The Global mobile Suppliers Association updated its vast inventory on tracking the worldwide mobile broadband market, unveiling updated charts tracking deployments of W-CDMA, HSPA+ and LTE networks across various spectrum bands.
The updates include a look at the evolution to LTE; the global LTE market...
Editor’s Note: Wireless operators are a busy bunch, and as such RCR Wireless News will attempt to gather some of the important announcements that may slip through the cracks from the world’s largest carriers in a weekly wrap-up. Enjoy!
--Verizon Wireless continued to inch its...
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LAS VEGAS – Verizon Wireless looks set to move aggressively into small cell deployments, announcing a deal with infrastructure powerhouses Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent to add small cells to enhance the carrier’s LTE network.
The deal with Ericsson calls for the infrastructure provider to provide its...
LAS VEGAS – Sprint Nextel may have had to alter the amount it will have to pay in order to acquire the remaining stake in Clearwire, but the carrier appears confident that at least some sort of network arrangement between the two companies in...
Sprint Nextel said it has closed on its $480 million acquisition of a handful of markets from regional carrier U.S. Cellular. The deal included operations in Chicago, St. Louis and a handful of markets in the Midwest and spectrum assets in the 1.9 GHz...
Canadian telecom provider Telus said it plans to acquire regional rival Mobilicity for $370 million, picking up the carrier’s approximately 250,000 customers. Telus is currently one of the “big three” Canadian operators that along with Rogers and Bell Canada dominate the country’s wireless market.
Mobilicity,...
Is Clearwire getting nervous about the pending shareholder vote on its potential acquisition by Sprint Nextel?
Clearwire today sent out a “reminder” letter to shareholders to vote with the “white proxy card” that signifies a vote in favor of Sprint Nextel’s $2.2 billion acquisition. The...
Editor’s Note: Wireless operators are a busy bunch, and as such RCR Wireless News will attempt to gather some of the important announcements that may slip through the cracks from the world’s largest carriers in a weekly wrap-up. Enjoy!
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Verizon Wireless’ recent dividend payments to parent companies Verizon Communications and Vodafone Group could begin to slow as the wireless carrier turns to paying down its own debt and prepares for upcoming spectrum auctions.
Speaking at the JP Morgan Global Technology, Media and Telecom Conference...
Clearwire’s management continues to show its preference for an acquisition by Sprint Nextel, sending a letter this morning to investors urging them to approve the pending $2.2 billion deal and laying out reasons for its decision.
The letter, authored by current Clearwire Executive Chairman John...
Softbank continued its push to convince Sprint Nextel shareholders that its proposed $20.1 billion acquisition of a 70% stake in the carrier is superior than a competing offer from Dish Network, with the latest salvo involving a sponsored report undercutting the proposed value of...
Clearwire looks to have officially endorsed its pending acquisition by Sprint Nextel, with a “special committee” set up by the carrier sending a letter out this morning to investors recommending they vote in favor of the $2.2 billion deal. The vote is scheduled for...
President Obama followed through on expectations today in nominating wireless industry veteran and former lobbyist Tom Wheeler as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Wheeler would be replacing current FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, who announced today that he will be leaving by the middle...
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The nation’s attempt to put together a public-safety wireless network gained leadership today as the FirstNet board of directors announced the hiring of Bill D’Agostino, Jr., as GM. D’Agostino will head up FirstNet’s ambitious attempt to construct a nationwide mobile broadband network to serve...
NEW ORLEANS – Regional wireless operator C Spire has been one of the more aggressive smaller operators in rolling out LTE services, having last year launched services using its own spectrum and network assets.
The carrier’s LTE plans were at first expected to take...
Verizon Wireless continues to attract rural operators to its LTE in Rural America program with the announcement that Alaska-based KPU Telecommunications has signed up for the offering. KPU, which is officially known as Ketchikan Public Utilities, is a municipally-owned telecom provider currently offering fiber-to-the-home...
NEW ORLEANS – Amongst all domestic wireless carriers, regional operator Bluegrass Cellular is in a unique position in that it is set to offer LTE services to customers across two separate networks.
One offering will run across a network completely controlled by the carrier...
With mobile video projected to represent two thirds of all mobile data traffic by 2017, service providers must manage and monetize video traffic to stay competitive. Openwave Mobility and Sandvine said this week that they will integrate their software solutions to enable "the most...
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NEW ORLEANS – With many operators still not offering LTE services, rural provider Bluegrass Cellular has made the move to now offering two separate LTE networks to its customer base. Who said there is no innovation in rural America?
Bluegrass today unveiled plans for its...
NEW ORLEANS – In a move that could jumpstart a fallow LTE roaming market, Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse told attendees at this week’s Competitive Carriers Association event that the carrier was instigating a move to bridge the gap between LTE service in the...
RCR Wireless News Editor-In-Chief Dan Meyer talks with Roger Entner, founder of Recon Analytics, about the current wireless regulatory environment, including the impact current regulations are having on mergers and acquisition and competitive balance; device unlocking; and the IP Task Force initiative.
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