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Watch Live Now: Texas Wireless Summit

Watch the live stream with speakers from Verizon, Ixia, IBM, Cisco, National Instruments and many more. Live October 18, 8:30 AM CST - 5:00 PM. The 11th annual Texas Wireless Summit continues the tradition of providing a forum for industry leaders to discuss emerging technologies and...

Watch Live Now: Texas Wireless Summit

Watch the live stream with speakers from Verizon, Ixia, IBM, Cisco, National Instruments and many more. Live October 18, 8:30 AM CST - 5:00 PM. The 11th annual Texas Wireless Summit continues the tradition of providing a forum for industry leaders to discuss emerging technologies...

Telecom Software Weekly Wrap-Up: Ericsson to redefine SDN; Sprint goes OTT; NSN, Juniper expand partnership

With another busy week in the world of Telecom Software, who has time to read/search for every story out there? RCR Wireless News vets the news to bring you the biggest, most important stories of the week on this increasingly critical topic. We'll probably...

Sierra Wireless to acquire AnyData’s M2M business, with an eye on Korea

Sierra Wireless is gaining a foothold in the Korean machine-to-machine market, with the recently announced acquisition of AnyData Corp.'s M2M assets. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but it is expected to close by the end of this month. AnyData's M2M embedded module and...

Time Trippin’: AT&T inhales McCaw; industry girds for PCS, auctions … 19 years ago this week

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...

Wireless History Foundation inducts four into Wireless Hall of Fame

The Wireless History Foundation this week honored its 2013 inductees into the Wireless Hall of Fame during an event in San Jose, Calif. This year’s inductees include: --George Schmitt: Served in various positions across a number of wireless entities over 40 years, including at Pacific...

Imagination gets real with Warrior CPU core

Imagination Technologies has made good on its promise to wrestle with ARM, launching a 32-bit low-power CPU core based on the MIPS architecture. The Warrior P-class P5600 features 128-bit SIMD (single instruction, multiple data), and Imagination says the chip is 30% smaller than comparable...

Agricultural M2M: The farming revolution

John Deere is counting on broadband spectrum as a fundamental element to the development of its products and services. Mark Lewellen joined John Deere just over a year ago as manager of spectrum advocacy. In talking with RCR TV-U2U Connect Show Host, Limor...

Telecom Software Weekly Wrap-Up: U.S. Cellular fixes billing glitch; Skype costs operators $100M per day

Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Telecom Software weekly wrap-up where we gather top telecom software news stories for the week: U.S. Cellular is working with its billing company Amdocs to fix glitches that caused multiple inaccurate bills for customers and other errors. Actix rolled...

PCIA 2013: Adelstein talks FCC, challenges, opportunities, first year on the job

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – PCIA CEO Jonathan Adelstein has had what could be deemed a “dream” first year as head of the wireless trade association, with seeming unbridled support from government regulators and insatiable demand for the products and services offered up by PCIA’s members....

Time Trippin’: AT&T tops consumer cellular poll; Ericsson tests W-CDMA … 17 years ago this week

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...

Chip News: Qualcomm, Intel, Broadcom, Freescale and Imagination Technologies

Qualcomm gets Lenovo's Vibe Qualcomm has scored a victory with Lenovo, landing the processor in the new Vibe Z smartphone and replacing Intel, which supplied the processor for the Vibe Z's predecessor. The Vibe Z, also called the K910, is powered by Qualcomm's ARM-based quad-core...

Atlanta: A global hub for mobility, What you missed at #MobilityLIVE

ATLANTA – The Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce (MAC) this week rallied mobility business leaders and Atlanta-based companies, educational groups and associations for a sold out, one-day event to showcase its claim as a global hub for mobility. “Its all about jobs” said Glenn Lurie,...

Tapingo sees mobile ordering success at universities

Startup company Tapingo has seen rapid growth, launching its mobile food ordering application at 27 universities in the past 18 months. Tapingo allows students to place orders on campus at restaurants and pick up their food without waiting in physical lines. The app launched this...

FCC to fine 5 carriers $14M for Lifeline fraud

The Federal Communications Commission wants to hand out more than $14 million in fines to wireless operators it claims defrauded the government out of fees related to the Lifeline subsidized phone program. The Lifeline program was started in 1985 and is the part of...

Time Trippin’: Asia-Pacific looks at TDMA; Bell Atlantic fights tower siting … 15 years ago this week

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...

Inside the iPhone 5s

A look under the hood of the iPhone 5s suggests that Apple once again turned to archrival Samsung to manufacture the processor inside its flagship smartphone. A Chipworks teardown has found that the A7 appears to made by Samsung using its 28-nanometer process. The...

RWA seeks conditions on AT&T’s plans to acquire Leap

AT&T’s pending attempt to acquire Leap Wireless gained a new foe as the recently re-branded Rural Wireless Association said it has filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission asking that a “reasonable” spectrum cap be considered before moving forward on the deal. “If the proposed...

Chip News: Mobile DRAM update, GPU market share

Device makers got ready for the holidays early, boosting mobile DRAM orders in the second quarter for use in devices being manufactured now for sale in November and December. According to IHS, mobile DRAM sales hit $2.8 billion in the second quarter, up 26%...

RCR Wireless Wireside Chat

Join RCR Wireless News editors as they discuss the top news stories of the week, including BlackBerry going private, carrier executives talking consolidation and Ericsson expanding its small cell presence.

Time Trippin’: Verizon on challenges of No. 1; 4G takes shape … 13 years ago this week

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...

RTG re-brands to RWA, focused on rural wireless carriers

Rural wireless carriers look to be gaining more attention as the Rural Telecommunications Group has reigned in its focus, changing its name to the Rural Wireless Association in a move to “better reflect the association’s mission and focus.” RWA noted that the name change was...

Facebook set to challenge mobile operators with more video

Mobile operators have learned that as subscribers gain access to faster networks, those networks can face congestion as users choose to download more video. Now videos that users don't choose to download are also competing for network resources. Facebook is the latest over-the-top video...

Time Trippin’: Nokia, Motorola reorganize; TV on a cellphone?!? … 10 years ago this week

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...