Tewksbury, Massachusetts, USA – December 14, 2015 – Altiostar announces the general availability of its game-changing Virtualized RAN solution for the LTE and LTE-A market based on commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and open source software. A year ago, Altiostar announced its unique C-RAN solution with...
Telecommunications is not the first thing that comes to most people’s minds when they think of 3M. The Maplewood, Minnesota-based manufacturing company made its name in the adhesive business, but it also has a complete division dedicated to telecom, which supplies copper and fiber optic...
The latest and greatest in enterprise small cells, DAS/RAN integration and carrier 5G outlook were all on display at the recent LTE North America show. RCR Wireless News Managing Editor Sean Kinney takes you inside.
On this episode of HetNet Happenings, Kinney takes a look...
Frontier Communications will spend $160 million to settle a dispute with the state of West Virginia regarding allegations of false advertising and poor broadband performance.
In a document produced by the attorney general of West Virginia, styled as an assurance of voluntary compliance, state authorities...
Orange, Ericsson, Sequans, LoRa and publicly traded Silver Spring Networks launch of Starfish makes waves in the "Internet of Things" space this week on IoT Innovation, sponsored by Anritsu and Telecomcareers.
IoT Security - Do we really understand how vulnerable IoT is to hackers?
Watch Rupert Baines, CEO...
FCC grants T-Mobile US permission to sell spectrum to Verizon
The Federal Communications Commission rejected a complaint by SiriusXM claiming T-Mobile US was responsible for solving interference issues near its towers. As part of the ruling, the FCC gave T-Mobile US permission to sell some...
More and more, people throughout the world are relying on their smart devices to stay connected with friends, family and colleagues when they are traveling. Cellular roaming services have been available for quite some time. However, it’s been estimated as many as 70% of...
Operators now have multiple technology options available when it comes to deploying in-building wireless services. Options include passive Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS), active DAS, Distributed Radio Systems (DRS) and Distributed Small Cells (DSC). When multiple operators / multiple technologies are deployed indoors sharing common...
If there is one technology that could be considered a wild card in 2016, it’s voice over LTE, with an undercard from voice over Wi-Fi. Mobile carriers and vendors have been working on these technologies now for several years, with a number of larger...
RCR Wireless News talks with experts across the mobile ecosystem on key trends for the upcoming year, including the impact of new architectures and emerging technologies on networks and the telecom business. Topics to be covered include assessments of the status and importance of...
Outdoor small cells are a challenge for mobile operators. Nodes are often deployed to increase capacity in places where the network is struggling, but a spot that needs a small cell may not have a pole to support one. Even if a streetlight or...
The First Responders Network Authority board unanimously approved the request for proposal giving broad outlines and direction for a nationwide, public-private LTE network for first responders. The FirstNet RFP is set to be released in early January.
The RFP approval marks the next stage of FirstNet's work and is...
The desire to optimize the mobile network is a no-brainer. Who could possibly not want to extract the best performance, the most revenues out of the existing, already deployed mobile network infrastructure? Indeed, mobile operators have been optimizing their networks from the beginning, trying to pack as...
Matt Grob, EVP and CTO of Qualcomm Technologies, gives keynote at IEEE Globecom
SAN DIEGO--Qualcomm EVP and CTO Matt Grob this week told attendees at the IEEE Globecom conference that the telecom industry, since he started in 1991, is still dealing with some of the...
Complementary coexistence or incongruous competitor?
The making of mobile standards can be a convoluted business. There's the pure technology aspect, but that's often just the tip of the iceberg. Underneath lies a pile of patent issues, lobbying efforts, regional requirements and political motives. In the...
French telecoms vendor Alcatel-Lucent announced the deployment of its 7950 XRS IP core router in the China Mobile national IP backbone network and metro networks.
The equipment provider affirmed that this deployment will enable the Asian operator to meet the growing demand for data in...
RCR Wireless News talks with experts across the mobile ecosystem on key trends for the upcoming year, including the impact of new architectures and emerging technologies on networks and the telecom business. Topics to be covered include predictions on assessments of the status and...
Fiber-to-the-home shaping up to be a CSP battleground
As the fiber broadband race continues to pick up steam, this week saw AT&T announced expansion of its GigaPower service to 38 additional markets while Google Fiber is eyeing build outs in Los Angeles and Chicago.
Consumer demand for...
ViaSat's Mark Dankberg discusses the role of satellites in the wireless ecosystem
SAN DIEGO--Connecting all through communication. That's the theme of the 2015 Globecom event, hosted by the IEEE Communications Society.
Event General Chair Ed Tiedemann said the theme "evokes the Internet of Things, the Internet...
The telco aims to upgrade 100 telecoms towers by the end of 2015
Dannish mobile telephony operator Telenor Denmark announced the deployment of its commercial LTE+ service in the country’s largest cities. Using carrier aggregation technology, Telenor is currently upgrading a total of 430 telecommunications...
Today we find our mobile phones as devices we simply cannot live without. They are our camera, video recorder, email device, social media access device, text messaging device, book, newspaper, gaming device, and oh yeah... our mobile telephone. We expect these devices to work...
iGR report projects that five year 2016 U.S. DAS capex will exceed $19 billion while U.S. DAS capex and opex spending will exceed $23 billion
(Video) Iain Gillott, founder and president of iGR Research, shares his recently released 2016 U.S. DAS forecast along with predictions...
The Indian telco will transfer the assets to two US investment groups
Indian telecom operator Reliance Communications has reached an agreement to sell its stake in telecom tower company Reliance Infratel and its fiber assets to two private equity firms, according to local press reports.
The...
According to a new study, the growth of high-bandwidth services and the need for increasing cloud storage will create increased demand for fiber optic connectors, which will cause the market to explode in the next five years. The report by Research and Markets titled...
