Telecom Italia may sell mobile towers in Brazil to American Tower for $1.1 bn
Telecommunication service provider Telecom Italia is likely to sell the mobile phone towers of its Brazilian unit to American Tower for $1.1 billion, said...
Huawei in pact with MegaFon to trial 5G for FIFA World Cup 2018
Telecom network vendor Huawei today announced it will tie-up with Russian telecoms MegaFon to build trial 5G networks in the run up to the FIFA...
Huawei partners SingTel to launch 5G innovation programme
Telecom network vendor Huawei and Singaporean carrier SingTel have announced plans to launch a Fifth Generation (5G) Joint Innovation Program.
The initiative, unveiled at an international...
Telecoms can save $29 bn by mobile data and video optimization
ABI Research today said telecom service providers can save $28.7 billion through mobile data and video optimization over LTE over a five year period.
TCO...
Telecom subscribers reach 957.61 mn in September: TRAI
Telecom subscribers have reached 957.61 mn in September, said TRAI.
The number of telephone subscribers in India increased from 951.84 million at the end of...
Tech Mahindra acquires Lightbridge Communications for $240 million
Tech Mahindra has acquired Lightbridge Communications for $240 million.
Lightbridge Communications (LCC), which has clocked annual revenues of $400 million, is the world’s largest independent providers...
Idea Cellular achieves 2 crore mobile subscribers in Maharashtra & Goa
Indian telecom service provider Idea Cellular today said it achieved 2 crore mobile subscribers in Maharashtra & Goa.
The Aditya Birla group company has 15,000...
Mobile data roaming revenue market to reach $50 bn by 2019
The size of the mobile data roaming revenue market will be nearly $50 billion by 2019, contributing 56 percent to global roaming revenues, said...
Indus Towers achieves 35000 green telecom sites in India
Indian telecom tower company Indus Towers today said it achieved 35000 green sites – diesel free—across 15 circles in the country.
The company plans to...
Qualcomm brings LTE multimode solution Gobi 9×45 modem
Chip vendor Qualcomm Technologies today introduced Gobi 9x45 modem, its fifth-generation LTE multimode solution, and QFE3100, its second- generation RF360 Envelope Tracker.
Qualcomm said these two products...
Telenor: Vivek Sood joins as CEO of Uninor, Rajeev Sethi for Grameenphone
Telenor today announced the appointment of Rajeev Sethi as the CEO of Grameenphone and Vivek Sood as the CEO of Uninor.
Grameenphone and Uninor have...
Telecom service provider VoIP and IMS market revenue up 5% to $1 bn in...
The telecom service provider VoIP and IMS market revenue increased 5 percent to $1 billion in Q3 2014, said Infonetics Research.
Product segments such as...
Ofcom to release digital terrestrial TV spectrum for mobile broadband
British telecom regulator Ofcom on Wednesday decided to release some digital terrestrial TV spectrum for offering mobile broadband services.
The strategy of Ofcom is to...
More broadband will generate $1.2 trillion of GDP growth in Asia Pacific
Increased broadband connections in Asia Pacific will generate $1.2 trillion of GDP growth and create up to 35 million new jobs by 2020, said...
VimpelCom inks partnership with Twitter
Telecom service provider VimpelCom today announced its partnership with social media network Twitter.
The Amsterdam-headquartered VimpelCom will launch free Twitter services aimed at its Vimpelcom’s...
Under Satya Nadella Microsoft emerges as world’s 2nd top firm
Under the leadership of its new Indian-American CEO Satya Nadella, Microsoft has overtaken oil giant Exxon Mobil to become the world's second most valuable...