Having a few days off over the past week allowed me to get in some much needed afternoon television watching. While flipping through the multitude of television choices this modern age provides and finding nothing to actually watch, I couldn’t help but keep thinking of all the time and effort the wireless industry put in this year regarding AT&T’s attempt to acquire T-Mobile USA.
The number of social media users in India will reach 45 million in 2012, up from about 30 million in 2010, according to market research firm Research and Markets.
Verizon Wireless (VZ) is warning customers that beginning Jan. 15 they may begin incurring a $2 “convenience fee” when making a one-time payment online...
India's telecom sector has seen an increase of 17% investment in 2010-11 over the previous fiscal year, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India said in its annual report. Capital employed in the sector increased from $53.5 billion in 2009-10 to nearly $63 billion in 2010-11.
While referring to media reports that nearly 3,000 mobile towers operating in India's capital of Delhi were set up without the required approvals, the parliamentary standing committee on information technology expressed serious doubts over the efficacy of the telecom authority's vigilance and monitoring mechanism.
The Costa Rican unit of Spanish telecom giant Telefónica filed a complaint Dec. 20 with Costa Rican telecom regulator Sutel against state-owned operator Instituto...
Colombian telecommunications regulator CRC published a set of resolutions to foster the digital ecosystem, including so-called net neutrality, the promotion of content and applications, infrastructure, user protections. They aim to encourage the growth of Vive Digital Plan, which is to bring broadband to 8.8 million homes.
GSM telephony, a popular communication technology spanning most countries and connecting more than 4 billion devices, is vulnerable to widespread attack, a German security expert said today.
AT&T (T) closed on its $1.925 billion acquisition of 700 MHz spectrum licenses covering 300 million potential customers from Qualcomm (QCOM).
The deal gained regulatory...
Hailing the country's telecom sector as an international success story, the Indian government said that with an overall subscriber base of 914.6 million and teledensity of 76%, the sector continues to grow from strength to strength.
Third-generation networks in Latin America are evolving, and the needs of wireless carriers are evolving along with them. One of the major trends in...
Nearly 2.2 million patients worldwide were using a home monitoring service based on equipment with integrated connectivity at the end of 2011, according to...
Micromax, an Indian mobile brand, in its endeavor to further firm up its leadership position in the market, Tuesday announced appointment of key positions to further strengthen its management team in India.
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.
Non-computer devices (including mobile phones, tablets and other connected devices) accounted for an average of 2.6% of all web browsing activity across ten Latin...
