NTT DoCoMo Premium 4G service reaches 292 cities across Japan
Japanese telecom operator NTT DoCoMo’s Premium 4G service is currently available in 292 cities and 41 prefectures across Japan, according to a company presentation. The service, which was launched in March, offers download speeds of...
The Middleprise market ripens for in-building wireless technology adoption
As market education efforts have started to stick, venue owners are becoming acutely aware of the need for robust indoor cellular coverage to satisfy tenant and guest connectivity requirements not to mention the looming First Net...
Samsung has set the date for its next product launch. The world's leading smartphone maker will unveil its new products on August 13 -- in plenty of time to get out ahead of Apple's next launch, which is expected this fall. Samsung has not...
Carriers look to small cells to densify network coverage, particularly in metro areas
With small cells emerging as the go-to technology for carriers looking to densify mobile networks, Verizon Wireless is making moves this week by adding a dozen small cells to Grant Park in...
Taiwanese government aims to award six new blocks of spectrum year-end
Taiwanese telecom regulator NCC has set the floor price for the second auction of 4G spectrum at NT$14.4 billion ($460.4 million). The watchdog said it expects to complete the whole auction process by the...
Huawei has demonstrated a small cell running Wi-Fi and LTE in unlicensed spectrum. The demonstration, conducted with NTT DoCoMo, showed Wi-Fi and licensed-assisted access both operating in the 5 GHz band. Listen-before-talk was used for LTE.
Listen-before-talk is a protocol usually associated with Wi-Fi that...
Corporate blog post suggests return to device market with come via brand-licensing model
With building speculation, a Nokia spokesman addressed rumors about the Finnish networking gear – and former device – powerhouse returning to the lucrative smartphone market.
Last year Nokia sold its smartphone market for...
This week on HetNet Happenings, RCR Wireless News Managing Editor Sean Kinney discusses the research and development being done by Ericsson that's driving 5G toward an international standard.
Hakan Andersson, head of 5G strategy for Ericsson's radio business unit, talks about a recent 5G mobile...
Trial was carried out in association with Ericsson and Qualcomm
Vodafone Portugal said it reached speeds of 600 megabits per second on its mobile network, using the new functions offered by the evolution of LTE-Advanced technology.
The telco said the technological innovation will provide improved user...
Verizon Wireless and ExteNet Systems are preparing to deploy more than 400 small cells in SF
Hundreds of San Francisco residents are getting a lesson in small cells this summer, as Verizon Wireless and ExteNet Systems prepare to deploy more than 400 nodes on poles...
Alcatel-Lucent is now several steps closer to being a part of Nokia after the European Commission approved the $16.5 billion acquisition. The transaction was cleared without conditions following a review.
Before being cleared by the commission, the deal had to clear antitrust reviews in Brazil and Serbia. The two...
The telco aims for LTE coverage to reach 90% of European population by end of fiscal 2015
U.K.-based telecom operator Vodafone has modernized 80,000 mobile sites and added a further 36,000 2G, 47,000 3G and 41,000 4G sites, and upgraded 71,000 sites to high-capacity backhaul...
Educational training, specifically fiber splicing training, is a key element of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and International Brotherhood Electrical Workers (IBEW) negotiated agreement with mobile operators including Verizon and AT&T
Watch RCRtv - Fiber splicing training for CWA and IBEW workers from APT...
AT&T Mobility said it plans to launch Wi-Fi calling by the end of this year, following Sprint and T-Mobile US, which have launched the technology.
In June, AT&T petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to issue new rules recognizing real-time text as an alternative to text...
ExteNet Systems, a builder and operator of DAS and small cell systems, is set to become part of Digital Bridge Holdings, the investment group that owns Vertical Bridge and Mexico Tower Partners. Along with Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners, Digital Bridge is set to buy out...
Analysts say Sprint could bring on a network partner, air concern over vendors keeping pace with operator small cell needs
The much-hyped Sprint network upgrade, which is expected to favor small cells with some estimates predicting 70,000 being deployed, apparently has financial investors and analysts...
Ericsson and Japanese telecom giant, SoftBank, are teaming up to test "5G" capabilities in Tokyo.
The joint field trials in Japan’s largest city will reportedly demonstrate ultra-high bit rates and ultra-low latency on a number of frequency bands using Ericsson’s 5G trial system.
The partners said...
Highest growth rates recorded in India and Malaysia
Norway-based telecom group Telenor reported that its Asian operations accounted for 52.4% of the company’s overall revenue in the second quarter of the year, up compared to 46.2% in the year-ago period.
For Q2 2015, Telenor generated revenue...
Recapitalization to Fuel Long-Term Growth in Rapidly Expanding Small Cell Market
Marc Ganzi, former CEO of Global Tower Partners, which sold to American Tower for $4.8 billion in 2013, assumes role of chairman as part of Extenet Systems' restructuring.
Below is press release announcing the Extenet...
América Móvil posted 219.999 billion pesos ($13.7 billion) in second quarter revenue, almost flat (-0.1%) compared to the same quarter in 2014. However, the company's earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization decreased 5% year-over-year and net income dropped 16% year-over-year. Looking at the first half...
Smartphones increasingly replacing cellphones on Indian subcontinent
WASHINGTON – A new Deloitte India report paints the subcontinent’s wireless tower market as primed for a transformative period.
“India is at the cusp of a data revolution,” wrote Hermant Joshi, author of the report. “With the increasing proliferation...
Telefónica said the transfer of redundant infrastructure will allow the telco to focus on LTE deployments
Telefónica Deutschland, the local subsidiary of Spanish telecom operator Telefónica, is transferring 7,700 mobile telephone sites to Deutsche Telekom.
The sites selected by the two operators will be taken over...
The four markets represent 10% to 12% of Bharti Airtel’s subscribers in Africa
Orange and Bharti Airtel have entered into an exclusive agreement to explore the possible acquisition by Orange of Airtel’s subsidiaries in Africa's Burkina Faso, Chad, Congo Brazzaville and Sierra Leone, the companies said...
Small cells, ranging from femtocells in consumer applications, through pico, metro and micro cells in enterprise, and urban applications, are revolutionizing the coverage, capacity and availability of wireless data services. The insatiable demand for more and faster data is driving increasingly rapid deployment of...
