Yearly Archives: 2012

Virgin Mobile to launch MVNOs in Colombia, Brazil over next 18 months

Virgin Mobile Latin America (VMLA) expects to launch mobile virtual network operators (MVNO) in Colombia and Brazil over the next 18 months, according to Jeffery...

Mexico’s telecom sector grows 11.9%; mobile lines reach 95.6M

Mexico’s telecommunications sector grew 11.9% during the first quarter of 2012 over the same period of 2011, according to data from the Telecommunications Sector...

Sprint Nextel to begin iDEN turn down mid-2013; scores $1B credit facility

Sprint Nextel’s Network Vision program added some important numbers today as the carrier announced the date it would terminate service across its iDEN network...

Gluecon 2012: Developers hash over multitude of issues

BROOMFIELD, Colo. – It's a good thing a 15-hour buffer separated Day 1 and Day 2 of Gluecon, as many attendees noted brain rest...

Samsung launches Galaxy S III across Europe, Middle East

BERLIN – Germans take their days off very seriously, but in the early hours of May 29, just after a Monday holiday when most...

Pink slips expected at RIM

Share of Research In Motion (RIMM) are up this morning on reports that the Canadian company is preparing to lay off thousands of employees....

Emerging markets to boost MVNO growth

Mobile virtual network operator launches peaked in 2006 across the United States and Europe. Currently, that segemnts growth perspectives come from countries across Latin...

Reality Check: Three prime market opportunities for CE companies

After studying a multitude of different data findings from our recently released global consumer electronics usage survey of 19 consumer electronic devices, Accenture asked a simple question:

Reality Check: How a next-gen OSS turns wireless’ complexity into an opportunity

A dozen years ago, practically every presentation at a mobile conference had a slide forecasting wireless data growth taking off like a hockey stick. Today, another chart is making the rounds,

Edgewater Wireless deepens Latin American footprint with new distribution agreement

Latin America has become a target for many companies because of the potential wireless growth driven mostly by an increase in data traffic, plus the...

Reality Check: The BYOD trend hits Latin America

So what kind of smartphone do you have? Is it an Apple iPhone, an Android, or a BlackBerry? As 3G and even 4G networks are deployed across Latin America, smartphone adoption is soaring. And once they experience the power, versatility and sheer fun of smartphones, people can get almost addicted to them.

RCR Wireless News, Signals Telecom News annnounce collaboration agreement

United States-based RCR Wireless News and Signals Telecom News, a Spanish language, Latin American telecommunication news portal with a presence in Argentina, Spain and...

Tribold signs global agreement with Alcatel-Lucent for EPM

Tribold and Alcatel-Lucent have signed a global OEM agreement under which Alcatel-Lucent can resell Tribold EPM (enterprise product management) as either a stand-alone product...

Would consumers ‘like’ a Facebook phone?

For the third time in as many years, reports of a Facebook smartphone have surfaced, and this time they are accompanied by quotes from...

Report: CIOs should prepare for second wave of apps

Are you prepared for the second wave of apps? A new Forrester Research report aims to answer this question. "We believe the market is...

TM Forum 2012 Wrap-up: Over analyzing the importance of Analytics in CEM?

The benefit of a long plane ride home with no diversions other than sitting through a playlist of hot-poker-to-the-eye "rom-coms" that I already watched...

RCR Wireless News Time Machine: 15 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: Black gold from thin air

Just about every conversation I had at the recent CTIA event in New Orleans either involved the words “spectrum crunch” or revolved around that perceived issue. Whether it was carriers, device makers or infrastructure companies,

Android dominates Q1 smartphone sales

Almost 60% of all smartphones sold in the first quarter were Android-powered, according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. Apple's iOS phones accounted...

Nvidia’s LTE modem validated on AT&T Mobility’s network

Tablet makers now have a new chipset option when configuring devices for AT&T Mobility. Nvidia (NVDA) says its Icera 410 LTE multimode data modem...

Telefónica, MasterCard launch m-payment in Argentina

Wanda, the mobile money joint venture between Telefónica and MasterCard, launched in Argentina, eyeing the millions of wireless users who don't have a bank...

Colombia postpones LTE auction to September

Colombia’s Ministry of Information Technology and Communications (Mintic) and the Spectrum Agency (ANE) has announced that the start of the auction for spectrum in...

NII unveils solution to connect Nextel customers

NII Holdings (NIHD), which operates under the Nextel brand in Latin America, launched a solution designed to allow customers to connect with each other and...

OfficeDrop eyes carriers, device makers with cloud storage solution

Focusing on wireless carriers and device manufacturers as customers, OfficeDrop launched a custom small business online cloud storage solution, designed to allow technology companies...

Gluecon 2012: How does one summarize a Twitter firehose like the first day of Gluecon?

BROOMFIELD, Colo. – A crowd of more than 450 packed the ballroom at the Omni Resort in Broomfield, Colo., Wednesday morning for the third...
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