Idea Cellular subscriber base growing faster than competition's
India's Idea Cellular added more subscribers than rivals last quarter, for a 64% profit increase. Idea Cellular earned more than $125 million in the third quarter, a dramatic increase from profits the previous year. Reuters reports that...
The latest research on mobile device market share shows Android solidifying its dominant position, despite a fourth-quarter flurry of iPhone purchases. Strategy Analytics said that 1 billion Android smartphones shipped last year, vs. 192 million iPhones and roughly 100 million smartphones running other operating...
Sprint and T-Mobile US helped boost Nokia Networks' financial results last quarter. Nokia said today that its fourth-quarter North American sales increased 95%Â over last year. Nokia is an LTE vendor to both Sprint and T-Mobile US, and both carriers are in the process of...
Chinese manufacturers are six of top 10
In 2014, Â smartphone sales totaled some 1.167 billion, an increase of 25.9% from 2013, according to a new report from market research and analysis firm TrendForce.
TrendForce’s Global Smartphone Analyst Avril Wu points out in the report, released Jan....
According to the GSMA, more than 65% of the global population will adopt smartphones by 2020, with emerging markets forecasted to lead this growth. In its 2015 forecast, global research firm Gfk states that seven of the 10 leading smartphone markets are emerging nations....
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Xiaomi has made it crystal clear that it's ready to take on the smartphone establishment. The Chinese devicemaker launched a new smartphone that shares its name with Samsung's popular Note, and is marketing it as a direct competitor to the iPhone 6 Plus.
Xiaomi Chairman...
Vendor financing deals total $1.8B, include Nokia Networks, Samsung and Alcatel-Lucent
More than a year after announcing its 2.5 GHz-powered Spark initiative, Sprint today announced it had signed $1.8 billion in vendor financing agreements with three equipment vendors and added $300 million in credit with...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and experiences.
The Consumer Electronics Show officially begins Tuesday, and 160,000 of us (including yours truly) will descend on Las Vegas to...
Before we turn the page on 2014, we thought we would take a look back at the past 12 months by highlighting what we felt were the top 100 stories across the mobile space. Since it would be foolish to rank these in order...
Nokia's new CEO said he hopes to grow the company through acquisitions, and now a German media report says Nokia is considering a merger with its direct competitor, Alcatel-Lucent. Germany's Manager Magazin reports that the two companies have been in talks since fall about...
Samsung Galaxy S6 coming soon?
The Samsung Galaxy S6 is rumored to be unveiled next month at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. South Korea online publication Chosun Biz reports that the Galaxy S6 will be announced on Jan. 6. According to analysts, the new smartphone...
SAP has announced two major deals: one with Nokia, to integrate geo-location data from its Here unit into SAP's HANA in-memory data platform, and one with Samsung to develop an enterprise mobility ecosystem based on Samsung mobile devices, including wearables for business applications.
SAP "plans...
American Tower said that third-quarter revenue increased 28% to $1.0 billion, and operating profit rose 26% to $666 million. The company ended the quarter with 69,519 total towers, only 28,394 of which are in the United States.
American Tower has been building and buying towers...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and experiences.
Mid-October, Samsung’s earnings dropped nearly 60% from the company’s operating profit a year earlier, and nearly 43% from the profits...
China Mobile continued to pad its lead as the world’s largest mobile operator, announcing it added more than 8.5 million net customers during the third quarter, pushing its total customer base to just under 800 million subscribers. While robust in any sense of the...
Samsung is trumpeting a Wi-Fi breakthrough that it says will offer Wi-Fi speeds that could rival the fastest fiber speeds available today. Using the 60 GHz spectrum band and beamforming technology, Samsung says it has achieved Wi-Fi speeds of up to 575 megabytes...
Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
Editor’s Note: Welcome to 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.
Pardon the pun in the title, but I could not resist. By now — unless you have been living...
Virtual Reality was one of the hot topics in the Samsung stand at Super Mobility Week. With its announcement prior to the show about its latest wearable, the Samsung Gear VR Innovator Edition there was a great deal of attention on the company. The announcement claims a...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and experiences.
Apple’s latest products announcement occurs just as CTIA kicks off. The timing couldn’t be better. Samsung reminded the world at...
Beating the iPhone to market seems to be the goal for device makers this week, with Samsung, Huawei and Motorola all launching new devices ahead of Tuesday's expected iPhone launch.
This week Motorola Mobility unveiled its newest Moto X smartphone. The 5.2-inch phone is just...
Fake towers make national headlines
Twice now we've reported on the use of fake towers — first back in March and then a few weeks ago when the FCC became involved. Now the rest of the nation is catching up as the use of "stingrays" or...
