Raco Wireless expanded its presence in the machine-to-machine space, announcing carrier contracts with Telefonica and Sprint Nextel. The deals include the integration of Raco’s Omega Management Suite that allows its customers to manage their M2M services.
Raco noted the deal with Sprint Nextel provides the...
Vendors are scrambling to help network operators figure out smarter ways to manage and optimize their networks, drawing data from various sources in order to make informed business decisions on infrastructure and services and exploring the promise of software defined networks.
A barrage of announcements...
Small cells were a major focus last week at Mobile World Congress, with several semiconductor companies launching new products to power and connect everything from femtocells to enterprise small cell networks. Silicon vendors are increasingly focused on software, particularly when it comes to small...
Chilean wireless operators have begun to name vendors for their upcoming LTE launches. América Móvil’s Chilean unit, Claro, and Telefónica’s local wireless operator, Movistar, have chosen Nokia Siemens Networks. The Chilean Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (Entel) has tapped Ericsson to deploy this new generation of telecommunications.
In July, Chile’s...
The network test and measurement space is busily supporting wireless operators' transition to LTE networks and advanced wireless services. RCR Wireless News' Kelly Hill is tracking this space in a weekly look at analysis, trends and new products in test and measurement.
Spirent Communications is...
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...
The LTE modem market is about to get a bit more crowded. Broadcom (BRCM) and Nvidia (NVDA) have both announced LTE modem solutions to compete with chip giant Qualcomm (QCOM), which has dominated the market so far.
Both solutions are significantly smaller that Qualcomm's...
Citrix has been moving into the mobile space, making mobility a critical part of its strategy. Indeed, Citrix sees itself as a cloud computing company that enables the mobile work style. “Citrix has been looking at mobile as the key to enable end-user productivity...
Virgin Mobile Latin America is closer to launching its operations in Colombia, since it has raised an additional U.S.$20 million in funding. In December, the company closed a debt funding agreement for up to U.S.$14 million with the IFC, a member of the World Bank...
Mobile technology is at a transition point even larger than the shift to 2G or 3G, according to SAP AG, and the company has collected perspectives from across the wireless industry looking at how operators, vendors and application developers are coping and thriving in...
Microprocessor units for mobile phones and tablets are still the biggest drivers of growth in semiconductor demand, but this year's growth rates are expected to be down slightly from 2012. According to ICS Insights, the market for tablet MPUs is forecast to grow 50%...
Earnings news, product announcements and the latest from FirstNet. RCR Wireless brings you up to date on the week's news.
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We kick off this week's test and measurement news with Agilent Technologies' results. The company reported revenues of $1.68 billion for its first fiscal quarter ending Jan. 31, 2013.
While smart companies are busy creating mobile groups to define their strategies, the smartest companies are realizing that mobile can permeate all parts of a business and that everyone needs to be part of the mobile group. This trend is clear in the latest...
The global market for unified communications as-a-service is expected to grow from $2.52 billion in 2013 to $7.62 billion by 2018, at an estimated compound annual growth rate of 24.8%.
A recent study conducted by MarketsandMarkets shows that UCaaS will be one of the key enabling...
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 operators around the globe are rolling out LTE networks in order to meet growing demand from consumers for mobile data services. In meeting that demand, many operators are looking at using small cell technologies to further expand coverage in densely populated markets where...
Nvidia (NVDA), known for high-performance graphics processors that enhance the gaming experience, said fourth-quarter net income rose 50% year-on-year to $174 million. Revenue was $1.1 billion, and analysts were expecting another billion-dollar-plus quarter going forward, but Nvidia said that was too optimistic. Apparently still...
Alcatel-Lucent today introduced a solution for service providers aimed at giving operators more control of their data plan offerings and delivering a wider variety of services. Rather than coming at data management from only a network perspective, the company is talking up consumer engagement...
Dominated by the two largest Latin American telecom operators, Peru's wireless market still holds promise. As observers have noted, there is room to grow in Peru as mobile penetration is at 96%, 2G services accounts for 91% of the total market and 76% of...
BroadSoft recently released a global survey of worker attitudes toward mobile unified communications, showing that users are not just willing to adopt UC solutions, but demanding them. In a video interview, Leslie Ferry, Broadsoft's VP of marketing, explained that this attitude is due to...
Modern tracking generators deliver a convenient way to test the performance of two port components. In this webinar you will discover when you need to normalize a measurement and when you don’t. The need for wide dynamic range will be shown and advanced topics...
Tapping into the increasing consumer mindset to share information, as well as the possibilities brought about by smartphones and Google’s Android operating system, United Kingdom-based startup OpenSignal released statistics from its smartphone app showing the growing breadth and depth of LTE networks around the...
