Monthly Archives: March, 2012

Chinese operators continue strong growth, iPhone influence grows

Chinese wireless operators showed robust year-over-year growth in net customer additions, with all three of the country’s largest carriers showing increased demand for mobile,...

Using smartphones to track crime suspects

Stripped of their ability to track crime suspects using GPS devices without a warrant, federal agents may instead rely more heavily on mobile phones...

BlackBerry Partners Fund re-brands, re-fuels, opens Silicon Valley office

BlackBerry Partners Fund manager ATP Capital has re-branded itself as Relay Ventures and announced a new $150 million fund that will be focused in...

HP to merge printing, PC units

HP (NYSE: HPQ) announced the merger of its imaging and printing group (IPG) with its personal systems group (PSG) to create the printing and...

Copenhagen Metrosubway replaces its DAS system

The Copenhagen Metrosubway changed its distributed antenna system (DAS) to better meet the need for wireless coverage in stations and trains with an investment...

Cisco bets on unifying BYOD policies management

Cisco is using its expertise in networks and the software that runs them to help companies manage and unify their bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies. The...

Analyst Angle: What the new iPad says about the LTE market

Apple’s recent introduction of its newest iPad, simply named the “new iPad,” came with the usual fanfare associated with any new Apple product – a dose of excitement, a frenzy of buyers and a horde of analysis regarding why Apple included or didn’t include certain features and technologies.

Capturing the value in used phones

Each year Americans retire roughly 130 million mobile phones, and only one in ten is re-used. Operators and device makers see tremendous opportunity in...

RCA heads to Capitol Hill to talk spectrum, adds Cricket to ranks

Cricket Communications today became the latest wireless service provider to join RCA - the Competitive Carriers' Association. The move follows T-Mobile's decision last week...

Sprint Nextel stock under pressure

Sprint Nextel’s (S) stock received a hit of bad news this morning as an analyst warned of a potential bankruptcy in the carrier’s future....

Reality Check: Femtocells versus Wi-Fi hotspots – What is the best solution for Brazilian carriers?

Brazil’s recently passed Conditioned Access Service law, which was passed last September, or the new Brazilian pay-TV law seemed to diminish market rumors that femtocell adoption would be encouraged by Brazilian Regulation in 2011, due to a regulatory change on femtocell-related taxes.

Brazil mobile penetration surges past 126%

Brazil ended February with nearly 247.6 million active mobile lines, which represents a mobile teledensity of 126.45 lines per 100 inhabitants, according to a...

IBM Brazil set to invest $22.85M in public cloud offer

IBM Brazil said it has invested $22.85 million (R$40 million) to launch its first corporate public cloud in the country. According to José Luis...

Reality Check: Why Is Android vulnerable

Android devices are clearly the target of mobile malware with a 400% increase in Android infections in the latter part of 2011. So why is the Android platform so vulnerable?

Inside the new iPad

While thousands of consumers were busy enjoying their new iPads this weekend, analysts were busy ripping the device apart (literally) in an effort to...

CWA claims New Jersey victory

The Communications Workers of America last week applauded the New Jersey State Assembly for passing the “Save New Jersey Call Centers Jobs Act,” which...

NetZero unveils free mobile broadband offering … with limits

The domestic mobile broadband market took an interesting turn today as United Online launched its NetZero Wireless service offering consumers plans beginning at the...

Apple will share the wealth by paying $2.65/share dividend

Three days after its newest iPad finally made it to the hands of eager customers, another group of Apple affiliates is also getting what...

SAP eyes Latin America’s potential growth

When mature markets are saturated, emerging regions become great opportunities. In general, emerging countries tend to grow at higher rates due to lower market...

Latin America counts 32 HSPA+, 5 LTE networks

A recent report for 4G Americas showed Latin America has 72 commercial deployments of HSPA technology in 31 countries, and of those, 32 have...

Reader Forum: 10GigE delivers mobile backhaul scalability

The explosive growth of 3G and 4G applications has placed significant demands on mobile backhaul. Wireless service providers require 50 megabits to 100 Mb at large capacity sites today, growing to 300 Mb to 1 gigabit by 2015.

Reader Forum: The connections that wired a city for the Super Bowl

Most of us are familiar with “wireless triangulation,” which involves identifying the approximate location of a wireless device using IEEE 802.11 standards.

Everything I learned about the wireless infrastructure industry, I learned from State Wireless Association events

Well, almost everything. When it comes to network deployments by mobile network operators large and small, I learned almost everything I know by attending...

Apple, Facebook, Twitter hit with privacy lawsuit

While thousands of people around the world were lined up to buy the new iPad, and Apple's stock price (AAPL) was soaring to new...

Spotlight on: YouMail

Few would argue that there is nothing as un-sexy, yet more useful than voicemail. Sure, in this day and age of rampant text messaging...
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