Yearly Archives: 2013

AT&T cites pensions, storms for $10B Q4 charge

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,...

AirWatch: Companies should set strategies before picking mobile management solution

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

2013 Predictions: WDS lays out its industry-wide predictions for 2013

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

2013 Predictions: Fixed-mobile divergence

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

Time Trippin’: $500 iPhone!?!; WiMAX aims high … 6 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...

Brazil’s ICT labor market: As telecom market heats up, demand for professionals increases

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

Cable & Wireless Panama awarded two-year, $1.9M contract to manage healthcare

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...

Editorial Webinar: LTE Device Ecosystem: Design, Test, Launch and Repair

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

Imagination Technologies brings video chat to Facebook (Video)

While AT&T customers are celebrating more cellular access to FaceTime, Imagination Technologies is marketing a competing video service to carriers -- video chat via...

Feature Report: LTE Device Ecosystem: The Future Brought to Life

The number of LTE devices and manufacturers is exploding. This special report explores how the transition to LTE networks is changing the device ecosystem...

Alcatel-Lucent to manage portion of Reliance’s India network; deal valued at $1B

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...

WSJ: AT&T looking at European expansion

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...

Nokia completes job cuts

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...

2013 Predictions: Smarter mobile infrastructure

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

2013 Predictions: The addition of timing to mobile backhaul services

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

Brazil’s ICT labor market: more jobs than qualified candidates

Brazilian information technology companies have an ongoing problem: how to fill vacant professional IT positions that remain open year after year. Essentially, the country’s...

In Chile, Claro wins, Movistar loses with number portability

América Móvil's Chilean wireless unit, Claro, has won the most subscribers since Chile enacted number portability a year ago. The telecom operator received 126,358...

Nvidia shows off Tegra 4 in Android gaming device

Nvidia is calling its Tegra 4 chipset the world's fastest mobile processor, and the company was excited enough by the product to build a...

Nokia Siemens garnered portion of U.S. Cellular’s LTE expansion

Nokia Siemens Networks said it had a hand in U.S. Cellular's expansion of its LTE network late last year, providing radio access network and...

RIM diversifies with mobile payments solution

With two weeks to go until the launch of BlackBerry 10, Research-in-Motion (RIMM) says Visa has approved its mobile payments solution. RIM's solution securely...

M-health: 2.8 million patients remotely monitored worldwide in 2012

About 2.8 million patients were remotely monitored worldwide at the end of 2012, using a home monitoring service based on equipment with integrated connectivity,...

2013 Predictions: True mobility trends in the workplace

We are going through a radical shift in the way people work and use computers. Increasing availability and affordability of wireless broadband is giving

2013 Predictions: Wi-Fi to the rescue

Every year seems to bring a giant leap, or at least a shift, in technology. This is especially true for the wireless industry. Not too long ago, Wi-Fi was the ugly stepchild of the wireless world.

Ezentis shifts focus to Latin America, helped by $64M Telefónica Peru contract

A recent U.S.$64 million (€48 million)  contract with Telefónica in Peru may be a good sign for Eventis. The Spanish company, which focuses on...

Analyst Angle: How to make MVNOs work in Latin America

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot...
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