended announcement of the final auction framework of the radio frequency in the 450 MHz, 2.5 GHz bands, mobile carrier TIM released a statement warning of risks in what the telecom operator calls...
While mobile broadband connections increased 26.2% worldwide in 2011 compared to the previous year, Brazil grew 99.3%. The country ended 2011 with 41.1 million mobile broadband connections, hitting 47.2 million connections at the end of February. Boosted by the growth in smartphone sales, Brazil's...
Alcatel-Lucent signed an agreement with Ecuadorian Corporacion Nacional de Telecomunicaciones to extend the telecom providers network nationwide.
Alcatel-Lucent said it will provide a range of applications focused on the deployment of a new 3G mobile broadband network in Ecuador, including the access (RAN -...
Compared to the big four telecom operators competing in the Brazilian market, Algar Telecom, a division of the Algar Group that operates the CTBC brand, is a much smaller and niche carrier.
However, history has shown Algar Telecom to be an innovative carrier. It...
Broadcom CEO Scott McGregor spoke with RCR Wireless News during the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas about Broadcom's Wi-Fi initiatives. While this was clearly one of the event’s top stories, McGregor’s comments about hiring and investing caught our attention as well.
"Last year...
Huawei recently announced that it will award OEM contracts totaling $6 billion to Qualcomm, Broadcom and Avago, three California-based leading communications technology companies.
Despite reports that Apple's share in the smartphone market of China has slipped in Q3 and Q4 of 2011, the company had an exceptional fourth quarter globally by selling 35.5 million smartphones to end users, a 121.4% increase year on year.
One of the biggest stories of 2012 will be whether anyone credibly challenges Apple and Google in mobile phones and the apps, content and services ecosystems that support them. Time is running out for Microsoft and RIM to convert consumers upgrading from featurephones; stealing subscribers away from iOS and Android will be an even more difficult task.
India's Telecom Commission has accepted the recommendations of industry regulator TRAI to relax mergers and acquisitions rules in the sector. The decision paves the way for spectrum-sharing among telecom operators. This will lead to consolidation in market with over a dozen telecom companies.
Several major global telecom vendors -- including Alcatel Lucent, Nokia Siemens Networks, Ericsson, Huawei Telecommunication and ZTE Telecom -- are among the bidders for the mobile equipment tender of state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.
Leap Wireless (LEAP) threw its hat into the LTE ring, announcing the commercial launch of service in the Tucson, Ariz., market. The carrier said the initial service offering covers more than 90% of its current CDMA-based footprint in that market, with further expansion to...
