Small-cell-as-a-service offering embraced by Chelsea Football Club
This week Ericsson announced decreasing sales across all business units including its managed services division, but Patrik Jakobson, head of network-as-a-service, a subset of the managed services unit, expects small-cell-as-a-service (ScaaS) to gain momentum in not only the...
Report: 5G service provider revenues will hit $269 billion by 2025
In a new report from Juniper Research, focused on the outlook for 5G development and commercialization, suggests operators in the Asia Pacific region are ahead of the curve when it comes to developing next-generation...
According to reports, the SoftBank CEO met with Buffett and John Malone of Liberty Media at Sun Valley conference
First it was a potential Sprint/T-Mobile U.S. tie-up, then MVNO talks with Comcast and Charter, and now published reports suggest Sprint is courting investment from Warren...
AT&T is jettisoning its long-time GoPhone brand, re-naming its prepaid service "AT&T Prepaid" (snappy!) and offering two free months of service on its $45 and $65 plans.
https://twitter.com/ATT/status/885227340103647233
Meanwhile, Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure has been talking up the importance of 5G network infrastructure investment -- and...
Anritsu this week launched a new test solution that supports LTE Advanced Pro features enabling up to 1 gigabit per second data throughput testing.
The Signalling Tester MD8475B, with a new hardware and software option, supports features including four-component carrier aggregation and four-by-four multiple-input-multiple-output with...
Plans call for NB-IoT to connect lighting systems, environmental sensors and flood monitoring
In the crowded landscape of connectivity protocols for the internet of things, T-Mobile U.S. is betting on narrowband-internet of things (NB-IoT) given a successful test project in Las Vegas, Nev., that will...
Google and parent company Alphabet continue to earn the ire of European Union regulators, who are contemplated a second record fine for the company after recently smacking down the company for favoring results from its own shopping service over others.
This week came the news...
EXFO says it will see improvements in 2018 due to restructuring
EXFO's sales were down slightly year-over-year to $58.5 million, compared to $60.9 million in the same period last year. Net loss for the company's fiscal third quarter was $4.3 million, compared to a profit...
NetScout introduces software version of nGenius packet visibility
Network monitoring company NetScout launched a software version of its nGenius packet visibility tool. The new nGenius PFS 5000 line uses white box switches, and NetScout says models can provide aggregation, replication and filtering at speeds ranging from...
Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories!
House passes bill...
According to the GSMA, worldwide mobile subscriber numbers have hit 5 billion. That's just actual users -- the GSMA says that mobile connections are actually at 7.7 billion. And those figures don't include machine-to-machine connections like all those connected cows.
https://twitter.com/GSMAi/status/874942141688156162
As Mike Quindazzi, managing director...
Keysight, Anritsu boost 5G testing support
"5G" testing support continues to ramp up, as vendors seek to support research, development and early field trials of pre-standard 5G.
This week, Anritsu launched a new spectrum analyzer with 5G testing capabilities including wideband test, its MS2805A. The analyzer can...
Sprint beat T-Mobile US this week, but I don't think they'll be bragging about the circumstances any time soon. Marcelo Claure edged out John Legere as one of the most-hated CEOs in America, according to analysis done by crowdsourced analytics company Owler.
The two wireless...
Verizon's interest in buying a cable operator is back in the news, and late last week the company made an announcement. It wasn't an announcement about buying Charter, and indeed the news was scheduled long before the Charter story broke. But Verizon's news is...
A smart building is any structure that uses automated processes to automatically control the building’s operations including heating, ventilation, air conditioning, lighting, security and other systems. A smart building uses sensors, actuators and microchips, in order to collect data and manage it according to...
Verizon's offering leverages Ericsson technologies
Drawing an already-close partner even closer, Ericsson will be deploying Verizon's managed Software Defined Wide Area Network service for its corporate IT, including virtualized security services and managed enterprise Radio Access Network solutions.
Ericsson's own technology underpins Verizon's offerings. In February, Verizon agreed...
Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories!
Cingular finally starts...
An investment firm backed by one of Wall Street's most prestigious hedge funds is financing a new company that will fund in-building infrastructure for enterprise customers. Tiger Infrastructure Partners, backed by hedge fund pioneer Julian Robertson's Tiger Management, will fund DAS and small cell...
Apple, Nokia patent deal settles intellectual property dispute
Apple and Nokia have settled all lawsuits in their intellectual property disputes and agreed to a multi-year patent license.
Most of the details were kept confidential, but the companies said that deal involved an undisclosed up-front cash payment from Apple...
T-Mobile US accused Huawei of stealing information about its "Tappy" device testing robot
A jury has awarded T-Mobile US $4.8 million in a lawsuit against Huawei Devices that accused the Huawei subsidiary of stealing information about a device testing robot which T-Mobile US had developed...
Update: The strike is now underway.
AT&T is facing a weekend strike of nearly 40,000 employees, with workers threatening to walk off the job at 3 p.m. ET Friday if the company does not "present serious contract proposals," according to the Communications Workers of America.
CWA said...
As the industry gears up for "5G", the expectations continue to be high that the next generation of wireless technology will be able to solve any problem that the industry faces: much more capacity, higher speeds, much less latency, the ability to handle billions...
Vendors increase support for AI, analytics, 5G
A number of product launches this week aim to help operators navigate an increasingly software-centric world by better leveraging their networks and moving toward becoming digital businesses.
At TM Forum, Netcracker made its most recent platform release with the launch...
AT&T is known as a cyclical spender when it comes to wireless network infrastructure, and the carrier's $6.5 billion FirstNet award is expected to swing the spending pendulum in a positive direction. AT&T will need to add equipment to its towers to support the...
