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Reliance Jio Infocomm plans to launch pan-India LTE

IDC estimates 5.8M 4G LTE subscribers in India by year-end 2015 Indian telecom operator Reliance Jio Infocomm expects to launch commercial 4G LTE services across India by December, Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani said during the company's annual shareholders meeting. Ambani said that the company expects to...

Bharti Airtel launches LTE trials in Indian population centers

Operator will continue 4G rollout through a combination of LTE-TDD and LTE-FDD Indian mobile telephony operator Bharti Airtel has launched 4G LTE-FDD trials for its existing customers in Chennai and Mumbai. During the trials, customers in these two cities can obtain a complimentary upgrade to Airtel...

APAC: 1,000 new towers coming to India

India Indian telecommunications tower firm Indus Towers said it plans to invest approximately $40.7 million to deploy 1,000 towers in Punjab and Haryana states this year. Indus Towers currently has 7,600 telecommunications towers in both states and more than 115,000 towers across India. The company was founded in...

EMEA: TeliaSonera, Telenor merger hits roadblock

The proposed merger between TeliaSonera and Telenor in Denmark is being investigated by the European Commission amid concerns that a joint venture between the two carriers would result in higher prices and decreased innovation. If the merger, which was first announced in December, goes through, the...

Telecom capex could drop $20B in 2015

The strengthening U.S. dollar will wipe out $20 billion in telecom capital expenditures during 2015, predicts a new Dell’Oro Group report. Global telecom operators invested heavily in their fiber and LTE networks during 2014, marking the fourth consecutive year of capex growth as advancements in mobile-related spending...

Indian spectrum auction tops $17.5B

Spectrum auction winners haven’t been revealed Although the winners haven’t been disclosed, an Indian government spectrum auction ended on March 25 after 19 days and 115 rounds of bidding. The spectrum auction raised more than $17.5 billion, which is 36% more than the government’s target for...

Deutsche Telekom AG posts strong Q4 results

Deutsche Telekom saw its revenue climb and losses narrow in the fourth quarter, thanks mainly to customer growth at its T-Mobile US business and mobile service revenue growth in Germany. The German carrier’s net loss for the final three months of last year fell to €110...

HetNet: Nokia Networks, Bharti Airtel expand 4G in India

Nokia using small cells to increase capacity in dense areas Network infrastructure giant Nokia Networks has partnered with carrier Bharti Airtel to expand FDD-LTE 4G mobile broadband in six new markets in India. The 4G deployment will operate on the 1,800 MHz band. In dense areas,...

Global Telecom: SK Telecom and Nokia claim first commercialization of EICIC

SK Telecom and Nokia Networks claim first commercialization of EICIC SK Telecom announced Wednesday that it, along with Nokia Networks, has commercialized "enhanced inter-cell interference coordination," as part of the LTE-Advanced technology standard. EICIC is designed to control signal interference between macro and micro base stations. SK...

Global Telecom: KT accuses SK Telecom of deceptive marketing

KT accuses SK Telecom of deceptive marketing The Korea Times reports that Korean carrier, KT filed a court injunction asking to stop rival SK Telecom advertisements for what KT claims is the first commercialization of a tri-band LTE-Advanced wireless network. Legal representatives for KT are reportedly...

Global Telecom: NTT DoCoMo plans foreclosure action against Tata Sons

NTT DoCoMo plans foreclosure action NTT DoCoMo is threatening to foreclose on former partner Tata Sons' assets if the company fails to buy back its stake in Tata Teleservices. Tata Sons had agreed to sell its 26.5% stake in Tata Teleservices last year after five...

Bharti Airtel reverses VoIP rate hike

OTTs targeted by India's biggest carrier Days after moving to discourage use of over-the-top applications by implementing a voice over Internet Protocol rate hike, India’s Bharti Airtel pulled the change on Monday, according to reports. OTT providers like Skype, Viber and others, use a customer’s data...

Global Telecom: China Unicom 4G focus in 2015

China Unicom 4G focus in 2015 China Unicom's subscriber base continues to slow. In November, the carrier registered fewer than 1.1 million 3G and 4G users, the lowest number in more than three years. The operator is planning to focus on 4G devices in 2015. Forbes reports...

Global Telecom: China Mobile sets LTE-A speed record with carrier aggregation

Carrier aggregation helps Nokia Networks, Ooredoo Qatar, China Mobile achieve 4.1 Gbps speed China Mobile and Nokia Networks, along with Ooredoo Qatar have announced a new LTE-A speed record with carrier aggregation. The three companies said they reached 4.1 Gbps per second over the hybrid TD-FDD LTE...

Cell Tower News: China Tower to build 1M towers

China Tower to build 1 million towers Wait, who is this incredibly ambitious company looking to bring so many new towers? China Tower is a new company created by the three largest carriers in China: China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom. Combining like a...

Global Telecom: SK Telecom raided by investigators

SK Telecom raided State prosecutors and the government descended on SK Telecom headquarters Tuesday. Agents raided the company's headquarters in Seoul, seizing computer hard drives and documents related to the health care division of the company. The investigation is into whether SK Telecom illegally collected its...

Global Telecom: NTT DoCoMo promotes LTE with shrimp cannon

NTT DoCoMo promotes LTE speeds with shrimp cannon Japan's NTT DoCoMo is promoting the speed of its LTE network by frying shrimp. The video advertisement shows shrimp flying through cannons and open flames. The shrimp is "cooked" in 3 seconds. The cooking demonstration and advertisement...

Global Telecom: Telkomsel launching new IoT services

Indonesia's largest mobile operator Telkomsel is partnering for IOT/M2M Cloud services Telkomsel is partnering with Jasper to bring "Internet of Things"/Machine-to-Machine services to businesses across Indonesia. The partnership will allow Telkomsel business customers to use the cloud-based Jasper IoT Service Platform to launch, manage and...

Global Carriers: SK Telecom partners for LTE, IoT

A quick wrap-up of global carrier news. • SK Telecom and Telecom Italia are teaming up to work on LTE and the "Internet of Things." SK Telecom said the partnership will have a positive impact on technology and communication in both Asia and Europe. SK...

Galtronics, Tecore, Sequent, Valdor, Fujitsu and Bharti Airtel appoint new executives

Tecore, Sequent Software, Valdor Technology International, Fujitsu and Bharti Airtel appointed new executives recently.

Carrier Wrap: LTE continues U.S. expansion; Orange shuffles execs

Editor’s Note: Wireless operators are a busy bunch, and as such RCR Wireless News will attempt to gather some of the more important announcements from the world’s largest carriers that comes from the space in a weekly wrap-up. Enjoy! AT&T Mobility AT&T Mobility unveiled business focused...

Bharti Airtel to take control of Qualcomm’s BWA operations in India

Qualcomm said it has signed an agreement to sell a 49% stake in its Indian operation that holds spectrum licenses covering Delhi, Mumbai, Haryana and Kerala to Bharti Airtel for $165 million, and that the Indian company is on its way to controlling the...

MWC 2012: Emerging markets scream for affordable smartphones

BARCELONA, Spain – Emerging markets and the carriers that serve those areas took center stage, literally, during day two of this week’s Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain, as leaders from India’s Bharti Airtel, Telefonica’s Latin American operations and VimpelCom talked about the...

MWC 2012: Bharti Airtel lags behind in climate leadership in Africa

Indian telecom major Bharti Airtel lacks green agenda in its investments in Africa, Greenpeace Tuesday stated in its briefing paper on International Green Telecom Leadership.