The company aims to sell additional towers in six African markets in the coming months
Indian telecommunications group Bharti Airtel has obtained nearly $1.3 billion from the sale of its telecommunication towers in five African markets. In a note to the National Stock Exchange of...
The United Arab Emirates’ second-largest operator Du has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Chinese ICT solutions provider Huawei to develop an advanced mobile broadband network.
Under the terms of the three-year project, Huawei will assist the Dubai-based telecom firm in developing its next-generation mobile...
For better or for worse, our mobile devices have become an integral part of our lives, and when we enter a building few things can detract from our experience as much as poor connectivity. If that building is our workplace, our productivity and job...
Towers will not keep New Yorkers connected
Big cities have the greatest need for cellular capacity, but they can also have the densest neighborhoods and the highest real estate prices. Manhattan, for example, has fewer towers per person than other major metropolitan areas in the...
The Taiwanese operator targets market share of 40% in the local LTE market; new emphasis on small cells
Ericsson has signed a contract with Taiwan's largest mobile operator, Chunghwa Telecom, to deploy additional LTE infrastructure designed to enable the operator to expand its current LTE...
The FBI is investigating at least 11 incidents in California where an unknown person or persons are sneaking into unmonitored underground vaults and severing high-capacity Internet cables.
The disruptions have all taken place in the last year and range from the San Francisco Bay Area...
Using drones takes out the risk associated with human inspection of cell phone towers
Carrier T-Mobile Netherlands will use Aerialtronics unmanned aerial systems, more commonly known as drones, to inspect some 5,000 antennas in the Netherlands.
T-Mobile Netherlands even has its own pilot who will remotely operate...
Latin American mobile network operators spending big on 4G LTE rollouts
In support of the expansion of 4G LTE in Latin America, U.S.-based Ceragon Networks is working with a tier one operator to upgrade 3G backhaul networks to support 4G LTE.
Ceragon did not name the...
The Indian telco currently offers 3G in almost 10,000 towns and cities; 4G LTE also expanding
Indian telecommunications operator Bharti Airtel plans to invest $1 billion during fiscal year 2015, ending March 2016, to expand its 3G network infrastructure and coverage across the country, according...
Pay phones are being replaced by Wi-Fi access points in LinkNYC project
An ambitious project to bring super high-speed public Wi-Fi to all five boroughs of New York City envisions replacing some 10,000 antiquated phone booths with so-called Links.
The LinkNYC project, which has the full...
Update: This story has been updated to include the name of the previously unidentified man in this accident.
Pilot killed when homemade airplane struck cell tower
Tragedy struck in Corona, Calif., this weekend when a homemade airplane crashed into a monopine cell tower. Of the two...
Lack of fiber availability brings radio and microwave solutions to the forefront
Densification in metro networks becomes increasingly challenging largely due to limited real estate and fiber access. This trend has forced the evolution of radio backhaul technology as evidenced by Fastback Networks’ IBR, which...
Nokia continues to focus on 5G research with a new network architecture developed in partnership with SK Telecom. The companies have separated the user plane from the control plane. SK Telecom said that the physical separation of the control plane and the user plane...
Exclusive interview with Hugh O'Kane Electric Company CEO, discussing NYC DAS, Wi-Fi, Fiber and Colocation
If you are interested in a telecom career installing and maintaining in-building DAS, Wi-Fi, fiber and colocation facilities in New York City, the CEO of Hugh O'Kane Electric Company, offered...
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...
