Yearly Archives: 2012

Reader Forum: Don’t let the ‘iDevices’ destroy your monthly expenses

If you work in IT or handle mobile devices for your organization, you’ve likely already experienced it: requests to move to the latest, greatest, fastest smartphone on the market (for the time being),

Reader Forum: Make the network smarter

It’s no secret that the proliferation of smartphone and tablet devices – and the accompanying demand for mobile video – is continuing to drive the need for more bandwidth.

New Chile mobile operators add 200,000 subscribers, increase competition

This year marked a milestone for the Chilean wireless telecom market with the arrival of new operators and increased competition. The new operators, including...

Oracle expands cloud services with Engine Yard, Instantis

Oracle’s latest pair of moves show the company’s efforts to bolster its cloud portfolio. By making a strategic minority investment in Engine Yard, a...

Worst of the Week: Chuck Norris wants you to buy spectrum

Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so...

MetroPCS to decommission 10,000 sites as part of T-Mobile USA deal

MetroPCS and T-Mobile USA provided some more insight into their proposed merger during an analyst conference this morning in Barcelona, Spain, which is expected...

Report: Google and Dish considering cellular network

They say bad news comes in threes, and if that's true then wireless carriers have reached their quota of bad news from Google this...

Sprint Nextel, Softbank file petition with FCC

Sprint Nextel and potential majority owner Softbank took the next step in consummating their proposed merger with the filing of license transfers with the...

Anatel bans TIM from selling Infinity Day plan

TIM Brasil is facing yet another difficulty. The Brazilian telecom regulator, Anatel, has suspended sales of TIM’s “Infinity Day” plan, a new promotion that offers...

Time Trippin’: Ericsson powered by Symbian; Verizon pays price for spectrum … 12 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...

After Ortiva Wireless purchase, Allot launches video optimization solution

Six months after acquiring Ortiva Wireless, Allot Communications has launched a video optimization solution called Allot VideoClass. Allot purchased the La Jolla, Calif.-based mobile...

CEO Spotlight: Kevin Sinclair, Wireless Zone

When CEO Kevin Sinclair first started working at the company that would become Wireless Zone, retail rents were a lot lower and phone prices were a lot higher. "Twenty-four years ago we operated out of a 2nd-floor apartment, and we charged $2600 for a phone," he says,

AT&T launches PTT service via LTE

AT&T has announced a new Push-to-Talk (PTT) service that runs on its LTE network, targeting business and public safety customers with new ruggedized devices...

Cisco and Qualcomm partner to bring location tracking indoors, boost IT revenue

Many smartphone users who rely on GPS to get from point A to point B will soon be able to do the same thing...

Texas Instruments to cut 1,700 jobs

Texas Instruments will lay off 1,700 people and stop designing chips for mobile devices. The Dallas semiconductor giant says more device manufacturers are designing their own chipsets, making the business more challenging for outside suppliers.

Spirent to tackle VoLTE

Test and measurement provider Spirent Communications announced it will now have the ability to test for all-IP services, such as voice-over-LTE, video calling and...

Brazil’s Oi posts positive Q3 results

Brazilian carrier Oi posted positive results for its third quarter period. The company reported that its revenues have grown as well as its earnings...

Apple to open first Latin American store in Rio de Janeiro

Apple announced that it will open its first store in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro. It will also be the first Apple store in the...

Gartner: Worldwide mobile phone sales down; Samsung extends leadership

Samsung increased its leadership in the mobile phone market even as worldwide mobile phone sales decreased. According to Gartner's latest numbers, mobile phone sales...

LTE N.A. 2012: Small cells, LTE-Advanced dominate conference

DALLAS – Small cells and network evolutions beyond LTE dominated conversations – or at least the agenda – during the opening day of the...

Black Friday, Mobile Monday? Retailers ready mobile for holiday rush

With little more than a week left before Black Friday, retailers are already seeing consumers make purchases and prepare their holiday shopping season strategies...

Verizon Wireless begins promised sales of 700 MHz licenses; Nortex is first buyer

Verizon Wireless is making good on its promise to start selling off some of its "excess" 700 MHz spectrum licenses, announcing today that it...

Google launches 1 Gigabit per second fiber network

Google Fiber connected its first set of homes yesterday in the Hanover Heights section of Kansas City. The ultra high-speed network claims that it...

Kony Solutions opens Brazilian office, announces Itau Unibanco as a client

Kony Solutions, a mobile and multi-channel application platform provider, held a press conference on Tuesday to announce its commercial launch in São Paulo. Along...

Analyst Angle: What is the big deal about LTE spectrum auctions in Latin America?

Spectrum auctions for next generation mobile services have two different strategic implications for our region. First, in developing markets such as Latin America, mobile...
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