Telefonica’s O2 operations in the United Kingdom unveiled plans for a LTE trial to begin this month across London. The nine-month trial will include...
While taking steps toward a financial restructuring, GTL Infrastructure Ltd., the pioneer in shared passive telecom infrastructure in India, saw its net loss increase 28.9% in its fiscal second quarter compared with the same period last year, even as consolidated revenue from operations rose 35%, the company said.
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Smartphones were the fastest-growing handset category across Latin America, with sales of 31 million units sold and U.S. $6 billion in revenue, continuing the trend of the region's increasing share of the global market, according to a report by consulting firm Pyramid Research.
Atos, a European information technology services company and the worldwide IT partner for next year's Olympic Games in London, and the Chinese management software solutions Ufida International Holdings have invested U.S. $7.8 million to create Yunano, a joint venture to offer cloud services.
Bharti Airtel said that it has implemented a customer experience management platform in its network to optimize and enrich user experience of its customers. The operator has chosen Nokia Siemens Networks to provide and deploy its CEM platform and services across India. The CEM platform will maintain and store real-time experience metrics for every subscriber in the network enabling Bharti Airtel to proactively cater to customer needs.
The FCC has announced that wireless customers will begin receiving real-time alerts next year if they are about to go over their monthly voice, data or text-message limits. While this is a typical practice for some operators, making it mandatory is a favorable development for both U.S. carriers and their consumers – and, based on carriers’ widespread acceptance of the new standards, they are well aware of this fact.
As data consumption continues to skyrocket, service providers are coming to terms with the fact that a once voice-centric market is rapidly turning into a data-centric one. Consumption of data on mobile networks is being driven by a perfect storm of ubiquitous mobile broadband, smart connected devices and new data services. While the growth in data consumption may be exponential, the growth in data revenues is somewhat less stellar. Service providers around the globe are tackling the very real issues of how to best monetize data services while ensuring the best quality of experience.
The second quarter saw quite some momentum in the telecom space with companies restructuring and rejiggering its top management. From major restructuring of its...
Rajeev Chandrasekhar, a member of India's Parliament, has raised several issues for improving the transparency of the country's Department of Telecom, including suggested revisions to rules on spectrum allocation and M&A activity.
The combined desktop and mobile PC market in India grew 13% in the third quarter, driven by a number of festivals, technology research firm Gartner Inc. reported.
Soaring demand for data is overwhelming some networks, according to University of Texas professor Jeff Andrews, director of UT's Wireless Networking and Communications Group....
M2M is more than a buzzword -- for some companies, machine-to-machine is a business strategy. Technology veteran Richard Schwartz founded Austin's Macheen Inc. on...
Bangalore-based OnMobile Global Ltd., one of India's largest value-added services companies, has launched its KaraoPhone application with Jet Multimedia Morocco, a leading provider in all-in-one products and services for all media in Morocco.
Latin America and mobile data were the main drivers of Telefónica Group's revenue during the first nine months of 2011. Telefónica Latinoamérica reported an 8.1% rise in revenue compared with the same period last year, accounting for 46% of the group total; mobile data revenue rose 19.6%.
In an interview with RCR Wireless News, Eduardo Levy, executive director of telecom union SindiTelebrasil, evaluates the effect of Rio de Janeiro's new rules on towers on Brazil's telecom landscape.
Qualcomm is looking to take advantage of Latin America’s relatively modest 3G penetration rates to boost its influence and revenues in the region.
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Revised recommendations by India's telecom regulator on spectrum management and licensing framework are expected to facilitate consolidation in the industry, credit rating agency ICRA said.
Global Tower Partners, a U.S.-based provider of outsourced antenna site facilities, announced the purchase of 250 towers from Centennial Towers CR, SRL. The towers...
