BlackBerry canceled its plan to go private and instead will carry on with a new CEO, John Chen, former CEO of Sybase. Chen says he wants BlackBerry to focus on …
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Yearly Archives
2013
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Well, few could argue that it’s been a long week (month, year, years) for BlackBerry. This one-time proud (and oddly-named) non-polar bear or hockey monument
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The Wireless Research Center of North Carolina is newly certified as a CTIA Authorized Test Lab – the only one in the state. AT4 Wireless’ lab in Herndon, Virginia received …
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Leap Wireless (LEAP) says its Cricket prepaid service lost 140,000 customers during the most recent quarter, while the company lost $83.4 million on revenue of $694 million. Average revenue per …
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Apple’s launch of its 64-bit A7 processor has clearly turned up the heat on its competitors, even though there is still very little a mobile device can actually do with …
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Welcome to the weekly wrap-up of everything in the world of cell tower companies. We cover top-level industry stories, DAS, and regional/local news. Cell Tower News brought to you by …
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Root Metrics tests Canada’s LTE networks; Bell most reliable, Rogers fastest
by Dan Meyerby Dan MeyerRoot Metrics recently conducted network speeds tests and availability across three markets in Canada to find out which of that country’s three largest operators provided a superior network experience to …
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Goodman Networks Webinar: Thinking Big by Thinking Small – Keys to Successful Small Cell Deployments
by Kyle Welchby Kyle WelchThe wireless industry is in the midst of a major transition from Macro to Small Cell and Wi-Fi architectures to address the surging data growth and demand for additional capacity. …
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Days after gaining delayed approval on his nomination to head the Federal Communications Commission, Tom Wheeler this week unveiled the staff that will assist him in his new duties as …
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Welcome to our weekly wrap-up of everything in the world of telecom software. After last week’s focus on looking back, this week seems to be all about the new: new …
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Quality One Wireless has completed its acquisition of the assets of wireless device distributor PCD, saying the purchase price was north of $125 million. Quality One Wireless had previously submitted …
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With Samsung and Apple dominating the mobile device market, Qualcomm is feeling the pressure as these powerful buyers push for lower chip prices. Qualcomm (QCOM) is the leading supplier of …
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RCR Wireless’s tower jobs sections is powered by: Tower Climber/Field Tech Perform installations, maintenance, path and line of site surveys, network testing, including electrical, RF and optics. Austin, TX …
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Big changes are in the works for Brazil’s telecommunication policies. At the end of last week telecom regulator Anatel published a resolution on the 700 MHz band saying that an auction …
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Editor’s Note: Wireless operators are a busy bunch, and as such RCR Wireless News will attempt to gather some of the important announcements that may slip through the cracks from …
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Wireless backhaul provider Ceragon Networks unveiled a new platform for high-capacity backhaul designed to serve heterogeneous networks while integrating software-defined networking readiness. The IP-20 “supports any radio transmission mix, any …
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CAMPBELL, Calif. – A small company in California with a defense-contractor pedigree is looking to make a big splash in telecom networks, using a new dual-technology wireless connection for mobile …
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Regional telecommunications provider Ntelos continued to squeak out customer gains during the recently completed third quarter, a noteworthy achievement as many operators lacking a nationwide network to call their own …
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Citrix this week released a quarterly report detailing a variety of statistics related to the mobile industry, including statistics on application usage and e-commerce habits. This infographic was especially revealing …
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Incoming BlackBerry CEO John Chen says the company is not really in the smartphone business. “We’re not really in phones, but we’re in phones for software, for services,” Chen told …
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With true 4G networks only now beginning to see commercial deployments, telecommunications equipment giant Huawei is looking to the future announcing plans to spend at least $600 million by 2018 …
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Longtime Sprint partner Ericsson will not be a supplier for Sprint Spark, the carrier’s upcoming TD-LTE network, but the telecom equipment giant will still have an important role to play. …
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Service providers seeking to become more agile businesses face the complex reality that the very systems that have brought them success thus far are often a huge hindrance to their …
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Time Trippin’: The move to wireless data; spectrum needs rise … 14 years ago this week
by Dan Meyerby Dan MeyerEditor’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 …
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Spectrum is the foundational element of the wireless industry. For those who have tracked the industry for a while, carriers are constantly on the hunt for more spectrum to fill in order to