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Carriers have lagged behind cable operators in Wi-Fi deployments, but now it looks like mobile operators are ready to catch up. Carrier-grade Wi-Fi hotspots are expected to grow from 14% of overall Wi-Fi hotspots today to 72% by 2018, according …

Social media is a large part of how today’s society communicates with each other on a personal level, so why shouldn’t it play a role in how companies and their customers communicate? According to a Coleman Parkes consumer study, 50% of …

Amdocs’ OpenMarket division launched a mobile messaging solution that it claims is designed to help enterprise customers deliver improved customer engagement services. The company said the offering is based on its Mobile Engagement Platform, providing “two-way” global text messaging for …

RCR Wireless releases a new feature report that explores recent developments and advances in the collection and analysis of data across the telecom operator’s broad horizontal view: from business systems, the network, and devices. Distilling data from those sources into …

LAS VEGAS — Now that LTE deployments have become nearly ubiquitous among the nation’s larger operators, the next challenge for operators is how to drive more revenues from those deployments. Having spent billions of dollars in acquiring the necessary wireless spectrum …

Two new reports on the implementation of big data analytics pinpoint the potential that telecom operators — and many other verticals — are hoping to benefit from by relying more heavily on data to fuel decisions from marketing to business …

Amdocs reported strong results during the most recent quarter, with revenues up more than 7% year-over-year driven by activity in emerging markets and in North America. Its revenues for the most recent quarter were $902 million, and the company noted that …

Ninety-nine percent of businesses worldwide are small- to medium-sized businesses, so it’s no surprise that this segment represents the fastest growing customer segment for service providers.

Amdocs recently released a study on the State of the RAN as of the end of 2013 in comparison to the end of 2012. Sure, we all know that data continues to grow, video usage continues to grow and the …

Last week I attended the joint shows of LTE World Summit and Connected Cars 2014 and there was a lot to talk about. Hopefully you’ve seen our coverage, but just to highlight a few topics we mentioned in more detail …

International telecommunications giant Vodafone Group announced a “partner market” agreement with Canadian telecom provider Rogers Communications.

NICE, France – So you’re a mobile operator and something happens to your service performance and suddenly there’s an explosion on Facebook discussing this topic. What do you do? Are you aware of the discussion; do you respond to the …

Amdocs is building on its long history with the telecom industry as an OSS/BSS provider and expanding its big data analytics offerings for telcos, including access to its data scientists. The company says it is the first end-to-end provider of …

Huawei and Ericsson topped Infonetics Research’s latest ranking of policy management vendors, with both operators posting strong results in evaluated metrics.

Sprint is reportedly preparing to offer its customers music from Spotify. Pending approval from the music labels that license to Spotify, the deal is expected to be announced later this month. Sprint subscribers would get free trials of the music …

Telecom Software: AT&T unveils a new security solution, Amdocs’ industry first VoLTE policy control system. 

Swimming in a sea of SDN, NFV, PCC, PCRF, PCEF, EPC, DPI virtual alphabet soup? You are not alone. RCR Wireless News attempts to make sense of it all as we explore the evolution of policy control and the implications …

–Cisco looked to put a cap on the rush towards virtualization at this week’s Mobile World Congress event with the launch of its Quantum Virtualized Packet Core software solution from its Evolved Services Platform that it said “virtualizes key capabilities” …

Urban small cell initiatives have been challenged by concerns about backhaul and site acquisition, but now more and more deployments are seeing the light of day. Small cells are moving beyond the home and enterprise and onto billboards, lamp posts, …

Huawei and NSN have signed a cross-licensing agreement for OSS (Operations Systems Support), following up on the plan the two infrastructure giants announced last spring. Ericsson is also expected to cross license its OSS system with Huawei and NSN, according …