2012

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

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 out of the stock at this …

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 filing for bankruptcy protection. According to …

Beyond Policy – A New Era in Real-Time Charging: Why prevent a subscriber from accessing a desired capability that is readily available at minimal cost to the operator? In “Beyond …

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 environment. Sometimes, adoption is driven by …

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

Samsung and HTC both unveiled new LTE smartphones this week at CTIA 2012 in New Orleans. The Samsung Focus 2 will be a $49 Windows phone offered by AT&T and …

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?)

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 sliding market share RIM still wins …

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 GHz frequency band tender, which will …

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 agreement to acquire mobile virtual network …

Mexico has the largest short message service market in Latin America and is the second largest mobile market in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to the third edition of …

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 its mobile devices. Samsung says it …

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 growth however, was not shared on …

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 to LTE report. These include 25 …

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 9, thereby seeking a 5-12% share …

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

While the battle for domestic LTE supremacy dominates advertising, real world testing, or at least that done by RootMetrics, shows there is a definitive tiering of the current mobile data …

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 combine their network operations that would …

NEW ORLEANS – Sprint Nextel has been hammered from all sides for poor decision making in the past, but you have to give this beleaguered carrier credit for at least …

NEW ORLEANS – In a study released by the WiFi Alliance, 90% of participants said that they would stick with their current mobile service provider, while 70% said that they …

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

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