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AT&T confirms investment interest in Latin America telecoms

American telecom operator AT&T on Tuesday confirmed its new investment related interests in the Latin America mobile market. AT&T Chief Strategy Officer John Stankey said Mexico is...

How Apple iPhone 6 to generate extra mobile data revenue for telecoms

Telecom industry analysts are predicting that the launch of iPhone 6 smartphones by Apple CEO Tim Cook is set to assist telecoms to generate...
TIM in femtocell deal with Alcatel

Femtocell a small and confusing opportunity for telecoms

The size of the global femtocell market will be $4.2 billion in 2019 due to increase in enterprise unit shipments, said ABI Research. Earlier, a...

Are telecoms ready to reap $25 billion M2M revenue by 2019

Ovum suggests that global telecoms should gear up to reap machine-to-machine (M2M) opportunity that will reach $66 billion by 2019. Out of this, operator...
John Legere, CEO of T-Mobile USA, gestures as he speaks to reporters at an announcement event at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas

T-Mobile CEO offers helping hand to assist Sprint wireless customers

T-Mobile CEO John Legere is worried about the fate of Sprint wireless customers. He wants to assist them to come out of the current...

Sprint to break dominance of AT&T and Verizon in data market

Sprint, which has lost 864,000 retail subscribers in Q2 2014 and reported dip in corporate and wireless service revenue, has lowered rate of its data...

Indian telecoms 2G Capex heading for significant decline

Reliance Communications wants to cut down on Capex (capital spending), while Idea Cellular says GSM roll out will be completed in 12-18 months. These are...

How Reliance Communications reducing Capex plans

Indian telecom operator Reliance Communications plans to reduce its Capex (capital spending) to expand networks. The company is chalking out a multi-pronged strategy for lowering...
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Can Alcatel-Lucent convince telecoms on VoLTE quality against 3G CS voice and OTT

Telecom network vendor Alcatel-Lucent says – quoting a study -- its Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) provides better service than 3G Circuit Switched (CS) voice and Internet calling...

China Mobile Capex heading for significant drop this year?

China Mobile Capex (capital expenditure) for 2014 is heading for significant drop after the telecom giant spending $13.6 billion (83.8 billion yuan) in the...

Will Indian telecom regulator follow FCC in raising broadband speed limit?

Indian telecom regulator TRAI, busy with responding to questions from DoT and ministers, is yet to find time to recommend increase in broadband speed limit...
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Will TRAI bring relief to telecoms from OTT challenges?

OTT challenges have already impacted Indian telecom operators. Idea Cellular in May 2014 said that OTT is one of the main reasons for drop...

How Iliad bid for T-Mobile disturb US telecom market and Sprint especially?

Several telecom analysts believe that the low-priced bid by Iliad for T-Mobile US has the potential to disturb the American telecom market. Telecom analyst firm...
Mobile data revenue overtakes voice income

Telecoms set to offer customized data plans to boost revenue?

Considering the findings of Strategy Analytics research report on mobile data demands of consumers, it is time for telecoms to offer customized data plans...

TRAI charts mobile data speed quality: Airtel, Vodafone, Idea, RCom to feel the heat

With the TRAI on July 24 prescribing quality of services standards for mobile data download speed, top telecom operators Bharti Airtel, Vodafone, Idea Cellular,...
Vodafone 4G

How Vodafone 4G gaining momentum?

Vodafone 4G is gaining momentum in select telecom markets after the mobile operator announced its £19 billion Project Spring Capex (capital spending) program. Vodafone CEO...

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