Monthly Archives: December, 2011

Cox to sell AWS spectrum to Verizon Wireless for $315M

Cox Communications, having recently dismantled its wireless ambitions, said it plans to sell its 20 megahertz 1.7/2.1 GHz spectrum holdings to Verizon Wireless for...

Pioneer on track to launch LTE services as part of Verizon Wireless program

Verizon Wireless’ LTE in Rural America program is inching closer to fruition with the news that Pioneer Cellular has recently completed end-to-end data testing...

Crown Castle to buy NextG Networks for $1B

The nation's largest tower operator is making a major investment in distributed antenna systems. Crown Castle International (NYSE: CCI) says it will purchase NextG...

Optimizing your new LTE network using drive test data

Overview: Join RCR Wireless News and Anritsu to learn about early observations of LTE network optimization using drive test data -- including collection, analysis and...

Latin American companies launch LTE, but should they consider 4G?

This week, two Latin American companies announced LTE launches: Sky in Brazil and Antel in Uruguay. Previously, Colombian UNE EPM announced its LTE antenna...

Brazilian carriers start HSPA+ migration; Claro launches its networks

Brazilian carriers are migrating their 3G network to HSPA+, mostly to cope with the increase in data volume. Telefónica’s Vivo announced the commercial launch...

Verizon announces new global organization

Verizon Friday announced the creation of a new global organization that will oversee all business, government and wholesale operations from across the company’s wireless and wireline businesses.

Intel sharpens mobile focus

The world's largest chipmaker will start the new year with a fresh focus on mobile. Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) is combining four business units into...

LightSquared again fails GPS interference test

Following contentious leaks of the results earlier this week, a government technical group released a report showing continued interference issues between general purpose GPS...

Ads on smartphones could be getting simpler

The Mobile Marketing Association wants to bring some order to the world of mobile advertising -- the trade group is proposing standard sizes for...

New Indian telecom rules will hurt sector’s credit profile, Fitch says

Global ratings agency Fitch has said that recent decisions made by India's telecom commission will be detrimental to the sector's credit profile.

Indian PM to DoT: Reduce security risk from telecom gear imports

The Indian prime minister's office has recently sought an update from the Department of Telecom about the steps taken to tackle the security issues arising from the importing of telecom equipment.

France in final phase of 800 MHz spectrum auction

French regulatory body ARCEP said it has received four bids for 800 MHz spectrum licenses as a follow up to 2.6 GHz spectrum licenses...

UNE EPM, 2 others partner on $80M data center; UNE president resigns

In the same week that UNE EPM Telecomunicaciones President Horacio Vélez de Bedout submitted his resignation to the board, the government telecom announced that...

Amazon Web Services launches cloud computing platform in South America

The first South American global cloud computing platform for Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company, was launched today in São Paulo, Brazil. This...

Lime unveils 100 mbps service in Jamaica through FTTH network

Cable & Wireless Communications’ Caribbean business Lime said today that it has launched a 100 megabits per second (mbps) residential broadband service in Jamaica,...

American Tower acquires Mexico sites from Telefónica

Telecom infrastructure giant American Tower (AMT) unveiled plans to purchase 2,500 towers from Telefónica's Mexican subsidiary for about $500 million, excluding value-added tax. AMT...

Uruguay’s ANTEL to launch LTE services

ANTEL, Uruguay's government-owned telecom, has said it will launch its commercial LTE network to customers in Montevideo and Punta del Este on Dec. 19. Named...

Enterprise to drive bulk of LTE revenues through 2016

LTE services are expected to generate $265 billion in revenue by 2016, with a majority of that coming from enterprise customers despite that segment...

Report: U.S. households more reliant on mobile broadband connections

U.S. households are expected to increasingly rely solely on mobile connections to the Internet, according to a report from Strategy Analytics. The report predicts that...

T-Mobile USA makes it official: Nokia Lumia 710 goes on sale next month

T-Mobile USA announced today that it will be selling Nokia's first Windows phone available in the United States, the Lumia 710. The smartphone will...

NTSB proposes call/text ban for drivers

The fight against distracted driving gained steam as the National Transportation Safety Board voted unanimously to recommend that all states ban the use of...

Smart cars replace smartphones for smart drivers

Using a mobile phone while driving is already illegal in seven states, and now the federal government is pressuring more states to enact bans....

RCR Wireless brings advertising industry veteran to management team

RCR Wireless News announced today that Dallas-based Roger Buckley has joined its executive team as associate publisher and vice president of business development Prior to...

Report: Growth in Indian telecom sector will be driven by mobile VAS

Growth in the Indian telecom sector will be driven by value-added services like mobile banking in the next phase, with the market for such offerings set to rise fourfold to $9 billion by 2015, according to a report by KPMG and FICCI.
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