Monthly Archives: December, 2012

The rise of cloud computing has led telecommunication service providers to examine their “big data” storage infrastructure with a renewed focus on improving performance and reducing costs.

Being in the telecom industry for many years has given me numerous opportunities to smile. For instance, just the other day a mobile operator PR guy was quoted as saying,

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

Research In Motion is selling NewBay to Synchronoss Technologies (SNCR) for about half of what it paid for the company 14 months ago. Synchronoss...

The Federal Communications Commission has approved the Pebble wristwatch, one of the most prominent products financed on Kickstarter. The Pebble watch uses Bluetooth to...

After several years of predictions and studies about how advertising will migrate to mobile platforms, a new research report from Berg Insight predicts that...

Editor’s Note: With 2012 nearly over, RCR Wireless News takes a look back at the top 100 stories from the past 12 months. The...

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...

As 2012 ends, let’s take a look at some of the leading Latin American telecom stories for the year. Below is a list of...

Wireless industry trade association CTIA said it was set to bring on five new members to its 2013 executive committee and announced its 2013...

Ubiquiti Networks is a San Jose, Calif.-based company that provides wireless broadband backhaul solutions, particularly in emerging markets. The company's VP of engineering at...

The semiconductor market is starting to recover, with smartphone silicon a key driver of growth. According to IDC's Semiconductor Applications Forecaster, sales of chips...

Qualcomm is looking to accelerate the semiconductor battle. Ranked third in Gartner’s list of top semiconductor vendors (by revenue), Qualcomm is aiming even higher....

Editor’s Note: With 2012 nearly over, RCR Wireless News takes a look back at the top 100 stories from the past 12 months. The...

Big data is nothing new for telecom operators, but monetizing it is emerging as a fresh opportunity. Integrating data from voice, data and video...

Samsung is asking the International Trade Commission to ban U.S. imports of wireless base stations and other telecom equipment manufactured by Ericsson. The Korean...

SBA Communications jumped into the Brazilian tower market, announcing today the acquisition of 800 “freestanding” towers from an undisclosed mobile broadband provider for approximately...

Bolivian mobile network operator Entel Movil, a subsidiary of fixed-line incumbent Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (Entel), launched LTE services using the 700 MHz spectrum...

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics...

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the...

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the...

This month marks the 20th anniversary of the first SMS text message, and while the mobile industry has been commemorating this game-changing technology, it’s just as important to note the significant role

The traditional definition of machine-to-machine is communication between two remote machines controlled by a central server. Now, mobile operators are viewing M2M on a broader scope by including the extension of connectivity to consumer electronic products,

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...

Ericsson says it will write down the value of its investment in ST-Ericsson by $1.2 billion, and that its third quarter earnings will be...