Startup company Tapingo has seen rapid growth, launching its mobile food ordering application at 27 universities in the past 18 months. Tapingo allows students to place orders on campus at restaurants and pick up their food without waiting in physical …
Genband has extended its relationship with U.K. hosted communications provider iHub, and will provide unified communications services and secure SIP trunking to iHub’s enterprise customer base. iHub had previously deployed Genband’s Experius application server and its Continuum C20 call session …
In-flight Wi-Fi provider Gogo recently installed its 2,000th system in a commercial aircraft and launched a new product for business aviation. Michael Small, Gogo’s president and CEO, called the news “an important milestone.” Gogo went public in June and got …
Alcatel-Lucent continues to beat the drum for software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV), with the creation of an open ecosystem for service providers, developers and vendors interested in adopting NFV. The CloudBand Ecosystem Program was initially rolled out …
Research firm Mobile Experts expects to see rapid growth for distributed antenna systems, projecting that the number of DAS nodes will double between this year and 2016 and that more than half of DAS networks will include small cells and …
Nick Ilyadis, CTO of chipmaker Broadcom, sat down for a wide-ranging conversation with RCR to discuss the latest developments in Wi-Fi with the developing 802.11ac ecosystem; software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV); wearable wireless; and more. Check it …
Agilent‘s SystemVue platform for communications, aerospace and defense system design now supports high-performance distributed computing. Agilent said that allows next-generation system performance to be verified up to 64 times faster using Linux-based grid computing managers like the IBM Platform Load Sharing …
Ericsson has entered the small cell battle, launching its Radio Dot System that is expected to be available late next year and garnering early interest in the product from Verizon Wireless. The company boasted of a disk-shaped radio small enough to …
ABI Research expects usage of LTE networks to grow so quickly that the data traffic on LTE will surpass that of 3G networks within three years. The firm noted that while LTE subscriptions made up only 2.9% of the global …
The coverage of LTE networks is becoming ubiquitous enough that the market for single-mode LTE chipsets is growing, according to Altair Semiconductor. Eran Eshed, co-founder and vice president of marketing at Altair, said that while cellular phones still require fall-back …
Boingo Wireless has agreed to acquire Advanced Wireless Group, which claims to be the second-largest airport Wi-Fi provider in the United States. Terms of the deal were not disclosed; it is expected to close by year end. AWG provides public Wi-Fi …
Fluke Networks is aiming to shake up the test and measurement space with a new, very small in-building wireless test solution designed to make spectrum analyzers more widely available and cheaper for the testing of distributed antenna systems and small …
Local jurisdictions around the country are increasingly pushing building owners to install in-building wireless coverage for first responders, while those owners are also seeking better in-building commercial coverage for their tenants. “Building owners are caught in the crossfire, if you …
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and experiences. As smartphone use in emerging markets continues to explode, some emerging markets are growing faster …
Sprint turned on Long Term Evolution service in 34 markets today, mostly in the South and Midwest. The markets included Oklahoma City; Amarillo, Tex.; Greenville, Miss.; Montgomery, Ala.; and Salem, Ore. A full list is available here. The carrier now …
How are operators and teams handling wireless coverage on game day during this football season, with more smartphone subscribers and more advanced devices than ever before? Shahid Ahmed, North American networks practice lead for Accenture, talks with RCR’s Kelly Hill …
Test equipment company Anritsu announced that its equipment now supports TD-LTE carrier aggregation (CA) testing, claiming the slot as the first LTE network simulator that supports CA for Time Division Duplex (TDD) Long Term Evolution, the variant favored by operators …
The European Commission has unveiled a new “connected continent” plan that is designed to forge a single telecoms market in Europe that simplifies red tape for companies offering wired and wireless broadband, makes the market more attractive for broadband investment, …
A new report by CDW looks at integrating mobile technology into work environments, and found a “support gap” between how IT departments perceive their performance and the experience of workers using bring-your-own-device programs. The report is based on a survey …
As part of a major renovation of New York’s famous Empire State Building, the skyscraper is getting a new distributed antenna system from Extenet Systems Inc. that will provide better coverage for Verizon Wireless and Sprint customers up to the …
Anite says it now has PTCRB validation for the highest number of LTE-Advanced carrier aggregation (CA) protocol tests in the industry, after working closely with chipset and device manufacturers in the U.S., Korea and China to develop the test cases. …
Telecom services company Goodman Networks closed on its $102.4 million purchase of Multiband, and is in the process of another acquisition that marks its third deal this year. The company has made growth through acquisition a part of its strategy, …
Azimuth Systems introduced a testing solution focused on user experience and device performance, as well as assessing network conditions. The Device Automation and Control is a software solution allowing unattended application-specific testing of the user experience on smartphones and other …
Sprint Nextel said it is on schedule to shut down part of the network assets it received in a deal earlier this year to purchase markets from U.S. Cellular. Sprint said it will turn down the U.S. Cellular network in …
Spirent Communication‘s equipment was used to support China’s first public OpenFlow interoperability test event in China at the Global SDN Certified Testing Center (SDNCTC), a subsidiary of the Beijing Internet Institute. More than 10 software-defined networking vendors participated in the …
