Mobile Minute

Sprint and T-Mobile US helped boost Nokia Networks’ financial results last quarter. Nokia said today that its fourth-quarter North American sales increased 95% over last year. Nokia is an LTE vendor …

RCR Mobile Minute Verizon job cuts reported About 1,000 Verizon Communications employees will get buyout offers for the holidays, according to a report from Bloomberg. The report cites an unnamed …

Alcatel-Lucent, currently ranked as the leading vendor of small cell equipment, has a new partnership that will put more small cells on urban “street furniture,” such as bus stops, benches …

RF engineers are learning that experience with DAS can open doors when it comes to finding a new position. Twenty-seven percent of the RF engineering jobs posted on telecomcareers.net include …

Mobile Minute: Verizon Wireless has reiterated its plan to launch voice-over-LTE late this year. Speaking at the Oppenheimer Technology, Internet & Communications Conference, Verizon CFO Fran Shammo said that VoLTE …

Mobile Minute: Microsoft’s Nokia is apparently taking a high-low strategy when it comes to mobile phones. The company is NOT exiting the basic mobile phone business, despite last month’s announcement …

Mobile Minute: Keeping data flowing in even in the most crowded environments is an important goal for Japan’s SoftBank Mobile, and to that end the company has partnered with Ericsson. …

Mobile Minute: In another sign that the smartphone patent wars may be moving towards a ceasefire, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has ruled that parts of one of Apple’s …

Mobile Minute: Sprint is not the only company making executive changes this week as Microsoft said yesterday that is has hired Qualcomm’s Peggy Johnson to lead business development. At Qualcomm, …

The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. Crown Castle sees strong carrier spending, adds small cells Tower giant Crown Castle International (CCI) reported second quarter revenues of $916.3 million, …

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. Microsoft launches low-end Lumia Windows may be the language of corporate America, but Microsoft clearly wants to translate it to …

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. “Pay-as-you-go” has worked well for T-Mobile US when it comes to its service offerings for customers, and the carrier says …

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. AT&T and América Móvil may not be parting ways after all. The U.S. carrier is still planning to sell its …