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Even a year ago, FirstNet still seemed largely theoretical as it went through the planning process. But, with the agency having released its request for proposal in January, and expecting …

New York, Pennsylvania, Boston hit by Sprint network outage Sprint customers in the Northeast on Monday reported a network outage impacting LTE services. Reports of network problems began Monday morning; …

Voice-over-LTE trial set for Henan province ZTE launched a voice-over-LTE trial with China Unicom in China’s Henan province. The deployment calls for ZTE to deploy an end-to-end VoLTE solution including voice over …

While your coworkers complain about their NCAA basketball tournament brackets ahead of finals set for April 2-4 in Houston, AT&T has been busy upgrading its network in the area to …

Sequans is first to market with LTE Cat M Monarch chipset The massive scale of the Industrial Internet of Things—billions of connected devices and sensors seamlessly communicating—is enabled only by …

Qualcomm, a major proponent of deploying cellular in unlicensed spectrum using the LTE Unlicensed technology, is developing LTE-U small cells with partners Samsung and SpiderCloud Wireless. LTE-U is seen as …

On the face of it, voice is a disappearing species. According to the Ericsson Mobility Report, in 2010 voice traffic was 50% of data. By 2015, it had dropped to less …

Sprint CFO Tarek Robbiati says the struggling U.S. carrier is looking to the future and “5G” with its as-yet unspecified network improvement plans, which revolve around a densification strategy. Robbiati made …

French telco targets 75% LTE coverage by the end of 2016 French telecom operator Iliad, which operates in the mobile market through its Free subsidiary, ended 2015 with 3.7 million …

A new report from Twin Prime claims LTE is faster than Wi-Fi in most locations, while U.S. provides faster speeds across both Consumer demand for mobile data connectivity has placed …

Standards work on “5G” technology began in late 2015, and the first commercial networks probably won’t launch until 2020 at the earliest. But it’s not too early to begin pondering …

Verizon Wireless has been bullish on “5G” with plans to trial the unstandardized technology this year. Ever since Verizon Wireless announced those plans late last year, T-Mobile US executives, who …

The Google concept of providing rural cellular connectivity from specially designed balloons, dubbed Project Loon, could be tested on the vast Indian subcontinent, according to reports. According to The Economic …

DigiCell and Huawei plan to launch 4G LTE by year end Belize is set to soon be covered by a LTE network being deployed by DigiCell, a subsidiary of Belize …

Vivendi media group now controls 24% of the Italian telco French media group Vivendi increased its stake in Telecom Italia by one percentage point to 24%, further strengthening its position as …

Baicells, using Radisys software, is testing LTE-LAA small cell with China Mobile Chinese tech company Baicells has been making moves in the small cells space as of late, most recently …

Boingo transforming from infrastructure provider to managed services provider Mobile World Congress was decidedly a “5G”-oriented show, but Boingo Wireless CTO Derek Peterson was on hand to emphasize the long-term …

RCR Wireless News editors recap the highlights of Mobile World Congress 2016 Mobile World Congress 2016 was a jam-packed show with a huge emphasis on the future of “5G” and …

Promise of 5G will become apparent in LTE evolution In a wide-ranging conversation with RCR Wireless News during Mobile World Congress 2016, AT&T SVP of wireless network architecture and design …

ZTE will initially supply more than 200 LTE base stations for Rome project Italian Internet services provider Linkem selected ZTE to supply equipment for launch of a fixed wireless broadband …

ZTE said pre 5G tests will take three to four months BARCELONA, Spain – ZTE signed a memorandum of understanding with mobile operator Hutchison Drei Austria to deploy what it’s …

Senza Fili Consulting President Monica Paolini breaks down LTE-U, LAA and other issues from Mobile World Congress 2016 After her well-received presentation during the Small Cell Summit event, colocated with Mobile …

Arab telco has finalized LTE-A Pro tests in Kuwait BARCELONA, Spain – Kuwait-based telecom operator Zain expects to carry out tests of LTE-Advanced Pro technology, also referred to as “4.5G” …

The First Responder Network Authority extended the deadline for request for proposal responses, and released the first set of answers to the 402 questions on its RFP for a national public …

Ahead of Mobile World Congress, industry convenes to look to the 5G future BARCELONA, Spain – The data explosion driven by video-hungry consumers and the burgeoning “Internet of Things” brings …