Monthly Archives: May, 2011

TM Forum: Singapore's Starhub talks value-added services

DUBLIN – With 144% mobile penetration and 195% household broadband penetration, no one can argue that Singapore isn't one of the main hubs of...

Roaming rates are ridiculous Starhub’s hero CEO rails

Starhub’s CEO Neil Montefiore became a bit of a hero at TM Forum’s Management World 2011 this week when he declared that roaming charges were outrageous and that the GSMA should do something about it.

Rumor: Sony to buy Nokia and incorporate into Aiwa brand?

Here at RCR Wireless we often find ourselves listening in on some especially interesting rumors and saucy speculation. While we can't absolutely vouch for their accuracy, some are still interesting enough to explore in terms of possibility, and the following is one that meets that mark.

TM Forum: Convergys launches CRM powered by Microsoft

DUBLIN – One of the buzz words at the TM Forum 2011 has been “customer experience,” with companies looking towards ways to improve the...

TM Forum: Deutsche Telekom divulges secrets of becoming an agile service provider

DUBLIN – An auditorium full of executives and mobile entrepreneurs came to hear Deutsche Telekom's secret to “Becoming an Agile Service Provider” in a...

Can Google Wallet succeed?

Google is holding a "partners event" today in the Big Apple, and its been all-but confirmed that the search giant will be launching its NFC payment system, the imaginatively-named Google Wallet , along with some retail partners.

WSJ: Google to India-Lay off the Regulations

Wall Street Journal WSJ's Amol Sharma reports from New Delhi on Google taking issue with India's Internet regulations. Google claims the strict rules could hamper...

India rejects Dutch govt's plea to settle Vodafone tax case out of court

Economic Times | May 25, 2011 | Deepshikha Sikarwar & Joji Thomas Phillip NEW DELHI: India has rejected the Dutch government's plea for an out-of-court settlement...

India rejects Dutch govt’s plea to settle Vodafone tax case out of court

Economic Times | May 25, 2011 | Deepshikha Sikarwar & Joji Thomas Phillip NEW DELHI: India has rejected the Dutch government's plea for an out-of-court settlement...

LTE LatAm: Huawei Booth and Demo

RCR Wireless gets a demo from Huawei and the LTE Latin America Conference in Brazil 2011.

Tycoon Clash Means Less Money for Mexico Billionaires as Consumers Benefit

Bloomberg | May 24, 2011 | Crayton Harrison An escalating confrontation between Carlos Slim and two fellow billionaires is driving prices lower for phone, Internet...

Broadband Fixed Internet Connections Grew 14.1 Percent in Peru During 2010, According to Cisco Barometer

Cisco | May 25, 2011 | Press Release Peru Reaches a Penetration Rate of 3.47 Percent as Mobile Broadband Connections Continue to Rise LIMA, Peru, May...

BSNL may court private equity funds for tower unit

Business Standard | May 24, 2011 | Mansi Taneja Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) is planning to rope in private equity investors, including telecom companies, to...

Cable & Wireless worldwide appoints Andrew Morawski to lead Americas Business

Cable & Wireless | May 24, 2011 | Press Release New York, May 24 2011: Cable&Wireless Worldwide announced its full year results for fiscal year...

Cable & Wireless worldwide appoints Andrew Morawski to lead Americas Business

Cable & Wireless | May 24, 2011 | Press Release New York, May 24 2011: Cable&Wireless Worldwide announced its full year results for fiscal year...

InfoSonics Launches New Economical PDA-like i277 2G Touch Screen Phone in Latin America

InfoSonics | May 25, 2011 | Press Release SAN DIEGO, May 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- InfoSonics Corporation (NASDAQ: IFON) today announced the launch of its newverykool® i277 handset and...

Glue Conference: Open APIs growing and growing up

BROOMFIELD, Colo. – Growth, simplicity and money are driving open application programmable interfaces, said John Musser of Programmable Web. Open APIs are becoming increasingly...

YouTube and AdMob celebrate milestones, huge numbers abound

Eponymous video streaming website YouTube is today celebrating its sixth birthday, while mobile advertising platform AdMob is marking one year as a Google property. In separate blog posts today both the YouTube and AdMob teams shared some impressive numbers showing how the two services continue to grow.

Austin’s main airport to offer free Wi-Fi

Austin's main artery for long-distance travel, Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (ABIA), finally hammered out a revised deal with operator Boingo Wireless to allow for free...

Austin's main airport to offer free Wi-Fi

Austin's main artery for long-distance travel, Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (ABIA), finally hammered out a revised deal with operator Boingo Wireless to allow for free...

AT&T names first five LTE markets

AT&T Mobility (T) plans to bring Long Term Evolution technology to its first five markets this summer. CTO John Donovan said Dallas, Houston, Chicago,...

Capital Markets: Qualcomm acquires Atheros; Tweetdeck officially joins the flock; and more

Fuse Powered Inc. announced the completion of a $2 million seed funding round, with contributions from BlackBerry Partners Fund and NFQ Ventures. The investment...

Where is Arizona going with the FCC buildout?

PHOENIX — Arizona is making an online interactive broadband map using federal funding. In addition to creating its own state coverage map, like all...

Glue Conference: Operators are not the enemy, A-Lu exec says

BROOMFIELD, Colo.—Service providers are not the enemy of application developers, despite a preconceived notion that they are, Alcatel-Lucent's Laura Merling told a crowd of...

TM Forum: IBM expands platform for communications service providers

DUBLIN – IBM Corp. (IBM) has introduced a new set of software and services for communications service providers. The enhancements to the IBM Service...
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