2014

Xiaomi cracks top 5 smartphone vendors Gartner has released its third-quarter report on mobile phones, which reveals that smartphone sales grew 20% in Q3 of 2014. Sales in emerging markets showed …

Auction 97 tops $43.7B as bidding continues to slow The Federal Communications Commission’s Auction 97 posted a slow start to the new week, as bidding activity in the FCC spectrum …

AUSTIN, TEXAS – Alicia Abella, AT&T’s AVP of the cloud technologies and services research organization, discussed the communication giant’s ongoing transition to operating on a telco cloud platform. In an …

4G Americas look back, ahead Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News over the next two weeks will begin to look back at 2014 and ahead to 2015. This will include retrospective …

Lawsuit claims Wi-Fi service costs consumers Comcast’s attempt to spread the reach of its Internet signal by tapping into its customers’ Wi-Fi routers has run into legal interference as the …

AUSTIN, TEXAS – With an industry target of 2020 to unleash “5G” on the world, the race to set 5G standards is ramping up. It’s still too early to tell …

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Editor’s Note: In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this Reader Forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We …

Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA for RCR Wireless News, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and security. Having experience as an operator, software and hardware vendor and …

Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA for RCR Wireless News, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and security. Having experience as an operator, software and hardware vendor and …

Following a brief surge of new activity, bidding in the Federal Communications Commission’s Auction 97 has again shrunk back to a tepid pace, though the FCC spectrum auction’s advancing record …

• Rohde & Schwarz announced this morning that it was able to simulate an LTE-Advanced network with three-component-carrier carrier aggregation in the downlink and sustain full protocol stack data rates …

Software is becoming an increasingly important part of telecommunication networks and deployments as both wired and wireless carriers look to add functionality to operations while increasing simplicity and reducing costs. …

Vertical Bridge buys over $500M worth of towers The holiday shopping spree continues this week. Last week it was American Tower buying up towers. This week Vertical Bridge struck two large …

The Federal Communications Commission is asking for comments on procedures for its planned 600 MHZ incentive auction, following up on a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking released by the FCC in …

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 …

MVNO service to target enterprise customers; launch late 2015 Story updated with small cell plans International mobile telecommunications provider Vodafone Group announced plans to re-enter the U.S. space through its …

Network traffic is increasing dramatically and signaling is set to grow even faster as a result of VoLTE and legacy interworking. The Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine to Machine …

More than 100 companies that have partnered with CommScope on distributed antenna system projects have been notified that CommScope will offer free DAS training for its partners’ female employees. The …

60 firms, including Intel, Cisco, Qualcomm, IBM sign letter to FCC President Barack Obama’s recent suggestion that the Federal Communications Commission bring Internet regulation under Title II oversight brought a …

Telecom giant adds Cisco, Ciena, Brocade to Domain 2.0 program AT&T continues to bolster its software-defined networking and network function virtualization plans, announcing the addition of Cisco Systems, Ciena and …

Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA for RCR Wireless News – has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and security. Having experience as an operator, software and hardware vendor and …

Oi’s board of directors has approved the sale of Portugal Telecom shares to Altice. The transaction is estimated at $9.1 billion and involves the transfer of all shares issued by …

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on …

Qualcomm has confirmed reports that it is eliminating roughly 600 jobs. The chip giant says that some of those impacted will be offered new opportunities elsewhere at the company. Fewer …