AT&T, Comcast and Google compete on metro-fiber Internet connectivity
Today AT&T began offering its GigaPower high-speed home and business Internet service package, continuing its competition with Comcast and Google.
AT&T is the first of the three to offer its service in Nashville, Tenn. Prices range from...
An Indian parliamentary panel is asking the country's Environment Ministry to comprehensively look into the effects of cell tower radiation on humans and animals, saying it is of "great concern."
The committee on Demands for Grants, which is part of the Indian Ministry of Finance, ...
Operator will continue 4G rollout through a combination of LTE-TDD and LTE-FDD
Indian mobile telephony operator Bharti Airtel has launched 4G LTE-FDD trials for its existing customers in Chennai and Mumbai.
During the trials, customers in these two cities can obtain a complimentary upgrade to Airtel...
Comcast could be the next cable operator to experiment with a new wireless service. Cablevision has pioneered the concept on the East Coast with its Freewheel service, offering unlimited voice, data and texting for $30 per month. The service is based on Wi-Fi hot...
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This week on HetNet Happenings, RCR Wireless News Managing Editor Sean Kinney discusses microwave backhaul and related topics with Amir Zoufonoun, CEO and founder of Exalt Wireless.
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Carriers must reinvent to keep competitive edge
We all focus on the details about growing our business, stomping on our competition and winning going forward. However, we don’t often stop, pull the camera back and take a longer-term historical perspective on our changing industry. So let’s...
Cell towers that stalk?
Anyone who reads this weekly segment with regularity knows how contentious an issue tower placement is. This week Verizon is back at it again causing a family in Tarzana, Calif., grief over tower placement. But what makes this one stand out amongst the...
NoaNet works to restore service to residents and public agencies
A network outage in Washington state earlier this week derailed student standardized testing, crippled municipal election and filing systems, and disrupted commuters who rely on ferries to get where they’re going.
According to local reports, the...
New CEO named, will take over top spot on July 26
Networking giant Cisco on May 13 reported $12.1 billion in third-quarter earnings, which represents a year-over-year increase of 5%.
The reporting period covered ended on April 25. Net income was $2.4 billion, which equates to...
Crown Castle said today that it has agreed to sell its 1,800 Australian towers to a consortium of investors led by Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets. The sale price is roughly $1.6 billion, and Crown Castle expects to net about $1.3 billion since it...
Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure may be getting a lesson in small cells. Claure said goodbye to his wife and newborn baby after Mother's Day to head for Japan, where he has been meeting with Softbank executives to discuss the Sprint network. Here in the...
From the classroom to the football stadium, JMA Wireless has your college covered
College campuses and universities present a unique set of challenges for network operators with capacity and coverage demands changing near daily as students pack lecture halls, hang out in dorm rooms or...
Brazilian carriers Oi and NII Holdings posted losses for the first quarter of 2015. During a conference call about the results, Oi President Bayard Gontijo asked analysts and investors to trust the carrier’s reorganization plan and claimed Oi will return to profitability. The company has laid off thousands of employees, including some...
Private wireless infrastructure firm charges COO with small cell, DAS
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Privately held wireless infrastructure firm InSite Wireless Group on May 12 announced its acquisition for undisclosed consideration of Capital Tower.
Industry veteran Richard Grimes, former CEO and co-founder of Capital Tower, will become the COO of...
Combines wireless and fiber-based backhaul
WASHINGTON – Cambridge Broadband Networks Limited, headquartered in the U.K., has successfully established its VectaStar licensed point-to-multipoint across 42 countries for backhaul and enterprise access networks.
The company is now transferring this expertise to the U.S. where congestion in existing spectrum...
Operator plans LTE-A deployment, $600M investment in Philippines
Philippine operator Globe Telecom expects to more than double its current base of 4G LTE subscribers by the end of the year, Joel Agustin, Globe Telecom SVP and head of the service management division in the network technical...
Assessment of LAA-LTE market prospects, role of LAA-LTE in mobile networks, coexistence/competition with Wi-Fi, impact on small cells, traffic management across licensed/unlicensed channels (data and control plane; coordination of macro- and small-cell traffic), and backhaul implications.
What you will learn: This webinar will assess the...
Wi-Fi access points are multiplying like bunnies as enterprises rely on them to keep employees and customers connected, carriers count on them to offload traffic, and consumers look for them to cut their cellular service bills. Mobile operators no longer see Wi-Fi as the...
Carriers need access to more fiber to comply with FCC’s net neutrality decision
Following in chief competitor Verizon Communications' footsteps, AT&T on May 10 announced an interconnection agreement that will join the mobile network operator’s IP network with Level 3 Communications’ extensive fiber network.
In a...
Operator aims to achieve data transmission speeds of 750 Mbps
South Korean mobile operator LG Uplus has carried out the first demonstration of LTE in unlicensed spectrum in the country.
The telecom firm said that LTE-U technology, which works with the 5.8 GHz unlicensed spectrum, is...
HP NFV System provides a pre-integrated solution for carrier-grade NFV production deployments
As communications service providers (CSPs) look to move network functions virtualization (NFV) from proof-of-concept to deployment, HP is ready to help with a reliable, scalable, carrier-grade platform poised to drive innovation and speed...
A conversation with Puneet Sethi, Director of Product Management, Qualcomm Atheros Inc.
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Qualcomm Technologies was one of the initial proponents of LTE unlicensed, along with vendors such as Ericsson and operators such as Verizon Communications. LTE unlicensed...
Partners with mobile operator Safaricom to enhance 3G services
Networking equipment and services provider Ericsson has signed a multiyear deal with Safaricom, the largest mobile operator in Kenya, to expand and upgrade its telecommunications network.
The goal is to deploy Wi-Fi technology and enhance microwave transmission...
Freestanding cell towers now need to withstand an earthquake and keep working
Los Angeles city leaders last week took steps to ensure that area cell towers are prepared to not only stand in the event of a major earthquake but also continue working after a...
