AT&T hot spot advertising raises security questions
On a recent trip through Washington Dulles International Airport, Jonathan Mayer, a computer scientist and lawyer at Stanford University, noticed that when he pulled up the Stanford University website through an AT&T hot spot at the airport, the...
Devicescape, iPass partner on 50M Wi-Fi hot spot network
Wi-Fi service providers iPass and Devicescape joined Wi-Fi networks to create a global network of some 50 million hot spots, which the companies and industry watchers are calling the world’s largest Wi-Fi network.
Wi-Fi evangelist and telecom industry...
Revenue from the region accounted for more than 10% of Ericsson’s global business in Q2
Ericsson is seeing increased opportunities for both LTE and 3G projects in the Middle East and Northeast Africa, the company's president for the region Rafiah Ibrahim told RCR Wireless News.
Ericsson posted revenue...
Radio Access Networks (RAN) have evolved considerable from the traditional “macro” access networks of the past. Today, the ability to cost-efficiently address network issues around capacity, coverage and quality has become a reality with the successful implementation of small cells, Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS)...
Kathrein antennas for small cells and outdoor distributed antenna systems provide on-demand capacity in an easily concealed solution
Network densification, marked by increasing deployments of small cells and distributed antenna systems, is a key component of an ultimate 5G standard. As carriers race to not...
One of the hottest topics around the mobile industry is “5G.” When it will happen; how it will be monetized; who’s going to lead the charge geographically; which operators; which vendors; etc. How far away is 5G and is it appropriate to be putting so...
August 19 was the inaugural episode of Cell Tower News with host Joey Jackson, editor and production manager for RCR Wireless News. On this episode, site acquisition, towersource.com, and related topics are discussed by Jackson and CEO and president of Mosaik Solutions Bryan Darr. Jackson is...
Traveling can be a burdensome process even when everything goes right. And chief among frequent flyer complaints is the lack of Wi-Fi access, or, when it's available, the low quality of Wi-Fi, which in airplanes is often far too slow to stream video.
Gogo, a...
The new MVNO will launch mobile service through Zain’s network infrastructure
Saudi Arabia's Communications and Information Technology Commission has extended the deadline for bids for a mobile virtual network operator license that will enable the holder to offer services through mobile operator Zain's network infrastructure.
Interested...
BICS today announced the first end-to-end voice-over-LTE call between Asia and Europe. Working together with SK Telecom's SK Telink – international carrier services division – located in South Korea and Proximus located in Belgium, this trial was conducted on a live commercial network with...
Service Providers are increasingly leveraging analytics tools to monitor their networks, improve customer experience and identify opportunities for revenue growth. As traffic volumes surge to unprecedented levels, service providers are faced with significant financial and operational challenges in scaling their analytics infrastructure.
The Network Packet...
LTE technology represents more than 23% of the operator’s overall mobile subscribers
The world’s largest mobile telephony operator China Mobile ended the first half of 2015 with 189.6 million subscribers in the 4G segment, according to the operator’s latest financial results.
The telco recorded a net...
The feds want to detail how wireless infrastructure upgrades will impact historic buildings
The Federal Communications Commission has solicited public comment on how it should consider deployment of small cells and distributed antenna systems in historic buildings.
Specifically, the FCC wants comments by Sept. 28 based...
Are massive, aggregated Wi-Fi networks the way of the future? This week’s news items includes iPass & Devicescape teaming up to produce a network of 50 million hotspots. We hoping to get iPass CEO Gary Griffiths join us on the show some time over...
It’s no surprise that long-term evolution (LTE) networks are quickly becoming the global norm for wireless communications. With significantly higher data speed than 3G, LTE unlocks the power of our mobile devices that are an increasingly important part of our lives, both at work...
ICT ecosystem, authentication, network security all covered by the deal
Networking powerhouse Ericsson has partnered with SK Holdings of South Korea to jointly develop "Internet of Things" platforms for the health care and transportation verticals.
The Swedish company and SK Holdings, parent company of SK Telecom,...
The telco ended Q2 with 6.57M mobile subscribers in Switzerland
Swiss mobile telephony operator Swisscom has launched a new mobile service combining the FDD and TDD LTE standards. The technology, which is currently available at the company’s Füssli shop in Zurich, will be commercially available...
On the inaugural episode of Cell Tower News, host Joey Jackson of RCR Wireless News discusses cell tower site acquisition and attendant topics with Bryan Darr, president and CEO of Mosaik Solutions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yqzeWFznOQ
Darr has spent most of his professional life in the wireless industry, beginning his...
Sprint said this week that it plans to deploy tens of thousands of small cells as part of its network upgrade. The carrier said it will use network diagnostics to pinpoint the perfect spot for each small cell "down to the street corner level."...
Court case in Berkeley; carrier aggregation in Europe, and Sprint's network upgrade
5 things to know today:
1. Carriers have a lot riding on a California court case scheduled for today. The city of Berkeley wants mobile phone retailers to share information about RF energy absorption...
China Mobile, Huawei and Qualcomm Technologies said they completed the commercial verification of TDD+ uplink data compression technology on a commercial LTE-TDD network.
UDC is claimed to enable operators to maximize LTE-TDD uplink resources, increasing the number of uplink users and achieve compression efficiency for...
Network will be based on existing customers’ hot spots
Following in the steps of other service providers bolstering public networks by piggybacking on private hot spots, Virgin Media this week announced it’s planning a free, public Wi-Fi deployment in the United Kingdom using its Super...
Belgium data center struck causing errors on Google Compute Engine persistent disks
Four lightning strikes affecting the power grid around the Google Compute Engine data center in St. Ghislain, Belgium, caused a small data loss and a number of persistent disk errors.
Google uses persistent disks as...
Sprint confirmed its network upgrade plans, saying it will deploy thousands of new macro sites and tens of thousands of small cells. CTO John Saw said in a blog post that small cells will enable Sprint to "add capacity in targeted high-traffic areas, as...
