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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 …

With the Federal Communications Commission’s planned AWS-3 auction expected to begin later this year, wireless carriers are getting out ahead of proposed rulemaking in hopes of influencing those plans. AT&T this week again got in on the lobbying, throwing its …

Now that the mobile industry’s largest show is over, it is a good time to digest the fire hose of information that is Mobile World Congress. And I’m happy to say that I believe we will

Quantenna Communications, which specializes in Wi-Fi chipsets including 802.11ac, announced recently that it has two new investors. Vivint Wireless has completed a strategic investment in the company, as has NTT Finance, which is part of NTT Group. Other investors in the …

With AT&T’s new ad campaign set to make DAS and small cells household words, wireless infrastructure trade organization PCIA and the HetNet Forum are asking the Federal Communications Commission to remove barriers to deployment. The trade associations are asking the …

The proposed Sprint/T-Mobile merger once again highlights the capital news round-up.

Canadian media has reported that the country’s three dominate wireless carriers have slowly increased the price of wireless services over the past couple of months by around $5, roughly in line with the recent completion of a nationwide spectrum auction …

The network functions virtualization market received a boost today as the European Telecommunications Standards Institute and the Open Networking Foundation announced a strategic partnership to further the development of NFV specifications. The organizations noted that the agreement will focus on …

Mobile network operators place a high premium on control – of their network, services, brand and most importantly, their customers. This is not surprising, as operators that invested heavily

The truth is, it didn’t take Facebook to convince insiders that WhatsApp and its brethren are the social-networking and mobile entertainment future. For a few years now, hundreds of millions

The U.S. government launched a probe into international telecom dealings this week.

Amdocs, which focuses on customer experience and OSS and also has a small cell planning solution, released some research on deploying and managing small cells at last week’s Cable Congress event. The January 2014 survey from Real Wireless included 40 …

Ericsson CTO Ulf Ewaldsson joined Limor Schafman of RCR-TV at Mobile World Congress 2014 to discuss emerging opportunities for wireless network operators. He said that in his conversations with carriers he sees a variation of business models. “Some are just …

Carriers and their customers who look forward to devices that can run both Android and Windows may be disappointed. Google and Microsoft reportedly agree that dual boot tablets are a potential threat, and have pressured Taiwan’s Asustek to delay its …

Fresh off dumping its U.S. wireless interests for a cool $130 billion, Vodafone continued to expand its European play announcing plans to acquire Spain’s Grupo Corporativo Ono for $10 billion. Vodafone noted that Ono currently serves more than 7.2 million …

Research from Ovum tells us that in 2013, mobile operators forfeit $32.5 billion dollars in messaging revenues to free applications like WhatsApp and Viber. There is an old Stoic proverb describing

Samsung, STMicroelectronics and Whotspot announced the release of new devices this week.

—Agilent Technologies says it has launched the world’s highest-performance oscilloscopes in its Infiniium Z-Series, with 10 models (one model pictures at right) ranging from 20 to 63 GHz, significantly faster processing than previous generations and a new user interface. The …

In a move to bolster its presence in the white-hot prepaid space, Sprint today revamped its branded no-contract service with flat-rate plans that could step on the toes of its other offerings. The offering, dubbed Sprint Prepaid, will replace its …

AT&T said it has closed on its acquisition of Leap Wireless, bolstering the carrier’s already ample stable of no-contract offerings. The deal closed just one day ahead of the Federal Communications Commission’s self-imposed 180-day review period. The deal, which was …

If compliments are the sincerest form of flattery, and if in turn flattery is way to get something you want, then Softbank Chairman Masayoshi Son may need some help in trying to convince regulators