Azteca Comunicaciones Colombia tapped Alcatel-Lucent to help with the installation and operation of a national fiber optic telecommunications network designed to benefit people in...
Following recent investments in the machine-to-machine space, mobile advertising and in a fund to detect and finance new businesses, Spanish mobile phone operator Telefónica...
The M-PESA mobile money transfer and payments service took the world by surprise in 2007 when it debuted a successful business based on serving a previously underserved population: the rural poor.
Today’s intense wireless market is no place for the uncertain. Many providers know they aren’t ideally equipped for the current market, even if they’ve had long-term success.
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Columbus International Inc. announced that it has officially obtained approval to acquire TeleBarbados Inc. and enter the Barbados telecommunications market. With this approval, Columbus...
Wireless infrastructure trade association PCIA named Jonathan Adelstein CEO and president, replacing outgoing CEO and President Michael Fitch who announced plans to step down...
iPhone enthusiasts who awoke in the wee hours this morning were able to pre-order a new iPhone 5 for delivery next Friday. The rest of us may have to wait a little longer
Well, there you go. Apple did indeed launch a new device worthy of a new number and for the most part seemed to check all the boxes a dire consumer – and media/analyst – base desperate for something more than the 4S were clamoring for.
Increased smartphone and tablet penetration is enhancing social business usage as people can communicate from wherever they are, according to social business system provider...
Nokia Siemens Networks says it will sell its business support systems (BSS) unit as part of its ongoing effort to divest assets that are not part of its core mobile broadband network equipment business.
Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) signed an agreement with Telefonica to overhaul the international operator’s network management systems.
Telefonica operates in 25 countries, and this contract covers its top 15...
Big data has reached telecom operators, and wireless carriers have to look to adding intelligence in their networks, going beyond the traditional business intelligence...
Worldwide enterprises have been impacted by the bring-your-own-device trend. Of course, Apple's new devices are not the only cause, but the company has definitely...
Ellen Schwab, CEO of TelespreeAs operators and mobile virtual network operators deal with network capacity limitations and customers’ inexhaustible appetite for data, the ability...
U.K.-based joint venture Everything Everywhere, a combination of France Telecom’s Orange and Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile operations, turned on LTE services in a handful of...
Does an Apple a year keep the economy in gear? Probably not, but Apple's iPhones have definitely had a ripple effect on the world economy during the last five years.
The telecommunications world is not without the phenomenal power of marketing, especially if the models being promoted are located thousands of miles away. It is for this reason that in private,
