Monthly Archives: December, 2012

Brazil’s NET aims to reach 10,000 Wi-Fi hotspots in 2013

Brazilian NET Serviços, owned by América Móvil, plans to increase its Wi-Fi hotspots from its current 2,400 in 12 cities to 10,000 in 15 cities over...

Oi launches IPTV services

Brazilian carrier Oi has launched IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) and broadband services with speeds up to 200 Mbps based on its fiber to the...

Clearwire accepts $2.2B Sprint Nextel offer

Well, that didn’t take long. Having a weekend to sleep on it, Clearwire today announced it would accept Sprint Nextel’s offer to acquire the remaining...

Reader Forum: Transforming customer care in the wireless industry through ‘big data’

A 2011 U.S. government study determined 32% of homes no longer used landlines – instead preferring to use a mobile phone as their home contact number. With this trend gaining momentum, wireless service providers,

Reader Forum: Mobile financial services – Open for business anytime soon?

The leading mobile operating systems, Google Android and Apple iOS, are increasingly taking on the role of financial services platforms. Android and iOS smartphones and tablets host applications

Argentina’s Arsat to launch mobile services

Argentina’s president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced the entry of the Argentine state-run telecom firm, Arsat, into the mobile telephony segment as an MVNO...

Avvasi CEO: Carriers can monetize mobile video services

With video streaming on the rise, how can telecom operators monetize it? This was the theme of a video interview with Mate Prgin, president...

Chips for China: Broadcom, Qualcomm target Chinese smartphone makers

While designers in Silicon Valley and Helsinki may spend months refining the fit and finish of a new smartphone, Chinese manufacturers are taking mobile...

Anritsu intro’s PIM Master series and a signal generator for public safety

Anritsu has slashed the size of its Passive Intermodulation (PIM) tester, making it battery-powered and portable so that technicians can more easily transport the...

Ruckus Wireless combines Wi-Fi, small cell in one device

Ruckus Wireless (RKUS) has made a name for itself promoting "Wi-Fi for everyone," and now the newly public company is expanding to small cells...

Home Wi-Fi routers become public hotspots (video)

When British Telecom needed more bandwidth to support the data demands of the 2012 Summer Olympics, the company turned to its customers. Using software...

Worst of the Week: Come on Clearwire, one more season

All I can hope for is that Clearwire makes the right decision and says no to this offer. Not because it’s not a good offer (heck, offer me $2.1 billion and see what I will do), but because it would put to end what has become one of the most compelling (sad) soap operas (reality shows) going in the wireless space.

Nextel quietly launches 3G data plans in Brazil

With little fanfare, NII Holdings' Brazilian operations, Nextel Brazil, has started to offer 3G data plans in a handful of markets across the country....

Time Trippin’: The ‘4G’ race begins … 4 years ago this week

Editor’s Note: The RCR Wireless News Time Machine is a way to take advantage of our extensive history in covering the wireless space to...

NII Holdings taps Shindler to replace Dussek as interim CEO

Another change has come to the c-level team at NII Holdings, which operates under the Nextel brand in Latin America. The company announced that...

Claro first mobile carrier in Brazil to launch LTE

Claro, the Brazilian unit of América Móvil, became the first carrier to launch LTE services in the country. Claro announced that LTE services are now available...

ThreatLabZ: Android catching up to Apple’s iOS in enterprise use

Enterprise adoption of Google’s Android operating system is quickly catching up to Apple’s iOS, according to ThreatLabZ, the research arm of cloud security company...

FCC posts NPRM on use of 3.5 GHz spectrum for small cells

The small cell market is set for a boost from the Federal Communications Commission, which today unveiled a notice of proposed rulemaking to create...

Editorial Webinar: Capital Markets Update

Despite record low interest rates, raising capital has been a challenge throughout the wireless ecosystem. But some small companies are getting funded, some mid-sized...

Feature Report: RCR Wireless News Capital Markets Update 2012

The sluggish recovery and the threat of the fiscal cliff make the capital markets uncertain territory, but the wireless industry has fared better than...

ERF Wireless: Serving the oil and gas vertical with rural wireless

Cloud computing has worked its way into even the most down-to-earth of industries – oil and gas exploration and production – and driven the...

Security the focus of mobile management solutions

Software that can secure the myriad mobile devices coming into the workplace is getting a lot of attention from corporate IT departments, and solutions...

Sprint Nextel puts $2.1B offer for Clearwire on the table

After much speculation, Sprint Nextel officially put in a bid to acquire the remaining minority interest in Clearwire that it does not already own....

Mobilist: Carriers should embrace mobile cloud; emerging markets may be drivers

Carriers should jump into mobile cloud to build their portfolios, allowing them to take over a number of business processes and move them into...

Ecuador’s CNT EP receives LTE approval, spectrum

Ecuador’s national telecommunications regulator, Conatel, has given the public company CNT EP (Ecuadorian Corporacion Nacional de Telecomunicaciones) approval to provide technology services using the...
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