Yearly Archives: 2015

Interest rates and the wireless tower industry

The Federal Reserve's recent decision to leave interest rates unchanged – for now – is a good one for the wireless tower industry. A capital-intensive industry, the three major...

Huawei to train 10,000 engineers in cloud tech

The Chinese ICT firm seeks to increase focus on cloud-based services SHANGHAI--Chinese ICT provider Huawei wants to increase investments in human resources for the development...

LG Uplus, Ericsson make deal for 5G, IoT development

Agreement between the South Korean telco and the European vendor will run until 2020 Swedish telecom equipment vendor Ericsson and South Korean mobile operator LG...

Driverless shuttles navigate Netherlands roads

As part of a sustainability project, two driverless shuttle vehicles called WEpods are slated to begin running a regular route in Holland beginning in...

Accident knocks out Verizon Wireless service in NC

911 service affected A severed fiber line at a construction site left thousands of Verizon Wireless and Time Warner Cable customers in central North Carolina without...

United Nations: 4.2 billion don’t have Internet access

UN commission is focused on bridging the digital divide In a report released Sept. 21, the United Nations Broadband Commission for Digital Development found that...

Ethernet inventor Metcalfe on innovation, IoT, more

Bob Metcalfe joins latest edition of RCRatx Speakers Series RCR Wireless News was joined this week for the latest Speakers Series installment by Bob Metcalfe,...

Reality Check: Lowell McAdam’s growth dilemma, and John Legere’s Donald Trump moment

End of summer greetings from Charlotte and Dallas. This week we will cover comments from two wireless CEOs as well as update the latest...

RCR Speaker Series: Bob Metcalfe – Creating Ethernet and the Road to IoT

Bob Metcalfe invented Ethernet in 1973 while working for Xerox in Palo Alto, Calif., and went on to serve in numerous roles with 3Com,...

Google FCC filing points to new Wi-Fi devices

Based on recent filings with the Federal Communications Commission, Google plans to follow on the release of its new OnHub router with more Wi-Fi...

EMEA: Deutsche Telekom innovates connected driving

Innovation is a key theme in telecom; so key, in fact, it runs the risk of becoming nothing more than a buzzword unless organizations have...

AT&T sues former employees for malware mischief

AT&T is reportedly suing three former employees for accepting money from another company to put unlocking software on its devices. The report names Marc Sapatin,...

Amazon issue impacts Netflix, Tinder, more

Cloud hosting facility in Ashburn, Va., is source of problem Amazon Web Services was fully functional on Monday following a Sept. 20 issue at a Virginia...

Sprint CEO on turning the carrier around

Claure comments on Sprint efforts related to market share, cost and network Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure last week spoke at the Goldman Sachs Communicopia event...

T-Mobile US reports 2.1M new subscribers

T-Mobile US’ subscriber base continues to grow. CEO John Legere recently told a crowd at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference in New York that...

FTC takes on health care app claims

Consumer protection body levies fines on apps designed to detect skin cancer and improve eyesight WASHINGTON – The Federal Trade Commission has settled charges with...

FCC to release data from $40B Special Access Market

WASHINGTON – The Federal Communications Commission’s Wireline Competition Bureau has announced plans to release data on the Special Access Market for the first time ever....

Maximize RoI from DAS, small cells with Anite in-building test solutions (sponsored content)

Get real time network performance metrics to make the most out of costly infrastructure deployments In the competitive wireless marketplace, customers expect high quality of...

Turkcell interested in TeliaSonera Eurasia assets

Turkish operator seeks to acquire mobile operations in four markets Turkey’s largest mobile telephony operator Turkcell is looking to appoint a strategic and financial adviser...

Huawei launches two new IT solutions

The Chinese firm unveils its OceanStore DJ Solution at the Huawei Cloud Congress 2015 SHANGHAI – Chinese ICT company Huawei has unveiled its OceanStore DJ...

Reader Forum: Latin America embraces the MVNO model

With all the challenges facing mobile network operators around the world – increasing competition, diminishing average revenue per user, network management costs, demanding customers...

Reader Forum: 3 key qualities for mobile innovation

Just 10 years ago, enterprise technology was tied to a desktop or workstation, iPhones did not exist. Social collaboration meant instant messaging. Can you...

Developing VR content

This week I'm talking to Daniel Buchanan of VARDNet. Daniel's startup is working with the University of Tennessee football team to develop VR quarterback...

Blurring the edge where cellular meets Wi-Fi

On this episode of HetNet Happenings, RCR Wireless News Sean Kinney discusses how the telecom industry is working to blur the line between cellular...

AT&T breaks down NFV, SDN progress

AT&T updates progress and challenges in move towards SDN and NFV future AT&T is viewed by many as one of the leading telecom...
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