Yearly Archives: 2014

Analyst Angle: Value-added services fuel LatAm’s data communications market

Connectivity and bandwidth have become commodities in the data communications market. To differentiate themselves, telecom operators have been bundling

Time Trippin’: Wheeler pushes wireless stamp; wireless ‘bigger than the Internet’ … 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...

Analyst Angle: Offering zero-rated apps to drive mobile data adoption

Many Latin American operators have recently started offering free access or access without using data allowance for selected applications, generally to

AT&T’s new game plan for video

AT&T's new video venture could lead the carrier into partnerships with some of its direct competitors. The company is teaming up with The Chernin...

Mobile Minute: AT&T to launch in-flight LTE service

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. LTE will take flight next year as AT&T plans to launch 4G LTE service for airplanes....

Study: Customer experience programs boost growth

A new study of more than 400 global business executives has found that companies prioritizing customer experience initiatives "fare substantially better" across business measures,...

Sprint expands LTE, Spark

Sprint's fight to remain competitive against rivals includes its ongoing deployment of LTE services, which have lagged far behind the reach of its larger...

Nokia names new CEO, reports earnings

Nokia (NOK) named Rajeev Suri as its new CEO, elevating the leader of Nokia Solutions and Networks now that it has completed the sale...

Sprint customers continue to defect though financials improve

Sprint’s operational challenges continued through the first quarter of this year as the nation’s No. 3 operator continued to bleed customers while its financial...

Deloitte: Analytics can prevent financial crime

Analytics is an underutilized resource for dealing with bribery, money laundering and corruption, according to a new Deloitte survey. Tony DeSantis, principal at Deloitte...

Impact 2014: Cloud, mobile keys for IBM growth

LAS VEGAS — Cloud and mobile are key growth pillars for IBM. During the opening sessions of this week’s Impact event, held in Las...

Reality Check: Managing customers through technology and business transitions

Customer migrations are a fundamental reality for the telecoms industry. Well executed transitions are seen as non-events, but poorly-executed transitions can trigger

Reality Check: Enterprises need to prepare for new mobile world

Enterprises face significant disruptions to their business if they do not have coherent strategies to deal with the leading technology trends centered around the nexus of mobility,

Reality Check: First-quarter earnings drivers (Pt. 1)

An absolutely giddy CFO usually worries me on conference calls, especially when it’s the CFO of a company the size of AT&T. John Stephens’ ebullience showed throughout

Verizon reportedly wins payment deal from Netflix

Netflix will reportedly pay to play on Verizon Communications' FiOS network, after claiming for months that its video service was being throttled by Verizon....

FreedomPop adds iPhone 5, taps into Sprint’s LTE network

Mobile virtual network operator FreedomPop made perhaps its boldest move in the wireless space, announcing support for Apple’s iPhone 5 models. The devices will...

CEO: Range Networks moves from pilot to production

Range Networks is moving from the lab and pilot-project stage into more significant deployments of its open-source cellular systems and seeking to become a...

Report: Google explores public Wi-Fi hotspots (RCR Mobile Minute)

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. Google is reportedly adding Wi-Fi hotspots to its planned offering for cities that are candidates for...

WhatsApp prepaid SIM challenges carriers

Facebook is set to offer more voice and data services once it completes its planned purchase of mobile messaging service WhatsApp. WhatsApp is now...

HetNet News: Wi-Fi maximizes small cell investment, says ABI

ABI Research is arguing that operators should deploy carrier-grade Wi-Fi at the same time that they are rolling out cellular-technology small cells, looking for an...

DPI set for wireless boost, to hit $2B in sales by 2018

With wireless carriers looking to extract more revenues from their networks through the implementation of more dynamic pricing models, the deep packet inspection market...

Reader Forum: WEA – delivering emergency messages to increase public safety

While wireless carriers carry no legal responsibility for participating in the program, they may face significant business implications for opting out.

Reader Forum: Unfolding the mystery about ‘5G’

LTE-based fourth-generation wireless networks have become the new nexus of the IT industry. A multitude of companies – from handset makers to software developers and from network operators to e-commerce players

FCC set to limit sub-1 GHz heavy license owners in 600 MHz spectrum auction

The Federal Communications Commission looks set to limit bidding participation on some carriers for its planned 600 MHz incentive auction currently scheduled for next...

Killing the kill switch: California votes down anti-theft bill

California's state legislature has voted down a cell phone "kill switch" bill by a narrow margin. The bill would have required carriers to be...
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