Yearly Archives: 2013

AT&T partnership offers MS in computer science through MOOC (Mobile Minute)

AT&T has said that software skill sets are increasingly important for its workforce, and now the carrier is partnering with the Georgia Institute of...

Analyst Angle: OTT as a revenue source for carriers

Over-the-top content providers may represent a new revenue stream for carriers, if they start paying for access to subscribers. Last week the Wall Street Journal reported that ESPN has

Analyst Angle: The mobile industry plays a fundamental role in developing Latin American economies

Between April 24 and April 26, the GSMA LA Plenary Meeting No. 39 was held in Bogota, Colombia, with more than 400 attendees from 19 countries including representatives from mobile operators, telecommunications suppliers,

Time Trippin’: Test-equipment market reinvents itself; paging satellite crashes … 15 years ago this week

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...

Reality Check: Opportunities and challenges of mobility, cloud computing and social media

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...

Mobile phone sales flat as smartphones support market

Surging smartphone sales kept the mobile phone market growing during the first quarter, but just barely. Worldwide mobile phone sales were up just .7%...

NSN, Ericsson, Huawei look to speed OSS deployments with interoperability initiative

Three infrastructure giants are looking to further the reach of operating support systems through an interoperability agreement designed to simplify the deployment and management...

Dish to offer $2.5B in notes to fund Sprint Nextel bid

Dish Network appears undaunted in its bid to out-bid Softbank for a stake in Sprint Nextel, announcing today plans to offer $2.5 billion in...

Sponsored Content: Corning Crosses New Wireless Frontier with the Power of ONE™

The explosive growth in smartphones and the proliferating demand for mobile Internet and mobile video threatens to overwhelm current network infrastructure and leaves the...

BlackBerry brings BBM to iOS and Android (Mobile Minute 5/14)

BlackBerry is bringing the popular BBM message service to iOS and Android devices this summer, and will add Skype to the operating system for...

Sonus continues to expand session border controller portfolio

Sonus Networks is targeting both service providers and enterprises with two new session border controllers that are designed to simplify network design and add...

Verizon Wireless set for $7B dividend payment to parent companies

Verizon Wireless remains the gift that keeps on giving, or at least to its parent companies. The wireless carrier is set to pay out $7...

Video startup powers mobile app for streaming live TV

Tonight thousands of New Yorkers will be able to tune in to "Dancing with the Stars" on their iPads and iPhones, as ABC launches...

Reality Check: In M2M, active antenna systems are critical to success

There are few markets as hot, exciting and challenging as machine-to-machine these days. Analyst forecasts are an obvious way to identify a hot market, but another is the number of vendors entering

Reader Forum: SDN and its benefits

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for...

HetNet News: Boingo expands in China; next-gen Wi-Fi devices on the rise

Wi-Fi provider Boingo Wireless announced agreements to become the first international Wi-Fi provider at three major Chinese airports: Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport (CAN), Shanghai Pudong International...

Clearwire letter to investors favors Sprint Nextel offer

Clearwire’s management continues to show its preference for an acquisition by Sprint Nextel, sending a letter this morning to investors urging them to approve...

Samsung announces ‘5G’ breakthrough

Samsung says it has found a way to transmit data in the millimeter-wave frequencies, offering the promise of speeds several hundred times faster than...

Zact uses customization tack to enter MVNO space

Mobile virtual network operators continue to push up-market in search of consumers. The latest to make the move is Zact, which is offering up...

Reader Forum: This is what the future of high-quality video looks like

If you manage an enterprise IT network, chances are that “high-quality video sessions” are the last words you want to see. As most businesses are still trying to figure out how they’ll deliver voice and

Reader Forum: Big data, business intelligence and customer analytics

Once you were what you ate. Today, you are your mobile device. Mobile operators have an intricate and involved relationship with their customers. As technology evolves, smartphones are becoming

LatAm Wrap-Up: Six Colombian telecoms apply for LTE auction; Telefónica’s Q1; smartphones increase

Colombia’s Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications has received six applications from telecom operators interested in participating in the frequency band auction aimed at...

AT&T brings mobile apps to life for people with autism

The word "connections" can mean many things to mobile service providers and their customers. For AT&T, some of the most mission-critical connections are those...

Mobile Minute 5/10: ESPN to the rescue?

Carriers who want over-the-top players to help foot the bill for wireless data may be making some progress. The Wall Street Journal reports that...

Test & Measurement: Ixia expands enterprise network test offerings

 Ixia announced new products for validating and testing the resiliency of enterprise networks, including the ability to simulate a data center rack of virtualized...
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