HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – Anyone who thinks a slowdown in carrier spending is threatening the health of the infrastructure industry was not at PCIA's Wireless Infrastructure Show this week. Record attendance at the show, record revenue for PCIA and a sold-out exhibit hall were all...
Public Wi-Fi part of Tel Aviv’s ranking as ‘World’s Smartest City’
Tel Aviv, Israel, has a robust public Wi-Fi network that’s free to use and popular among tourists. Data collected in 2014 shows visitors to the city overwhelmingly accessed Wi-Fi from their smartphones.
The public Wi-Fi...
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A conversation with Jim Miller, director radio standards, InterDigital
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With its focus on enhancing wireless technologies and expanding wireless access and usage, InterDigital has had a keen interest in the development of LTE unlicensed from the beginning, because the technology naturally fits within InterDigital’s core...
Crown Castle CEO Ben Moreland likes to call fiber "the horizontal tower" and this week he announced plans to broaden the tower company's fiber reach with the $1 billion purchase of Sunesys, a wholly owned subsidiary of power giant Quanta Services. Crown Castle said that...
China Telecom gained 9.67 million LTE subscribers in Q1 of 2015
Chinese mobile telephony giant China Telecom announced that its 4G base reached 16.75 million subscribers by the end of March. That growth equates to a net addition of 9.67 million 4G LTE subscribers during...
NTT DoCoMo looks to Premium 4G offering
Japanese mobile telephony operator NTT DoCoMo said it expects to invest a total of $5.3 billion during its fiscal year 2015, ending March 31, 2016.
During fiscal year 2014, the operator had invested a total of $5.56 billion, down 41.4%...
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – Making the small cell business model work was the topic of a well-attended panel this year at PCIA's Wireless Infrastructure Show. Analyst Iain Gillott of iGR Research was joined by TowerCloud founder Ron Murdy and by Greg Weiner of Vertix Consulting.
The...
The First Responders Network Authority board has issued a draft request for proposal outlining significant details of potential plans for the national LTE network for public safety that it has been tasked with building and operating.
The draft RFP, posted yesterday, is the latest move...
As people increasingly rely on their smartphones to get through the day, there’s a growing emphasis in the wireless industry on providing robust indoor coverage from DAS, Wi-Fi, small cells and more.
Whether in a packed stadium, busy hotel lobby or waiting for a train...
A conversation with Steve Hratko, director of service provider marketing, Ruckus Wireless
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There are two dimensions that are crucial to the deployment and success of LTE in the 5 GHz unlicensed band: spectrum and site...
Hospitals were among the earliest and most active adopters of Wi-Fi, and now many facilities are also investing in distributed antenna systems (DAS) to boost in-building cellular capacity. DAS providers say there are several reasons hospitals are investing.
One network for all
Healthcare professionals rely increasingly...
India
Indian telecommunications tower firm Indus Towers said it plans to invest approximately $40.7 million to deploy 1,000 towers in Punjab and Haryana states this year.
Indus Towers currently has 7,600 telecommunications towers in both states and more than 115,000 towers across India. The company was founded in...
PCIA Wireless Infrastructure Show preview
As the wireless infrastructure industry converges in Florida for The Wireless Infrastructure Show, vendors are consolidating, tower companies are growing and carriers are reevaluating.
Consolidation changes the landscape
At least three trends are driving consolidation among vendors in this space: supply chain...
Cell towers becoming obsolete?
CNBC spoke with the founder of Parallel Wireless at the Founders Forum Smart Nation Singapore conference, who informed the major media outlet that he believes cell towers will soon become obsolete. He believes that individual cellphones will become the cell tower...
ÜberWi supports enterprise Wi-Fi management, customer engagement
With an eye on turning Wi-Fi from an expense to a revenue driver, Annapolis, Md.-based AllCity Wireless on April 22, announced its new cloud-based Wi-Fi network management solution called ÜberWi.
Plans are to start shipping the new product in the...
Crown Castle beat analysts' revenue estimates during the first quarter, and raised its outlook for 2015 site rental revenue by roughly $15 million. First quarter site rental revenue was $768 million and total revenue was $941 million. The company is now projecting $3.08 billion...
Listen to the HetNet Happenings: Episode 11 podcast:
On this episode of HetNet Happenings, host Sean Kinney learns how a distributed antenna system (DAS) works and gets an overview of the Wi-Fi Innovation Summit.
https://youtu.be/uuUxb4tAYxs
Kinney, the managing editor for RCR Wireless News, is joined by RCR...
Carriers are planning their investments in HetNets carefully as they balance the need for more coverage and capacity with pressure on the top line created by incessant data price wars. Investments must be made to satisfy current network demands while anticipating future developments, including...
TD-LTE Advanced small cell supports carrier aggregation
Nokia Networks, in partnership with leading global carrier China Mobile, deployed a first-of-its-kind small cell this month for a sports event held in Shanghai.
Nokia’s equipment supported China Mobile’s network for the three-day event. The small cells used support...
Carriers are planning their investments in HetNets carefully as they balance the need for more coverage and capacity with pressure on the top line created by incessant data price wars. Investments must be made to satisfy current network demands while anticipating future developments, including...
Distributed antenna systems are increasingly common in large public venues, and many locations are already upgrading or replacing their original systems. To control costs, carriers and neutral host DAS providers are looking at ways to reduce fiber, cable and power requirements. Below we outline...
Small cells, COWs and COLTs saddled up by Verizon as part of Churchill Downs hetnet upgrade
In the run-up to the May 2 post, Verizon Communications has beefed up its Churchill Downs deployment with small cell to accommodate the data demands associated with the Kentucky Derby...
BRADENTON, FL – Tarpon Towers II, LLC, a wireless communications tower company, today announced it has secured over $100 million of new capital to acquire and build wireless communications towers and other wireless infrastructure. Tarpon II is a newly formed joint venture created by...
OpenCloud touts "the power of open." Being open is an important concept, but is not necessarily a new topic. Consider the context in which "open" plays a role in this specific discussion.
Networks today are pretty much standardized. Although services are different from a packaging...
