I love this show. It has the right mix of news, one-to-one meetings and fun. The show is scheduled to be held in Barcelona next year, but up for grabs after that. It will be interesting to see if the GSMA decides to remain...
Companies to Jointly Participate in TD-LTE Field Trials in India and China
BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 16, 2011 -- Mobile World Congress -- Altair Semiconductor, the world's leading developer of ultra-low power, small footprint and high performance 4G LTE chipsets, today announced that their TD-LTE solution,...
What's new at Mobile World Congress 2011? Here is a quick update on what you may have missed.Telefonica introduces FRIGO Reflections at the MWC, a unique experience to share the status of running applications between different devices.Reliance Communications, telecom service provider in India, announced...
BARCELONA, Spain — In most respects, the dream and even idea of walking by a shop and getting bombarded by mobile advertising is dead. That kind of advertising is spam, no matter how you slice it.The onus on the mobile advertising community nowadays is...
Sequans | February 15, 2011 | Press Release
Companies to bring affordable TD-LTE solutions to the mass market
Barcelona, February 15, 2011 – Sequans Communications today announced they are working with Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) to ready TD-LTE solutions in all frequency bands, to...
Here is a quick update on announcements made at Mobile World Congress 2011Acme Packet, the leader in session border control solutions, unveiled the Net-Net
BARCELONA, Spain – Advances in small-cell technology made their way onto the show floor at Mobile World Congress, as both Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) and Powerwave Technologies Inc. (PWAV) made breakthrough announcements about radio access technology.Powerwave introduced an LTE Powerwave Picocell that delivers up to 15...
Cox Communications is set to launch its mobile offering this week into Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Okla., expanding on its initial launches last year in Hampton Roads, Va.; Omaha, Neb.; and Orange County, Calif. The CDMA-based service, which will continue with the carrier’s...
Alcatel- Lucent | February 11, 2011 | Press Release
Improving 3G coverage in indoor locations and high-traffic public areas
Paris and Madrid, February 11, 2011 — Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced it has been selected by Telefónica for its commercial, Femto-based small cells...
The Mobile Marketing Association and Tribune Co., a media company operating businesses in broadcasting, publishing, and digital media, announced that Tribune has joined the MMA as a premium member. MMA's premium membership is the highest-tier membership for companies wishing to establish an advanced global...
PC Magazine Online | February 7, 2011 | Mark Hachman
Alcatel-Lucent on Monday unveiled a technology to shrink a cell-phone tower down to about the size of a small handheld cube, plus an antenna.
Dubbed LightRadio, the technology places the diplexer, radio, amplifier and passive cooling...
Vodafone Group Plc announced that Sir John Bond, the chairman of Vodafone, will be retiring from the board in July 2011. He will be succeeded as chairman by Gerard Kleisterlee, currently president/CEO and chairman of the board of management and the group management committee...
Alcatel- Lucent | February 1, 2011 | Press Release
Alcatel-Lucent and Ciena selected as the contractors for the network upgrade
Paris and Linthicum, Md., USA – February 1, 2011 – The South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 (SEA-ME-WE 4) co-owners have selected Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. In my last column, “Wave of consolidation washing over wireless,” I summarized the key drivers of...
AOL News | January 24, 2011 | Lauren Frayer
One of the world's most unplugged countries is about to get high-speed Internet, courtesy of an old friend.
A specialized ship began laying fiber-optic cable under the Caribbean Sea from Venezuela toward Cuba this past weekend, launching...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.This week we have a bevy of changes occurring in Silicon Valley to deal with.First, Steve Jobs...
Trying to figure out winners and losers in the LTE space is going to take a few years to figure out, as operators test networks and announce trials before going commercial, but a new report from the Global Mobile Suppliers Association on LTE attempts...
Bangkok Post | January 10, 2011 | Komsan Tortermvasana
3G contender field narrowed from 10
Only four groups are expected to pursue bids for TOT's 3G wireless broadband nationwide expansion worth 19.98 billion baht when bid documents are submitted today.
The field has been thinned from 10...
LAS VEGAS — Verizon Wireless (VZ) is seemingly everywhere at this year's Consumer Electronics Show — in fact, it would have been a tall order to avoid the carrier's presence today.As expected, the carrier is mostly hyping up the recent launch of its LTE...
Business Standard | January 4, 2011 | Mehul Shah
Global telecom equipment makers Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent and Huawei are in the fray to supply broadband gear to Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), India’s most valued company in terms of market capitalisation, for its re-entry into the sector.
In...
Editor's Note: The mobile space witnessed a lot of news over the past 12 months that have and will alter the mobile landscape for years to come. With the end of 2010 just days away, RCR Wireless News takes a look back at the...
Editor's Note: The mobile space witnessed a lot of news over the past 12 months that have and will alter the mobile landscape for years to come. With the end of 2010 just days away, RCR Wireless News takes a look back at the...
Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) has agreed to pay $137 million to put a series of criminal and civil investigations to rest. Earlier this week the vendor was charged with violating rules of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.The Paris-based company is accused to paying bribes in Costa...
