In some situations using a non-standard solution may have governmental, technical, process based, financial or other commercial competitive advantages. This route works great if...
Mexico’s telecommunications sector grew 14.8% during the second quarter of 2012 over the same period of 2011, according to data from the Telecommunications Sector...
Looking to enhance its social business vertical, IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced the acquisition of Kenexa Corporation (NYSE: KNXA) yesterday. The companies have entered into...
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...
Brightstar is buying San Francisco's Let'sTalk in a move to help carriers add value to their device offerings. The wireless distribution and logistics provider...
According to Dell’Oro Group, Voice over Long Term Evolution projects generated more than $200 million in the past four quarters, as wireless operators have...
Winners include Apple shareholders, software developers, and anyone associated with the Windows phone. The losers are you and me, plus the U.S. carriers, Samsung and Google.
4G and LTE technologies will only partially deliver the efficiencies required to handle the necessary network capacity. Service providers are looking towards the use of small cells to help alleviate the capacity issue.
Though mobile users have embraced traditional messaging services, today’s converging communication environment offers a wide range of alternatives. In many ways, subscriber loyalty is shifting from the mobile network operator
Bolivian mobile network operator NuevaTel PCS, which offers services under the Viva brand, announced it has invested about U.S.$100 million over the last two...
The largest telecommunications company in Chile, Entel (Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones S.A), announced that it will enter the residential fixed service business in Chile,...
The Brazilian insurance company Porto Seguro has started mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) services, providing machine-to-machine connections (M2M) to track 2,000 vehicles owned by...
The PBX market is down slightly on a global basis in the second quarter of 2012, both sequentially and year-over-year, and enterprises are generally...
Mobile messaging app WhatsApp says it processed more than 10 billion messages in one day this week. That's more than one message for every person on earth. On one app.
Verizon Wireless has gotten the final green light it needs to proceed with its acquisition of spectrum from seven different companies, including four cable companies.
PCIA - The Wireless Infrastructure Association announced today that FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski will deliver the keynote address at this fall's Wireless Infrastructure Show...
Sony Corp. is taking control of its mobile business. The consumer electronics giant says it will axe 1,000 jobs and move its mobile business unit from Sweden to Japan.
In the near future, small cells, which encompass femtocells, picocells and microcells, will cost less than smartphones, thus providing a wide avenue to support mobile...
IT vendors must create vertical offers, building them specifically for different segments, increasing their understanding of each sector's issues to better meet customers’ requirements,...
An Israeli business newspaper is reporting that Qualcomm (QCOM) is set to acquire Israel's DesignArt Networks for between $120 and $140 million. The deal...
The Association of Public Safety Communications Professionals is meeting in Minneapolis this week, taking stock of a series of offerings and announcements from vendors...
