Yearly Archives: 2014

Towercrews.net Featured Jobs of the Week of 4/9

RCR Wireless News’ featured jobs section is powered by Towercrews.net   Tower Climber Seeking applicants with one year of experience in tower climbing and RF installation. Wyckoff, NJ   Communications Tower...

NetCracker clears the clouds

Wireless industry professionals may often feel they're swimming in an alphabet soup of acronyms: NFV (network functions virtualization) and SDN (software defined networking) are...

Alcatel-Lucent announces SDN-enabling tech

SDN took another step forward with Alcatel-Lucent's recent innovations.

SevOne strengthens log data analytics offering with acquisition

After closing on a $150 million round of financing from Bain Capital last year, SevOne is putting some of its cash to use. The...

Facebook to disable messaging, redirect users (RCR Mobile Minute)

Mobile Minute: Facebook is following up on its decision to pay $19 billion for WhatsApp with a plan to sunset its own messaging feature. The...

ZTE shifting from low margin strategy

ZTE is signaling a shift in strategy that could be good news for its competitors. The Chinese maker of network infrastructure and smartphones said...

LTE Innovation Summit: The promise, challenges of LTE

Long Term Evolution is indeed turning out to be a technology with a long lifespan, and the telecom industry is only in the early...

LatAm Wrap-Up: OECD says Colombia should empower regulator; Brazil’s 700 MHz auction

The Colombian regulator needs more power to increase competition in the telecommunications sector,  according to a new report from the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation...

Report: Infrastructure, including telecom, shapes real estate investment

A new report from the Urban Land Institute and EY says that telecommunications infrastructure is one of the top factors that influence decisions on real...

Cell Tower News: Airport climber falls; struggle for towers continues

Welcome to this week’s edition of cell tower industry news, brought to you by Towercrews.net. Our top story this week comes from Corpus Christi, Texas, where...

Editorial Webinar: Policy Control & Charging

Swimming in a sea of SDN, NFV, PCC, PCRF, PCEF, EPC, DPI virtual alphabet soup? You are not alone. RCR Wireless News attempts to...

Jury hears that Apple should get $2.2 billion from Samsung

Mobile Minute: The jury in the latest Apple/Samsung patent lawsuit has heard from an economist who says Samsung should pay Apple $2.2 billion for infringing...

U.S. Cellular to add 1,200 LTE markets

The fifth-largest carrier in the U.S. is expanding its LTE reach with plans to add more than 1,200 new sites this year in partnership...

Gogo to deploy in-flight Wi-Fi for Air Canada’s fleet

Gogo Inc. said today that it will begin rolling out Wi-Fi service on Air Canada's entire North American fleet next month. The airline already has...

Informa to merge its Ovum unit with Informa Telecoms and Media

Informa plc is merging its Ovum and Informa Telecoms and Media units into a single company. Steve Hotham, currently a managing director at Ovum,...

French carrier market shakeup―SFR sold, Bouygues may be next

After losing its bid to buy SFR, Bouygues Telecom might just be bought itself. According to the French newspaper Le Parisien, the number three...

AT&T to expand NYC subway coverage

AT&T has expanded its contract with Transit Wireless to bring wireless voice and data coverage to more New York City subway stations. The two companies...

Time Trippin’: Nextel dominates SMR auction; Qualcomm defends CDMA … 18 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...

Google reportedly looking at MVNO model (RCR Mobile Minute)

Mobile Minute: Google has reportedly talked with both Verizon and Sprint about reselling their wireless service under its own brand. The so-called MVNO (mobile virtual...

Samsung squeeze continues, profits fall

The world's largest smartphone maker continues to feel the squeeze as Apple keeps the pressure on the high end, and Chinese competitors push from...

EXFO acquires software company ByteSphere

EXFO Inc. has purchased the assets of privately-held software company ByteSphere LLC, which focuses on global IT management and network monitoring. Terms of the deal...

Radisys, Broadcom collaborate on small cells

Radisys Corp. and Broadcom have worked together on an integrated software and chip solution FDD and TDD-LTE small cells, and the technology will be tested...

Qualcomm raises the bar with new Snapdragon chipsets

In mobile chip news this week, Qualcomm has unveiled its newest Snapdragon chipset, Broadcom has teamed up with Amazon, and Freescale has agreed to...

Ixia to qualify mobile devices for use with Microsoft’s Lync

Microsoft has selected testing company Ixia as its official testing house for ensuring that mobile devices meet quality expectations when running the software company's Lync application. Microsoft...

Policy news: FCC authorizes use of additional spectrum

Policy news: The FCC makes a ruling that could affect LTE backhaul.
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