Yearly Archives: 2012

RCR Wireless News Time Machine: 17 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...

Worst of the Week: All in

News this week that Leap Wireless would begin offering Apple’s iPhone devices was a significant escalation in the competitive landscapes across the already red-hot smartphone and prepaid markets.

Austin works to recruit tech talent

Austin is one of the bright spots in the national employment picture. While US unemployment ticked up to 8.2% last month and the economy...

Judge sides with Google in smartphone war against Oracle

Google (GOOG) won a key court victory yesterday in Northern California when Federal Judge William Alsup ruled that 37 of Oracle's Java APIs are...

Verizon to acquire Hughes; looks to bolster M2M

Verizon Communications is betting big on the machine-to-machine space, and by big we mean $612 million big. The telecom giant announced this morning that it...

All Things D: Mobile advertising firms in store for a big pay day

Reporting remotely on the All Things D conference has its advantages and disadvantages, with the primary drawback being the inability to feel the energy...

French MVNE Sisteer eyes Brazil’s MVNO market

Another player looking to grow in the Brazilian mobile virtual network operator market is the French mobile virtual network enabler Sisteer. The company was granted...

Huawei predicts Brazilian revenues will reach $5B by 2016

China's Huawei Technologies expects its Brazilian unit’s revenues to reach $5 billion by 2016, with its enterprise business making up $1.5 billion of the...

Telefónica prepares German IPO; could Latam units be next?

Telefónica is planning an initial public offering of its German O2 unit as a move to raise cash to pay-down debt and protect the...

Signals Telecom: Viettel looking for new investments

Vietnamese-owned Viettel, an operator with assets in Haiti and Peru, has shown interest in expanding into other Latin American markets. Viettel announced it will start...

WWLF offers free trade show trip to fellowship, scholarship recipients

The Women's Wireless Leadership Forum is now giving its fellowship and scholarship recipients and their mentors an all expenses paid trip to the annual...

Report finds no interference in lower 700 MHz channels in response to FCC NPRM

A handful of lower 700 MHz spectrum holders released a report showing that concerns regarding interference across the spectrum bands A-Block are unfounded and...

Leap to offer no-contract iPhone; commits $900M over 3 years

Leap Wireless joined the growing number of regional operators offering Apple’s iconic iPhone device, though as has been the case for much of its...

Apple iTV talk precedes Worldwide Developers’ Conference

For 4 straight years, Apple's Worldwide Developers' Conference was the launchpad for the company's newest iPhone, and this year the company may again try...

Here come the Intel smartphones

Intel (INTC) and China's Lenovo have launched an Android 2.3 smartphone powered by Intel's Atom Z2460 processor, and next week a similar Intel-powered smartphone...

MVNO Industry Summit Latam: Brazilian Tesa Telecom requests MVNO license to launch M2M services

The Brazilian business-to-business communication service provider TESA Telecom has requested a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) license from the regulatory agency Anatel, as it...

Colombian ETB eyes 1 million mobile subscribers over next 5 years

Last month, the Colombian operator Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Bogota (ETB) added mobile voice to its data MVNO offer; now ETB is aiming to reach 1...

MVNO Industry Summit Latam: MTV, Cemig look to enter Brazilian MVNO business

Although no mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) have launched in Brazil yet—due to the  bureaucracy in getting approvals, according to some sources—the country is...

MVNO Industry Summit Latam: Porto Seguro to launch MVNO during second half of 2012

The first Brazilian company to unveil plans to enter the mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) market, the insurance firm Porto Seguro is set to...

Webinar: RCR Post-TM Forum Webinar – Available for download

TMForum Management World is the preeminent gathering dedicated to Service Assurance and all things OSS/BSS. With a full slate of keynote perspectives,  and service...

Kaplan to step down as FCC wireless bureau chief, Milkman to retake position

The Federal Communications Commission’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau is set to change leadership as current chief Rick Kaplan will be replaced by former chief Ruth...

SK Telecom set for LTE spectrum aggregation

South Korean telecom giant SK Telecom said it has launched a multi carrier pilot service allowing the carrier to use its 800 MHz and...

RIM warns on Q1 loss

Following days of reports predicting job cuts, Research In Motion said it expects to report an operating loss for its first fiscal quarter ending...

Analyst Angle: TIM Brasil surpasses Vivo in São Paulo, but needs to ensure sustainable growth

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot...

MVNO Industry Summit Latam: MVNOs’ impact on MNOs: Are they afraid?

Among the key challenges for launching mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) across Latin America are the negotiations between MVNOs and mobile network operators (MNOs)...
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