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U.K. telecom regulator Ofcom is looking to free up current spectrum bands reserved for 3G services for the deployment of “4G” services. The proposed move is in response to request from Vodafone Group and H3G asking that they be allowed to deploy “4G” services...

Cable television giant Cox Communications unveiled a Wi-Fi network for its high-speed Internet customers covering portions of northern Virginia. The service will be available for free to customers subscribing to the company’s Preferred, Premier and Ultimate tiers of service. Cox said the network currently includes...

Verizon Wireless wrapped up the sale of lower 700 MHz spectrum assets, announcing late last week that it sold off the remaining chunk of licenses to rival AT&T in a spectrum swap for $1.9 billion. The deal finalizes a stipulation on Verizon Wireless’ acquisition...

RCR Wireless News - Americas2013 Sponsorship ProgramsSince 2011, under the leadership of editor-in-chief Roberta Prescott, RCR Wireless News has been covering ICT and wireless industry news across the Caribbean and Latin American Region.  Prior to joining RCR Wireless News, Roberta was an award winning...

Chilean watchdog Subtel has set new service quality indicators for Internet, mobile and fixed telephony services that will be used starting this year. According to the minister of transport and telecommunications, Pedro Pablo Errazuriz, the new indicators will replace the national average as the...

Federal Communications Commission approval of the 2012 acquisitions (Softbank acquires Sprint Nextel; Sprint Nextel buying Clearwire; and T-Mobile USA

Peru’s unit of Telefónica has accepted the requirements imposed that the Peruvian government for renewing its operating licenses. Telefónica classified the conditions and terms required by the Ministry of Transport and Communications (MTC) as harsh and said that they are unprecedented. Follow RCR Wireless News—Americas...

Uruguay will auction spectrum frequencies in the 900 MHz, 1.9 GHz and 1.7-2.1 GHz bands. The Regulatory Unit of Communications Services (URSEC) announced that it has made the auction bidding terms and conditions  available to interested parties. The blocks to be auctioned are: According to...

Canadian telecom conglomerate Rogers Communications has announced a multi-pronged deal with Shaw Communications that includes an option to acquire Shaw’s spectrum licenses covering portions of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and northern Ontario. The full deal also includes Shaw selling its stake in Mountain Cablevision...

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...

Sprint Nextel’s attempt to acquire the remaining stake in Clearwire that it does not already control seems to have hit a snag as Dish Networks has thrown its hat into the bidding ring with an unsolicited offer that is an 11% premium over the...

Verizon Wireless continued to parse out spectrum licenses as it announced today that U.S. Cellular has agreed to purchase a 700 MHz A-Block license covering Oklahoma City and 31 other counties in Oklahoma covering 1.9 million potential customers. Financial terms of the deal were...

As 2013 begins, predictions invariably are the attention grabbing headlines. However, trends and some predictability and draw from past performance. Carriers are the foundation for service delivery and the keystone of the mobile ecosystem.

Bolivia is set to auction several blocks of spectrum in the 1.5/1.6 GHz; 1.7 /2.1 GHz; 1.9 GHz and 700 MHz nationwide. The Regulation and Supervision Authority for Telecommunications and Transport (ATT is its Spanish acronym) presented the bidding schedule for the 2013 management. Follow RCR...

Instead of the usual lists of predictions for the year ahead, the team at Maravedis-Rethink’s MOSA service thought they would try to project the key elements that will make up a successful business model for carriers deploying LTE

Wait … 2012 is over? What the what the?!? I was just beginning to get comfortable writing “2012” on all my checks and documents, my plans for the end of the world were just coming together and I was still

Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....

United Kingdom telecommunications regulator Ofcom released the names of seven companies qualified to participate in the government’s upcoming auction of spectrum licenses designed to support LTE-based services. Ofcom noted that bidders will include Everything Everywhere, which is a joint venture between Deutsche Telekom and...

Few wireless companies over the past five years have provided more fodder for news than Sprint Nextel, a time frame that is also the length in which its current leader, Dan Hesse, has been at the helm. Over those 1,800-plus days, Sprint Nextel has...

AT&T Mobility added to its spectrum bundle, gaining government approval for control over a number of 1.7/2.1 GHz and 2.3 GHz spectrum licenses from Comcast, Horizon, NextWave and San Diego Gas & Electric. AT&T, which controls AT&T Mobility, announced earlier this year a $650 million...

The Federal Communications Commission laid out rules for spectrum recently approved for use by Dish Networks, including build out requirements, as well as rules for 10 megahertz of spectrum it expects to auction off next year. The government agency noted that Dish Networks, should it...

Argentina’s president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced the entry of the Argentine state-run telecom firm, Arsat, into the mobile telephony segment as an MVNO player. Operating under the name Libre.ar, the new phone company will use 25% of the mobile spectrum, which according to...

The small cell market is set for a boost from the Federal Communications Commission, which today unveiled a notice of proposed rulemaking to create a “Citizens Broadband Service” in the 3.5 GHz spectrum band that “will promote two major advances that enable more efficient...

After much speculation, Sprint Nextel officially put in a bid to acquire the remaining minority interest in Clearwire that it does not already own. The offer, priced at $2.90 per share, is valued at a total of $2.1 billion. Analysts for the most part seemed...