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Reality Check: The mobile data tsunami meets the spectrum shortage

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. For mobile operators, vendors and their customers, these are the best of times and the worst...

Brazil Achieves More Than 16 Million Broadband Connections

Press Release Cisco SAO PAULO, Brazil, Dec 9, 2010 – Cisco today presented the 14th edition of the Cisco® Broadband Barometer, a study conducted by IDC. The study shows that the total broadband market in Brazil reached 16.2 million connections in the first half of...

SONDA Offers Innovative Cloud Computing Service in Latin America with VCE's Vblock™ Infrastructure Platform

EMC Press Release New Services will Maximize SONDA Customers' IT Investments to Enable Business Innovation and Reduce Costs Santiago, Chile - December 6, 2010 SONDA, a Latin American leader in IT services with a presence in nine countries, today announced with VCE, the Virtual Computing Environment formed...

Vendors team up on video optimization tools: Sandvine, Acision partner; Dialogic opens Indian facility

As wireless operators struggle to manage high volume traffic from video on their networks, the number of companies announcing solutions in the video optimization space has been increasing as well. Sandvine (SVC) and Acision today said they are partnering to offer carriers a...

LTE Americas awards companies, individuals for LTE advances

Several companies and individuals were honored for their contributions to the LTE industry at this year's LTE Americas event earlier this week in Dallas.Alcatel-Lucent won three of the nine awards. The company took home honors for best network or device testing product, best green...

Reality Check: Mobile broadband in the Americas: What to expect in 2011

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.A decade ago, you could go to any wireless industry trade show and be absolutely sure of...

Cisco ships 30 millionth IP Phone

San Jose based Cisco Systems sometimes jokingly gets referred to as the “plumber of the internet” but with the firm having recently shipped its 30 millionth IP Phone and its new line of video phones and tablets set to take the world by storm, Cisco is proving that no matter how dumb the pipe, there’s nothing dumb about this plumber.

Look out Silicon Valley – the British are coming

Sure, Silicon Valley has a remarkable pedigree and history of producing world-beating technology companies, as well as an established technology presence, networking scene and excellent weather, but you know what us Brits have? Words.

Reality Check: Wholesale … more exciting than you think

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.Demand for mobile data is surging. We all know it. You can’t open a trade pub anymore...

Sequans looking to raise up to $80M in IPO?

Sequans Communications reportedly has its eyes on an initial public offering in the United States to raise up to $80 million.The Paris-based chipset maker, which has backing from Alcatel-Lucent (ALU), Motorola Inc. (MOT) Swisscom AG and several venture capital firms, has been seeking out...

Ottawa economic agency tries to woo Swedish, Finnish companies

The Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation (OCRI) and member companies from Ottawa's wireless cluster are visiting Helsinki and Stockholm to try to lure the Northern European wireless sector to locate in the Ottawa area. The group is visiting in partnership with the Canadian...

@ 4G World: 4G is the topic, but 3G remains important

CHICAGO – The opening keynote at this year's 4G World event was decidedly old school as David Haight, VP of product development emerging devices at AT&T Inc., talked about a lot of different applications the carrier is looking into in its move to expand...

How apps impact the network

Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in our September Special Edition, Behind the Scenes, a focus on integrated subscriber and network management systems. To download the complete Special Edition, click here. Wireless subscribers' appetite and demand for richer and more data-intensive content is at...

IMS remains elusive, though LTE provides hope

Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in our September Special Edition, Behind the Scenes, a focus on integrated subscriber and network management systems. To download the complete Special Edition, click here. By Dan MeyerFor years telecommunication operators waxed poetically about how their divergent...

Partnerships: Telus chooses Sierra M2M solution; Pioneer develops navigation app for DoCoMo; and more

Telus announced a multi-year strategic agreement with Sierra Wireless that calls for Sierra to provide machine-to-machine services management for the carrier. Telus will integrate the Sierra Wireless AirVantage Services Platform into its network operations to provide M2M customers with online access to M2M service...

Intelligence to the core: 4G evolution to bring new opportunities, challenges to mobile space

Editor's Note: This is an article from our September Special Edition, Behind the Scenes: A focus on integrated subscriber and network management systems. During the next few weeks, RCR Wireless News will be posting a variety of articles addressing the OSS/BSS space.The mobile...

Reader Forum: Be careful what you wish for

If we turn the clock back a few years, entrepreneurs like myself and other industry pundits were predicting the rise of mobile data, but those lofty predictions were being met with a healthy degree of skepticism and also pushback that reached the level of...

Reality Check: RIM’s evolution strategy

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.Greetings from Kansas City, where we are abuzz with football hopes after last Monday night’s Chiefs opening...

Contracts: Ip.access supplies picocells to Bharti; and more

Ip.accessIndia: With Bharti Airtel to supply its nanoGSM picocells for deployment across the country.Value: UndisclosedCiscoFrance: With Free to supply its Carrier-Grade IPv6 solution using Internet Protocol version 6 rapid deployment technology, to connect more than 4 million Free residential broadband customers.Value: UndisclosedZhone TechnologiesUnited States:...

Reality Check: The Internet needs a new roof, not another layer of shingles

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.Greetings from the heart of America, where temperatures are finally dropping and kids are headed back to...

Mobile in Palestine : New Mobile Monday group formed

The Palestinian telecom sector is growing. Exports in IT, software and mobile are finding customers in regional markets. Access to capital is improving with new VC firms dedicated exclusively to the Palestinian IT sector. At the macro level, the Telecommunication Regulation Commission (TRC)...

Cisco's tablet shakes up the space

Cisco has surprised the world yet again, announcing at the company's Cisco Live 2010 conference on Tuesday that it would come out with its own tablet, called “Cius,” aimed at corporate users and singularly-focused on delivering high-quality video conferencing.

Healthy growth ahead for femtocell sector

While the Femto Forum just released a white paper touting how femtocells can take traffic off the macrocellular network, AT&T Mobility's femtocell traffic still counts toward its total data usage as the femtocell is primarily designed to enhance the user's voice call quality experience.Worldwide,...

Bharti pulls in networking players in hosting contact center

A consortium of Bharti Airtel, Cisco, and Servion today announced their foray into the Indian hosted Contact Center services market - valued at $50 million - with the launch of Hosted Contact Center (HCC) services.