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How paranoid should we be about Huawei?
Recently, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence published a watershed...
Colombia telecom regulators seem to be moving toward enabling spectrum in the 700 MHz band, internationally known as the digital dividend, to enhance high-speed mobile Internet benefits in rural areas. The National Spectrum Agency (ANE) announced that Huawei, ZTE and Ericsson will conduct tests in...
China's Huawei has become one of the world's largest suppliers of telecom networking gear in part by undercutting its competitors' prices, so those competitors were keenly interested in this week's Congressional warning. The House Intelligence Committee is advising American companies not to buy network...
MetroPCS’ push into LTE continued today as the carrier announced plans to launch a new smartphone compatible with the carrier’s high-speed data network. The ZTE Anthem is the first LTE device for the domestic market for ZTE.
MetroPCS said the device will include Qualcomm’s dual-core,...
Worldwide sales of mobile phones to end users decreased 2.3% in the second quarter of 2012 to 419 million units, according to Gartner, Inc. Samsung remained the leader and accounted for 21.6% of the total market, higher than its 16.3% global share in 2Q11. Finland-based Nokia...
Companies committed to support the HTML 5-based operating system include Sprint Nextel, Deutsche Telekom, Telefonica, Smart, Telenor, Telecom Italia, ZTE and TCL.
The French company Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) has closed a deal with the Spanish group Telefónica to provide femtocells throughout Europe and South America. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The announcement was made on the same day that the...
June 20, 2012 - The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Huawei has joined Alcatel-Lucent in walking away from a BSNL contract bid that the Indian operator pegged at roughly $1 billion USD.
It was first reported yesterday that Alcatel-Lucent was walking away from the...
On consecutive days Nokia Siemens Networks and Ericsson announced deals to supply Softbank Mobile with LTE RAN equipment in support of the operator’s nationwide deployment which is expected to commence during the second half of 2012. In many ways, the consecutive announcements – which...
Broadcom CEO Scott McGregor spoke with RCR Wireless News during the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas about Broadcom's Wi-Fi initiatives. While this was clearly one of the event’s top stories, McGregor’s comments about hiring and investing caught our attention as well.
"Last year...
Despite reports that Apple's share in the smartphone market of China has slipped in Q3 and Q4 of 2011, the company had an exceptional fourth quarter globally by selling 35.5 million smartphones to end users, a 121.4% increase year on year.
Shares of Chinese handset maker ZTE Corporation (0763.HK) rebounded a bit today after plunging Thursday on concerns about the company's lawsuit with Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) and worries about its 2011 results, which have yet to be announced. Ericsson shares were flat after it released...
Near field communication (NFC) is on its way to getting launched in Brazil and could become a reality at the end of this year, told RCR Wireless News Mustafa Almansur, NFC programme leader for the Brazilian market at GSMA, a global association whose members represent more than...
One of the biggest stories of 2012 will be whether anyone credibly challenges Apple and Google in mobile phones and the apps, content and services ecosystems that support them. Time is running out for Microsoft and RIM to convert consumers upgrading from featurephones; stealing subscribers away from iOS and Android will be an even more difficult task.
PCS Wireless has signed a deal to distribute a range of ZTE devices to U.S. and Canadian carriers, saying the companies will target regional carriers. "This agreement with ZTE begins a new chapter for PCS by expanding our open market distribution activities into regional...
The market for LTE base stations in the Asia Pacific region is set for a new top dog this year, according to a report from NPD In-Stat. The region has seen the markets seven largest players – Alcatel-Lucent (ALU), Ericsson (ERIC), Huawei, NEC, Nokia...
The company that manufactures the Apple iPad will start manufacturing in Brazil, said the Science and Technology Minister Aloizio Mercadante. Yesterday the Brazilian government reported that president Dilma Rousseff had a meeting with Foxconn president Terry Gou. The company expects to invest an estimated...
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology, in its 21st report, has express concern over the inability of the DoT to notice any security threats due to import of telecom equipments from different countries, especially China.
AT&T Mobility says it has something for everyone with its five new Android smartphones introduced today. From entertainment to business to social media, the company is clearly trying to market specific phones to different groups of customers.
The Motorola Mobility Inc. Atrix 2 is aimed...
ZTE | August 30, 2011 | Press Release
August 30, 2011, Shenzhen, China – ZTE Corporation (“ZTE”) (H share stock code: 0763.HK / A share stock code: 000063.SZ), a publicly listed global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, today announced a 21.52% increase in...
ZTE| August 25, 2011 | Press Release
25 August 2011, Shenzhen, China – ZTE Corporation (“ZTE”) (H share stock code: 0763.HK / A share stock code: 000063.SZ), a publicly-listed global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, today announced that it is to launch the...
