Monthly Archives: October, 2012

PCIA 2012: Policy indecision stunts wireless growth

ORLANDO, Fla. – Echoing sentiment from last week’s Competitive Carriers Association event in Las Vegas, infrastructure players are looking for clarity and certainty when...

T-Mobile USA and MetroPCS in merger talks

Deutsche Telekom says it is in talks to merge its T-Mobile USA unit with regional carrier MetroPCS (PCS). MetroPCS, based near Dallas, has about...

Oracle to help put Nokia on the map

Nokia is licensing its map application to corporate customers through an alliance with Oracle.

AT&T and HTC launch three new LTE smartphones

It's not all about the iPhone 5 for AT&T - the nation's second largest carrier says it has two new Android LTE smartphones and a Windows 8 phone on the way.

Will Google surpass Microsoft to become second-largest tech company?

A milestone for financial markets: at the close of trading in New York on Monday, Google (GOOG) was the world’s second-largest technology company based...

Venezuelan regulator assigns more spectrum bands to Movistar, Movilnet and Digicel

Looking to increase operators’ network capacity, Venezuelan telecom regulator Conatel has assigned additional spectrum to the state-run Movilnet, to Telefónica subsidiary Movistar and to...

Reality Check: Fiber-to-the-antenna installation best practices for the tower hand

Traditional coaxial-based systems on cell towers are rapidly being replaced with fiber-to-the-antenna architectures. FTTA can help mobile service providers significantly increase the capacity of their radio access networks.

Reality Check: Navigating turbulent times of network demand and cost

There’s no getting around the fact that the incredible success of on-demand applications like iTunes, Facebook and Hulu are creating network capacity and operational headaches for communications carriers.

Editorial webinar: The evolution of wireless infrastructure across Latin America

The roll out of LTE and the need for expansion and improvements of 3G networks comprise the biggest challenge for the telecom industry across...

LightSquared tries again

LightSquared is nothing if not determined. The bankrupt satellite operator is back with another plan to launch a nationwide LTE network and sell bandwidth to carriers.

FreedomPop and Clearwire launch free WiMAX service

FreedomPop has finally launched its much-anticipated wireless service - access is free but users will have to buy some hardware to get on the network.

FCC proposes incentive spectrum auction of TV airwaves

The Federal Communications Commission has put U.S. spectrum policy on a path to the world’s first incentive spectrum auction to repurpose broadcast television spectrum...

Reader Forum: LTE and the need for nanosecond-accurate network timing

Because LTE has been introduced in a somewhat staggered fashion and the true “4G” as defined by the International Telecommunications Union is yet to come in the form of LTE-Advanced,

Reader Forum: Top-up, remote payments, mobile banking – not NFC – are the real opportunity for m-commerce

Most conversations today surrounding mobile payment solutions are overly focused on the opportunities promised by near field communications technology and how this functionality will transform

Brazil to regulate femtocell use

Brazil has not yet adopted a regulation for the use of femtocells across the country, but both the minister of communications, Paulo Bernardo, and...

Oracle: more carriers should integrate customers relationship channels

Most telecom operators are missing an opportunity to integrate their multiple customer relationship channels in order to provide a better customer experience, according to...

Reader Forum: Bringing order to the chaos in the mobile marketplace

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers, we have created this forum for those...
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