Yearly Archives: 2014

TE Connectivity posts strong quarter

Wireless connectivity and distributed antenna provider TE Connectivity reported a strong second quarter performance, with net sales up 6% year-over-year to $3.43 billion. The company's...

Ericsson sales slip as North American builds slow

Ericsson (ERIC) saw sales slide 9% during the first quarter as the pace of mobile network buildouts slowed for two of its major North...

CTIA names Baker to replace Largent

Wireless trade association CTIA announced that industry veteran and former Federal Communications Commission commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker will take the reins of the trade...

Europe: Troubled TeliaSonera profits decline in first quarter

TeliaSonera, the dominant carrier in Sweden and Finland, saw its profits slip as mobile sales continued to slow. Sales for the carrier's main mobile unit...

Cellular baseband modem market analysis (Pt. 2)

Although the LTE modem market is still just a fraction of the overall market, it is by far the fastest-growing area, and is the...

Mobile patents: Samsung dominates in U.S. and Europe

Chetan Sharma Consulting has analyzed more than 7 million patents to create an in-depth look at the mobile patent landscape. The firm analyzed patent...

Analyst Angle: Two out of three: number of licenses, speed, cost

The FCC appears ready to continue the narrow channelization idea for the upcoming incentive auctions intended to reallocate up to 120 megahertz of broadcast spectrum to wireless broadband.

Time Trippin’: WCS auction fizzles; DoJ approve Bell Atlantic, Nynex merger … 17 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...

AT&T posts robust customer growth, strong interest in Next program

AT&T set a noteworthy bar for its rivals to meet for first quarter operational results, announcing strong customer growth and growing uptake of its...

Verizon report: 9 patterns of data breach attacks

Verizon's annual examination of data breaches around the world found that most of the 100,000 security incidents over the past 10 years fall into...

Cellular baseband modem market analysis (Pt. 1)

LTE represents the fastest-growing part of the cellular baseband market, but 2G and 3G solutions still dominate the market. Just 13% of the cellular...

3G, LTE boost China Mobile customer growth, profits dip

China Mobile said it added 13.88 million new customers during the first quarter of the year, pushing its world-leading customer base to more than...

Nike reportedly plans to abandon FuelBand (RCR Mobile Minute)

Top stories: AT&T looks to expand fiber into 100 markets AT&T hinted that fiber deployments may not be a done deal throughout all the communities it's...

Policy: AT&T threatens auction boycott

AT&T and the FCC go head-to-head in this week's policy news round-up.

Reality Check: ‘5G’ – moving beyond the hype

Today “5G” is not yet a newborn; and we, as its parents, are still trying to define its genetic makeup. As it is impossible to predict all the use cases of the future, we need to ensure that the DNA of 5G is as flexible as

Reality Check: VoLTE battery issues? Not really

In 2012, despite gains made in voice over LTE viability as a carrier option for delivering data and voice over 4G LTE networks through IMS cores, several industry pundits pointed out the elephant in the room:

AT&T looks to expand fiber into 100 markets

AT&T is looking to increase its push into the fiber space, announcing plans to expand its fiber network into as many as 100 markets...

Google expands Project Loon LTE testing to Nevada

Google recently expanded its LTE testing to include areas of the Nevada desert.

Amdocs study: Data accounts for 98% of network traffic

Amdocs has released its latest State of the Radio Access Network survey, and the numbers show that data absolutely dominates mobile networks, accounting for...

Facebook expected to launch mobile ad network (RCR Mobile Minute)

Top stories: FCC hints at 600 MHz auction bidding limits. A blog post by FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler hints at possible auction rules that could limit...

Nokia set to close sale of device unit

Nokia, the world's leading maker of mobile phones until two years ago, is set to close on the sale of its device unit to...

HetNet News: Time Warner launches HotSpot 2.0 nationally

This week in small cell, distributed antenna system and Wi-Fi news: -- Time Warner Cable has added HotSpot 2.0 technology on most of the Wi-Fi...

Birch offers $323M for Cbeyond

The enterprise-focused telecommunications space is set to consolidation as Birch Communications announced plans to acquire Cbeyond for approximately $323 million. Birch provides communications, cloud...

FCC hints at 600 MHz spectrum auction bidding limits

The Federal Communications Commission continues to make progress on setting rules for its highly anticipated 600 MHz incentive auction, with FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler...

Reader Forum: Next-generation service provider security – dynamic multi-layered defense

The concept of service provider security is undergoing a significant shift due to changes in several key areas: business, technology and the profile of the attacker.
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