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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
India's leading mobile phone operator Bharti Airtel Thursday announced the pan India launch of 'airtel money', the country's first of its kind mobile wallet service by a mobile operator.
Bharti Airtel reported a 22% decline in its consolidated net profit to $206.6 million in Q3 (October-December) of the FY12 due to 3G roll-out costs and higher interest costs.
Bharti Airtel, one of the leading telecommunications company, has renewed its contract with Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) for another five-years to manage and maintain its networks in eight circles of India.
India and Sri Lanka have signed an agreement for establishing a mechanism of technical and institutional cooperation in the field of telecommunications, with the purpose of development of telecommunications in both the countries.
India's Telecom Commission has accepted the recommendations of industry regulator TRAI to relax mergers and acquisitions rules in the sector. The decision paves the way for spectrum-sharing among telecom operators. This will lead to consolidation in market with over a dozen telecom companies.
Terming the 3G roaming deals illegal, India's Telecom Ministry has asked the telecom operators to discontinue their agreements. No decision has been made yet on whether to penalize the telcos for those deals.
The chiefs of leading telecom companies met Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other key policy makers to discuss contentious issues plaguing the telecom sector.
India's Bharti Airtel, a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 19 countries across Asia and Africa, Monday expanded its managed services agreement with Ericsson for its India operations.
A report by India's telecom regulator states that the combined earned revenue of the country's telecom operators was $9.6 billion at the end of Q2 (September 2011).
Top executives of three leading telecom companies in India have now written to the Indian Prime Minister over the issue of the controversial 3G roaming deals.
India's GSM operators added 7.12 million new subscribers in the month of October, an increase of 1.15% from the previous month, bringing the country's GSM subscriber base to 625.41 million.
India's federal investigation agency has registered a case against the country's two top telecom companies and a former Telecom Secretary for alleged irregularities in the allocation of spectrum during 2001-2003 when the late Pramoj Mahajan was telecom minister.
India's nationally owned and six smallest private telecom companies will continue to suffer operating losses in 2012, according to a report released Thursday by global ratings agency Fitch Ratings.