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A conversation with Philip Sorrells, Vice President of Strategic Marketing, CommScope
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In this conversation on RAN optimization with Philip Sorrells, Vice President of Strategic Marketing at CommScope we focused on the role...
Deliveries commenced in Q1 2015, will continue during 2016
Nokia Networks and China Mobile announced a framework agreement for the provision of mobile communications equipment and services valued at more than $1 billion.
The European vendor said deliveries under the agreement commenced in the first quarter...
MIMO, LAA, carrier aggregation push growth
A new study found small cell shipments doubled or even tripled in many categories in 2015, but one market segment grew by up to 500%.
The Semiconductor for Small Cells market study found the proliferation of more intricate small...
LOS ANGELES – On this episode of HetNet Happenings, Sean Kinney gets an overview of the 2015 HetNet Expo from PCIA President and CEO Jonathan Adelstein.
Adelstein and Kinney take a look at the two-day event, held at the Millennium Biltmore in downtown Los Angeles....
That growth comes between January and September; the telco ended September with 194 million subscribers
China Telecom ended the third quarter with 43.7 million subscribers in the 4G LTE segment, after a net addition of 36.6 million subscribers during the first three quarters of the...
4G fueling growth
India is reportedly on its way to eclipsing 1 billion mobile subscribers. According to a report by Peter Evans, senior analyst Asia at BuddeComm, the world’s second largest country had 970 million subscribers as of March 2015.
Currently 77% of India’s population has...
1 Gbps fiber-to-the-home service expanding in cities with 'entrepreneurial spirit'
Google Fiber, a subsidiary of Alphabet (remember that whole thing?) is now working with municipal leaders in Tampa and Jacksonville, Fla., as well as Oklahoma City as potential beneficiaries of the tech giant's 1 gigabit-per-second...
LOS ANGELES – All four nationwide carriers are set to invest in small cells and distributed antenna systems next year, with the two largest carriers leading the way. That forecast comes from Marc Ganzi, the wireless investor who founded Global Tower Partners and sold...
Industry experts will discuss the evolution from 4G LTE to 5G mobile networks and more
The telecommunications industry, now more than ever, is evolving. LTE networks are evolving to support new, innovative services like VoLTE and VoWi-Fi, and, simultaneously, the foundations are being laid for...
Boingo CTO Derek Peterson discusses building a future of convergence
LOS ANGELES – When discussing network infrastructure, it’s not about picking one access technology over another; it’s about finding a complementary way to make different types of networks work together to create business value and...
CMA doesn't think BT/EE deal will hurt competition in mobile sector
The U.K.'s competition and consumer authority, CMA, has provisionally cleared BT’s anticipated acquisition of mobile operator EE.
After looking in detail at different markets – including the supply of retail mobile, wholesale mobile, mobile backhaul,...
A conversation with Ian Miller, director of radio access networks, Telefónica
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The complexity of mobile networks is increasing as their performance and capacity improve. This makes the task of optimizing the radio...
LOS ANGELES – Analyst Chetan Sharma held the attention of his late-afternoon audience at this year's HetNet Expo without even discussing small cells or DAS. An adviser to wireless players ranging from China Mobile to Qualcomm, and to new players in mobile including Microsoft...
Building size, carrier involvement, return on investment among determining factors
LOS ANGELES – There are some 4.8 million buildings in the U.S. that are 25,000 square feet or less, yet have the same in-building connectivity needs as much larger spaces. So what’s the best approach...
HetNet Expo keynotes address how to move from LTE to next-generation 5G mobile networks
LOS ANGELES – There are currently around 5 billion devices, largely smartphones, connected to the Internet. By 2020, that figure is expected to explode to 50 billion as the Internet of...
PCIA CEO Jonathan Adelstein kicks off HetNet Expo 2015
LOS ANGELES – Former Federal Communications Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein, and current president and CEO of wireless trade association PCIA, kicked off the 2015 HetNet Expo by discussing challenges to small cell and distributed antenna system deployments.
Adelstein...
Researchers have discovered they can hack voice over LTE implementations on two tier-one mobile carrier networks, gaining access to free data usage or shutting down voice or data access for another user.
A recently published paper (pdf) by academics at the University of California Los Angeles, The...
Broadband Conduit Deployment Act of 2015 emphasizes expanding broadband infrastructure, particularly in rural America
The federal government, of late, has pushed hard to expand high-speed broadband access through rural America; the latest push is the Broadband Conduit Deployment Act of 2015, which calls for fiber...
The telco reached 334 towns and cities with its 4G service by the end of September
Indian telecom operator Bharti Airtel said it served 235.2 million mobile phone subscribers in India at the end of the fiscal second quarter of 2015, up 11.1% compared to...
The In-Building Wireless market is expected to grow from $4.83 Billion in 2015 to $16.71 Billion in 2020, at a CAGR of 28.1% during the forecast period, according to a June 2015 market research report by MarketsandMarkets titled, "In-Building Wireless Market by System Components (Antennas, Cabling, DAS,...
Industry expert discusses lessons learned from rolling out small cells both indoors and outdoors
Small cells present a huge opportunity for the wireless industry, but, despite the promise, small cell deployments have not kept pace with projections largely because changing conditions make the process fraught...
LTE has been one of the mobile industry's most rapidly adopted mobile technologies, with deployments coming particularly quickly in the U.S. Voice over LTE, however, has been a comparatively tough nut to crack and far slower to be launched, much less to gain ubiquity.
According...
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A conversation on customer experience with John Reister, VP of marketing and product management, Vasona Networks
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Data traffic is typically very spiky. Even during congestion periods, wireless network transmission alternates...
India and Southeast Asia led in terms of revenue growth
Swedish telecom equipment vendor Ericsson recorded net income of 3.1 billion kronor ($365 million) in the third quarter of the year, climbing 19% year-on-year, the company said in its earnings statement.
Net revenue for the period totaled...
