Tracy Ford

Tracy Ford is an editor with RCR Wireless News. She started with RCR Wireless News in 1990 as a reporter and has been covering the wireless industry ever since. Ford …

LightSquared Subsidiary L.L.C. said that it closed on $586 million of debt, led by UBS AG and JP Morgan. The funding is likely good news for the hybrid operator as …

Jobs in the computer sector improved in 2010, as did the overall economy, although the telecommunications sector did not fare as well, according to figures from the U.S. Bureau of …

RCR Wireless News Editor Tracy Ford talks with Sequans Communications Chairman and President Dr. Georges Karam.

RCR Wireless News Editor Tracy Ford talks with Declan Lonergan, VP Consumer Research, Yankee Group, at Mobile World Congress 2011.

RCR Wireless News Editor Tracy Ford talks with Rajeev Singe-Morales, President APAC at Alcatel-Lucent.

BARCELONA, Spain – Neustar Inc. and Hook Mobile are teaming up with National Geographic to show how their technology can enable mobile giving. Neustar has introduced its Neustar Intelligent Cloud …

BARCELONA, Spain – L.M. Ericsson signed a strategic alliance with Akamai Technologies Inc. to jointly develop solutions around improving the end-user experience on the mobile web. Ultimately, the combination could …

BARCELONA, Spain – Single radio access networks are just the beginning of how new wireless networks should be architected, said Dr. Bernhard Scholl, VP, Deutsche Telekom, during a panel at …

President of GSA Alan Hadden discusses HD voice technology with RCR Wireless News Editor Tracy Ford at MWC 2011 in Barcelona, Spain.

Carrier Panel: Dealing with the data tsunami. Panel discussion with Dr. Mike Short, Vice President of Telefonica Europe; Mark Yarkosky, Director of Product, Messaging and Content at Sprint Nextel; and …

Facts, Figures and Trends: RCR Wireless News Editor Tracy Ford and Chris Pearson, President of 4G Americas

Ronald Buschur, CEO of Powerwave, talks with RCR Wireless News Editor Tracy Ford about new innovation by Powerwave.

BARCELONA, Spain – Advances in small-cell technology made their way onto the show floor at Mobile World Congress, as both Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) and Powerwave Technologies Inc. (PWAV) made breakthrough announcements …

BARCELONA, Spain – Sequans Communications announced an initiative named 4Sight that allows operators to go forward with next-generation wireless plans, without immediately having to decide on whether to use the …

BARCELONA, Spain – I manage to attend Mobile World Congress about every other year, (someone has to manage the home fronts so Editor Dan Meyer and I trade off each year). …

Reaction to President Obama’s Expanded Wireless Access Initiative was welcomed by wireless industry groups, which used the platform to continue to promote their own agendas. The initiative, announced at Northern …

As President Obama lays out his wireless broadband initiative today at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Mich., the Federal Communications Commission is moving forward with its own plans to reduce …

RCR Wireless News will be broadcasting live beginning at 9:30 a.m. CET Feb. 16 from the LTE Forum @ App Planet during Mobile World Congress. The Monetizing Mobile Broadband session, …

The Wireless History Foundation opened nominations for the 2011 Wireless Hall of Fame. Nominations, which are due March 321, will be accepted in four categories: service provider; technology; industry associate; …

The Federal Communications Commission adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to try to reform the Universal Service Fund and Intercarrier Compensation system, both of which are “plagued with waste …

Bytemobile said it has updated its Unison Smart Capacity platform to help wireless operators increase existing network capacity by 50%, which is increasingly important as wireless operators try to keep …

Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for …

T-Mobile USA Inc. once again held the top position for customer service among wireless operators, followed by Verizon Wireless, in the newest J.D. Power and Associates survey. Not surprisingly, customers …