Sunsight Instruments announced a new firmware release for its AntennAlign Alignment Tool, which ensures that antennas are installed properly to meet performance expectations. The new features include a simpler graphical user interface that allows operations to be conducted faster, and enhanced reporting tools. Sunsight’s equipment replaces magnetic compasses, relying on GPS to position antennas according [...]

Cell site solutions provider PCTel saw its revenues grow substantially during the first quarter of 2013, with $25.1 million in revenue – an increase of 46% year-over-year. The company said that its TelWorx acquisition accounted for 25% of the growth, with the remaining 21% of growth coming from PCTel’s pre-acquisition operations. PCTel specializes in antennas [...]

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 [...]

A new partnership helps enterprise IT departments do some of their own radio frequency testing to find interference sources in corporate WLANs. Bandspeed announced this week that its AirMaestro radio frequency spectrum analysis software is being integrated with some of Broadcom’s solutions to allow enterprise IT departments to find and mitigate sources of RF interference [...]

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 [...]

Software is becoming a key differentiator for mobile devices and networks, and companies throughout the wireless ecosystem are competing for software talent. Carriers, device manufacturers, chip makers, and test and measurement companies all need software engineers, as do communications and telecom software companies. Telecom and wireless recruiters find themselves competing with each other and with [...]

As 2013 dawns, the unprecedented growth in mobile data traffic shows no sign of relenting. The rapid spread of lower-cost smartphones, the continuing “4G” build out and the consumer trends

The webinar will address the operational and financial benefits of sharing wireless infrastructure. Specifically, participants will learn how operators can monetize non-core assets, save on future capital expenditures and realize reduced operational costs in deploying their networks; how communities will experience environmental benefits from shared infrastructure and see a reduction in the proliferation of towers; [...]