RCR Wireless takes a look at the regulatory challenges facing the wireless industry, including spectrum issues, potential for additional spectrum auctions, regulations on the second-hand spectrum market, M&A regulations and sitting challenges. As a special bonus, we will provide an annual FirstNet update.
Bonus: FirstNet...
Further muddying Clearwire’s future is a report that Verizon Wireless has offered up to $1.5 billion to acquire the rights to some of Clearwire’s 2.5 GHz spectrum licenses.
The Wall Street Journal reported this morning that according to a Clearwire filing late last week, the...
Merger-mania continued to spin around the wireless space as this morning Dish Networks put in a $25.5 billion bid to acquire 68% of Sprint Nextel. The deal further spices up current scenarios that have Japan’s Softbank attempting to acquire $70% of Sprint Nextel for...
The mobile core is changing. Fast. Mobile network operators around the globe are embracing the transition from legacy mobile technologies to next generation infrastructures and the new LTE core
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!
--AT&T Mobility this week announced a...
With MetroPCS’ shareholders set to vote tomorrow on a proposed merger with T-Mobile USA, Deutsche Telekom altered the arrangements of the deal in an attempt to better tempt those investors that partnering with its U.S. subsidiary is the right thing to do.
In what it...
RCR Wireless News Editor-in-Chief Dan Meyer was joined by esteemed guests, including long-time industry analysts Roger Entner, former FCC Commissioner Harold Furchtgott-Roth, former Senior Attorney with the Competition Division in the FCC’s Office of General Counsel Lawrence Spiwak and former FCC Wireless Bureau Chief...
Service providers have been buffeted by the explosive growth in data traffic. Meanwhile many networks remain highly siloed and are becoming more complex even as service providers move to converge infrastructure and adopt more flexible cloud-based approaches. In this webinar, we'll share some of...
U.K.-based operator Everything Everywhere said it was set to double its current LTE network speeds with the increase of 1.8 GHz spectrum dedicated to its offering from the current 10 megahertz to 20 megahertz. The carrier noted the move should see average network speeds...
NII Holdings, which is based in Reston, Va., announced it has sold its Peru operations to Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (ENTel) for $400 million. The deal furthers NII’s plans to focus its efforts on its core operations in Brazil and Mexico.
The deal was...
Despite recent objections from a prominent investors and advisors, MetroPCS continues to believe that its pending merger with T-Mobile USA remains the best way for investors to see a financial gain.
MetroPCS this morning sent out a letter to investors stating that they should vote...
Brazil's discussion over the use of the 700 MHz spectrum band for LTE services has a new chapter as last week the country’s regulatory body, Anatel, debated the use of the spectrum band. Currently, the 700 MHz band is used for broadcasting, but the...
It’s no secret that the future of the enterprise network lies with wireless, especially as computing technology aggressively and constantly expands on a mobile level. But, to support the mobile device boom (which Cisco pegs at 50 billion by 2020), network engineers will need to...
Brazilian telecommunication providers reached a record investment level in 2012 with inflows of U.S.$12.53 billion (R$25.3 billion). The money was mostly spent on network expansions, increasing coverage and improving quality of services. The total investment made last year represents an increase of 11% compared...
Following weeks of speculation, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski announced today that he would be holding a meeting with staff members to inform them he would be leaving his position in the “coming weeks.”
Genachowski’s announcement follows that of fellow commissioner Robert McDowell, who...
LTE networks continue to be unveiled around the world, with the Global mobile Suppliers Association reporting that 156 carriers have launched commercial LTE services in 67 countries, with 98 commercial launches happening in the past year. The GSA predicts that by the end of...
Colombia’s LTE auction has a date. The Ministry of Information Technology and Communications (Mintic) set the auction for June 26, hoping to generate up to $250 million for the treasury.
In a move to inject some competition in the market, regulators said that dominant...
Mexico's president, Enrique Peña Nieto, yesterday announced a range of reforms for the telecommunications sector designed to promote increased competition. The country's telecom sector is currently controlled by América Móvi, leader in both mobile and land lines, and Grupo Televisa.
According to the proposed reforms...
Just a couple of years ago, AT&T and T-Mobile USA could not complement each other enough, what with AT&T dangling $39 billion in front of T-Mobile USA’s management. I am going to just assume that the money part had nothing to do with it and the compliments coming from company executives were honest and heartfelt.
Canada’s telecommunications regulatory body, Industry Canada, said it would begin auctioning off spectrum in the 700 MHz band on Nov. 19, as part of the government’s plans to bolster competition across the country’s wireless industry.
The auction is set to use a “combinatorial clock auction...
Editor’s Note: The RCR Wireless News Time Machine is a way to take advantage of our extensive history in covering the wireless space to fire up the DeLorean and take a trip back in time to re-visit some of the more interesting headlines from...
Brazilians carriers that bought spectrum licenses in the 2.5 GHz frequency band at auction in June have until April to cover all the offices of the Confederations Cup, and by December 2013, they must also cover the branches and sub-offices of the 2014 World Cup. Of...
Internet powerhouse Google is once again dipping its toes into the spectrum space, announcing a partnership with the Federal Communications Commission to become certified as a “TV white spaces database administrator." Google, which was initially tapped as one of nine firms to coordinate white...
RCR Wireless News managed to track down Dan Hays, principal U.S. wireless advisory leader at PwC, at this week’s Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain, to garner some insight into major topics impacting the mobile space.
Hays touched on government plans to convince television...
