Editor’s Note: The RCR Wireless News Time Machine is a way to take advantage of our extensive history in covering the wireless space to fire up the DeLorean and take a trip back in time to re-visit some of the more interesting headlines from this week in history. Enjoy the ride! W-CDMA rollouts rev up [...]

Video, a Sprint executive said recently, is the killer app for mobile. But that killer app is killing operators, he added, by straining their networks and proving difficult to monetize. “In order to remain competitive, CSPs are not only seeking ways to hold onto existing broadband service revenue, but are also searching for new strategies [...]

Worldwide LTE network connections will pass 100 million this week, according to estimates by 4G Americas and Informa Telecoms and Media, with about 57 million of those coming from the United States and Canada. 4G Americas reported that there are now 172 operators in 70 countries with existing LTE networks around the world, in various [...]

Third-generation and “4G” wireless networks are facing a severe capacity crunch caused by massive data demand created by smart phones and tablet devices. Deployment of macrocells will not solve the problem since most of the demand is generated indoors. Service providers are moving towards heterogeneous solutions (3G/4G/Wi-Fi) consisting of a dense network of femtocells, picocells and metrocells [...]

Telecom analytics is one of the most exciting areas in the wireless business. In a very competitive environment, carriers have to give a deeper look at how they manage all data they have in order to give them advantages and monetization opportunities. Information without any intelligence is just data. In this scenario, analytics tools for [...]

Editor’s Note: The RCR Wireless News Time Machine is a way to take advantage of our extensive history in covering the wireless space to fire up the DeLorean and take a trip back in time to re-visit some of the more interesting headlines from this week in history. Enjoy the ride! Swedish survey links cell [...]

According to a new report from ABI Research, the evolution toward “4G” networks with flat, distributed architectures has significant market implications as wireless operators seek to improve performance by changing the foundation of how their networks are designed. Traditionally, the approach to mobile networks has been based on a hierarchical and centralized core network, ABI [...]

Editor’s Note: The RCR Wireless News Time Machine is a way to take advantage of our extensive history in covering the wireless space to fire up the DeLorean and take a trip back in time to re-visit some of the more interesting headlines from this week in history. Enjoy the ride! Verizon to shut down [...]

A major milestone for the new Hotspot 2.0-era for seamless roaming between Wi-Fi and cellular networks: the new Galaxy S4 smartphone from Samsung ships with enabled Passpoint, which is the Wi-Fi Alliance’s designation for devices that  support the Hotspot 2.0 standard. According to Ruckus Wireless‘ blog, the Galaxy S4 is the first device to do [...]

Editor’s Note: The RCR Wireless News Time Machine is a way to take advantage of our extensive history in covering the wireless space to fire up the DeLorean and take a trip back in time to re-visit some of the more interesting headlines from this week in history. Enjoy the ride! iPhone invades Canada Rogers [...]