Monthly Archives: January, 2012

In 2011, North American, Asian operators accounted for 90% of total cloud computing investment

When it comes to investing in the cloud, European carriers are not keeping pace with operators in North America and Asia, according to new...

Samsung nipped at Apple’s heels in Q4 smartphone sales

Samsung Electronics was neck-and-neck with Apple in the fourth quarter race for first place in the white-hot smartphone market. Estimates based on Samsung's fourth...

IBM Rolling Out BYOD Management Service

IBM is opening up beta availability of a new service called  IBM Endpoint Manager for Mobile Devices.  Built on the Tivoli Big Fix technology that...

Analysts say Nokia is on track with Lumia

The world's largest mobile phone maker put an end today to weeks of speculation today about sales of its Lumia smartphones, and what those...

Verizon expands its global enterprise network platform

Verizon has expanded its global enterprise network platform, enabling multinational corporations to take advantage of Verizon's Private IP service in six additional African countries, and Bahrain and Qatar in the Middle East.

Calls tariffs to rise if govt decides to charge for extra spectrum: Mittal

The Indian consumers will have to be prepared for higher tariffs if the government goes ahead with the proposal to charge extra 2G spectrum held by telecom companies, says Bharti Airtel's Sunil Mittal.

Motorola Solutions’ revenues up driven by government and enterprise segments

“Our record fourth quarter capped a very strong and exciting year for our company,” said Greg Brown, chairman and CEO of Motorola Solutions, Inc....

iPad manufacturing in Brazil? Foxconn gets tax breaks

Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn Technology Co. Ltd., which manufactures the Apple iPad, has received federal tax benefits for producing tablets in Brazil. The manufacturer was...

UNE EPM, Digicel Haiti named new CEOs

Two telecom operators have named new CEOs. After announcing an interim president, Colombian public carrier UNE EPM Telecomunicaciones SA named Marc Eichmann as its...

Preparing Children for the Internet of Things (Cartoon)

Grandma and grandpa grew up without jet flight and TV, much less mobile internet and sensor-loaded fitness devices. Children of today are likely to...

Ericsson CFO says LTE rollouts hurt margins

Shares of L.M. Ericsson are down more than 15% after the Swedish telecom equipment and services company disappointed investors with its fourth quarter earnings...

Tata Communications announces Q3 results

Tata Communications' consolidated gross revenues were at $719.7 million in the quarter ended December 31, 2011 as against $673.7 million in the same quarter last year, according to the company's results for FY2012.

Mexican regulators do not disclose decision on Televisa’s Iusacell purchase; newspaper says they rejected it

The Mexican Federal Competition Commission (Comisión Federal de Competencia - CFC or Cofeco) decision on broadcaster Televisa's plan to acquire half of cell-phone company...

Sony Ericsson sales down 16% year-on-year

Citing intense competition, unfavorable macroeconomic conditions and the effects of a natural disaster in Thailand, the president and CEO of Sony Ericsson Bert Nordberg...

Brazilian Minicom budget increased to US $3B

Brazilian Communication Ministry (Minicom)'s annual budget for 2012 has been pushed up to US $3 billion (R$ 5.49 billion). The amount includes the budget...

Limits on machine to machine and person to machine messages removed

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Wednesday exempted the machine to machine and person to machine messages from the limit of 200 SMS per day per SIM.

Mobile data increase to boost Syniverse’s business in Latin America

With the increase of mobile data subscribers in emerging market, a growing number of telecom operators are seeking inform customers about their usage levels....

Analyst Angle: Embracing or fighting off OTT messaging? Lessons from Latam

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...

Analyst Angle: Why small is the next big thing for mobile networks

The case for deploying smaller cell configurations – such as picocells, microcells and femtocells – to supplement traditional macro-cell-network architectures, both for LTE and existing 3G networks, is becoming more compelling as traditional macro cells will soon not be able to cope with traffic demand in urban areas.

Feature Report: Chilean Wireless Market Set for Continued Growth

One of the most developed countries in Latin America, Chile faces very similar telecom challenges to Brazil, Colombia and Mexico. Its mobile penetration surpassed...

Apple shares surge on strong earnings

Apple shares are up more than 6% this morning after a blockbuster quarterly earnings announcement yesterday afternoon. The company said strong sales of the...

Feature Report: Colombia – Mobile opportunities abound

Forget about the Colombia you may know from the 1990s. The current scenario is different and much more business friendly than in the past....

India mobile phone shipments near 166M through Nov.

A new report by CyberMedia Research states that the overall Indian mobile handsets market recorded sales of 15.4 million units during November 2011, taking the total handset shipments during the first eleven months of calendar year 2011 to nearly 166 million units.

Smartphone sales impact Verizon Wireless’ Q4

Device subsidies associated with the launch of Apple’s latest iPhone at the beginning of the fourth quarter had a pronounced impact at Verizon Communications...

Apple outspends rivals on chips

Apple's appetite for chips is shaking up the semiconductor industry. Research giant Gartner, Inc. says Apple is now spending more on chips than any...
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