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Telecom Italia currently owns 60% of telecom infrastructure firm Inwit A consortium comprising Spanish operator Cellnex and Italian infrastructure fund F2i is the front-runner to buy 45% of Italian telecom tower operator Inwit, controlled by Telecom Italia, Reuters reports. Earlier …

New solutions to be based on SK Telecom ThingPlug platform SK Telecom inked an agreement with networking giant Cisco Systems to develop new solutions for “Internet of Things” technology, The Korea Herald reported. Under terms of the agreement, the two …

WOTW looks at this week’s Sprint network news and T-Mobile encouraging early morning drinking 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 …

The global data center market is expected to grow into a $22.73 billion business, according to research firm Research and Markets. The study predicts between 2015 and 2019, the industry will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 9.3%. …

As software-defined network architectures move into the mainstream, a number of challenges and trends are emerging. RCR Wireless News asked Roark Pollock, VP of solutions marketing for Ixia, to weigh in on the company’s perspective on momentum in the SDN and …

AUSTIN, Texas – Market outlook for small cells deployments, in both the enterprise and carrier segments, was a major point of discussion during Verizon’s In Building Technology Users Forum; SpiderCloud Wireless director of enterprise services Art King spoke with RCR …

Retailers this week are focusing on the relationships among mobile and big data analytics at the National Retail Federation show, with the mobile experience and retail analytics particularly expected to impact retail trends. “Mobile shopping continues to grow in its …

VC investments and M&A activity topped $600 million across NFV and SDN space last year Venture capital funding is increasingly finding its way into the virtualized software space, with firms specializing in network functions virtualization and software-defined networking garnering hundreds …

Stagnant growth in IT infrastructure investment to drive data center colocation market Information technology infrastructure is expensive. No matter how much data continues to transition to the cloud, it still needs a place to live in the analog world. With …

A deep dive into Sprint network overhaul reports, AT&T’s unlimited data and the future of FirstNet Lots of news this week, and we will cover two pieces (AT&T Mobility’s unlimited pricing plans and Sprint’s rumored network architecture changes) prior to …

HetNet Happenings Episode 45 looks at chipsets with Altair Semiconductor, Imagination Technologies and Nvidia The 2016 CES event placed a huge emphasis on the “Internet of Things” and how IoT technology is poised to revolutionize consumer, enterprise and industrial markets. …

CES 2016 Internet of Things (IoT) musings from the IoT Innovation gang. Listen in as Sean Kinney, Managing Editor – RCR Wireless News; Chris Hare, CEO – nTeTe; and Steve Brumer, Partner – 151 Advisors,  share CES 2016 Internet of Things …

On this week’s show we speak with Sonus on NFV and SDN trends we saw in 2015 and what to expect in 2016 For this week’s featured interview, we spoke with Myk Konrad, VP of go-to-market for Sonus, to get …

T-Mobile US’ new Binge On streaming video offering has reduced video data rates compared to non-Binge On video watching before the service was launched, according to new data from P3 Group. “The T-Mobile customer video data rate was reduced much less than the …

5 things to know today … 1. Apple could face an $8 billion tax bill, according to an analysis from Bloomberg Intelligence. The iPhone maker has been engaged in an ongoing dispute with tax authorities over its subsidiaries in Ireland. …

T-Mobile CEO Legere apologizes and AT&T offers up unlimited data? 2016 looks like a party!

With the emergence of the “Internet of Things” ecosystem, single-mode LTE chips have gained momentum beyond broadband connectivity. Altair Semiconductor has been focusing on single-mode LTE chips for more than a decade and recently opened a new research and development center …

On this week’s Carrier Wrap we dig into unique government solutions to meet spectrum demand Consumers’ insatiable demand for mobile data services has wireless carriers scrambling to bolster their networks. This includes the ongoing deployment of new network technologies like …

Continents, cultures linked by subsea fiber optic networks The world is becoming an increasingly connected place. In this wireless world it’s easy to forget all these connections require hundreds of thousands of kilometers of fiber optic cable to carry terabytes …

ADVA claims the deal will bolster NFV and cloud plans ADVA Optical Networking is set to boost its cloud and network functions virtualization efforts following its announced acquisition of Overture Networks. Financial terms of the deal were not released. According …

Alcatel-Lucent signed on to help Camapana, a Singapore telecommunications infrastructure firm, build what it claims is the first private subsea Internet  cable into Myanmar. The new cable, called the Myanmar-Malaysia-Thailand-International Connection or MYPHIC, is said to deliver 300 gigabits per …

How did we end up here? A history lesson In the beginning, there were six global wireless radio access network equipment vendors: Alcatel, Ericsson, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, Nokia and Nortel Networks. Subsequently in the mid-2000s, the emergence of the Chinese …

On this week’s Carrier Wrap, we dig into the growing push by wireless carriers into streaming video services Wireless carriers have had a tough relationship with streaming video services as such offerings are bandwidth intensive and tend to stretch cellular …

Openet claims free access to its open software designed to hasten NFV adoption Business support systems platform provider Openet is planning to offer its VNF Lifecycle Manager software for free beginning in March. Openet said beginning March 31, it will …

Rohde & Schwarz says it has combined five instruments into one portable instrument that weighs a little more than five pounds. The handheld oscilloscope is said to operates like a tablet but with the performance of a lab instrument. The new Scope …