2011

Nokia Siemens Networks said Wednesday that it will eliminate almost 23% of its workforce in a major restructuring aimed at streamlining operations and concentrating on the mobile network infrastructure and …

Ronaldo Miranda, Advanced Micro Devices’ (NYSE: AMD) president for Brazil and Latin America’s vice president since March, is celebrating. “We started 2011 with 7% of market share in laptops and consumer verticals in Brazil, and now we have 20%, which is higher than our goal of 15%,” he said during a news conference Tuesday.

The Brazilian carrier Vivo, owned by Spanish Telefónica, has had its commercial launch of the first HSPA+ network in Brazil. The telecom operator said Tuesday that it has deployed the …

Carlos Slim’s América Móvil and AT&T Inc., the largest U.S. telecommunications company by revenue, signed a memorandum of understanding to deliver enhanced communication services to multinational companies throughout Latin America and to so-called multilatinas around the world.

Brazilian carrier Oi (TNE) is expanding its business in neighboring Paraguay, where the Paraguayan National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel) has authorized Oi to begin operations in the east of the country …

Top executives of three leading telecom companies in India have now written to the Indian Prime Minister over the issue of the controversial 3G roaming deals.

China’s three largest wireless operators continued to show broad growth in October, posting a combined 12 million net customer additions during the month. The bulk of the country’s growth continued …

AT&T’s (T) attempt to acquire T-Mobile USA appears to have hit another hurdle today as the Federal Communications Commission has reportedly asked for a hearing on the deal. The decision …

A new report from Juniper Research predicts that while LTE uptake over the next five years will be swift, the technology will have only a limited global reach and account …

Traffic in app stores could be almost as heavy as foot traffic in retail stores this Friday, as some of the nation’s major retailers roll out apps meant to bring …

Technology upgrades and spectrum management are a fact of life for mobile operators that are having to constantly update networks and rearrange spectrum assets in order to continuing serving growing …

In a recent draft of security policy, the Department of Telecom asks telecom operators in India to play a role in ensuring the security of the country’s telecom networks.

The sentencing of a former telecom minster last week on bribery charges continues the troubled recent history of India’s telecom agency and sector. Of the nine telecom ministers since 1996, four have faced serious corruption charges.

The number of broadband connections in Brazil reached 53.9 million in October, an increase of 68.4% compared with the same month last year, as the rate of broadband activations to more than one new access every second, Telebrasil reported.

Spanish telecom Telefónica has signed an agreement with China Unicom to use each other’s networks to expand their coverage. The agreement builds on a previous deal and extends and reinforces Telefónica’s footprint by sharing the use of points of presence on their international networks.

Automobiles in the near future will be controlled with smartphone apps,  will “phone home” in the event of an emergency and will be driven through a world that’s wired from …

As the holiday shopping season gets under way this week, merchants can expect to see more transactions completed using wireless devices. A survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers found that 45% of …

China Mobile (CHL) continued to accumulate customers at a breakneck pace, reporting it added more than 5.3 million net customers in October. The growth pushed the world’s largest wireless operator’s …

India’s GSM operators added 7.12 million new subscribers in the month of October, an increase of 1.15% from the previous month, bringing the country’s GSM subscriber base to 625.41 million.

Although LTE trials are under way in 11 countries, there are currently no commercial launches of LTE anywhere in Latin America.

A recent study of the Brazilian Association of Information Technology and Communication (Brasscom) shows what was already known: Brazil lacks skilled workers. The country will need an additional 750,000 IT professionals to keep pace with increasing demand, Brasscom says.