Monthly Archives: November, 2014
EMEA: IoT World Forum Roundup
Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA for RCR Wireless News, has spent her entire career the telecom, IT and security. Having experience at an...
LatAm: Telecom Italia starts TIM-Oi integration study; Claro wins Argentina’s auction
After much speculation, Telecom Italia’s board of directors approved an investigation into potentially integrating its Brazilian unit, TIM, with rival operator Oi. Earlier this year, Oi saw its attempt to...
Global Telecom:Deutsche Telekom and Orange selling EE to BT?
British Telecommunications in preliminary talks to buy EE
Deutsche Telekom and Orange may be considering selling consumer network EE to BT. EE is the largest mobile...
White Paper: Unlocking the power of context to manage network growth
 A shift to better subscriber experience and network utilization
With the growth in mobile data, operators face more than an increase in the volume of...
Auction 97 tops $37.8B in bids for AWS-3 spectrum licenses
Through this morning’s round 36, total bids in the Federal Communications Commission’s Auction 97 topped $37.8 billion with 256 new bids placed in the...
American Tower to buy Bharti Airtel African towers (RCR Mobile Minute)
American Tower has agreed to buy Bharti Airtel's Nigerian towers for just over $1 billion. The holding company for Bharti Airtel's African operations will...
Discovering big data unknowns
Big data analytics often deal with identifying trends in known areas. But what about unrealized and newly emerging trends amid the spam? How do...
Sprint updates iPhone lease option
New plan extends payments over 30 months
Apple’s iPhone lineup continues to be a main focus for Sprint’s recently installed CEO Marcelo Claure, with the...
EMEA: IoT looks beyond just ‘things’
"Internet of Things" is one of the hottest topics around today. The projected figures for the number of things to be connected and the...
EMEA: BT in talks with Deutsche Telekom, Orange over EE acquisition
Following the BT Group's announcement that it was interested in buying Telefónica's O2, the company is now also in talks with Deutsche Telekom and Orange...
Analyst Angle: Will cognitive radio, dynamic spectrum access come of age in 5G?
Editor’s Note: Welcome to Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in...
Analyst Angle: Phones become luxuries and carriers become commodities
Editor’s Note: Welcome to Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in...
Generation Wireless: Shhhh … the machines are watching
Editor’s Note: Looking to bring a younger perspective to the mobile space, RCR Wireless News has tapped Jeff Hawn to provide insight into what’s...
White Paper: Transform Your Business With Mobile Apps
Proactively embracing the power of mobility in the enterprise
As mobility becomes an increasingly hot topic in the enterprise, business and IT leaders are beginning to...
Velocitel appoints new CEO
AT&T turf vendor Velocitel has named a new CEO effective immediately. Former CEO James Estes, who will continue with Velocitel as chairman of the...
Global Telecom: Telkomsel launching new IoT services
Indonesia's largest mobile operator Telkomsel is partnering for IOT/M2M Cloud services
Telkomsel is partnering with Jasper to bring "Internet of Things"/Machine-to-Machine services to businesses across...
IoT analytics and the challenge of big data for consumer companies
As the "Internet of Things" expands its reach, consumer goods companies are finding themselves with wirelessly connected devices and reams of data that offer...
Auction 97 slows to less than $500M per round, tops $36B
Big markets continue to feed record-setting auction
Bidders in the Federal Communications Commission’s Auction 97 look to be parsing back activity heading into the upcoming...
Nokia will work with Genband for voice-over-Wi-Fi (RCR Mobile Minute)
The rush to facilitate voice-over-Wi-Fi for service providers continues with a partnership that will place Genband's evolved packet gateway in Nokia Networks' mobile broadband...
T-Mobile US promises clarity on data speeds
Carrier to provide consumer tools for speed monitoring
Following an agreement with the Federal Communications Commission, T-Mobile US has agreed to provide more transparency to...
EMEA: The telematics hardware isn’t the story
Both Vodafone and Telefonica recently made announcements related to a stronger linkage in the telematics space. One is a partnership and one is an...
Mobile Midday News: Denmark tops ICT index
Denmark has overtaken South Korea as the most connected country on the planet and Ericsson has partnered with IBM to design a new phased-array...
Reality Check: All I want for Christmas is a stronger small cell network
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and...
Reality Check: How should the government regulate Internet interconnections?
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and...
Carrier Wrap: MVNOs top Consumer Reports survey; T-Mobile US adds more music
According to Consumer Reports’ most recent customer satisfaction survey, a trio of mobile virtual network operators came out on top among postpaid service providers,...