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Android and iOS see smartphone gains, take 67% market share

Google’s Android operating system now makes up a whopping 39 percent of the U.S. smartphone market according to a new report from market research outfit Nielson. Google, claims the report, has seen its mobile operating system take an extra three percent market share since Nielson’s...

Ciena and Felix Telecom Bring 100 Gigabit Ethernet to Eastern Europe

Cenia | July 18, 2011 | Press Release Ciena® Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN), the network specialist, today announced that the Romanian Educational Network (RoEduNet) has chosen Ciena’s high-capacity coherent optical technology for the first live 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) network in Eastern Europe. The next-generation infrastructure,...

Telecommunications Agreement with Mexico Will Help Manufacturers

Shopfloor | May 26, 2011 This morning the United States signed an agreement with Mexico that should significantly improve the competitiveness of U.S. telecommunications equipment in the important and growing Mexican market. In 2010, bilateral trade in these products totaled about $25 billion. ..... Read full article here...

Kakao Talk aims to take on Facebook, Twitter

Yonhap News Agency | April 11, 2011 | Lee Youkyung SEOUL, April 11 (Yonhap) -- Kakao Corp., the developer of the fastest growing mobile messenger service in South Korea, said Monday that it plans to set up subsidiaries in the United States and Japan this...

International growth, domestic strength fuels American Tower’s financials

February 23 2011 - 1:22 pm ET | Tracy Ford | RCR Wireless News American Tower Corp. (AMT) posted strong fourth-quarter and full-year financial results, noting double-digital growth in both Q4 and full-year revenue and income. Going forward the company expects to earn between...

International growth, domestic strength fuels American Tower's financials

February 23 2011 - 1:22 pm ET | Tracy Ford | RCR Wireless News American Tower Corp. (AMT) posted strong fourth-quarter and full-year financial results, noting double-digital growth in both Q4 and full-year revenue and income. Going forward the company expects to earn between...

US to seek change in India’s telecom security policy, encryption rules

Economic Times | March 29, 2011 | Joji Thomas Philip NEW DELHI: The United States government will seek changes in India's policies on telecom security and encryption in its next meeting with the telecoms department officials here, an executive aware of the development told ET. Also on...

US to seek change in India's telecom security policy, encryption rules

Economic Times | March 29, 2011 | Joji Thomas Philip NEW DELHI: The United States government will seek changes in India's policies on telecom security and encryption in its next meeting with the telecoms department officials here, an executive aware of the development told ET. Also on...

Spanish-Language laptop sold in U.S. stores for first time

Fox News | March 24, 2011 Anyone who’s ever used an English-language laptop to type in Spanish knows it can be a big drag. Clicking the ALT key for accents, hunting down punctuation, figuring out how to regain your ‘at’ symbol—it can be enough to...

Huawei challenges U.S. government to find evidence of wrongdoing

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. appears ready to try just about anything to break into the U.S. market in a more meaningful way. While the company sits very much in the driver seat of the global infrastructure market, behind only Ericsson AG in volume, the...

China networking site Renren said to plan $500 Million U.S. IPO

Bloomberg | February 20, 2011 | Serena Saitto and Brian Womack Renren.com, China’s largest social- networking service, is seeking to capitalize on strengthening demand for the nation’s Internet stocks with a U.S. initial public offering. Renren.com is preparing an IPO of about $500 million this year, according...

Huawei's U.S. partner scales back

Wall Street Journal | February 9, 2011 | Shayndi Raice Chinese equipment-maker Huawei Technologies Co. and its U.S. partner Amerilink Telecom Corp. have significantly scaled back their partnership, leaving the future of the U.S. firm in question. The companies are still working on joint sales opportunities,...

Huawei’s U.S. partner scales back

Wall Street Journal | February 9, 2011 | Shayndi Raice Chinese equipment-maker Huawei Technologies Co. and its U.S. partner Amerilink Telecom Corp. have significantly scaled back their partnership, leaving the future of the U.S. firm in question. The companies are still working on joint sales opportunities,...

Telecommunications Companies in the U.S. Condemn the lack of action of the Mexican government against the Telmex monopoly in Mexico

PR Newswire | February 3, 2011 -- Telecommunications companies in the United States, represented by COMPTEL, express concern about the independence of COFETEL and hope it will achieve the autonomy to resolve the conflict of telecommunications in Mexico. -- COMPTEL demonstrates that despite years of complaints...

Telairity Brokers strategic partnership for installing national mobile digital network in Thailand

Telairity | January 31, 2011 | Press Release Thailand's IEC, America's Telairity, and China's CBC combine forces to implement new network; system will use CMMB (China Mobile Media Broadcast) technology BEIJING, Jan. 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Installing an advanced mobile digital video network throughout Thailand has taken...

U.S. review of Huawei/3Leaf under way

Reuters | January 28, 2011 | Diane Bartz, Sakthi Prasad, and Melanie Lee (Reuters) - Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei Technologies Co's $2 million deal for 3Leaf Systems is being reviewed by an inter-agency committee, the company said on Friday. The Committee on Foreign Investment in...

Huawei sues to alter Motorola-Nokia Siemens deal

Reuters | January 24, 2011 | Sinead Carew China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd HWT.UL has filed a lawsuit to block Motorola from selling one of its business units to Nokia Siemens Networks, demanding that the $1.2 billion deal be altered to avoid infringing on intellectual...

Huawei bulks up Canadian beachhead

Financial Post | January 19, 2011 | Jamie Sturgeon MARKHAM, Ont. - When Huawei Technologies Co. was rebuffed once again by a U.S. company last fall -- at the behest of lawmakers -- it appeared the Chinese telecom network maker's North American ambitions might finally...

ZTE Says U.S. Discriminates Against Chinese Telecom Equipment Suppliers

Bloomberg | January 18, 2011 | Amy Thomson ZTE Corp., the Chinese supplier of telecommunications equipment, is being denied the American Dream in the U.S., said its top executive for the region. “Because of miscommunications and misperceptions of politicians in the U.S., we believe that ZTE...

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...

Mobile tower sharing, leasing seen surging to 49k in 2015 – Regional

Business News Americas | January 6, 2011 | Patrick Nixon The number of mobile phone antenna towers that are shared or leased to third parties in Latin America could expand at a 20% CAGR from 2010-15, reaching 49,000, ABI Research practice director Aditya Kaul told...

Creativity counts

The US and China are each other’s largest trading partners and the two largest economies on earth. When discussing US/China relations, trade is predictably a central topic—and this year, a particularly contentious one. US politicians have decried China’s “unfair” trade advantage propped up by...