Yearly Archives: 2012

Claro, Entel, Movistar win Chilean LTE licenses; 1 year to deploy

Chile's Secretary of Telecommunications (Subtel) announced that carriers paid about $12.26 million to buy licenses to deploy LTE across the country. Subtel made 120...

Colombia’s Emcali obtains pay-TV license

The municipal-owned company Empresas Municipales de Cali (Emcali) has been granted the concession and license to provide subscription TV service. With this license, Emcali...

North American vendors see potential sales from Brazil’s carrier crisis

MIAMI — During last week’s NetEvents Americas Press & Summit, two North American vendors said that the recent decision by Brazilian telecom regulator Anatel to suspend...

Vodafone stamps authority on Cable & Wireless leadership

Vodafone has moved into the integration process of its recent $1.7 billion acquisition of Cable & Wireless, announcing today plans to de-list the company...

Telefonica partners with Ruckus on small cell deployment in London

Small cell technology continues to make inroads into carrier deployments as Ruckus Wireless announced today that Telefonica’s O2 operations in the United Kingdom has...

Where the jobs are now

Wireless companies are hiring in Detroit, the Pacific Northwest, and the Atlantic Seaboard.

Reader Forum: Mobile OS vendors continue to invest in mobile payments

In the last several weeks, two leading mobile operating system vendors moved into the mobile payments space. Apple announced its new mobile wallet Passbook that will debut with iOS 6 this fall.

Reader Forum: BYOD: The Y2K of networking?

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...

Telecom Italia expects Brazil situation to normalize by next week

While TIM Brasil has been facing a challenging time since Brazilian telecom regulator Anatel suspended the company from selling mobile services in 19 states, Franco Bernabè, the...

América Móvil’s net income fell 46% in Q2

After Spain-based Telefónica released its financial results and canceled dividends, its biggest competitor in the Latin American market, América Móvil, (AMX) reported a 45.5% drop in second-quarter...

Feature report: MVNOs hit the road in Latin America

Although mobile virtual network operators were launched in Latin America about four years ago, they have become hot topics again since Brazil released new...

MEF claims next Ethernet generation with CE 2.0

MIAMI — “After the classical network and the Internet, we need a third network that combines the best of both PSTN and the Internet,”...

Feature Report: MVNOs Hit The Road in Latin America

Although mobile virtual network operators were launched in Latin America about four years ago, they have become hot topics again since Brazil released new...

Feature report: MVNOs Hit the Road in Latin America (En Espanol)

Aunque operadores móviles virtuales han sido lanzados en Latinoamérica hace cerca de cuatro años, ellos se han vuelto un tema candente nuevamente desde que...

Worst of the Week: Apple’s Aztek

While I have given up trying to explain Sprint Nextel, it appears that maybe, just maybe, people are getting wise to Apple’s gambit of rolling out improved devices every 12 months or so.

Clearwire’s Q2 results show future can’t come soon enough

Clearwire reported second quarter financial results highlighted by drastic cost-cutting measures as the carrier continues to de-emphasize its current WiMAX operations in favor of...

Time Trippin’: MSS a good investment; Screw capacity, digital great for competition … 16 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...

High hopes for an SDN revolution

MIAMI – Software-defined networking (SDN) has been around for a while, but its future was as a hot topic during this week’s NetEvents Americas...

VMware moves toward SDN; acquires Nicira for $1.05 billion

Virtualization and cloud infrastructure provider VMware (NYSE: VMW), announced this week that it will pay $1.05 billion in cash plus approximately $210 million in assumed...

Report: NFC retail payments market to exceed $180 billion by 2017

As near field communications becomes standard, the NFC retail payments market is expected to exceed $180 billion globally by 2017, more than a seven-fold increase...

Investors high on MetroPCS Q2 results, stock surges 37%

MetroPCS witnessed its stock price surge Thursday morning after the carrier announced second quarter results showing a continued focus on operating metrics, though a...

Analysts bullish on Sprint Nextel’s Q2; iPhone a strong impact

Sprint Nextel’s second quarter results show that the nation’s No. 3 carrier could be laying the foundation for a payoff from its controversial and...

Telefónica releases financial results early, cancels dividends

One day ahead of schedule, Spanish telecom giant Telefónica reported its financial results for the second quarter and the first half of 2012. The company...

Peru (again) postpones spectrum auction; now set for mid-August

Peru's ProInversión, which is an agency tasked with the promotion of private investments in the country, has again postponed the spectrum auction for the...

Report: iOS best mobile ad revenue platform

The latest “State of Mobile Advertising” report from Opera Software found that business and finance generate more revenue per impression than any other publishing...
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