Mobile World Congress

DAS has had to take a back seat this week, as small cells appear to be stealing the infrastructure show at Mobile World Congress, with a fresh crop of product …

Building on its $840 million acquisition of BrightPoint last year, Ingram Micro debuted its Ingram Micro Mobility business unit, combining its existing mobile group with its BrightPoint assets. Ingram Micro …

Raco Wireless expanded its presence in the machine-to-machine space, announcing carrier contracts with Telefonica and Sprint Nextel. The deals include the integration of Raco’s Omega Management Suite that allows its …

As carrier networking has evolved, operators have seen new security threats grow, such as via instant messaging. “Spammers are sending to IM asking people to go a site, for example,” …

The two leading telecom groups in Latin America, América Móvil and Telefónica, are preparing to launch handsets featuring the Firefox OS. The companies released launch details at the Mobile World Congress …

Ericsson and SAP AG announced at this week’s Mobile World Congress (MWC – check out all pieces) that they have signed an agreement to jointly market and sell cloud-based, machine-to-machine …

While device makers are pushing to deliver download speeds of 150 megabits per second, chipmaker Sequans is promising speeds twice that fast through carrier aggregation. Carrier aggregation is the combination …

The world’s leading maker of smartphones and the world’s top credit card company are teaming up. Visa says its NFC payment software will be built into all future Samsung smartphones. …

AT&T seems to have usurped Verizon Wireless as General Motors carrier of choice for the auto makers OnStar telematics offering. AT&T reported today that is has signed a multi-year agreement …

Huawei knows its newest LTE smartphone is one of many new products coming this week at the Mobile World event, but the Chinese giant seems confident that nothing coming up …

Attempts to further global roaming abilities of the TD-LTE standard reportedly are progressing as the Global TD-LTE Initiative claimed that new testing had begun between operators in China, Hong Kong, …

As the telecom world increases its use of analytical and intelligence tools to better understand customer and network behavior, several players will use this week’s Mobile World Congress event (MWC—check …

While the wireless world begins its annual migration to the Iberian Peninsula for the Mobile World Congress event, I took a bit of a step back in time and found some unexpected comfort.

In thinking about what I expect from this year’s edition of Mobile World Congress, I don’t really have to look much further than my previous experience. I will eat lots of ham sandwiches

Employers are getting used to the idea that workers want to bring their own devices to work and connect to the network, but if that network isn’t fast enough they …

With the iPad 3 already generating a huge media buzz, this is would not be a good time for Apple to see customers reconsider their purchase plans due to concerns …

Due to the phenomenon of more and more data and video traveling over telecom networks, operators need to protect and optimize their data services, noted Radware’s (RDWR) David Aviv during …

Wireless carriers made it clear at this week’s Mobile World Congress that they are feeling squeezed by “over-the-top” content providers. The cost of building and upgrading networks to support exploding …

Nokia Siemens Networks says it will cut 3,500 jobs in Brazil after ending a big contract with Brazilian telecom operator Oi. During a press conference held at this week’s Mobile …

The integration of small cells and Wi-Fi has been a theme throughout this week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Just ahead of the show, Alcatel Lucent, NetGear and Broadcom launched …