Yearly Archives: 2012

Millicom International to buy Paraguay’s Cablevisión for $150M

Millicom International Cellular, which operates in the Paraguay market under the Tigo brand name, signed a binding agreement to acquire Paraguay's cable pay-TV services...

Retailers sell out of Google Nexus 7

Many retailers sold out of Google's Nexus 7 tablet this weekend, while some customers who pre-ordered the device complained that their tablets hadn't arrived...

Will next iPhone come in multiple colors?

It looks like the iconic device will debut in white this fall, with a camera in the center of frame, facing front and back.

Sprint Nextel lights up LTE; now on equal footing?

Sprint Nextel finally entered the LTE race with the launch this morning of commercial services across portions of Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City and...

Report: Latin American fiber to grow at 44% CAGR through 2017

A recent survey from Pyramid Research found that fiber optic access in Latin America is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate...

Orange invests $150M for LTE launch in Dominican Republic

The next generation of telecommunications was launched by the Dominican Republic’s unit of Orange after a U.S.$150 million investment in 2012 to improve and...

$120M in pocket, Continental Towers to double Central American towers

Guatemala’s Continental Towers will receive an investment that will help it build and maintain mobile-phone towers across Central America, increasing mobile-phone coverage and reducing...

Worst of the Week: A simple evolution

I will admit that I get little charge from mobile devices. At this point in the evolutionary timeline of devices targeting the wireless communication space, it seems that I am stuck in the time of Cro-Magnon Phone.

Time Trippin’: Ericsson wins GPRS/EDGE contract; Chinese vendors jump on PalmOS … 9 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...

Samsung Galaxy S III comes to Verizon Wireless, U.S. Cellular

Samsung's flagship LTE smartphone, the Galaxy S III, is making its way to two more U.S. carriers. Verizon Wireless and U.S. Cellular join Sprint...

Haitian mobile money services reach 5 million transactions

While m-banking has not taken off in Brazil and other Latin American countries yet, in Haiti, Digicel’s mobile money service, named TchoTcho Mobile, and...

SAP teams up with UNE to offer enterprise mobile platform

Following its partnership with Chile’s Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (Entel) to offer mobile services, the German software company SAP announced it has teamed up with...

Tivit develops m-payment model similar to credit cards

A Brazilian company, controlled by the private equity investment group Apax Partners, is betting on a new business model—one which does not require end users...

Report: Telecom sector leads the way in domestic economic investments

While the domestic economy continues to struggle, a new report shows that the telecommunications space remains one of the biggest investors in attempting to...

Russia doles out LTE spectrum licenses

Russian telecommunications giant Mobile TeleSystems said it was one of four companies to have been allocated spectrum licenses designed for the rollout of LTE...

C Spire updates data-only plans

Regional operator C Spire Wireless announced new data plans focused on customers in need of mobile broadband access when outside of a Wi-Fi hot...

Brazil signs deal with Huawei to develop mobile Internet in 450 MHz band

China-based telecom equipment provdier Huawei signed a statement of commitment with Brazil's Ministry of Communications (Minicom) focused on the development of new technologies to...

Device Review: ZTE Optik – a tablet for teenagers

The ZTE Optik is one of the Android tablets that may bridge that gap between what parents will pay for and what teenagers want.

Viettel picks ZTE to deploy 2G/3G wireless network in Peru

Vietnam’s largest mobile operator Viettel, which is set to launch its operations in Peru next year, taped ZTE to deploy a 2G/3G wireless network...

Now your smartphone can tell you what to do

How much do you want your smartphone to know? As long as the information doesn't leave the phone, are you OK with your sidekick device knowing where you are, what you're doing, who you're doing it with? Qualcomm, designer of the chips that power most smartphones, has been right about a lot of technologies in wireless, and now it's betting on mobile devices with built-in intelligence.

SBA bumps senior notes offer to $800M

Perhaps showing the strength of the tower segment, SBA Communications raised the yield of a senior notes offering by $150 million just hours after...

Mobile and wireless advertising dominates MLB all-star game

While the National League was busy trouncing the American League last night, mobile and wireless companies were slugging it out between the innings.

Wireless carriers continue fight against wireline competitors

In a move bolstering the enhanced influence of wireless, regional carrier C Spire Wireless recently introduced a new offering targeting the waning wireline market,...

Analyst Angle: Central, Eastern European markets in structural impasse

We recently attended Capacity CEE 2012 in Prague, where regional wholesalers and their retail customers shared their perspectives on the market. There was, of course, a lot of fighting talk

Nearly half-million Colombians kept numbers when switching telecom operators

Almost half a million Colombian people chose to keep their numbers when switching telecom operators since the mobile number portability law was enacted in...
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