Monthly Archives: July, 2012

VMware moves toward SDN; acquires Nicira for $1.05 billion

Virtualization and cloud infrastructure provider VMware (NYSE: VMW), announced this week that it will pay $1.05 billion in cash plus approximately $210 million in assumed...

Report: NFC retail payments market to exceed $180 billion by 2017

As near field communications becomes standard, the NFC retail payments market is expected to exceed $180 billion globally by 2017, more than a seven-fold increase...

Investors high on MetroPCS Q2 results, stock surges 37%

MetroPCS witnessed its stock price surge Thursday morning after the carrier announced second quarter results showing a continued focus on operating metrics, though a...

Analysts bullish on Sprint Nextel’s Q2; iPhone a strong impact

Sprint Nextel’s second quarter results show that the nation’s No. 3 carrier could be laying the foundation for a payoff from its controversial and...

Telefónica releases financial results early, cancels dividends

One day ahead of schedule, Spanish telecom giant Telefónica reported its financial results for the second quarter and the first half of 2012. The company...

Peru (again) postpones spectrum auction; now set for mid-August

Peru's ProInversión, which is an agency tasked with the promotion of private investments in the country, has again postponed the spectrum auction for the...

Report: iOS best mobile ad revenue platform

The latest “State of Mobile Advertising” report from Opera Software found that business and finance generate more revenue per impression than any other publishing...

Device Review: HTC One S

The HTC Android phones are expected to be among the first to get Android 4.1 when Google's latest version of its operating system is...

Was Q2 a high point for AT&T Mobility?

Domestic wireless carriers are living through a strange time when slower sales of high-revenue generating devices is a good thing, at least to the...

TIM, Claro present action plans; TIM to invest $4.7 billion by 2014

After a Brazilian court denied TIM Brasil’s request to overturn telecom regulator Anatel's suspension of its mobile service sales, the local unit of mobile phone...

Peru to start national fiber optic backbone project

Peru’s telecommunications investment agency, Osiptel, has proposed a measure to promote broadband development and the construction of a national fiber optic backbone. It aims...

Analyst Angle: Anatel is customers’ hero for punishing operators, but needs to go further

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...

Apple misses estimates on all fronts except iPad sales

Apple missed analysts' forecasts in every area except iPad sales, which came in above expectations.

Smartphone users track family members

Americans are very comfortable using smartphones to track the whereabouts of family members, and some are willing to track family members who don't know they are being monitored.

PricewaterhouseCoopers finds network decommission plans in flux

The current onslaught of network upgrades has been a financial boon for the infrastructure market as the latest technology has required most operators to...

AT&T Mobility Q2: Slowdown in upgrades bolsters margins; 3.7M iPhones sold

AT&T Mobility customers seems to be holding their breathes for a possible new device launch later this year, as the carrier reported a slowdown...

Freescale, TI and Cavium lead race to integrate processors for LTE microcells

Freescale, Cavium and Texas Instruments are building integrated base station processors capable of supporting up to 1,200 users.

Bidding on UK’s LTE spectrum auction pushed to early 2013

The much-anticipated LTE spectrum auction in the United Kingdom is scheduled to begin this year, but there won't be any bidding until 2013. The United...

Reality Check: Short-term services driving long-term changes to OSS/BSS integration

Historically, the primary focus for business support systems platforms has been the commercial side of delivering services, whereas the focus for operations support systems platforms has been on the technical control of services.

Report: iOS best platform for mobile ads

The latest "State of Mobile Advertising" report from Opera Software found that business and finance generate more revenue per impression than any other publishing...

Brazilian carriers’ action plans could impact telecom vendors

The three Brazilian telecom operators suspended from selling new mobile services by telecom regulator Anatel have to present action plans within 30 days detailing...

Webinar: Backhaul Capacity Solutions

We’re all facing an industry crisis with backhaul capacity.  In this webinar you’ll learn about the entire backhaul solution, including antennas, mounts, installation, braided...

Verizon Wireless sets bar for Q2; iPhone looms

Verizon Wireless released strong second quarter financial results last week setting expectations for what its rivals will need to shoot for. Obviously, those competing...

Report: DAS nodes to double by 2017

A new report predicts that the distributed antenna system market will ship 2.5 million DAS nodes in 2017, or nearly doubling its current rate...

5 things Apple’s earnings report may tell us about the mobile economy

When Apple reports earnings on Tuesday investors will be hoping for another blockbuster quarter from the Cupertino cash machine. Stakeholders throughout the mobile economy will be reading Tuesday's report closely whether or not they own a slice of Apple. Here are some of the questions they'll hope to answer:
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