Yearly Archives: 2014

Dish Network says it’s in on upcoming spectrum auctions

Dish Network said it plans to participate in the upcoming AWS-3 and 600 MHz incentive auction, according to a filing with the Federal Communications...

Infrastructure News: SBCs that scale; DAS underground and on the field

In infrastructure news this week, Target Field gets a DAS upgrade' New York's underground DAS shows its weak spots' and Sonus upgrades its SBC...

Cisco: NFV set to upend current wireless carrier business models

Virtualization is set to take the telecommunications space by storm as operators search for ways to more cost efficiently run their network operations in...

Cord cutting growth slows, 41% of US homes wireless only

Wireless continues to grow as the communication device of choice for U.S. households, but that growth has begun to slow. According to the most recent...

World Cup games shift network traffic peaks, increase app use

Facebook says that 88 million users generated 280 million likes, posts and comments related to the final match of the FIFA World Cup. Meanwhile...

Airbiquity on Google, Apple and connected car trends

Connected Car Trends Google recently announced its entry into the connected car market with Android Auto, a new competitor to Apple's CarPlay solution. Many auto makers...

Fringe benefits: Will XG-FAST help with small cell backhaul?

AT&T and Verizon Communications will almost certainly be keeping a close eye on XG-FAST developments at Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs, following last week's announcement that...

Verizon's Edgecast strategy emerges

Working for a Fortune 500 company has done nothing to dampen the entrepreneurial spirit of Edgecast founders James Segil and Alex Kazerani. The two...

#TBT: Motorola basks in Razr glory; rural carriers look at 3G … 8 years ago this week

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...

Europe: Secure home care that learns

Essence has been around for 20 years providing professional-graded security solutions. While not the first type of company that comes to mind when thinking...

LatAm: América Móvil to sell assets in wake of Mexican telecom reform

América Móvil has decided sell some of its assets to comply with Mexico’s new anti-trust telecom rules that forbid companies from controlling more than 50%...

Analyst Angle: NFV, SDN – the evolution beyond virtualization

Slightly tired by the hype around network function virtualization and software-defined networking – and by the fact that everybody has to find some way to add these acronyms to their slide decks –

Nation’s wireless leadership threatened by spectrum shortage

Wireless spectrum is obviously an important element to the commercial mobile communications market, as it is the medium in which consumers can walk-and-talk unimpeded...

Sprint zaps Zact, plans in-house service (RCR Mobile Minute)

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless Sprint is shuttering its Zact service in favor of an in-house customizable prepaid plan. Zact was...

Europe: Net neutrality alive and well? Not really

Flash Networks released its annual LTE study conducted at the LTE World Summit event regarding operator and subscriber views on the topic of net...

Video: Nokia's OSS role in LTE rollouts

Jane Rygaard, Head of CEM, Core and OSS Marketing for Nokia, spoke with RCR Wireless about the role her company's OSS efforts play in the...

Ovum: CEM to pace enterprise application spend

Enterprises are increasingly focused on the mobile environment, with many verticals dedicating a vast majority of their IT spending on ensuring a more complete...

IBM commits $100 million to big data analytics education in China

IBM announced a collaborative effort with Chinese universities to nurture skills in big data analytics through software donations worth $100 million, plus additional...

Alcatel-Lucent small cells integrated with Ericsson LTE network

As operators build heterogeneous networks to expand coverage and capacity, they want best-in-breed solutions and are ready to work with multiple vendors. Vodafone has...

Europe: Vodafone taps Alcatel-Lucent for Project Spring small cells

Vodafone selected Alcatel-Lucent as a "supplier of reference" for small cell and Wi-Fi technology as part of its Project Spring investment program. Through Project...

Policy: AT&T-DirecTV, Comcast-TWC deals receive oversight committee

The Federal Communications Commission has set up a steering committee to oversee pending deals between Comcast and Time Warner Cable and between AT&T and...

Analyst Angle: How much data is T-Mobile US giving away with Music Freedom?

When T-Mobile US made its announcement, the immediate question was “how much data are they giving away?” Obviously, music streaming services can use a lot of data in a day, depending on how many hours they are streaming.

Verizon claims 72,500 government subpoenas received over past 6 months

Verizon Communications said it received approximately 72,500 government subpoenas through the first half of this year requesting information on its customers. The information was released...

White Paper: Understanding Carrier Aggregation

This Understanding Guide gives an overview of the Carrier Aggregation evolution in HSPA and LTE networks, discusses implication on the architecture and the User...

Another team takes the field in race to standardize IoT

Within six years, the number of connected devices that are NOT smartphones, tablets or PCs will skyrocket to 26 billion, according to Gartner. The...
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