Yearly Archives: 2011

Wireless stocks rebound Monday

Some of last week's biggest losers in the wireless space rebounded this morning, as technology stocks led a broad rally on Wall Street. Shares...

India Telecom Tracker: Nov. 28, 2011

India's top telecom bureaucrat, R Chandrashekhar, Monday said the Telecom Commission expects to conclude discussions on TRAI's proposal on 2G spectrum pricing and M&As in the telecom sector within a week.

Airtel expands managed services partnership with Ericsson

India's Bharti Airtel, a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 19 countries across Asia and Africa, Monday expanded its managed services agreement with Ericsson for its India operations.

IBM, EBX reach tentative deal on broad partnership

Brazilian holding company EBX and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a partnership to support the growth strategies of...

Emerging markets to represent 30% of IBM’s global revenues by 2015

IBM’s growth market unit, which includes 152 emerging countries under China’s leadership, is expected to represent 30% of the company's revenues by 2015, an...

Brazilian telecom market to reach $97B by 2016, study says

Brazil's telecom services market is poised to grow to U.S. $97 billion in 2016 from $66 billion in 2010, driven mostly by the increase...

Infor to relocate headquarters to New York

Business application software provider Infor said it will relocate its headquarters from Alpharetta, Ga., to New York City by mid-2012. Infor CEO Charles Phillips...

MasterCard, Telefónica create m-payment joint venture

MasterCard and the Brazilian unit of Spain's Telefónica have created a joint venture to offer mobile financial solutions, or m-payment, for 65 million Vivo...

Reader Forum: Permission-based mobile marketing a win-win for consumers and brands

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum...

Reader Forum: 5 key steps to leveraging buying power among wireless telecom carrier partners

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum...

Study: Brazilian telecom investment to reach $35B by 2016

“The investments in the telecommunications market had not been so high since the Brazilian privatization in 1998,” said Renato Pasquini, Frost & Sullivan’s industry...

India Telecom Tracker: Nov. 25, 2011

A report by India's telecom regulator states that the combined earned revenue of the country's telecom operators was $9.6 billion at the end of Q2 (September 2011).

ITU points ICTs as the 21st century’s most valuable problem-solving tools

The information and communication technology (ICT) could move the climate change agenda forward, because technology offers practical means of cutting carbon emissions. This is...

TM Forum Management World Americas 2011: Video round up

RCR Wireless News attended the TM Forum Management World Americas 2011, the industry’s communications management conference, held in Orlando, Fla., earlier this month and...

Indian telecom equipment manufacturers write to PM, seek level playing field

The Indian Telecom Equipment Manufacturers Association (TEMA), in a letter to the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday, asked for a level playing field for the home grown telecom equipment manufactures.

Telefónica, RIM trial NFC in Spain and plan to launch services in 2012

Telefónica Digital and the BlackBerry's manufacturer Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) are conducting a pilot program on using near field communications (NFC)...

ATT withdraws FCC application on T-Mobile USA deal, to take $4B charge

AT&T Inc. and Deutsche Telekom AG are continuing to pursue the sale of latter's US wireless assets to the former.

Airtel launches mHealth initiative MediPhone

Bharti Airtel has joined hands with Healthfore (a division of Religare Technologies Ltd) and Fortis Hospitals as knowledge partner to launch MediPhone, a mobile...

HTC shares plunge on Q4 forecast cut, patent battle setback

Shares of Taiwan-based HTC Corporation reached the lowest level in 16 months after the company cut its Q4 revenue forecast, Bloomberg reported.

Reality Check: Annual review of the Indian telecom sector

The telecom sector over the last few months and year, has seen many controversies - most of them a result of public policy ambiguities.

Telecom needs critical infrastructure status under NTP

The Indian government should consider granting 'critical infrastructure' status to active and passive infrastructure in telecommunications and broadband sector, according to a report prepared by consultancy major KPMG and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), an Indian industry body.

Google to end Health, Wave, Desktop among others

As previously announced, Google is ending several services, such as its ambitious collaboration tool Wave, medical records engine Google Health, Twitter competitor Google Buzz,...

An aptitude for apps helps job seekers

With Americans spending more time using smartphone apps than browsing the Web, application developers often have their pick of job offers -- especially if...

Study: India mobile handset sales to reach 231M units in 2012

The sale of mobile devices in India is set to reach 231 million units in 2012, an increase of 8.5% compared with this year's total of 213 million units, according to a study by Gartner Inc.

Analyst Angle: Mobile broadband hits home

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...
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