January 2013

Mobile operators will start making their operations more environmentally friendly. Powering base stations in developing countries with dirty diesel fuel is not good for the brand

MEF, the global community for mobile content and commerce, starts the new-year by unveiling its mobile predictions for the next twelve months. The international trade association is ideally placed

The Brazilian regulator Anatel’s telecom numbers for 2012 included some interesting highlights: 3G connections increased and both pre-paid and GSM shares decreased in Brazil. Plus for the first time, Nextel was …

Uruguay will auction spectrum frequencies in the 900 MHz, 1.9 GHz and 1.7-2.1 GHz bands. The Regulatory Unit of Communications Services (URSEC) announced that it has made the auction bidding …

For years, the wireless industry has danced around the mobile broadcast space, which seemed to be the final mountain to climb in the notion of a “three-screen” world. People love …

Agilent Technologies recently introduced what it claims is the industry’s first signal generator and analysis product for LTE-Advanced 8×8 MIMO. LTE-Advanced is designed to enable peak data rates of up …

Shocking news surfaced this week that Apple had cut component orders for its recently launched iPhone 5, indicating that the company’s flagship

Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10.1 is distinguished from the iPad by two key features: a smart stylus and a split screen app that enables users to multitask without opening and closing …

With a week to go before announcing its fourth quarter financial results, AT&T told government regulators that it plans to record a $10 billion, pre-tax, non-cash charge for the quarter …

In the mobile era, both companies and employees want to access data from any location and at any time. Although it seems a great way to boost productivity, this trend …

Price pressures ensure the survival of the feature phone: Although the feature-phone category will continue to play second fiddle to the smartphone in 2013, price pressures will secure

Fixed-mobile convergence, a previously popular trend towards seamless connectivity between fixed and wireless telecommunications networks, will come to an end.

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 fire up the DeLorean and take …

The Brazilian telecommunications market is heating up, boosted by data consumption growth and the start of LTE implementation, and it is having a direct effect on the labor market. More …

Cable & Wireless Panama (CWP),  a part of Cable & Wireless Communications, announced that it was awarded a two-year, U.S.$1.9 million contract to implement a corporate asset management register. The …

The number of LTE devices is exploding rapidly, from 269 devices in January 2012 to 560 devices produced by 83 suppliers as of November 2012. Getting an LTE smartphone, tablet, …

While AT&T customers are celebrating more cellular access to FaceTime, Imagination Technologies is marketing a competing video service to carriers — video chat via Facebook. The company says its carrier …

The number of LTE devices and manufacturers is exploding. This special report explores how the transition to LTE networks is changing the device ecosystem from design to test and repair, …

Alcatel-Lucent snared a significant contract with India’s Reliance Communications that the infrastructure vendor valued at more than $1 billion. The deal calls for Alcatel-Lucent to manage Reliance’s telecommunications infrastructure in …

Domestic telecom staple AT&T is reportedly looking to inject some international flavor through a potential acquisition of an European-based operator. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that AT&T is looking …

Nokia (NOK) detailed today what it says will be the last of the 10,000 job cuts announced last June. The latest cuts affect 300 workers in the company’s IT division. …

Mobile operators are being squeezed by decreasing revenues per user, and a seemingly insatiable demand by users for more data. To efficiently manage the rapidly growing

As 2013 dawns, the unprecedented growth in mobile data traffic shows no sign of relenting. The rapid spread of lower-cost smartphones, the continuing “4G” build out and the consumer trends