RCR Wireless takes a look at the regulatory challenges facing the wireless industry, including spectrum issues, potential for additional spectrum auctions, regulations on the second-hand spectrum market, M&A regulations and sitting challenges. As a special bonus, we will provide an annual FirstNet update. Bonus: FirstNet Public Safety Update Presented by CCA

RCR Wireless News Editor-in-Chief Dan Meyer was joined by esteemed guests, including long-time industry analysts Roger Entner, former FCC Commissioner Harold Furchtgott-Roth, former Senior Attorney with the Competition Division in the FCC’s Office of General Counsel Lawrence Spiwak and former FCC Wireless Bureau Chief Fred Campbell in taking a look at the regulatory challenges facing [...]

Service providers have been buffeted by the explosive growth in data traffic. Meanwhile many networks remain highly siloed and are becoming more complex even as service providers move to converge infrastructure and adopt more flexible cloud-based approaches. In this webinar, we’ll share some of the challenges that service providers have been facing, cover the key [...]

It’s no secret that the future of the enterprise network lies with wireless, especially as computing technology aggressively and constantly expands on a mobile level. But, to support the mobile device boom (which Cisco pegs at 50 billion by 2020), network engineers will need to find new ways to address the enterprise bottleneck beyond just “adding [...]

Supply-chain services provider Ingram Micro announced plans to acquire rival BrightPoint (CELL) for approximately $840 million in a deal that will further boost Ingram Micro’s dominance in the fulfillment services business. The deal is valued at a 66% premium over BrightPoint’s closing price last Friday. Ingram Micro noted the deal will expand its global geographic [...]

RCR Wireless News is currently livecasting the Wi-Fi Alliance’s Hotspot 2.0 specification and upcoming Wi-Fi Certified Passpoint certification program from Dallas. The event is being presented by the technical staff of the Wi-Fi Alliance. Details and the link to attend can be found here.

Leaked accounts that the latest round of interference testing to see whether LightSquared’s attempt to launch an LTE network would interfere with commercial GPS communications garnered a strong reaction from LightSquared, though that reaction did not refute claims that interference still exists. Reports indicated that the latest round of testing showed continued interference from LightSquared’s [...]

AT&T’s (T) attempt to focus its legal efforts on fighting a single battle against the government as it tries to acquire T-Mobile USA seems to have hit a snag as the judge overseeing the case expressed concern as to whether the court should even hear the proceedings following AT&T’s successful removal of its application from [...]

Michael Copps, a longtime commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission, said Dec. 6 that he would resign from his position Jan. 1 — or sooner, should Congress appoint his successor. “It has been a privilege and honor to serve for more than 10 years as a commissioner,” Copps said in a statement. “The FCC is [...]

The past couple of weeks have witnessed several industry events that could reshape what the wireless industry will look like going forward. Those events have been centered on the growing need for wireless carriers to get their hands on spectrum that consumers are devouring at an ever-increasing rate. The biggest news continues to be AT&T’s [...]