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When President Obama visited Estonia last week to deliver a warning to Russia, he also drew the spotlight to one of the most connected countries in the world. Estonia was freed from Soviet rule in 1991 and the tiny Baltic country …

The wireless industry migrates to Las Vegas this week for CTIA’s Super Mobility Week, featuring keynote sessions with industry heavyweights including FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, Verizon Wireless CEO Dan Mead and AT&T Mobile and Business Solutions CEO Ralph de la …

Despite significant regulatory and economic challenges in Africa, several carriers are pushing ahead with LTE deployments and finding ways to reach customers eager for the high-speed mobile technology. In Africa, only 26 operators have commercially launched LTE in just 12 …

Nokia Networks announced what it claims is the first commercial carrier-grade telco cloud set to go live by the end of the year. Although the location and operator involved were not named, the announcement describes a launch that will utilize …

In a follow on to today’s earlier announcement, Nokia Networks continued with its pre-Super Mobility Week announcements. The latest focuses on WiMAX to TD-LTE Advanced migration. There are three topics addressed in this latest announcement. 3.5 GHz TD-LTE radio with …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. Dark fiber — the dirty word of early-2000s telecom — …

Nokia Networks announced a wide-reaching set of portfolio enhancements today in support of their Liquid Radio portfolio. As these announcements are touching on many different aspects of the portfolio, I will try to group them into sub-classifications. Carrier Aggregation In …

Saguna Networks announced today its work with Akamai to deliver content for mobile subscribers from 4G mobile base stations. The solution will be jointly demonstrated at 4GWorld/CTIA next week. The demonstration will show a content delivery network (CDN) operating within a …

The last couple of weeks I’ve focused primarily on Europe news, so in fairness, it’s time to focus on other parts of EMEA. Today we will focus on Africa. Highlights from last week’s news for the region show new offers …

Editor’s Note: In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this Reader Forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible, but we …

In the latest editorial feature report from RCR Wireless News, wireless infrastructure providers, tower company executives, industry analysts and recruiters are interviewed about current trends in the North American wireless infrastructure services market. Wireless operators keep pace with the relentless …

Enhance your understanding of VoLTE and rethink your own testing strategies with this eBook which includes commentary from some of the wireless industry’s most influential analysts and experts. Bringing VoLTE-enabled mobile devices and related services to market is harder than …

European carriers seem to be emphasizing the “Long” in “Long Term Evolution” technology. While the region is home to some of the world’s biggest economies, it continues to trail other developed markets in adopting LTE-based high-speed mobile technology, often referred …

Popular topics seem to always include LTE news, government oversight concerns (see the view in Germany) and customer service complaints. So we’ll go with these for today’s commentary. LTE Although it seems LTE deployments are moving slower in Europe then …

Sprint is expected to cut operating costs, but to continue investing in infrastructure… Sprint Spark investment expected to continue per plan Cost cuts and lower service revenue at the nation’s third-largest carrier are not expected to impact Sprint’s investment in …

New England-born and Munich-based, Claudia Bacco has joined the RCR Wireless News team as Managing Director – Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). As Managing Director – EMEA, Bacco will be responsible for expanding EMEA commercial and editorial efforts, contributing …

Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and Security. Having experience at an operator, software and hardware vendors and as a well-known industry analyst, she has many opinions on the market. She’ll be …

EMEA in Perspective is a Monday column focused on the identification of regional trends and outcomes of the prior week’s news. Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and Security. Having experience at …

Samsung’s network infrastructure business gets some of the blame for the company’s slide in sales and operating profit during the second quarter. The company cited its domestic market as well as overseas customers for a decrease in LTE investment, which …

LTE technology looks set to surge in customer acceptance, with Juniper Research forecasting one billion users in 2017, nearly doubling to 1.8 billion users by 2019. The research firm claims that growth will push LTE towards 22% of the global …

Amdocs recently released a study on the State of the RAN as of the end of 2013 in comparison to the end of 2012. Sure, we all know that data continues to grow, video usage continues to grow and the …

This Understanding Guide gives an overview of the Carrier Aggregation evolution in HSPA and LTE networks, discusses implication on the architecture and the User Equipment. A special focus will be made on the testing method to troubleshoot and evaluate the …

Last week I attended the joint shows of LTE World Summit and Connected Cars 2014 and there was a lot to talk about. Hopefully you’ve seen our coverage, but just to highlight a few topics we mentioned in more detail …