As LTE World Summit comes to a close this week, this is the last go round for this event and location. Next year it’s moving to London and shifting the focus to be primarily 5G. Goodbye LTE World Summit and hello 5G World. I...
Thai provider AIS aims to reach 3,000 small cells by end of 2015 with Alcatel-Lucent deal
French telecommunications infrastructure provider Alcatel-Lucent is currently working with Thailand’s largest mobile telephony operator, Advanced Indo Service, to improve cell service through the deployment of small cells technology.
AIS is the...
LTE in unlicensed spectrum has been getting a lot of attention this month, most notably from the Federal Communications Commission. It is clear that some Wi-Fi equipmentmakers will not welcome cellular networks in the 5 GHz band. An alternative may be LTE Wi-Fi link...
By 2020, networks will need to support 1000 times more capacity, driving the need for ultra-dense networks (UDN). These will be critical to support over seven billion people connecting using multiple GBs per user per day.
What’s stopping the industry from deploying ultra-dense networks...
Small cells and monopoles planned for Miami, potentially giving peek of larger Sprint network densification push
Sprint is looking to up its network and retail game in the Miami area, according to reports on a closed-door meeting between the carrier’s CEO and Miami Mayor Carlos...
New service is offered through 1800 MHz and 800 MHz bands
The United Arab Emirates' second-largest operator Du launched its LTE-A network through a partnership with Nokia Networks. The telco used Nokia Networks' advanced radio platform Flexi Multiradio 10 Base Station, carrier aggregation software,and professional services,...
In-building distributed antenna systems (DASs) are used to enhance cellular coverage within buildings to provide wireless customers better coverage and capacity while simultaneously greatly enhancing the user experience. Sounds simple, right? Well, it’s not. And not all DAS solutions are the same. What’s more,...
Broadband spectrum auction rules to be posted on July 17
Mexico is getting ready to auction 700 MHz spectrum bands. Local media outlet El Financiero reported that the Ministry of Communications and Transport plans to publish the preliminary bidding conditions for the country's 700 MHz spectrum auction...
Agile operators no longer view Wi-Fi as competition; instead they look at unlicensed spectrum as a tool that can be used to help build a truly heterogeneous network offering users a truly homogenous experience. This webinar will look at carrier-grade Wi-Fi and at ways that...
U.S. mobile operators have had something of a love-hate relationship with Wi-Fi in recent years. AT&T Mobility, Sprint and T-Mobile US were all owners of public Wi-Fi hot spots at one time, but today only AT&T operates a significant Wi-Fi network.
Sprint sold its Wi-Fi...
Agile operators no longer view Wi-Fi as competition; instead they look at unlicensed spectrum as a tool that can be used to help build a truly heterogeneous network offering users a truly homogenous experience. This report will look at carrier-grade Wi-Fi and at ways...
As Wi-Fi hot spots proliferate and mobile operators transition to IP-based networks, voice over Wi-Fi is emerging as a viable way for service providers to increase coverage. Regional operators and mobile virtual network operators are looking at Wi-Fi as a way to compete with...
Ruckus Wireless to provide equipment, Alepo to provide software for Wi-Fi to support 20 million Sri Lankans
Service provider Sri Lanka Telecom today announced a plan to deploy an islandwide Wi-Fi network to serve some 20 million people with the help of Ruckus Wireless and...
Telco aims to launch LTE services in the Democratic Republic of Congo in late 2015
African telecommunications operator Smile Communications has signed an agreement with Swedish infrastructure provider Ericsson that will see the European company provide 4G LTE managed services across all Smile's operations in...
The comment period for the Federal Communications Commission's query on the use of LTE over unlicensed spectrum ends this Friday, but companies are heatedly dueling over the technology in the industry comments submitted thus far.
The debate falls along unsurprising fault lines: The companies that have...
3M is investing big money in the future of the climber safety industry with a $2.5 billion agreement to acquire fall-protection equipment maker Capital Safety from global investment firm KKR.
This is a strategic move for 3M, which believes increased regulatory focus on tower worker...
The operator aims to invest $400M in the next two to three years
South East Asia Telecom has partnered with Chinese infrastructure provider ZTE to deploy a FDD-LTE network in Cambodia.
Under the terms of the agreement, ZTE will be the exclusive provider of end-to-end 4G solutions and products, including...
Cell tower gets cut down, hits power lines, leaves thousands without AC during summer in the desert
Law enforcement is claiming sabotage in the June 20 felling of a wooden, monopole cell tower in Wittmann, Ariz.
The tower fell on power lines, knocking out electricity to...
Of all the wavelengths in the spectrum used for wireless data transmission, perhaps the least well known is the millimeter wave band. However, it is precisely this band (and the continuous bandwidth it provides) that enables wireless data transmission at speeds and bandwidth that...
Cisco is trying to make things right with China after reports that the National Security Agency secretly used Cisco routers for spyware put a damper on the company's Chinese sales.
Cisco incoming CEO Chuck Robbins and outgoing CEO John Chambers walked away from meetings with...
Remaining three CDMA markets served by MetroPCS were decommissioned on June 21
T-Mobile US on Sunday shut down the legacy CDMA network that supported subsidiary MetroPCS; 190,000 MetroPCS customers were still using the network in three major metro markets, according to reports.
The remaining MetroPCS customers...
Quarter-billion-dollar investment is coming from FCC’s Connect America Fund
WASHINGTON – Frontier Communications has announced the receipt of $238 million from the Federal Communications Commission’s Connect America Fund to expand broadband Internet access to 1.3 million rural Americans across 28 states.
Dan McCarthy, Frontier president and...
China Mobile and China Unicom are also slipping in value
Shares of China Telecom slipped by about 5% this week after Zacks downgraded the stock to a “Sell” rating from a “Hold” rating on June 17.
In general, the stock has declined steadily over the past...
Fiber vandals may be disguised as telecommunications maintenance workers
The FBI is looking into a string of vandalism incidents targeting fiber-optic cables in Northern California.
The latest incident was reported on June 9; an AT&T fiber-optic cable in Walnut Creek, Calif., was severed, prompting the carrier...
