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.Several companies provided earnings and further guidance last week. Interestingly enough, all of these earnings results were...
Research in Motion Ltd. (RIM) used BlackBerry World 2011 to unveil two powerful new BlackBerry Bold smartphones on Monday, sporting a touchscreen and a 1.2 GHz processor.RIM hopes the move will bring its phones up to date with its competitors' smartphone offerings and...
Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. has filed lawsuits in Germany, France, and Hungary against ZTE Corp. for patent and trade mark infringement, alleging ZTE is infringing on Huawei's patents for data card and LTE technologies, and using a Huawei-registered trademark on some of its data...
Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. has filed lawsuits in Germany, France, and Hungary against ZTE Corp. for patent and trade mark infringement, alleging ZTE is infringing on Huawei's patents for data card and LTE technologies, and using a Huawei-registered trademark on some of its data...
L.M. Ericsson (ERIC) stock climbed more than 11% this morning on the company's first-quarter financials, during which the world's largest network vendor maintained an impressive 38% gross margin and a 17% year-over-year increase in sales, driven by growth in mobile broadband.Global network rollouts appear...
AT&T Inc. (T) late last week filed its petition to acquire T-Mobile USA Inc. with the Federal Communications Commission. The detailed document, excluding the lack of detail from redacted information, lays out AT&T’s argument as to why the FCC should allow the nation’s No....
Verizon Wireless (VZ) continued to show strong postpaid customer growth during the first quarter of this year, buoyed by its recently launched LTE service as well as the launch of Apple Inc.’s iPhone device on its network. However, non-traditional – at least for Verizon...
ZTE Corp., the second-largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer in China, announced net profits for the first quarter grew by 16% to $19.37 million and reported a 14% increase in operating revenue to $2.3 billion for the first quarter of the year, ending on March 31.The...
AT&T Inc.’s proposed purchase of T-Mobile USA Inc. will be under scrutiny by antitrust and communication agencies today, said a U.S. official.
On March 20, AT&T proposed buying Deutsche Telekom AG’s T-Mobile USA operations for $39 billion dollars. The deal would combine the No. 2...
RIO DE JANEIRO – More than 400 million tourists expected in Brazil for global sporting events in 2014 and 2016 will be carrying LTE-ready mobile devices, and the industry is optimistic that it'll have Brazil's major cities's networks ready by then, according to a senior adviser for the GSMA at Informa's LTE Latin America conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The expansion of mobile broadband services in India looks to have received a boost from the formation of a collaborative effort of the country’s Minister for Communications and Information Technology, the GSMA, the Cellular Operators of India organization and the Telecoms Regulatory Authority of...
The wholesale world of mobile broadband services continues to glean results as Clearwire Corp. (CLWR) today said it has signed prepaid wireless mobile virtual network operator Locus Telecommunications Inc. The deal calls for Locus to add prepaid 4G services using Clearwire’s WiMAX network to...
Following are infrastructure contracts announced during the past week:Alvarion Ltd.United States: With the City of Houston for the deployment of a 4G municipal network. Alvarion’s 4G wireless broadband network is enabling the City of Houston’s local government to offer advanced municipal services, such as...
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.The terrible human tragedy arising from the massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan could have been...
ZTE Corp. said it will initiate “patent invalidation procedures” against Ericsson (ERIC), after the world's largest infrastructure provider filed patent-infringement lawsuits against the Chinese vendor in three countries.The patent dispute centers on handset and network patents related to GSM and W-CDMA technology. Ericsson...
March 31 2011 - 1:26 pm ET | Dan Meyer | RCR Wireless News
China Unicom Ltd. (CHU) said it added nearly 20 million customers last year, pushing China’s second largest operator’s customer base to more than 167 million subscribers.
The carrier said the growth was...
March 30 2011 - 1:33 pm ET | Dan Meyer | RCR Wireless News
The crush of mobile device usage is indeed a worldwide phenomenon with global handset adoption on track to surpass the six billion subscriber mark bolstered by continued growth in developing countries...
March 30 2011 - 1:33 pm ET | Dan Meyer | RCR Wireless News
The crush of mobile device usage is indeed a worldwide phenomenon with global handset adoption on track to surpass the six billion subscriber mark bolstered by continued growth in developing countries...
China Unicom Ltd. (CHU) said it added nearly 20 million customers last year, pushing China’s second largest operator’s customer base to more than 167 million subscribers.The carrier said the growth was dominated by its W-CDMA-based 3G offering that attracted 11.3 million customers and ended...
The crush of mobile device usage is indeed a worldwide phenomenon with global handset adoption on track to surpass the six billion subscriber mark bolstered by continued growth in developing countries and more established countries seeing penetration levels blowing past 100%.To support this tremendous...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.I was sitting at my desk on Sunday, Mar. 20, working on my upcoming Wireless...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.I was sitting at my desk on Sunday, Mar. 20, working on my upcoming Wireless...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.I was sitting at my desk on Sunday, Mar. 20, working on my upcoming Wireless...
Although AT&T Inc.'s acquisition of T-Mobile USA Inc. will be scrutinized by federal regulators, the deal ultimately could be approved, according to a new report from Medley Global Advisors L.L.C., especially as the proposed merger likely will happen during the 2012 election cycle.“We believe...
