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Hospitality industry welcomes wireless vendors

HITEC, the world's largest hospitality technology show, convened this week in New Orleans. Hospitatality is seen as one of the top five vertical markets for distributed antenna systems, and DAS vendors were a significant presence at the show. JMA Wireless used the show to highlight...

Telefónica signs 5G agreements with ZTE, Huawei

In addition to 5G, the deals cover IoT, cloud, network virtualization and CloudRAN Spanish telecom operator Telefónica has signed "5G" development agreements with Chinese vendors ZTE and Huawei. The European telco inked a memorandum of understanding with ZTE for the development of 5G and the transition from 4G...

MegaFon carries out 5G trial in St Petersburg

MegaFon said its 5G trial achieved internet speeds of more than 1 Gbps Russian mobile operator MegaFon demonstrated mobile internet speeds of more than 1 Gbps during the St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF). The test used Huawei network equipment and a prototype user device based on the Qualcomm...

Telstra to deploy 135 4G small cells in rural communities

4G small cells part of plan to cover 99% of the country by June 2017 Australian operator Telstra announced deployment of 135 small cells to provide 4G coverage to customers in more than 130 rural and regional communities across the country. This deployment is part of...

Quortus White Paper: MEC – rebalancing the mobile network

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is one of the most significant current developments in wireless networks, with immense promise to transform the economics of dense data networks and to enable new services and revenue streams driven by a broadened ecosystem. By providing a cloud IT...

CS&L to buy Tower Cloud

Deal marks second large fiber acquisition for CS&L REIT Fiber network operator Tower Cloud is set to be acquired by Communications Sales & Leasing for $230 million in cash and stock. CS&L is the real estate investment trust that was spun off from internet service...

CS&L to buy Tower Cloud

Deal marks second large fiber acquisition for CS&L REIT Fiber network operator Tower Cloud is set to be acquired by Communications Sales & Leasing for $230 million in cash and stock. CS&L is the real estate investment trust that was spun off from internet service...

Stockholm tops Ericsson’s global smart city index

Stockholm tops Ericsson’s Networked Society City Index 2016, a global smart city index measuring both sustainable urban development and ICT maturity in 41 cities around the world. Ericsson’s global smart city league table, the Networked Society City Index 2016, ranked Stockholm as the leading smart...

Happy World Wi-Fi Day!

From airplanes to meeting rooms, cafes to train stations, Wi-Fi is the connectivity option of choice for many mobile users based largely on its low-cost and ubiquity. And today we celebrate with World Wi-Fi Day, a special initiative from the Wireless Broadband Alliance. The idea...

Capex moving from macro infrastructure to small cells, C-RAN

New report from SNS Research estimates wireless infrastructure market 'relatively flat through 2020' As 5G takes shape, the telecommunications infrastructure and service provider landscape is changing rapidly. Macro deployments are giving way to small cells and other in-building wireless projects. In a new report from telecom-focused...

Apple Pay to launch digital wallet service in Hong Kong

Apple Pay service also coming to France and Switzerland Apple announced plans to launch its digital wallet service, Apple Pay, in new international markets including France, Hong Kong and Switzerland in the next few months. Apple SVP Craig Federighi also confirmed during a keynote at the...

Time to replace silos with smart city strategists

If they are to successfully cut across silos, smart city solutions need to be championed by a CIO with a strategic mandate In an ideal world, a smart city will deploy connected sensors that can capture and combine real-time data on everything from air pollution...

Swisscom partners with Ericsson to launch 5G research program

Swisscom and Ericsson aim to launch commercial 5G in 2020 Swiss mobile operator Swisscom has partnered with Swedish vendor Ericsson to launch the "5G for Switzerland" initiative in collaboration with local university Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne. The three parties involved in the "5G" program are currently...

Swisscom partners with Ericsson to launch 5G research program

Swisscom and Ericsson aim to launch commercial 5G in 2020 Swiss mobile operator Swisscom has partnered with Swedish vendor Ericsson to launch the '5G for Switzerland' initiative in collaboration with local university Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL). The three parties involved in the 5G program are...

What you need to know about MulteFire

Learn more about the MulteFire Alliance, hear from analyst Monica Paolini and see a demo from Qualcomm Spectrum is an incredibly valuable, but inherently limited, resource. Given that reality, the telecom industry has found ways to deploy cellular in unlicensed spectral bands commonly used by Wi-Fi....

Are there any whales left in the DAS market?

Compared to small cells, ‘DAS is better,’ Bandwidth Logic CEO said AUSTIN, Texas – The majority of high-profile spaces – stadiums, convention centers, transit hubs – that need distributed antenna systems already have them. Given that reality, what can the vendors and other stakeholders  do...

Ericsson 5G Plug-ins tap software for next-gen LTE agenda

Ericsson 5G plans now include “software-driven” Plug-ins designed to allow carriers to tap current LTE networks to support next-gen use cases Ericsson continues to push both its software and “5G” technology agenda, with the latest move combining both passions in the form of what it...

Analyst Angle: Best effort Wi-Fi no longer cuts it

It’s been more than 14 years since VoiceStream (now part of T-Mobile) bought the assets of MobileStar, which went bankrupt trying to build a public Wi-Fi network. Ownership is one way mobile operators can have greater control over the quality of experience (QoE) that Wi-Fi...

Network on demand key to 5G success (content provided by RCR and OcularIP)

As backhaul becomes more flexible and complex, make SLA monitoring simple The consensus is there will be a “5G” radio access standard by 2020. However, 5G networks will be much more than just radio access. There will be a foundational change as these future networks...

Feature Report: Scalability, ROI and the business case for small cells

How do you make a small cell financially viable? The technology has been slower to ramp than expected, after meeting substantial cost, logistics and RF challenges in the real world. RCR Wireless News looks at the status of the small cell market from home femtocells...

Editorial Webinar: Scalability, ROI and the Business Case for Small Cells

How do you make a small cell financially viable? The technology has been slower to ramp than expected, after meeting substantial cost, logistics and RF challenges in the real world. RCR looks at the status of the small cell market from home femtocells to...

KT completes PS-LTE network trial in Korea

KT was selected in 2015 by the government to construct and operate the network targeting the 2018 Winter Olympics Korean telecom operator KT completed what it claims to be the world's first public safety long-term evolution network trial, the Korean Times reports. The country's second-largest...

BBU emulation streamlines cell site deployment

Verify installation, configuration and operation prior to commissioning with virtual baseband unit In the tower industry, it’s important to get the job done right the first time. Unanticipated truck rolls and tower climbs drive up opex, which in a capital expenditure heavy business, can hurt...

Disruptive DAS: Smaller companies challenge traditional vendors

Just Home Property is an investment group that buys and operates residential apartment buildings in major metropolitan areas. The company owners are well aware that tenants want their smartphones to work in their apartments, and they also are well aware that wireless carriers will not...