With the Federal Communications Commission’s plans for its highly anticipated incentive auction process set to begin mid-2015, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler spoke at a Washington, D.C., think tank event to provide an update on the process as well as plans to free up spectrum...
Several mobile and wireless companies have made this year's list of the world's most ethical companies, chosen by Ethisphere. Companies are ranked based on their internal ethics and compliance programs, their corporate citizenship and responsibility, and accepted norms of ethical conduct within the company....
Mobile virtual network operators continue to bring unique pricing plans to market, with the latest venture being offered up by Ciao Telecom. The company said it has begun beta testing a $10 per month, unlimited data, messaging and voice service tapping into Sprint’s CDMA...
The Competitive Carriers Association is set to host its spring event this week, with many of its members set to make the trek out to San Antonio for the festivities. Topics of discussion are expected to include the ever-increasingly competitive wireless market for smaller...
Today, applications are as personal as the mobile handset is to end users, and their usage continues to explode. Gartner predicts that by 2017, more than 268 billion mobile apps will be downloaded
A new report from Maravedis-Rethink predicts nearly three-fourth of mobile operators will deploy some form of network functions virtualization by 2018, noting the move to NFV will be one of the most important ways carriers will “transform their cost base and their service delivery...
Verizon Wireless looks set to add hundreds of jobs across the country, on the heels last month of the company announcing the consolidation of call centers expected to impact around 5,200 positions.
--According to reports out of Atlanta, Verizon Wireless is looking...
Patents appear to be holding up Microsoft's plan to purchase Nokia's handset business. The $7.2 billion purchase price does not include Nokia's patent portfolio. Instead of buying those patents, Microsoft plans to continue to license them after the deal closes. The deal terms call...
Spectrum has always been a lynchpin of the mobile industry, perhaps even more so over the past few years as consumers have flocked to data-hungry devices and applications that have taxed the infrastructure of wireless carriers.
In an attempt to feed the need for...
Cisco says the sky's the limit for the billion dollar cloud services business it announced today. The networking equipment giant says it will build "a network of clouds" along with a set of partners, including Telstra and Ingram Micro. Cisco says it plans to...
Juniper Networks (JNPR) said during its fourth quarter earnings call that it wants to "right-size," and now it looks as if that may mean significant layoffs. The Silicon Valley network equipment maker is preparing to cut as many as 800 jobs, or about 8%...
In many respects, 2013 was the year big data truly came of age. The term itself evolved from industry jargon and into the vernacular of the American consumer, as corporations and government
When it comes to keeping customers, user experience is the most important consideration for carriers today. However, it is often the case that speeds and bandwidth are not equally shared among customers.
Heterogenous Networks, or HetNets, are an increasingly important part of the wireless landscape in order to support denser networks and in-building coverage. RCR's weekly HetNet News column includes the latest on distributed antenna systems (DAS), Wi-Fi and small cells.
--Athena Wireless is showcasing its smoke-detector-sized,...
Analyst: Russia's LTE market set to boom
A new report from Maravedis-Rethink forecasts a major opportunity for equipment vendors in Russia. But the nation's efforts to promote a homegrown wireless equipment vendor have faltered, and Ericsson, NSN, and Huawei have all won major LTE contracts...
The ability to test network features and functions is an important piece of technology development and deployment. RCR Wireless looks weekly at the test and measurement space to see what's afoot.
Rohde & Schwarz has acquired Adyton Systems AG, in which it has been...
The world was shocked this week when news leaked out of Canada that the country’s trio of dominate wireless carriers have recently increased the price of services in near unison. Shocked!
Data now represents more than half of all U.S. mobile network traffic, but mobile data is still just a drop in the bucket of overall data traffic. The average American consumes about 23 GB of data monthly on fixed networks, versus 0.75 GB of...
No-contract wireless reseller TracFone Wireless came out on top of a new customer experience survey by the Temkin Group, with the operator besting all of its wireless rivals for the fourth year in a row.
According to the “2014 Temkin Experience Ratings,” TracFone earned...
Sprint looks to be moving quickly on planned job cuts as the beleaguered telecommunications provider tries to gain its footing under new management.
According to published reports, Sprint announced this week plans to cut 1,550 customer service positions, including the closure of a number of...
