Yearly Archives: 2012

Reality Check: China, cyberwar and your phone company

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their...

Survey: Smartphones most popular devices for hotspot connections

For the first time, smartphones has overtaken laptops as the most popular way to connect to Wi-Fi hotspots, according to a report compiled by...

European Commission to add 120 megahertz of spectrum to pot

The European Commission said it plans to add 120 megahertz of new spectrum near the 2 GHz band in support of next-generation mobile broadband...

TelCo Systems unveils 2G/3G/4G backhaul device

TelCo Systems has announced a new mobile backhaul cell site switch which can service sites with 2G, 3G or "4G" technology. The demarcation device...

Enterasys looks to double wireless sales with launch of Wi-Fi products

Enterasys Networks aims to double wireless sales with the worldwide launch of its Wi-Fi portfolio, IdentiFi, aimed at enterprises deluged with an influx of...

Bluegrass Cellular launches LTE services as part of Verizon Wireless rural program

Nearly two years after signing up for Verizon Wireless’ LTE in Rural America program, Kentucky-based Bluegrass Cellular today launched its initial service from that...

T-Mobile USA deal will not end MetroPCS/Sprint Nextel partnership

Even after the merger of MetroPCS and T-Mobile USA, MetroPCS customers will still find themselves roaming on Sprint Nextel's network. And T-Mobile USA may...

Reader Forum: Controlling quality in least cost routing

Interconnect carriers and least cost routing models play an important role in sending voice calls around the globe. It is also commonly accepted that the benefits of LCR are worth the cost

Reader Forum: Exploiting the value of a client for data offload

Explosive growth in wireless traffic – thanks to mainstream adoption of smartphones, notebooks and tablets – has mobile operators scrambling to address data offloading problems and strategies.

Gartner: nearly two-thirds of enterprises will adopt MDM solutions

Over the next five years, 65% of enterprises will adopt a mobile device management (MDM) solution for their corporate liable users. The forecast by...

Android dominates Q3 smartphone market

Even before its newest slate of mobile devices hit the market, Google's Android operating system was winning the smartphone war. IDC says Android had...

Worst of the Week: Chicken and Bacon

Is anything ever easy for Clearwire? Late last week, everyone’s favorite WiMAX provider reported yet another quarter of “things will be better tomorrow … if …” results that have become all too common for Clearwire.

KDDI invests $5 million in Fuhu

KDDI, one of Japan’s largest cellular phone companies with over 35 million subscribers, announced today a $5 million series C investment in Fuhu, creators...

Time Trippin’: Java for phones; cellular closes in on PCS prices … 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...

Colombia postpones LTE auction to February, allows Claro to bid

Colombia's LTE auction has been postponed again. The government announced that it will take place in February next year, and América Móvil's Claro will be...

Brazil’s regulator approves telcom competition rules

The board of directors of Brazil's telecommunications agency, Anatel, has approved the General Plan for Competition (PGMC—the acronym in Portuguese), aimed at encouraging and promoting free competition...

T-Systems bets on cloud services, sees U.S., Brazil as major markets

T-Systems, the corporate customer arm of Deutsche Telekom, is betting on cloud services. “In the next few years, companies will be buying through the...

50 carriers testing BlackBerry 10

Research-in-Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) says 50 carriers are now testing its new BlackBerry 10 smartphone, which is expected to hit the market in the early...

MetroPCS first in US to launch RCS

MetroPCS this week launched Rich Communications Services, a continuation of the carrier’s push to take advantage of its LTE network through services such as...

Despite sales ban, TIM’s revenues up 8%, boosted by data

Andrea Mangoni, TIM Brasil’s CEO, opened the third quarter conference call with analysts by highlighting that growth in data and  smartphone base has driven...

Gartner VP interview: Mobile and social top challenges for CIOs

Mobile and social technologies represent a departure from the information technologies that CIOs are used to, such as ERP and CRM.  This change is...

CEO Spotlight: National Instruments’ Dr. James Truchard

LTE test and measurement equipment may not seem quite as sexy as the iPhone, but for National Instruments CEO Dr. James Truchard there are...

As small cells surpass macrocells, Alcatel-Lucent focuses on backhaul

An estimated 6 million small cells have been deployed worldwide, as operators rush to meet the demand for bandwidth and consumers demand connectivity in...

Gartner Symposium: BYOD is fundamentally changing mobile security

The prevalence of “iDevices,”the bring-your-own-devices (BYOD) trend and the shift from Blackberry to Apple and Google devices are among  the major challenges to mobile...

Gartner Symposium: 10 technology trends to watch

Organizational entrenchment and disruptions; software networks; bigger data and storage; hybrid cloud services; client and server architectures; the Internet of things; IT/OT and appliance...
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