Time Warner Cable is expanding a free Wi-Fi network for its customers in Austin, Tex., and plans to add hundreds of additional hotspots this year, the company said. The city-wide …
Kelly Hill
Kelly Hill
Kelly Hill reports on network test and measurement, AI infrastructure and regulatory issues, including spectrum, for RCR Wireless News. She began covering the wireless industry in 2005, focusing on carriers and MVNOs, then took a few years’ hiatus and returned to RCR Wireless News to write about heterogeneous networks (remember those?) and network infrastructure. Kelly is an Ohio native with a masters degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, where she focused on science writing and multimedia. She has written for the San Francisco Chronicle, The Oregonian and The Canton Repository. She lives in northern Virginia, not far from Data Center Alley.
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As part of quarterly results, we’re getting a few different takes on the market this week. Texas Instruments’ results came in at the high end of its guidance, with first …
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It’s a busy world in DAS right now – this week marked the HetNet Forum’s DAS in Action conference, and next week is the DAS & Small Cells Congress in …
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Juniper Networks’ revenues were up 3% year-over-year and down 7% sequentially, the company reported in preliminary results for the first quarter of 2013. Juniper had revenues of $1.06 million, and …
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NEW ORLEANS – AT&T prefers to build neutral-host distributed antenna systems, and actively plans deployments to accommodate other carriers in terms of space, power and location, according to the company. …
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NEW ORLEANS – Capital expenditure numbers make in-building wireless coverage a tricky proposition, according to speakers at this week’s DAS in Action conference. C.J. Maier of Verizon Wireless told an …
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Welcome to this week’s round-up of small cell, distributed antenna systems, Wi-Fi and other wireless infrastructure news. A new report from ABI Research predicts that global LTE investment in base …
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LTE Innovation Summit: Sprint’s multi-mode network, smart antennas and Wi-Fi
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillSAN DIEGO — Sprint Nextel Corp. is working to deploy a network that will be multi-band and multi-mode, including both FDD and TDD flavors of LTE, according to Doug Alston, …
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LTE-Advanced will be here sooner than you think, according to test equipment company Anite. According to comments from Paul Beaver, products director at Anite,”With LTE-A, services and applications such as …
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Google scrutinized shopping and online habits of wireless consumers, and found that people looking for mobile devices are thoroughly researching their purchases and being influenced by video content. Google relied …
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Welcome to this week’s news on Wi-Fi, DAS, and small cell deployments. In macrocell news this week, CommScope and international telecom company Ooredoo said that they are partnering on a …
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Test & Measurement: Agilent does Chinese OTA LTE testing; TI opens teaching lab
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillWelcome to this week’s round-up of news, products, and analysis in the network test and measurement space. Chinese test system provider Tri-L Solutions integrated Agilent Technologies‘ PXT wireless communications test …
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Ceragon cites operator hesitation on backhaul investment for weak quarter
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillDespite a backhaul market that is supposed to be booming, wireless backhaul provider Ceragon Networks released preliminary quarterly results that did not meet the low end of its guidance, citing …
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Two new reports confirm both the growth of video viewing, and that tablets are increasingly driving the market for video consumption. At the National Association of Broadcasters conference this week, …
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Two new reports look at trends in how communications service providers are monetizing and structuring their networks, and conclude that major change is underway in both network technology and in …
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Wi-Fi provider Boingo Wireless now has a global Wi-Fi roaming agreement with AT&T. The partnership expands AT&T’s hotspot access abroad, while allowing Boingo customers in the United States to use …
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Recent performance testing on LTE chipsets by Spirent Communications revealed some interesting results: the top performer wasn’t market leader Qualcomm, but Intel. Rather than focus solely on conformance testing, the …
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Whoever said “bandwidth is free” wasn’t speaking for operators trying to meet exploding user demands for video and multimedia content and communications, all while retaining customers and generating bottom line profits for shareholders.
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Welcome to this week’s news on Wi-Fi, DAS, and small cell deployments. Qualcomm has been named an official technology partner of Major League Baseball, and is partnering with the league’s …
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Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say …
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Anite‘s test solutions for 2G, 3G and LTE conformance and interoperability testing will be used in CanvasM Technologies’ new test lab in New Jersey. CanvasM is a subsidiary of India-based …
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Several major recent announcements in the SDN space reflect the high level of interest in software-defined networking, and network function virtualization — where software, rather than specialized network hardware, becomes …
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A recent report from network analytics company Actix on the state of mobile networks concluded that the vast majority of smartphone sessions are data-related and not initiated by the user. …
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While major wireless carriers have been putting their energy into keeping the customers they have, network equipment provider Range Networks has been working on innovation in rural wireless services — …
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Welcome to this week’s roundup of HetNet news. The city of Santa Clara, Calif., turned on free Wi-Fi service last week as part of an electrical grid project. Silicon Valley …