Beijing Telecom, a subsidiary of China Telecom, may launch CDMA version of iPhone 4S by the end of February or at the beginning of March, according to a statement issued by the company.
India's Tata Communications, together with nine global service providers, announced the launch of the Global Meeting Alliance™, an open ecosystem of leading telecom providers that have aligned to interconnect their respective business video communities.
Twenty-four US Senators from across the country recently wrote to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) urging it to address the problem of dropped, incomplete and poor quality phone calls to rural America.
The latest figures reveal that the total wireless (GSM, CMDA and FWP) subscriber base in the country has increased from 884.37 million in November 2011 to 893.84 million at the end of December 2011.
Verizon has expanded its global enterprise network platform, enabling multinational corporations to take advantage of Verizon's Private IP service in six additional African countries, and Bahrain and Qatar in the Middle East.
Tata Communications' consolidated gross revenues were at $719.7 million in the quarter ended December 31, 2011 as against $673.7 million in the same quarter last year, according to the company's results for FY2012.
Idea Cellular, India's No. 4 operator by subscribers, reported 17% dip in consolidated net profit to $39.7 million from a year earlier for its third fiscal quarter ending Dec. 31.
The GSM telecom operators in India added 7.55 million new subscribers in the month of December last year, according to new figures released by the Cellular Operators Association of India.
As we turn the page into 2012, we believe it is an opportune time to offer our own version of a Top 10 list to take a page out of Mr. Letterman’s playbook.
The new telecom operators have argued that since the established players have already cornered maximum spectrum and subscriber bases, the new players should be given more concessions in view of the limited market.
India's new telecom operators, which includes Tata Teleservices, Reliance Communications, Sistema-Shyam and Uninor among others, have asked the government to consider allotting up to 6.2 MHz spectrum to them without any additional charge, media reports stated.
India's total GSM mobile subscriber base stood at 632.1 million as telecom operators added 6.7 million new subscribers in the month of November, an increase of 1.1% from the previous month.
India's Tata Communications today announced the launch of its IPX+ (IP eXchange) mobile broadband enablement framework. The company said that 70 mobile network operators have signed up for the new framework, which is designed to help capitalize on the latest technology innovations in the mobile broadband space via better interprovider mobile service delivery and management.
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.
One of the most developed countries in Latin America, Chile faces very similar telecom challenges to Brazil, Colombia and Mexico. Its mobile penetration surpassed one device per habitant, reaching 120.8% in June, with most subscribers on prepaid plans. The Chile wireless market is also...
Leading industry analysts, AT&T, Sprint, LightSquared, Verizon and PCIA confirmed to headline speaker list for the Orange County Small Cell Event
Industry analysts Michael Thelander and Iain Gillott will be joined by Wireless Infrastructure Association CEO, Mike Fitch, as well as executives from AT&T, Sprint...
This white paper is an adjunct to a webinar presented by the leadership of ProtectCell on September 29, 2011. This event was hosted by RCR Wireless, and the title of the program was “Customer Value in the Wild, Wild West” ProtectCell, a pioneer in...
Samsung Telecommunications America has lined up Sprint Nextel Corp. (S), AT&T Inc. (T) and T-Mobile USA Inc. (DTEGY) for the Galaxy S II smartphone. Each carrier will offer the device on their respective 4G networks.The Galaxy S II is already available in Europe and...
Nokia Siemens Networks said it has struck a deal with Nordic-based operator TeliaSonera to “modernize” the carrier’s network in Finland.The two-year deal calls for NSN to update TeliaSonera’s existing GSM and 3G networks and bolster the equipment for the rollout of LTE services using...
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a civil lawsuit to block AT&T Inc.’s (T) proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA Inc. The DoJ said the deal would “substantially lessen competition for mobile wireless telecommunications services across the United States, resulting in higher prices,...
VC Circle | August 26, 2011 | Anil Das
Tata Docomo, the GSM technology telecom JV between Tata Teleservices and Japan’s Docomo, has signed a partnership with media group Network 18 to provide breaking news alerts in the form of video clips.
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Bloomberg | August 28, 2011 | Jun Yang
SK Telecom Co., the largest mobile- phone carrier in South Korea, won the rights to use a key frequency for fourth-generation phone service for 995 billion won ($924 million) in the country’s first auction of spectrum.
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Deutsche Telekom | August 25, 2011 | Press Release
Francis Deprez (46) is to take over as Chief Executive Officer of the international consulting company Detecon effective September 1, 2011. To date, he has been Head of Group Strategy at Deutsche Telekom. As a former...
The network challenges facing mobile operators change over time. At the onset of digital cellular (PCS), carriers purchased spectrum and then focused on building their networks, deploying tens of thousands of cell sites. As subscriber rates rose and capacity constraints emerged, carriers secured additional...
