Yearly Archives: 2012

CTIA 2012: Leap remains focused on smartphones, eyes on LTE

NEW ORLEANS – Leap Wireless’ remains focused on its smartphone future, with plans to rollout several new models this year targeting both the high-end...

Time to buy Nokia stock?

Shares of Nokia (NOK) tumbled 5% this morning after analyst Andy Perkins of France's Societe Generale recommended that investors in the Finnish company get...

LightSquared on life support?

LightSquared’s grasp on solvency appears to be slipping as the latest round of published reports indicated that the firm was on the verge of...

Analyst Angle (CTIA 2012 Special Edition): Operators look to respond to challenging market dynamics with new sources of differentiation and aggressive posturing

Last week carriers, original equipment manufacturers and wireless ecosystem participants of all shapes and sizes descended on New Orleans for the annual CTIA show. And in a nice quirk of timing

White Paper: Beyond Policy – A New Era in Real-Time Charging

Beyond Policy - A New Era in Real-Time Charging: Why prevent a subscriber from accessing a desired capability that is readily available at minimal...

Reader Forum: All-indoor microwave – LTE’s best backhaul solution for North American operators

There’s a lot of buzz in the microwave industry about the trend toward all-outdoor radios, but those who haven’t been through LTE deployments may be surprised to learn that based on our experience deploying LTE backhaul

Henkel prepares global iPad deployment

Smartphones have been used in corporate environments for quite a while and, since the advent of Apple’s iPad, tablets have also flooded the enterprise...

Brazil’s Oi uses app to help offload 3G data traffic; targets 1M hotspots

Brazilian telecom operator Oi has gone a step further in its 3G data offload strategy. The company unveiled an Android application to improve the...

LTE phones are enabled by new generation of SIM cards

Samsung and HTC both unveiled new LTE smartphones this week at CTIA 2012 in New Orleans. The Samsung Focus 2 will be a $49...

Worst of the Week: 1+1=0

It seems that if you can find a couple of carriers that perhaps are not doing so well, the rumor mill automatically suggests that you put those two together in some sort of sorry dating game episode. (Is there really any other kind?)

RIM wins Department of Defense endorsement

BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion says its BlackBerry 7 smartphones have been approved for use by the U.S. Department of Defense, proof that despite its...

Claro, Movistar, Entel present proposals for Chilean LTE tender

America Movil’s Chilean unit Claro, Telefonica’s local wireless operations Movistar, and Chilean Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (Entel) have each presented proposals for the 2.6...

First KPN, then Simple Mobile: Why does America Movil seek to go abroad?

After making a play to increase its share in European operator KPN, America Movil said its U.S.-based subsidiary Tracfone Wireless has entered into an...

Mexico leads Latin American SMS market, totaling $601M in Q311 sales

Mexico has the largest short message service market in Latin America and is the second largest mobile market in Latin America and the Caribbean,...

Samsung adds cloud content with mSpot deal

Samsung Electronics took a step into Apple's backyard this week, buying Palo Alto-based mSpot to add a digital content hub with cloud storage to...

T-Mobile USA posts 187,000 net adds, boosted by prepaid gains

Capitalizing on a recent blog post, T-Mobile USA rode robust prepaid growth to post positive net customer addition growth for the first quarter. That...

Update: Latin America’s LTE roll out

A total of 72 operators have launched commercial LTE services around the world, according to an update to the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA)'s Evolution...

After delays, Nextel Chile seeks 5-12% market share with 3G launch

After delaying the deployment of its 3G network, Nextel Chile (owned by U.S.-based NII Holdings, Inc.) launched 3G voice and data mobile service May...

Feature report: Ready for the cloud, increased mobile and IT consumerization?

Increased mobility, cloud computing, and IT consumerization are the main enterprise trends that companies around the world are basing their strategies on. RCR Wireless...

Report: Verizon Wireless tops in data speeds consistency; AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile USA follow

While the battle for domestic LTE supremacy dominates advertising, real world testing, or at least that done by RootMetrics, shows there is a definitive...

Merger rumor du jour: T-Mobile USA, MetroPCS in talks

The merger marry-go-round speculation stopped on T-Mobile USA and MetroPCS (PCS) this week as the two operators were reported to be in talks to...

CTIA 2012: Sprint Nextel reinforces LTE plans; looks to trade DAS for picocells

NEW ORLEANS – Sprint Nextel has been hammered from all sides for poor decision making in the past, but you have to give this...

CTIA 2012: Consumers want easy Wi-Fi access, but that’s easier said than done

NEW ORLEANS - In a study released by the WiFi Alliance, 90% of participants said that they would stick with their current mobile service...

CTIA 2012: Mozilla CEO touts HTML 5 in keynote

Gary Kovacs, CEO of the company that makes the Mozilla Firefox web browser, encouraged his audience today to support HTML 5 as a way...

CTIA 2012: Verizon Wireless remains focused on LTE enhancements; VoLTE, small cells on deck

NEW ORLEANS – Verizon Wireless’ domination of the domestic, and for that matter worldwide, LTE market, was built on trials and tribulations. For a...
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