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If you’ve ever used hotel Wi-Fi, listen up. A major vulnerability discovered in hotel Wi-Fi devices could put your information at risk. The CVE-2015-0932 vulnerability has been discovered in a Wi-Fi device that many hotels use to provide Internet access …

  Upgraded DAS, Wi-Fi Hot Zone, Luneburg Lens included in Final Four deployment College basketball diehards will descend on Indianapolis for the NCAA Men’s Final Four championship April 4-6, and AT&T has deployed numerous hetnet upgrades to keep those fans …

ONOS project’s Blackbird SDN platform touts, ‘performance, scale, high availability’ The Open Network Lab’s Open Network Operating System project unveiled its Blackbird platform, the second release from the ONOS community targeting the software-defined networking market. The Blackbird release is focused …

Wireless networking vendors grew revenue, particularly from 802.11ac access points In a new market analysis report, Infonetics Research tallied some $5 billion in wireless local area networking gear sold in 2014, with 802.11ac access points powering growth. Infonetics reported approximately …

In some ways, Spain moves at a slower pace than the rest of Europe. Spaniards tend to get up later, eat later and go to bed later than the rest of the continent, but when it comes to mobile, Spain …

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 …

When Nokia agreed to buy SAC Wireless last summer, the North American wireless infrastructure business was just beginning to show signs of a cyclical slowdown. In the six months since, several major contractors have cut their workforces, but SAC Wireless …

All four major U.S. carriers – AT&T Mobility, Verizon Wireless, Sprint and T-Mobile US – have filed letters with the federal government approving SureCall cell signal boosters for carrier-grade deployments. SureCall announced on March 30 that the carriers have certified …

Acquisition brings InSite’s tower portfolio to more than 1,200 InSite Wireless Group on April 1 announced its acquisition of 294 communication tower sites from CTI Towers for an undisclosed price. The purchase includes towers, related tower-site equipment, real estate property …

The small cell market, depending on how it is defined, covers a wide range of technologies: small cellular sites, distributed antenna systems, and Wi-Fi. That range means a broad set of skills is increasingly being sought, even as companies are …

Startup company Twin Prime is seeking to speed up mobile content delivery by addressing the variability in the last mile of mobile networks, between the nearest cell site and the device. The company has been in stealth mode until this …

Service providers, enterprises targets of IBM’s SDN, virtualization, automation centers IBM is set to open a pair of “network innovation centers” designed to allow clients to take software-defined networking, virtualization and analytics-driven automation technologies and services for a spin. The …

As more users migrate to LTE networks supported by Internet Media Subsystem underpinnings, mobile operators have to deal with a rise in diameter signaling traffic. Cisco has reported that global mobile data traffic grew by 69% in 2014, and 26% …

Ericsson and SK Telecom plan 5G demo at 2018 Winter Olympics With commercial availability of 5G cellular networks projected for 2020 – the same year analysts expect there will be some 50 billion connected devices – Ericsson is ramping up …

NFV demo through partnership with Intel, OpenStack Oracle Communications claims that through a partnership with Intel and parts of the OpenStack platform is has produced the first successful demonstration of carrier-grade network performance using network function virtualization. Oracle said the …

Several federal agencies have agreed to explore collaborative testing to develop better methods of spectrum sharing, and are establishing a new joint testing network. The Department of Commerce and Department of Defense have established the National Advanced Spectrum and Communications Test …

Tasteless Apple image comes ahead of rumored smartphone release Leshi TV (LeTV) CEO Jia Yeuting this week posted a photo to his Weibo blog page that depicts Nazi leader Adolf Hitler wearing a red arm band feature the Apple logo. The image …

Wi-Fi shared by AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile US and Verizon By 2017, Transit Wireless expects to have a robust Wi-Fi network deployed in some 279 New York City subway stations. The company, which heads up the deployments, has already wired more …

T-Mobile US is betting that the combination of unlimited data, Samsung’s newest smartphone and free Netflix will be too good to resist. The “un-carrier” said that 179 million Americans are “stuck” in contracts or device payment plans with “old school” …

Brazil’s antitrust agency, the Administrative Council for Economic Defense, gave Telefónica the green light to acquire GVT on March 25. Following the approval, the local unit of the Spanish group announced changes in executive leadership. GVT CEO Amos Genish will take the …

While almost entirely theoretical at this point, 5G has already captured the telecom industry’s imagination. Although the technology isn’t expected to make an appearance in networks until around 2020, early 5G research and contemplation has begun, and some experts believe …

Sequans announces Verizon-certified LTE modules Sequans new Colibri LTE chipset, along with two of the French company’s LTE modules, designed for “Internet of Things” and machine-to-machine deployments have been certified as carrier grade by Verizon Wireless. The new Colibri chipset …

Research report projects 13.3 million public Wi-Fi hot spots by 2020 A new report from market analysis firm ABI Research tallies a total of 5.69 million public Wi-Fi hot spots currently deployed worldwide by mobile and fixed-line carriers, as well …

The Small Cell Forum recently released numbers showing that more than 10 million small cells have shipped to date. Analyst Stefan Pongratz of Dell’Oro Group said that small cells saw a “modest ramp” at the end of last year and …

Data pools are growing every day and, with that growth, companies are facing increased pressure to jump in head-first. Many startups are using data to gain an edge on their more established competitors, and executives are taking notice, with 53% …