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On this week’s Carrier Wrap we will look at some of the top carrier news from the past week and talk with FreedomPop about its funding fueled expansion This week we have a featured interview with Stephen Stokols, CEO and …

P3 Group, QuEST Forum and Metrinomics have partnered on new customer experience management services that seek to provide the telecom industry with a more complete view of wireless customers’ experience by leveraging a combination of objective, on-device performance data along …

Small cells could signal a ‘new neutral’ Neutral host providers like ExteNet Systems and Mobilitie foresee a shift in their business models as network architectures become more distributed. The term “neutral host” means these companies host different carriers on shared …

APAC leads global LTE connections in market share The global LTE and LTE-Advanced market reached 1.068 billion connections by the end of 2015, following 156 million net additions during the final three months of the year and 552.2 million for …

Advanced ‘5G’ use cases will require global interoperability and scalability; International Telecommunication Union is working away on ultimate standard The tactile Internet, autonomous vehicles and smart cities; all these things are expected to hit new levels of penetration and utility …

On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check, we look at some top news items from across the space as well as speak with A10 about DDoS attack security for NFV- and SDN-powered networks On today’s show we have an interview with …

Worst of the Week is all about 5G progress, but asks that we first make sure we finish what we started with 4G Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff …

Affirmed Networks, Procera, ACG Research, Vasona weigh-in on NFV Network functions virtualization has come a long way in the last year, according to experts, who have noted movement from discussion to actual deployments on live networks. ACG Research CEO Ray …

AT&T, Telit, ARM, F-Secure talk IoT during Mobile World Congress The “Internet of Things” promises to change the way we all live and work, according to myriad discussions during the recent Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain. Consumer and …

AT&T begin throttling unlimited data customers at 3 GB, Verizon closes call centers and Apple launches New iPad … 4 years ago this week Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to …

This week’s Carrier Wrap looks at 5G news coming out of MWC and Sprint brings back service contracts The recent Mobile World Congress event was chock-a-block full of news surrounding the ongoing development of “5G” technology. Vendors and carriers alike …

Ooredoo ended 2015 with 117 million customers Qatar-based telecom group Ooredoo posted QAR 7.97 billion ($2.18 billion) in fourth quarter revenues, down from QAR 8.37 billion in the same quarter last year. The group’s net profits for the quarter totaled QAR …

Amdocs aims to reach double-digit growth across target regions in 2016 North America remains the key market for Amdocs despite increasing growth from other emerging markets, according to Vincent Rousselet, VP for customer insight and strategy at the company. According to the …

Xirrus wants to make Wi-Fi as secure and reliable as LTE Most of us have seen headlines that say Americans value Wi-Fi more than food, friends and sex, at least in the short term. But if you read beyond the …

Redknee is an IIoT technology enablement platform processing 3 billion to 4 billion transactions every hour Redknee Solutions (TSX: RKN) CEO Lucas Skoczkowski provides RCR Wireless News with an overview of how Redknee enables industrial IoT solutions as well as an update …

Issues of site acquisition, backhaul and power have been significant small cell deployment challenges, but the industry is starting to get a better handle on how to address them – and as a result, small cell deployments began to ramp …

Firms explain the MEC demo taps edge video orchestration to support streaming content Nokia Networks and U.K.-based operator EE demonstrated a pair of mobile edge computing-enabled services run over a MEC-enabled network at the recent Mobile World Congress event. The …

Net loss of 1.83 billion euro in Q4 due to extraordinary factors Spanish telecom giant Telefónica recorded 11.88 billion euro ($12.98 billion) in fourth quarter 2015 revenue, flat compared to the year-ago period. The company’s net loss for the quarter …

The small cell market has seen its share of ups and downs in the past few years, with initial hype for the technology not panning out as quickly as many had hoped. But 2015 seems to have been a turning …

Beryllium is the fourth platform release from OpenDaylight targeting open source SDN In keeping with its periodic table-inspired naming architecture, the OpenDaylight Project recently rolled out its latest open source platform under the Beryllium name. The platform, which targets programmability …

WOTW gives full props to Samsung for taking lucky No. 7, but really hopes it draws a snarky response from Apple Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes …

The National Association of Tower Erectors’ annual conference is always a good opportunity to take the tower industry’s pulse, and this year attendees reported record turnouts in New Orleans despite the fact the Mobile World Congress event occurred at the …

ETSI said it has tasked its OSM group to use open source software for MANO tied to NFV The European Telecommunications Standards Institute this week said it have begun work on using open source software for management and orchestration of …

Alliance set to focus on 5G trial specification BARCELONA, Spain – Korean operators KT and SK Telecom, Japanese telco NTT DoCoMo and U.S. mobile carrier Verizon Wireless formed the 5G Open Trial Specification Alliance targeted at developing an aligned “5G” …