2011

TRAI Chairman J.S. Sarma recently urged the telecom industry to increase the manufacturing of mobile equipment in India; a trial on India’s 2G spectrum scandal case will begin today in a lower court.

DALLAS — Sprint Nextel has kept wireless network observers busy recently thanks to its Network Vision initiative, which will see the carrier upgrade virtually all of its current cell sites, …

DALLAS — Verizon Wireless’ plans to expand LTE coverage into smaller markets under its LTE in Rural America program are nearly set to show some results. The program, which counts …

As a whole, India’s telecom sector collected $9.45 billion in gross revenue and $6.58 billion in adjusted gross revenue during this year’s second quarter, representing increases of 13.3% and 6.9%, respectively, over the same period last year, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India reported Wednesday.

Shares of networking equipment bellwether Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) are higher today after the company surpassed Wall Street’s forecasts for its fiscal first quarter. The better-than-expected report was a welcome bright …

Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay launched HSPA+ commercial networks during the first week of November, bringing Latin America’s total of HSPA networks in the region to 66, with 25 now upgraded …

The Indian telecom service business of Vodafone Group PLC has reported an adjusted operating loss of $15 million on total revenue of $3.53 billion in the first half of its 2011-12 financial year, despite a double-digit increase in revenue compared with the same period last year.

GENBAND is offering its customers a lot more than switches these days. The private Dallas-based company says it’s the nation’s leading maker of fixed switching solutions, but CEO Charlie Vogt …

DALLAS – Leap Wireless’ senior vice president of strategy, Bill Ingram, threw down the gauntlet on his rivals during a keynote address at this year’s LTE North America event in …

A special court Tuesday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to give Subramanian Swamy a copy of a file which contains all the correspondence between India’s Home Minister P Chidambaram and former Telecom Minister A Raja.

India’s Department of Telecommunications has asked Airtel, Vodafone, Aircel, BSNL, Idea, RCL and RTL to explain why action should not be taken against them for failing to submit auditors reports for 2009-10.

Latin American telecoms are gearing up to upgrade their infrastructure to support IPv6 as the supply of IPv4 addresses nears its end. For instance, mobile operator TIM has spent $740,000 on its networks in Brazil to prepare for the migration to the newer protocol.

Paraguay’s government has launched an ambitious National Telecommunications Plan aimed at increasing broadband access nationwide, among other goals, in part by calling for investment of $150 million a year until 2015.

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 hot topics in the wireless industry. Over the …

India will have 121 million Internet users by December 2011, according to the annual I-Cube joint report published Monday.

India’s Telecom and Information Technology minister says 4G services may be launched in the country as soon as the second half of next year.

With Brazil growing into prosperity, is the country of the future finally arriving? Yes, say experts, but Brazil must make more progress to become more competitive.

Brazil’s information and communications technology market could reach U.S. $400 billion by 2022, according to Brasscom, thanks to several major factors boosting the country’s telecom transformation.

A consortium including Mexico’s TV Azteca and Total Play has won a $640 million auction deal to provide a fiber-optic network in Colombia.

Brazil’s Oi Group says it has obtained a revolving credit facility worth U.S. $1 billion to reinforce its cash position in coming years.