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MCTEL may open Brazil office this year, addressing niche for USSD – Regional

Business News Americas | January 26, 2011 | Patrick Nixon France's MCTEL may open a new office in Brazil this year as it seeks to address niche market demands for mobile device management, messaging using USSD gateways and roaming solutions, MCTEL's managing director for Latin...

SK Telecom 4Q Net Jumps 48%; To Boost Capex in 2011

Wall Street Journal | January 25, 2011 | Jung-Ah Lee SEOUL (Dow Jones)--Brisk sales of smart phones and proceeds from a stake sale helped SK Telecom Co. (017670.SE) Tuesday post a 48% jump in its fourth-quarter net profit, but South Korea's largest mobile carrier still...

Telefónica and MasterCard create a joint venture to offer mobile financial solutions in Latin America

Telefonica | January 25, 2011 | Press Release The new company will offer mobile financial solutions to Movistar’s 87 million customers in 12 countries in the region • As part of this agreement, Movistar® mobile subscribers in Latin America will be able to use their...

UPDATE 1-Thai AIS to invest $326 mln on network expansion

Reuters | January 24, 2011 | Khettiya Jittapong * Most of budget is to expand 2G network capacity * To expand 3G services on existing networks by Q3 * 2011 revenue seen in line with industry's 3-5 pct growth * Shares down almost 5 pct on worries about...

@ UTC in Dallas with PPL Energy Services

Kenneth Hill covers the advantages of joint-use pole attachment between carriers and utilities and the major trends in infrastructure including the challenges of moving to 4G coverage.

Lie detection goes mobile in Austin

AUSTIN-Everyone is faced with a moment when accused of being dishonest. For instance, have you called in sick to kick off Austin City Limits or recover from your third day of South by Southwest? In an era of increased demand for efficiency, some businesses...

PT to seal deal with Brazil's Oi on Thursday

Reuters | January 19, 2011 | Samantha Pearson * Portugal Telecom to end up with 25.6 pct stake-newspaper * Oi to take care of fixed-line and mobile services * PT to be responsible for internet business SAO PAULO, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Portugal Telecom (PTC.LS) will sign a...

PT to seal deal with Brazil’s Oi on Thursday

Reuters | January 19, 2011 | Samantha Pearson * Portugal Telecom to end up with 25.6 pct stake-newspaper * Oi to take care of fixed-line and mobile services * PT to be responsible for internet business SAO PAULO, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Portugal Telecom (PTC.LS) will sign a...

RFMicron rides rising Wireless Tracking market in Austin

AUSTIN, Texas--A new wireless tracking trend may soon become a large part of mobile broadband applications. Locally, investment in the industry is starting to heat up. As the brainchild of RFMicron, Shariar Rokshaz graduated from the Austin Technology Incubator (ATI) in July 2010 with...

Telstra, Optus could face $50 million flood repair bill

The Australian | January 14, 2011 | Mitchell Bingemann THE nation's major telecommunications companies are facing a bill in excess of $50 million and three months of build time. This, to repair communication systems damaged by the Queensland floods, reported The Australian. Tens of...

NTT Com's Japan – U.S. Backbone Bandwidth Reaches 400 Gbps

NTT Com | January 13, 2011 | Press Release TOKYO, Jan. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) announced on January 13 that it has expanded the data-transmission capacity of its Global IP Network between the United States and Japan to an industry-leading...

NTT Com’s Japan – U.S. Backbone Bandwidth Reaches 400 Gbps

NTT Com | January 13, 2011 | Press Release TOKYO, Jan. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) announced on January 13 that it has expanded the data-transmission capacity of its Global IP Network between the United States and Japan to an industry-leading...

Supertel urges mobile operators to deploy more antennas

Telecom Paper | January 12, 2011 Ecuador's telecoms regulator Supertel is working with the Association of Municipalities of Ecuador (AME) to develop a draft ordinance to facilitate the mobile operators' infrastructure deployment, local newspaper El Tiempo reports, citing Fabian Jaramillo, Ecuador's telecommunications superintendent. According to...

Intel and Razer wow CES crowds with Switchblade mobile gaming concept

A little device which created a rather big buzz at this year’s CES was the new Mobile Gaming PC from Razer – dubbed the “Switchblade” - based on Intel’s Atom chipset.

Brazil to Expand Fixed and Mobile Telecommunications Services Nationwide Using 450 MHz Spectrum Band

CDG | January 10, 2011 | Press Release New regulations provide for more effective use of 450-470 MHz band for fixed and mobile broadband, telephony and multimedia services to bridge the digital divide COSTA MESA, CA — January 10, 2011 — The CDMA Development Group (CDG)...

iBasis Growth in Latin America Continues as Movistar Panama Interconnects for Fixed and Mobile Voice

iBasis | January 10, 2011 | Press Release IP-Interconnect Enables Panama’s Second-Largest Carrier to Bring High Quality, Low Cost International Calling to Customers BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--iBasis, a KPN company, today announced that...

Austin's bullish tech economy to be featured on CBS Evening News with Katie Couric

Report to highlight $3.6 billion expansion of Samsung Austin Semiconductor AUSTIN, Texas--The old adage of everything being bigger in Texas is often true, and the boastful economic figures reported by the Austin Chamber of Commerce are making a solid impression that the capital of the Lone...

Austin’s bullish tech economy to be featured on CBS Evening News with Katie Couric

Report to highlight $3.6 billion expansion of Samsung Austin Semiconductor AUSTIN, Texas--The old adage of everything being bigger in Texas is often true, and the boastful economic figures reported by the Austin Chamber of Commerce are making a solid impression that the capital of the Lone...

T-Mobile USA’s Neville Ray to Serve as 4G Americas’ Chairperson

4G Americas | January 5, 2011 | Press Release BELLEVUE, Wash. – 4G Americas, a wireless industry trade association representing the 3GPP family of technologies, today announced that Neville Ray, Chief Technology Officer for T-Mobile USA, has been re-elected to serve as 2011 Chairperson of the...

Sri Lanka delays move to restrict mobile SIM ownership

Lanka Business Online | Jayantha Kovilagodage | December 29, 2010 Dec 29, 2010 (LBO) - Sri Lanka is to delay a move to restrict the number of mobile phone SIM cards individuals can own after requests for more time from mobile phone companies, a senior...

Broadband connections in Venezuela grow 18 percent during first half of 2010

Adveriser Talk | December 2010 CARACAS, Venezuela – Cisco announced today the results of a new Cisco® Broadband Barometer study, reporting a growth of 18 percent in the number of fixed broadband connections in Venezuela, which represents a penetration of 5.2 per 100 inhabitants, during...

TCL Communication Selects EMOZE as its Mobile Push Email Solution

Trading Markets | December 21, 2010 | Press Release SHANGHAI, HONG KONG and LONDON, December 21, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- EMOZE Ltd. today announces a strategic world-wide agreement with TCL Communication Technology Holdings Ltd., to pre-embed the EMOZE push email solution on TCL and Alcatel...

Make your mobile phone theft-proof with F-Secure

MANILA, Philippines -In the country’s busy streets, at least one person loses his phone during the day. The grief of losing one’s phone, together with the fear of having personal messages and stored data in the wrong hands, intensifies this incident. Thankfully, Nokia offers a...

Tru launches its local rate-local number service in Australia

Tru, which we used to know as Truphone, has expanded its local rates and local number proposition to Australia. As a result, customers of Tru’s GSM service in the UK and US will be paying only local rates instead of roaming rates for all calls...