Yearly Archives: 2012

New Android security threat surfaces

Security experts are warning Android users about a potential new malware strain that they say has already infected more than 1,600 smartphones. DKFBootKit piggybacks...

Telefonica to merge Movistar, Colombia Telecomunicaciones

Spain's Telefónica(NYSE: TEF) said Monday it has reached an agreement with Colombia's government to merge fixed-line operator Colombia Telecomunicaciones (Coltel) with mobile operator Telefonica...

White Paper: Discover Best Practices for a Successful Cloud Service

Cloud services have rapidly moved from buzzword status to mainstream offering, but implementing a successful cloud service involves more than just buying some storage/computing...

Digicel Group buys Haitian mobile operator Voilà

Digicel Group announced it has acquired Haitian mobile operator Voilà from U.S.-based Trilogy International Partners for an undisclosed sum. The transaction closed last Friday. At...

Brazil’s Oi’s profit fell 80% in Q4 as restructuring expenses increased

Brazilian carrier Oi has reported a drop of 80% in its 2011 fourth-quarter profit. According to its financial report, the telecom operator’s net income was...

Oracle buys ClearTrial to bolster Health Sciences suite

Oracle has entered into an agreement to acquire ClearTrial, which develops cloud-based clinical trial operations applications. The deal is expected to close in the...

Reader Forum: What women want

At this year’s Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain, one wondered sometimes if large sections of our industry have equally lost touch with what consumers want.

RCA Spring 2012: Carriers look to FCC to act this year

ORLANDO, Fla. – Spectrum scarcity, data roaming and interoperability are three of the biggest key issues facing the US wireless industry, and carriers are...

RCA Spring 2012: Cricket sees surge in smartphone sales

ORLANDO, Fla. – Cricket Communications CEO Doug Hutcheson says his company has traditionally served the younger, lower income mobile subscribers, but even among these...

RIM on the edge

Another quarter of disappointing results for Canadian Blackberry-maker Research in Motion (RIMM) has the company's new CEO finally considering what his predecessors would not:...

Virgin Mobile secures U.S. $26.5 million to launch MVNO in Chile

Virgin Mobile Latin America (VMLA) has secured U.S. $26.5 million in new equity funding to develop its regional business and launch mobile virtual network...

Claro Brazil shortens its sales cycle

América Móvil’s Claro Brazil has reduced the time it takes to add a new customer into the telecom operators’ base from 8-10 days to...

Eyeing BYOD potential market, IBM bets on endpoint management for mobile devices

Mobility is a great enterprise tool for speeding up the decision-making process. Whether employees bring their own devices to the company (BYOD) or firms...

RCA Spring 2012: Sprint Nextel outlines planned investment in 4G, 3G

ORLANDO, Fla. – Bob Azzi, SVP of Networks at Sprint Nextel, outlined the carrier's network vision program today at the RCA Spring Expo. Azzi...

RCA Spring 2012: LightSquared chairman vows to continue fight

ORLANDO, Fla. – Saying that "too many devices and too little spectrum" have put the wireless industry "on track to run out of network...

Changing telecom industry’s new challenges: monetization, security and becoming “smart pipe”

What the telecom industry has not changed in the past ten years, it is changing now – and in a drastic way. The advent...

TIM Brazil to install 10,000 Wi-Fi hot spots in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro

While telecom operators in mature markets have used Wi-Fi hot spots to offload 3G data traffic, in Brazil carriers have just started to deploy them....

Feature Report: LTE Across Europe Gaining Steam

For most of the wireless industry’s history, Europe has played an important role in shaping the technology path. And, in combination with parts of...

Latin America’s telecom organization OITA seeks collaboration among members

“The members of OITA will work to find synergies in several telecom areas which we can take advantage of as a team, such...

Final Four could boost data usage this weekend

As Louisville, Ohio State, Kentucky and Kansas head to college basketball's Final Four this weekend, millions of fans will be compulsively following each point...

RCA Spring 2012: NetAmerica unveils consumer brand, service launch

Building on plans announced at last year’s Rural Cellular Association event in Las Vegas, NetAmerica Alliance unveiled its consumer brand as well as news...

Brazil’s TIM partners with Ativas, Dualtec to launch cloud service aiming to increase data revenues

“Cloud computing is a fantastic way to sell more data.” By stressing this definition, the director of innovation at TIM Brazil, Maurício Cascão, defined...

End of monopoly pushes Cost Rica’s mobile penetration to 101.31%

It has been a few years since the end of the telecom sector monopoly in Costa Rica. The Superintendent of Telecommunications Sutel says ending...

Haiti to get a 124 miles of undersea cable with Digicel funding of $16 M

Haiti is set to receive a major boost with the delivery of US $16 million worth of undersea cable (124.28 miles) which will link...

Verizon Wireless to launch $80 LTE phone

On Thursday Verizon Wireless will begin offering the LTE-ready LG Lucid for just $80 with a contract, hoping to trump AT&T Mobility's upcoming launch...
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