The Indian mobile phone market jumped 2.76% in October to 706.69 million subscribers, according to the latest statistics from Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. The regulatory body noted the country’s mobile penetration rate now stood at 59.52%.Bharti Airtel Ltd. remained the country’s largest carrier...
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.Mobile broadband has seen something of a marketing revival with the arrival of new device...
Oslo, Norway - November 29, 2010 - Opera Software today announced a partnership with Entel Chile that will put a customised version of the Opera Mini mobile browser with widgets, developed exclusively for Vodafone, on handsets sold by the Chilean operator.
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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 pace at which the mobile industry is changing right now has made crystal-ball gazing more difficult...
DragonWaveNorth America: With Atlantic Tele-Network Inc. for the company’s Horizon packet microwave and pseudowire backhaul products to support its operations in North America, Bermuda and the Caribbean.Value: UndisclosedJordan: With The Blue Zone to provide a backhaul solution for the carrier’s WiMAX expansion.Value: UndisclosedBridgewater...
Microsoft Corp.'s long-anticipated update to its mobile device portfolio finally got off the ground today as the computing giant unveiled launch details for devices powered by its Windows Phone 7 operating system.The launch will include nine devices set to be available in time for...
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. This article is an excerpt from RCR Wireless News' July Special Edition, "Riding the...
Billing giant Amdocs says it has embarked on a “path to systematic innovation,” changing the company's mindset to reward developer invention from within the organization itself.Speaking to a room full of developers, press and mobile enthusiasts at the Aalto Venture Garage in Espoo, Finland,...
App developers hoping to get their offerings snapped up or funded by the carrier giants often have to endure a lengthy odyssey of between 23-26 meetings with upwards of 60 people, it emerged at the TC3 Telecom Council Carrier Connections conference in Silicon Valley Thursday.
Verizon Wireless named Andrew Davies vice president and chief financial officer. He replaces John Townsend, who has been named regional chief financial officer – Europe for Vodafone Group. Both men will assume their new roles Nov. 15. Davies most recently was CFO of Vodafone...
Verizon Wireless named Andrew Davies VP and CFO effective Nov. 15 when he will replace John Townsend who has been named Regional CFO-Europe for Vodafone Group plc. Vodafone owns 45% of Verizon Wireless.Davies is currently CFO of Vodafone Essar Ltd., the company’s Indian subsidiary...
Looking to appease shareholders, Vodafone Group plc (VOD), which is currently the world’s second largest wireless operator, said it was selling its 3.2% stake in the world’s largest operator China Mobile Ltd. Vodafone said the sale of more than 640 million shares of China...
The euphoria stirred up amongst Vodafone India customers after the announcement of unlimited GPRS for just Rs 95 ($2) a month has backfired badly after customers uncovered serious flaws in the service.
Battery life is a very limiting factor when it comes to using mobile phones in places where there simply isn’t any electricity, but thanks to Vodafone, the problem could be solved with a new solar powered handset targeted at the Indian market.
The economy may be tanking, but app developers aren’t suffering much, with a new report today claiming a whopping 25 billion mobile applications will have been downloaded by 2015, a figure that has skyrocketed from a paltry 2.6 billion applications downloaded in 2009.
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.Greetings from the 4th of July remote location(s) of this week’s Sunday Brief. (Note: if...
We all know what a pain roaming charges can be, but it would appear that roaming is an issue for carriers as well as customers, with one firm, Starhome, doing its utmost to soothe pain.
Editor's Note: This article is an excerpt from RCR Wireless News' May Special Edition, "Enabling the Mobile Revolution – Mobile Chips, Devices and Accessories." The 80-page special edition is available here.Long Term Evolution or LTE, a next-generation 3G technology that uses ODFMA (Orthogonal Frequency...
While the debate still rages about the effectiveness of mobile advertising, one firm, Amobee Media Systems, knows where it’s placing its bets, positioning itself between publishers and carriers in a bid to become the premiere one-stop-shop of mobile advertising, worldwide.
Not long after the truce between India’s famous Ambani brothers – who own Reliance Communications (RCOM) and Reliance Industries Limited respectively - the younger brother, Anil Ambani, head of RCOM, has sold off his firm’s tower business to GTL Infrastructure for $11 billion. This is the first time a non-telco player has gained a foothold in the highly lucrative Indian telecom infrastructure business.
Google's Nexus One is continuing its global sales tour, with Vodafone’s Australian branch - Vodafone Hutchinson Australia (VHA) - today announcing it is getting ready to sell the Google Nexus One in Australia, exclusively on Vodafone.
While the Femto Forum just released a white paper touting how femtocells can take traffic off the macrocellular network, AT&T Mobility's femtocell traffic still counts toward its total data usage as the femtocell is primarily designed to enhance the user's voice call quality experience.Worldwide,...
The nation's largest wireless carrier might not have the iPhone problem that's bogged down AT&T Mobility's network for years, but it knows that "explosions in data traffic" are coming.Verizon Communication Inc.'s CFO John Killian told Bloomberg that data-heavy applications and devices are already consuming...
