Yearly Archives: 2012

Telefónica adds M2M to its global smart cities solution

The Spanish telecom group Telefónica announced that it has integrated its machine-to-machine (M2M) services for smart cities into a global solution. The company said the...

Webinar: Optimizing Small Cells for Coverage and Capacity: An End-to-End Approach

While the wireless industry is well aligned on small cells being the next step in network evolution, the urgency, path, methods and overall choice...

Experienced wireless investors focus on infrastructure

While venture capitalists are pouring money into promising mobile apps, some of the more seasoned investors in the mobile ecosystem are focusing on wireless...

Nexus 4 and Android 4.2 hit US market

After selling out within hours of its UK launch, Google's no-contract Nexus 4 hits the Google Play store in the US today. The GSM/HSPA+...

To boost corporate mobility, IBM adds services, software to mobile suite

Earlier this year, the CEO of IBM's Brazilian unit said that more time is needed to understand the impact of mobile devices on corporate business,...

Reality Check: It’s a wired, wired world – Q3/12 edition

Recently, we described three trends: --Lower interest rates are allowing wireline companies (both incumbents and challengers) to strengthen their balance sheets.

Colombian telecom operators complain about Claro’s wireless monopoly

Seven telecom operators have joined together to ask the Colombian government to make the wireless market more competitive. Avantel, Azteca, DirecTV, ETB, Movistar, Une...

Reality Check: Few test mobile applications

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the...

Verizon Wireless to fork over $8.5B to parents

Verizon Wireless’ continued success is set to again benefit its parent companies as the domestic carrier said it plans to make an $8.5 billion...

RIM to unveil BlackBerry 10 OS, pair of devices Jan. 30

Research In Motion said the long awaited launch of its BlackBerry 10 operating system will happen Jan. 30, at an event where it will...

Cloud communications provider J2 Global to buy Ziff-Davis

Cloud-based communications provider J2 Global (JCOM) is buying Ziff-Davis Publishing for $167 million in a bid to add digital content to its messaging and...

Apple settles with HTC, iPhone 5S rumors start

Apple and HTC are finished fighting in court. The two companies say they have a confidential settlement that will allow each of them to...

Reader Forum: M2M shouldn’t be DIY

It takes the right combination of hardware, software, networks and services to monitor a loved one with Alzheimer’s, track mobile workers, pinpoint an offender’s whereabouts, maintain visibility

Reader Forum: Hetnet deployment considerations – More on the 4Ps

The appetite for wireless services and applications is driving hundreds of billions of dollars of revenue annually for operators. Building an infrastructure that meets the capacity and reliability

Chilean Falabella to launch MVNO using Entel networks

The Chilean retail company Falabella is set to launch mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) services using the network infrastructure of  Chilean mobile operator Entel....

Globys: How carriers can take advantage of big data

How can carriers take advantage of big data? The answer, according to Olly Downs, senior vice president of data sciences at Globys, is to...

GenBand offers cash prizes to developers

GENBAND knows its servers are only as valuable as the software that runs on them, and that's why it's offering cash prizes to developers who create innovative apps for its A2 Communications Server.

Worst of the Week: The truth about Q3

For one reason or another, I have been a bit off over the past couple of weeks in covering quarterly earnings for domestic wireless operators. This has me in a bit of a fog

Report: DAS to remain vibrant competitor in small cell space

The battle for small cell supremacy is expected to shape the wireless infrastructure for years to come as operators decide on how to densify...

Feature Report: Managed Chaos: Diameter to Add Order Across Mobile Broadband Networks

With consumers increasingly tying themselves to mobile networks through smartphones and the hundreds of thousands of applications those devices can support, carriers are in...

Analysts like Microsoft Messenger replacement for Skype

Microsoft announced earlier this week that the company is dropping its "Messenger" product and replacing it with Skype, which it acquired last year, for...

Carriers share lessons from Sandy

AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless say that 99% of their cell sites impacted by Hurricane Sandy are back up and running, thanks to crews...

Time Trippin’: Sprint Nextel/Clearwire on the rocks; iPhone hits Europe … 5 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...

PromonLogicalis buys Cibercall in Colombia and Ecuador, eyeing Andean expansion

Colombia is becoming a very interesting country for investors. With the Vive Digital plan, the government is looking to boost Internet penetration in Colombia...

Telefónica’s M2M strategy in Brazil targets 2M accesses by end of 2013

Vivo, the Brazilian unit of the Spanish group Telefónica, announced its machine-to-machine strategy for the local market, aiming to double its  accesses from 1...
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