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 provider Cablevisión for $150 million. Follow …
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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 yet. The only retailer we found …
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It looks like the iconic device will debut in white this fall, with a camera in the center of frame, facing front and back.
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Sprint Nextel finally entered the LTE race with the launch this morning of commercial services across portions of Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City and San Antonio. Future launches will have …
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A recent survey from Pyramid Research found that fiber optic access in Latin America is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 44% in the 2012-2017 …
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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 double its network. The company launched …
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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 communication costs. IFC, a member of …
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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.
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Time Trippin’: Ericsson wins GPRS/EDGE contract; Chinese vendors jump on PalmOS … 9 years ago this week
by Dan Meyerby Dan MeyerEditor’s Note: The RCR Wireless News Time Machine is a way to take advantage of our extensive history in covering the wireless space to fire up the DeLorean and take …
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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 Nextel, AT&T Mobility and T-Mobile USA …
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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 Voila’s T-Cash have reached 5 million …
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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 the Colombian UNE EPM. The carrier …
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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 to access their data plan each …
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While the domestic economy continues to struggle, a new report shows that the telecommunications space remains one of the biggest investors in attempting to boost the nation’s fortunes. The Progressive …
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Russian telecommunications giant Mobile TeleSystems said it was one of four companies to have been allocated spectrum licenses designed for the rollout of LTE services across the country. MTS noted …
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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 spot. The cellular component of the …
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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 support broadband services using the 450 …
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The ZTE Optik is one of the Android tablets that may bridge that gap between what parents will pay for and what teenagers want.
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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 across its Peru operations. According to …
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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.
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Perhaps showing the strength of the tower segment, SBA Communications raised the yield of a senior notes offering by $150 million just hours after the initial plans were announced. The …
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While the National League was busy trouncing the American League last night, mobile and wireless companies were slugging it out between the innings.
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In a move bolstering the enhanced influence of wireless, regional carrier C Spire Wireless recently introduced a new offering targeting the waning wireline market, a move that analysts expect to …
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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
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Almost half a million Colombian people chose to keep their numbers when switching telecom operators since the mobile number portability law was enacted in the country. According to the Communications …