Drone operators from other industries look to cell towers for new business
The cell tower industry is just one of many that could be transformed by unmanned aerial systems, more commonly known as drones. Many of us think first of Amazon.com when we think of...
Next week the city that has rebuilt itself will host the builders, suppliers and tower owners who represent NATE, the National Association of Tower Erectors. As New Orleans welcomes more than 130 exhibitors and hundreds more attendees to NATE Unite 2016, the U.S. tower...
2016 Mobile World Congress (MWC) will be held in Barcelona on 22-25 Feb, there will be more than 100,000 worldwide guests attending it, the mobile traffic is expected to increase by 3 times. Meanwhile, there are more than 2500 booths within 60,000 square meters...
Qualcomm talks LinkNYC and smart cities on this episode of HetNet Happenings
LinkNYC, an ambitious project to convert old New York City phone booths in public Wi-Fi access points, is still in the beta phase, but project backer Qualcomm is looking forward to the impact...
Huawei also launched IoT, video and safe cities solutions
Chinese ICT provider Huawei announced five "big initiatives" for the telecom industry designed to accelerate digital transformation.
The five initiatives include what it's terming big video, big IT, big operation, big architecture and big pipe, described...
Vendors are rushing to develop wireless infrastructure that will enable carriers to deploy LTE in unlicensed spectrum. Qualcomm, the world's biggest maker of LTE modems, is leading the charge. Just before Mobile World Congress, the chipmaker announced partnerships with Samsung and SpiderCloud Wireless, two...
Deal includes development of 5G technologies and products
Swedish vendor Ericsson and Spain-based telecom group Telefónica signed a memorandum of understanding for the development of "5G" technologies, products and services.
The two companies said they will jointly support ongoing and new initiatives designed to boost...
Altiostar to showcase its vRAN solution at Mobile World Congress, 2016 in Barcelona
Tewksbury, Massachusetts, US – February 18, 2015 – Altiostar announces its participation and demonstration of its industry leading carrier-grade Ethernet-based virtualized RAN (vRAN) solution that implements LTE-Advanced features and brings intelligence to...
As more small cells are deployed, scalability and reproducibility become central to return on investment, and new industry solutions are available that seek to streamline processes and shrink costs in order to make small cells viable on a large scale. small cell testing
This webinar...
Equipment vendors often see the market for in-building wireless solutions through the lens of their own product offerings, but the "boots on the ground" who deploy systems may have a more holistic view of what works for enterprise customers. These installers and integrators are...
Apparently travelers aren't the only ones fed up with slow to non-existent in-flight Wi-Fi. In regulatory filings, American Airlines takes provider Gogo to task, essentially telling the company it needs to improve the service or the airline will take its business to competitor ViaSat.
From...
As more small cells are deployed, scalability and reproducibility become central to return on investment, and new industry solutions are available that seek to streamline processes and shrink costs in order to make small cell testing viable.
This report looks at challenges of getting small cells...
LTE-A Pro technology will ‘explode’ this year, Huawei says
Chinese ICT solutions provider Huawei expects to reach 60 commercial networks with its LTE-Advanced Pro-based "4.5G" technology by the end of this year, according to the company's president of wireless network marketing operation Qiu Heng.
At of...
Fifteen years ago, nearly every PowerPoint presentation about wireless had a slide predicting data traffic taking off like a hockey stick. What might have seemed overly optimistic then looks like an underestimation now.
That’s one takeaway from Cisco’s latest Visual Networking Index Global Mobile...
Things are finally looking rosier for small cells, as the technology has started to gain its long-awaited deployment momentum. Small Cell Forum said in a recent report 2015 was a "turning point year" for the technology, with larger deployments coming online and the industry...
As enterprises continue digital transformation initiatives that link employees to cloud-based services, it's essential IT managers maintain a focus on security. To facilitate those needs, IBM launched a new mainframe optimized for use with hybrid cloud platforms and with strong security protocols.
The new Z13...
In 2016, analysts project that 400K Enterprise cellular nodes will be shipped, but over 12 million Wi-Fi APs will be used in the Enterprise LAN. We all know that Wi-Fi cannot provide the quality of service and security that enterprises need, but enterprises are...
'Temporary network interruption' repaired by 1:22 p.m. EST Monday, Comcast said
Complaints about a major Comcast network outage impacting diverse geographies began hitting social media before noon; by 1:22 p.m., Comcast customer service reps said the problem had been fixed and service was being restored.
Here's...
The UK telco’s LTE infrastructure reaches 95% of overall population
U.K. operator EE ended the fourth quarter of 2015 with more than 14 million LTE subscribers, following a net addition of 141,000 postpaid subscribers during the period, the company said in its earnings statement.
The operator...
With mobile subscriptions now surpassing the number of people on Earth, it’s safe to say the global mobile market is starting to saturate. Mobile operator revenues are under pressure as a result.
What’s more, over-the-top services are siphoning off revenue from telcos’ existing customer base....
Evolution toward 5G, small cell deployments and dark fiber all impact backhaul outlook
Network densification, currently being driven by deployment of small cells, will be a pillar of next-generation "5G" mobile networks. But as demand for capacity drives infrastructure expansion, carriers and managed services providers...
In final results before combination with Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia Networks sees solid growth in Greater China, EMEA regions
Finnish vendor Nokia recorded net sales of 3.6 billion euro ($4.05 billion) in the fourth quarter of 2015, up from 3.5 billion euro in the same quarter last...
On this episode of HetNet Happenings, Sean Kinney shares highlights of a recent trip to Qualcomm headquarters in La Jolla, California.
Qualcomm engineers demonstrated solutions that will be unveiled during Mobile World Congress, Feb. 22-25, in Barcelona, Spain.
The first demonstration shows hardware that supports the...
The latest beta version of Apple's iOS 9.3 includes support for Voice-over-Wi-Fi (VoWi-Fi) for Verizon Wireless subscribers.
On the device side, Apple iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus all support the new VoWi-Fi service.
Essentially, if VoWi-Fi is enabled, the handset...
