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Europe and US telecom capex
Source: Barclays
The story is clearly different in the US, however, where both AT&T and Verizon Wireless are increasing spending materially this year. Verizon Wireless is only lifting capex by 5% despite embarking on its upgrade from CDMA EV-DO to LTE, indicating that the [...]
VZW easing data caps, launching netbooks
Telephony Unfiltered reports Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ, NYSE:VOD) wants you to buy a wireless netbook. To entice you, it is easing up on its data usage restrictions. The CDMA operator today announced plans to offer the HP Mini 1151NR netbook with embedded 3G in stores, starting Sunday, and while it isn’t doing away with data caps [...]
Mobile World Congress (MWC): Observations from Barcelona
Last week the wireless industry met in Barcelona for the annual Mobile World Congress. I had the good fortune to attend the show and my company Sandbridge was an exhibitor.
The big announcement at the show was Nokia’s license to Broadcom of their modem IP. This legitimizes Broadcom’s cellular offerings on top of an already strong [...]