BROWSING: Policy

US to seek change in India’s telecom security policy, encryption rules

Economic Times | March 29, 2011 | Joji Thomas Philip NEW DELHI: The United States government will seek changes in India's policies on telecom security and encryption in its next meeting with the telecoms department officials here, an executive aware of the development told ET. Also on...

US to seek change in India's telecom security policy, encryption rules

Economic Times | March 29, 2011 | Joji Thomas Philip NEW DELHI: The United States government will seek changes in India's policies on telecom security and encryption in its next meeting with the telecoms department officials here, an executive aware of the development told ET. Also on...

India telecom regulator: To send infrastructure policy proposals to government next week

Nasdaq | March 24, 2011 | R. Jai Krishna NEW DELHI -(Dow Jones)- India's telecommunications regulator will send its proposals to formulate a single country policy on setting up tower infrastructure to the government next week, Chairman J.S. Sarma said Thursday. Sarma, however, didn't elaborate on...

CTIA 2011: What can we expect from white-spaces spectrum?

Tracy Ford with Jeff Schmidt, Director of Engineering, Spectrum Bridge

Reader Forum: Spectrum crisis vs. bandwidth crisis

Wireless spectrum is a very valuable and limited natural resource. This fact, and the surge in data traffic on wireless networks, is driving the misconception that there is a wireless spectrum scarcity issue in the U.S. The truth is, there is approximately...

NAB, CTIA, CEA spar over incentive auctions

A year after the Federal Communications Commission presented its National Broadband Plan to Congress, broadcast incentive auctions seem to be the major contentious point of the plan to date. CTIA and the Consumers Electronics Association wrote their first-ever co-signed letter to Congress today, urging...

BLiNQ Networks Introduces Intelligent Spectrum Optimization to Drive Mobile Backhaul Capacity Costs Down

BLiNQ Networks Inc. today announced intelligent spectrum optimization (ISO) for BLiNQ’s recently announced mobile backhaul solution. BLiNQ’s plug and play, non-line-of-sight (NLOS) backhaul solution uses low cost, sub-6 GHz TDD spectrum to significantly improve spectrum utilization to maximize capacity and reduce spectrum asset requirements....

Kapil Sibal’s attempt at sorting rift between telcos on airwaves fails

Economic Times | March 9, 2011 NEW DELHI: An attempt by telecom minister Kapil Sibal to help the country's warring mobile service providers find some common ground failed with companies sticking to their positions in a slew of issues concerning the allocation of airwaves. Top executives...

Kapil Sibal's attempt at sorting rift between telcos on airwaves fails

Economic Times | March 9, 2011 NEW DELHI: An attempt by telecom minister Kapil Sibal to help the country's warring mobile service providers find some common ground failed with companies sticking to their positions in a slew of issues concerning the allocation of airwaves. Top executives...

GSM operators to surrender excess spectrum during renewal in 2014

Economic Times | March 7, 2011 | Joji Thomas Philip NEW DELHI: All leading GSM operators will have to give up 'excess' airwaves they have when their mobile permits come up for renewal beginning 2014. This implies companies such as Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Essar and Idea...

March 2011 Hong Kong spectrum auction: too little, too late at too high a price…

Telstra | March 4, 2011 | Media Release Hong Kong, 4 March 2011 - Following the Auction of Radio Spectrum held by the Office of the Telecommunications Authority, Telstra International Group’s CSL Limited (CSL) has maintained its significant market leadership in mobile network technology and...

Telcos push for added broadband spectrum

ABS - CBN | March 1, 2011 | Lenie Lectura MANILA, Philippines - Telecom companies want the government should provide adequate broadband spectrum and enforce the right policy to protect consumers and their investments so they can deliver uninterrupted, fast and efficient broadband service to consumers. Phone...

SmarTone-Vodafone bids successfully for 850 MHz spectrum

SmarTone | March 3, 2011 | Press Release SmarTone-Vodafone today announced that it has bid successfully at the auction in Hong Kong for 2 x 5 MHz at the 850 MHz frequency band for HK$875 million.  This spectrum will be put quickly to use in increasing network...

Analyst Angle: Another setback for Canada's wireless industry

A quote often attributed to Bernard Shaw actually comes from the German philosopher Georg Hegel: “We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.” Perhaps the Canadian Radio-Television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) should pay attention to that bit of wisdom. ...

Regulator decides not to allow fourth telecom

Korea Herald | February 25, 2011 | Cho Ji-hyun The Korea Communications Commission said Thursday that it decided not to allow a fourth telecom to establish in the local market due to its lack of business strategies and funding abilities. During the weekly general meeting, commissioners...

The Radio Club of America announces Texas dinner

SAN MARCOS, Texas—The Radio Club of America plans to hold a dinner in conjunction with a training conference and exhibition sponsored by the Texas chapter of the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International on April 5 in San Marcos, Texas. APCO International...

Televisa faces loss of advertising

Wall Street Journal | February 18, 2011 | Jose De Cordoba MEXICO CITY—Companies controlled by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim have decided to stop advertising through the country's biggest broadcaster, Grupo Televisa SAB. The move by Mr. Slim, expected to cost Televisa some 4% of its advertising...

LightRadio ideal for addressing Latin America's mobile challenges, says ALU

Business News Americas | February 17, 2011 | Patrick Nixon French telecoms equipment supplier Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) believes its upcoming LightRadio antenna technology is well suited for helping to address the principal challenges faced by Latin American mobile operators, Alcatel-Lucent's president for Latin America, Osvaldo...

Trade organizations claim $33B spectrum auction windfall awaits government

The federal government could reap more than $33 billion in net proceeds if it moves ahead with plans to auction off 120 megahertz of wireless spectrum currently under the control of television broadcasters, according to a white paper submitted to the Federal Communications Commission...

Sylvie Barak with 4G Americas

Erasmos Rojas, Director of Latin America & Caribbean- 4G Americas

Acme Packet unveils new class of product to control policy exchange in LTE and IMS networks

Net-Net Policy Director provides critical security, routing and interoperability functions for LTE data and voice roaming and scaling all-IP networks GSMA MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, BARCELONA, SPAIN, FEBRUARY 14, 2011 — Acme Packet® (NASDAQ: APKT), the leader in session border control solutions, today unveiled the Net-Net®...

Reaction positive to Obama wireless plan

Reaction to President Obama's Expanded Wireless Access Initiative was welcomed by wireless industry groups, which used the platform to continue to promote their own agendas. The initiative, announced at Northern Michigan University, is designed to bring high-speed wireless coverage to 98% of Americans in...

Worst of the Week: Slow news week … not

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 this column is a chance for us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....

Millicom slates US$800mn in 2011 capex, may acquire Central American cable operators – Regional

Business News Americas | February 10, 2011 | Patrick Nixon Luxembourg-based mobile operator Millicom International Cellular (Nasdaq: MICC) has forecast capex of US$800mn for 2011, which does not include potential investments in spectrum or potential expenditure in Greenfield assets in Latin America, company CFO Francois-Xavier Roger...