Yearly Archives: 2012

Reality Check: Eight Brazilian telecom issues to watch

The Brazilian telecommunications market will over the next two years will face its best time since its opening to private initiatives. Here are eight issues, facts or trends, that deserve attention.

Who is hiring and investing in the mobile economy? Broadcom

Broadcom CEO Scott McGregor spoke with RCR Wireless News during the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas about Broadcom's Wi-Fi initiatives. While this...

Huawei, ZTE award $11B worth of contracts to 3 US firms

Huawei recently announced that it will award OEM contracts totaling $6 billion to Qualcomm, Broadcom and Avago, three California-based leading communications technology companies.

TEMA draws PM’s attention towards importance of strong manufacturing base

The telecom equipment manufacturing sector has somehow missed the bus of telecom revolution in the country, TEMA stated in the letter.

DataXu attracts investors and job seekers to mobile ad scene

If someone describes their workplace as a zoo, you might not envision a productive, innovative startup that's been chosen by AdAge as one of...

Worst of the Week: So many puns, so little time … or light

What can possibly be said about LightSquared at this point, besides bad puns? I know that the company is not “dead” dead, but it seems that the hill it has been climbing in trying to launch a wireless service just received a new helping of lubrication. And that lubricant was delivered with GPS-like accuracy. ZING!

Leap’s stock hit by higher Q4 expectations

Following up on its pre-release of fourth quarter results last month, Leap Wireless rolled out the rest of the numbers showing improved financial results...

Amazon to tap Foxconn for Kindle Fire 2

Reports that Foxconn will make the next version of Amazon's popular e-reader are gaining credence as chinatimes.com reported that Amazon is finalizing a deal...

Atos, EMC and VMware create alliance for open cloud

Atos, EMC and VMware are combining their efforts toward cloud computing, announcing a strategic alliance for open cloud computing. As part of the initiative,...

Ecuador: 78.8% own cellphones, 8.4% have a smartphone

The mobile line penetration in Ecuador is 108%, with 8.4% of people in the country having a smartphone, according to a report by the...

Worldwide smartphone sales soared 47% in Q4

Despite reports that Apple's share in the smartphone market of China has slipped in Q3 and Q4 of 2011, the company had an exceptional fourth quarter globally by selling 35.5 million smartphones to end users, a 121.4% increase year on year.

FTC raises privacy questions about mobile apps for children

The US Federal Trade Commission's just released survey report on mobile applications for children has revealed that neither the app stores nor the app developers provide the information parents need to determine what data is being collected from their children, how it is being shared, or who will have access to it.

Private users to drive m-health smartphone market to $1.3B in 2012

Mobile-health smartphone applications will take off in 2012, reaching $1.3 billion, according to a recent survey by market research and consultancy firm Research2guidance. The...

Tablets get the job done for small business

In another sign that tablets are replacing notebooks in the workplace, more than two-thirds of small businesses surveyed by AT&T said their employees are...

Clearwire stock drops on slower growth, continued losses

Clearwire (CLWR) continued to show its transformative nature during the fourth quarter as the carrier’s results showed increasing reliance on its wholesale operations, currently...

Small cells attract big players in semiconductor industry

The biggest names in chip design are finding their way into the small cell market. Freescale Semiconductor (FSL) said today that its processors will...

TIM’s profit, revenues up

The Brazilian unit of Italian telecom operator TIM 2011 posted $14.31 billion in gross revenues last year, a 21.7% increase compared with 2010. Net...

Brazil counts 245.2 million mobile lines, 50.8 million 3G connections

Brazilian regulatory agency Anatel released the country's latest cellphone numbers showing that at the end of January the country reached 245.2 million mobile lines,...

Brazil’s Oi starts tests at 450 MHz

Brazilian carrier Oi announced that it has started tests in the 450 MHz band for broadband services in rural areas. The tests, conducted in...

Crisil: India telecom operator profits to rise 5% in 2 years

The operating profitability of the mobile players like Airtel, Idea, Vodafone, Tata Teleservices and Sistema Shyam Teleservices will improve by 5% in the next two years, according to credit rating agency Crisil.

NSN: TD-LTE could be ten-times cheaper then VDSL in Brazil

Which would be more cost effective: to deploy TD-LTE or V-DSL in Brazil? Nokia Siemens Network found the total cost of ownership in different...

Telenor looking for new India partner; seeks compensation from Unitech

Norway-based Telenor Group has said that the strategic partnership with Unitech Limited does not have a future, and it therefore will start the process of looking for a new Indian partner. 

LightSquared’s loss is Clearwire’s gain

FreedomPop, the wireless broadband startup backed by Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrom, says it will buy wholesale broadband service from Clearwire instead of from LightSquared....

Crushed by Apple, Nokia and RIM look ahead

Almost half a billion smartphones were sold worldwide last year, and about a third of those were sold in the fourth quarter. Analysts agree...

Telcos differ on 2G auction rules

Uninor, in its response, has stated that only Private Respondents (whose licenses have been quashed by the SC judgement) and fresh applicants (well funded entities with no link to incumbent operators) should be eligible to take part in the auction of spectrum that has become available after the SC cancelled 122 2G licenses.
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