Montana officials, with an eye on economic development, have been working with Google and Facebook to convince the technology giants to build data centers in the Western state.
According to the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, leaders of the Bozeman-based Northern Rocky Mountain Development District visited Google...
This report on smart RAN will provide an overview and assessment of new technologies and solutions that optimize mobile traffic management to deliver a better performance and QoE, by improving network resource utilization. The report will discuss how real-time traffic management and virtualization will...
The telco aims to deploy 160,000 base stations in three years
Indian telecommunications provider Bharti Airtel plans to invest 600 billion rupees ($9 billion) over the next three years to expand its mobile and fixed network infrastructure across the country.
The telco said the investment is part...
1. Verizon Wireless has revised its organizational structure, following reports the company is moving from 20 regional offices to six. The carrier has named its six market leaders:
Ken Dixon, market leader for the Northeast region.
Greg Haller, market leader for the Pacific region.
Roger Tang, market...
WASHINGTON – Next-generation "5G" mobile networks remain years away from standardization, but the lack of formal definitions and speculation hasn’t deterred major international interest and investment.
In the U.S., the four major carriers – Verizon Wireless, AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile US and Sprint – have...
The 5G R&D agreement will focus on radio and core technologies
Swedish vendor Ericsson signed a memorandum of understanding with Japanese telecom operator KDDI to collaborate on "5G" research and development with an eye on potential uses and deployment strategies.
Under the agreement, the companies plan...
This white paper expands the foundation of 4G Americas’ view of 5G recommendations that was published in the October 2014 white paper titled, 4G Americas’ Recommendations on 5G Requirements and Solutions.
Deployment of small cells is seen as a key avenue of boosting cellular capacity and adding network density, but commissioning have fallen short of projections, despite 2015 being viewed as a key year for small cells adoption.
As the heterogeneous network solutions continue to gain...
Sports are top of mind for many Americans this weekend, and for those who leave behind the comfort of the couch to attend a game in person, the second screen is an important part of the game day experience. So goes the thinking that...
LTE in China is projected to reach 1.2 billion subscribers by 2021
Almost two years after the launch, China Mobile said it has approximately 267.3 million LTE subscribers and aims to reach 300 million customers by the end of this year.
The telco has recorded a nearly...
Indian telecom operator Reliance Communications is set to announce the sale of its stake in telecom tower company Reliance Infratel to a private equity firm.
According to local press reports, the deal is expected to be announced in the coming days. Reliance expects an enterprise value of...
Telecom Italia plans to keep up to 20% of the infrastructure firm
Telecom Italia is looking to sell a part of its Inwit holdings, with CEO Marco Patuano noting "we are ready to send tender invitations to potential bidders for the Inwit stake." Patuano said the company expects...
LTE continues to evolve and present new challenges and opportunities, even as the industry begins to chase "5G" dreams. At last week's LTE North America event, both the current state of LTE features as well as new evolutions within mobile networks and the trends...
Ericsson said it is ready to supply the first radios designed to enable mobile operators to conduct live field trials of "5G" network technology, with Japan's NTT DoCoMo set to trial the equipment next year.
The 5G radio prototypes represent phase two of the Ericsson...
Acquisition to bolster 4G network rollout
In an effort to boost high-speed data rates, India’s third-largest telco, Idea Cellular, agreed to buy nearly $500 million in spectrum from smaller rival Videocon Telecommunications.
The agreement gives Idea the rights to two key spectrum circles in the 1800...
Li-Fi works like Wi-Fi, but relies on optical data transmission
Velmenni, an Estonia-based tech startup, is conducting trials of Li-Fi in commercial and industrial settings, and according to reports has achieved data throughput speeds of 1 gigabit per second.
Li-Fi transmits data using LED lights. University of...
The deal stipulates deployment of LTE infrastructure in 12 Chinese provinces
China Telecom awarded a contract to Alcatel-Lucent to expand the deployment of LTE infrastructure across 12 provinces of China.
The Chinese telco aims to expand its LTE network and increase capacity to handle growing consumer...
U.S. carriers serve hundreds of locations that could get better coverage or more capacity from a small cell, but the benefits of adding the technology do not always justify the cost. One use case that often does seem to justify a small cell is...
A big challenge to deploying telecom infrastructure is access to fiber optic cabling – sometimes cables just aren't available where infrastructure needs to be in order to provide end users the value to justify the capital expenditure.
The United Kingdom town of Chesham took a novel approach...
CTI Towers, which is majority-owned by triple-pay giant Comcast, announced the purchase of 120 telecom towers from Vyve Broadband; the portfolio includes tenancy from Verizon Wireless, AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile US and Sprint.
In April, InSite Wireless Group bought 294 communication tower sites from CTI Towers for...
A distributed antenna system is a go-to solution for bringing multicarrier cellular connectivity throughout a large venue like a stadium, but the same refined deployment also works for outdoor spaces.
At Soldier Field in Chicago – home of the NFL's Chicago Bears – AT&T and...
DALLAS — It is becoming widely accepted that small cell networks are essential to cost-effectively bolster network capacity. At this year’s LTE North America conference, Amit Jain, VP of business development at SpiderCloud Wireless, spoke about the role virtualization will play in the densification of...
DALLAS—Finding a way to strike a balance between low cost, versatile unlicensed spectrum and the quality and predictability of licensed spectrum is a topic of interest at this year’s LTE North America conference, but many are unsure how to make that a reality.
Hank Kafka,...
LTENA 2015: LTE still reaching for global ubiquity
DALLAS – For as much as the wireless industry is abuzz over "5G," a few things stood out in presentations at LTE North America: LTE is still a relatively young technology with a long life ahead of it, and...
