With partner Ericsson, initial Vodafone trial installed in Southwark
Vodafone and Ericsson are currently deploying portable mini base station radio units across London in an attempt to boost LTE coverage in the city. The base stations are said to be half the size and weight of...
Indoor and outdoor solutions expected to boost LTE coverage and capacity
Huawei and the Spanish subsidiary of U.K.-based telecom group Vodafone launched a joint network infrastructure initiative to deploy new technologies in Madrid.
The Madrid Tech City initiative is expected to provide local residents access to...
Western Europe will see the most growth in IoT connections, according to the Ericsson Mobility Report
“The ‘internet of things’ is expected to surpass mobile phones as the largest category of connected devices in 2018,” according to Rima Qureshi, publisher of the Ericsson Mobility Report.
Qureshi,...
Western Europe will see the most growth in IoT connections, according to the Ericsson Mobility Report
“The ‘internet of things’ is expected to surpass mobile phones as the largest category of connected devices in 2018,” according to Rima Qureshi, publisher of the Ericsson Mobility Report.
Qureshi,...
7 key takeaways from the Wireless Infrastructure Show
PCIA completed its last Wireless Infrastructure Show. From now on, the annual event will be a production of WIA – The Wireless Infrastructure Association. PCIA has rebranded itself as The wireless Infrastructure Association to better reflect the nature...
Nokia's purchase of Alcatel-Lucent has reduced the number of radio access network equipment makers that supply the major carriers. There are now five major players instead of six. Two are based in Scandinavia, two in China and one in South Korea.
1. Huawei
With $35.3 billion in...
The conversation at the Wireless Infrastructure Show gave a positive outlook for the tower industry in 2017, despite huge industry emphasis on small cells
A well-attended panel discussion involving tower company executives highlighted the Wireless Infrastructure Association's annual trade show and gave a glimmer of...
Mobilitie President Christos Karmis says the company plans to use its own name as it works with cities and counties to develop small cell sites, and will rely less on subsidiary names in the future. Over the past several months, attorneys who represent city governments...
DALLAS — As we enter an era of on-demand TV anywhere, content creators and distributors are only one part of the equation. Without the wireless infrastructure to make that content available over mobile networks, and at a high-quality, a huge potential audience is unavailable.
That...
With this newly deployed sensor network, Netherlands Railways will get data on passenger flows, which can be used to improve traveler experience and optimize the stations? operations.
Passengers are no longer simply passing through railway stations; they work, hold meetings, shop and eat there. At...
Verizon Communications is betting on a robust 5G fixed wireless solution to deliver high-speed broadband to residential customers. The company has agreements with a number of U.S. cities under which the carrier has committed to deliver broadband to homes. The company was expected to...
Maintain market competitiveness as macro builds give way to DAS deployments
The next major hurdle for carriers is providing the LTE coverage customers expect everywhere, indoors and outdoors. As the macro layer reaches build-out, service providers are turning attention to in-building wireless deployments.
Fluctuations in capacity...
In a major expansion to its fiber network footprint, AT&T is planning to extend its GigaPower Internet service offering into parts of Southern Dallas. Once the area south of the Trinity River and Interstate 30 is hooked up to fiber, AT&T will have effectively doubled...
In a major expansion to its fiber network footprint, AT&T is planning to extend its GigaPower Internet service offering into parts of Southern Dallas. Once the area south of the Trinity River and Interstate 30 is hooked up to fiber, AT&T will have effectively doubled...
A conversation about Wi-Fi Calling with Mark McDiarmid, VP of Radio Network Engineering and Development, T-Mobile US
Download a transcript of the interview and be the first to receive the report “Voice comes to the fore, again. VoLTE and Wi-Fi Calling redefine voice.”
With over half of voice...
Wireless Infrastructure Association President and CEO discusses tower trends and emerging workforce skills gap
DALLAS – As evidenced by a rebranding effort emphasizing the infrastructure layer, Wireless Infrastructure Association President and CEO Jonathan Adelstein, who held the same role at the renamed PCIA, stressed the...
Executives share outlook for carrier spending, fiber and small cells
DALLAS – Top executives from American Tower, Crown Castle, SBA Communications, Vertical Bridge and InSite Wireless shared industry insights this week with WIA President Jonathan Adelstein and an attentive audience at the Wireless Infrastructure Show.
Carrier...
As Wi-Fi and LTE networks begin to converge with the use of LTE in unlicensed spectrum, there are a number of available options for integrating the two technologies. The most well known at this point are the LTE-U Forum's LTE-U (currently the focus of much...
T-Mobile commits to small cells as groundwork for 5G
Small cell deployments are proving to be more complex, costly and time consuming in the U.S. than they were in East Asia, but wireless carriers know they need to move forward and are slowly but surely...
New project aims to ease adoption of NFV
ZTE entered into a collaboration with China Mobile to promote a management and orchestration interoperability test across key industry vendors, with a goal of easing network functions virtualization adoption by verifying interoperability of China Mobile’s NFV standard...
T-Mobile customer base is ‘diverse, not ghetto;’ SVP calls out need to ‘industrialize small cells’
DALLAS — T-Mobile US is a very different company than it was back in 2011 on the heels of a failed deal with AT&T, so explained Dave Mayo, SVP of technology...
A conversation about Wi-Fi Calling with Christian Daigneault, CTO, Smartfren
Download a transcript of the interview and be the first to receive the report “Voice comes to the fore, again. VoLTE and Wi-Fi Calling redefine voice”
Smartfren is the first mobile operator in Indonesia to deploy LTE...
‘Highly flexible RAN design’ will be necessary for 5G
AUSTIN, Texas — Dave Wolter, assistant VP of radio technology at AT&T Labs, highlighted the widely varying requirements needed to realize the full promise of "5G" mobile networks in a presentation Monday, asking: “Can it do...
‘Highly flexible RAN design’ will be necessary for 5G
AUSTIN, Texas — Dave Wolter, assistant VP of radio technology at AT&T Labs, highlighted the widely varying requirements needed to realize the full promise of "5G" mobile networks in a presentation Monday, asking: “Can it do...
