Yearly Archives: 2012

Mysms app brings texts to any desktop

A new free app allows users to receive and answer texts from the comfort of their own computer keyboard — no matter what type...

ITU seeks $53B for inter-American connectivity, digital inclusion

At the Connect Americas Summit held by The International Telecomunication Union this week in Panama, leaders from Latin America and the Carribean called for...

Case study: Sunbelt Rentals taps Apple devices to empower sales force

Back in 2009, Sunbelt Rentals, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ashtead Group and one of the largest equipment rental companies in the United States, decided...

Fallout begins for Brazilian operators after sales suspension

Fallout has begun following the decision by Brazilian telecom regulator Anatel to suspend mobile line sales by a handful of carriers in some states due to...

Feature Report: LTE Deployment: Getting It Right the First Time

There is no doubt that the wireless space is in the midst of one of the greatest technological transformations since its inception. This is...

Verizon Wireless shows increased prepaid influence, ARPU growth

Verizon Wireless was the first domestic carrier to lay out what the second quarter held for wireless operators as it reported financial and operational...

Oracle to buy Skire, adds to cloud portfolio

Oracle announced plans to acquire substantially all of the assets of Skire, a provider of capital program management and facilities management applications available both...

Report: Cloud computing to transform M2M applications

The machine-to-machine market is poised for the biggest transformation in its 10-year history due to the adoption of cloud-based solutions for M2M applications, according...

Leadership changes at Yahoo, VMware, SAP, Red Hat

Changes in the leadership at big tech companies were announced this week. Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) appointed former Google executive Marissa Mayer as president, CEO and...

Brazil suspends some TIM, Oi and Claro sales due to customer complaints

Brazil's telecommunication regulator Anatel, announced yesterday that it has suspended sales in some states by three mobile phone companies —TIM, the Brazilian unit of Telecom...

Clearwire, China Mobile work on TD-LTE roaming standards

Clearwire continued closing ties with the world’s largest wireless operator around the TD-LTE standard, announcing today the signing of an agreement with China Mobile...

Is Samsung’s gain Broadcom’s loss?

Samsung is buying CSR's mobile connectivity chipset business, and some investors think that could be bad news for Broadcom.

AT&T Mobility rolls out shared data plans

That did not take long. Just weeks after Verizon Wireless rolled out its controversial shared data plans, rival and fast follower AT&T Mobility said it...

Number portability helps lower telecom prices in Chile

One of the direct consequences of number portability are the benefits it provides users. Since the adoption of number portability in Chile last January, the country’s...

RSA chairman: Mobile devices can carry a huge security risk

“Mobile computing offers new challenges, but they are less about infrastructure and more about people.  Mobile devices can carry a huge security risk,” said RSA executive...

Latin American wireless carriers join together to combat mobile device theft

Thirteen Latin American mobile operators have pledged to work together across the region to block the use of stolen devices, GSMA Latin America announced....

T-Mobile USA offers up international data plans; 500 Mb for $50

T-Mobile USA is taking advantage of its international roots to launch international mobile broadband roaming services. The plans provide 500 megabytes of non-throttled data access,...

Leap loses COO, tweaks data plans

Leap Wireless is set to lose its COO at the end of the month, with the no-contract wireless operator stating it has no plans...

Samsung expected to dominate Q2 smartphone sales

Analysts are predicting that Samsung again dominated the smartphone market in the second quarter. During the first quarter, the company surged ahead of Apple...

Execs predict how wireless will change in the next 5 years

We asked leaders Cisco, AT&T, Qualcomm, and Ruckus Wireless for their predictions.

Reality Check: How did Verizon do it?

On Thursday, Verizon Communications kicks off the telecommunications earnings season with their release expected before Wall Street opens (Google, another closely followed company, announces after the bell).

Reality Check: Multi-device support – How to manage the complexities

One of the great promises of mobile technology is the consumers’ ability to connect to the Internet or mobile Web via any number of different types of mobile devices (e.g., feature phones, smartphones, tablets,

Reality Check: Life on the ‘high C’s’ – Competitive differentiators for mobile operators

Today’s mobile network operators inhabit a similar atmosphere, faced with daily competition and a scramble to succeed. Theirs is a world of mobile networks, devices and services all evolving at an extremely

SAP announces $25M investment to expand labs in Latin America

The German software giant SAP has said more than once that Latin America is one of the key regions for the company’s growth. Yesterday, SAP...

Latam wireless carriers to take in nearly $150B from mobile services

Mobile broadband demand will push mobile service revenue to U.S $976 billion by 2016, according to the market research firm Infonetics Research. Telecom operators...
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