American Tower had a strong first quarter, driven by LTE rollouts and continued network investment from the four major U.S. carriers. The company’s total revenue grew 15% year-over-year to $802.7 million for the quarter. Jim Taiclet, American Tower’s CEO, said that there is “robust demand for tower space.” “Leading the charge toward pervasive 4G services [...]

Ericsson says margins weakened during the first quarter as the company worked to win new contracts. The company says long-term trends are positive and investors seem to agree; Ericsson’s shares are up about 4% this morning. The world’s largest telecom equipment vendor earned 1.2 billion Swedish krona ($181 million) on sales of 52 billion krona [...]

Welcome to this week’s round-up of small cell, distributed antenna systems, Wi-Fi and other wireless infrastructure news.  A new report from ABI Research predicts that global LTE investment in base stations and the radio access network – including small cells – will increase by 82.4% in 2013. LTE spending helped to break out of a [...]

SAN DIEGO — Sprint Nextel Corp. is working to deploy a network that will be multi-band and multi-mode, including both FDD and TDD flavors of LTE, according to Doug Alston, director of technology and strategy for the carrier. Alston was speaking at the LTE Innovation Summit in San Diego, Calif., this week, which covered topics [...]

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

Powerwave has secured an additional $5 million debtor-in-possession credit facility as it works to find a buyer. The Gores Group is the buyout specialist financing P-Wave Holdings, which will provide Powerwave with a multiple draw senior secured priming term loan credit facility. P-Wave has already advanced to Powerwave $35 million of a $50 million line [...]

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 [...]

Wireless backhaul provider DragonWave said it plans to cut one-third of its senior management positions in a cost-cutting move and has altered its current working framework with Nokia Siemens Networks. The job cuts are part of DragonWave is calling “ongoing cost reductions,” and that it plans to provide an update on the benefit of those [...]

Two new reports look at trends in how communications service providers are monetizing and structuring their networks, and conclude that major change is underway in both network technology and in the ways carriers meet customer service demands. Maravedia-Rethink said a shake-up is looming in the radio access network industry as companies turn to software and [...]

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 [...]