Monthly Archives: January, 2013

Verizon Wireless completes 700 MHz spectrum sale; AT&T bolsters holdings

Verizon Wireless wrapped up the sale of lower 700 MHz spectrum assets, announcing late last week that it sold off the remaining chunk of...

Carriers, enterprises move beyond cloud experimentation to broader implementation

Enterprise adoption of cloud computing has been a game-changer for those that know how to take advantage of hosting data in the cloud. Now...

Reader Forum: Three steps toward mobility

You’re a security IT professional, and you think you’ve taken the steps to try to make your network secure. You feel relatively confident, safe even, as you walk the corridors of your organization.

Reader Forum: Sports on the small screen and its impact on mobile networks

Sporting events like the Super Bowl, World Cup and the Olympics have long been watched by thousands via television. Over the years, some sports have become more popular and mainstream

Reader Forum: Five rural operator strategies for seizing LTE opportunities

LTE brings a variety of new opportunities, but also sophisticated requirements and issues for which operators should plan. Operators’ challenges range from 700 MHz B-Block “use it or lose it” requirements,

Viettel launches technical operations in Peru

Vietnamese mobile network operator the Viettel Group was set to launch operations on Saturday, January 26, according to the Ministry of Transport and Communications...

Merger creates Latam mobile ad network, $10M revenue goal for 2013

The merger of the  Cisneros' digital media unit, RedMas, with the mobile advertising network Adsmovil has created a large mobile advertising network serving the Americas....

RCRTV: LTE device testing ecosystem – 560 LTE devices and counting

The number of LTE devices is exploding rapidly, from 269 devices in January 2012 to 560 devices produced by 83 suppliers as of November...

RCR Wireless News Americas 2013 Sponsorship Programs

RCR Wireless News - Americas2013 Sponsorship ProgramsSince 2011, under the leadership of editor-in-chief Roberta Prescott, RCR Wireless News has been covering ICT and wireless...

Top stories for the week

AT&T went on a spectrum buying spree and investors went on an Apple selling spree. Verizon Wireless and AT&T both reported healthy gains in...

Testing News: Anite accelerates LTE testing in China; JDSU puts test info in the cloud

Anite today announced the validation of the first Global Certification Forum (GCF) TD-LTE/TD-SCDMA Inter-Radio Access Technology (Inter-RAT) test cases. The company said that it...

More than 700 million smartphones shipped in 2012, but growth rate slowed

It was a record-breaking year for smartphones. Device makers shipped more than 700 million units worldwide in 2012, the largest number to date, according...

AT&T reports record smartphone sales; rise in ARPU

AT&T's fourth quarter results were marked by record smartphone sales, a healthy increase in average revenue per wireless subscriber, and a quarterly loss due...

Skyfire CEO interview: Video consumption’s impact on mobile carriers

The impact of the growing consumption of video on mobile operators is already being felt—and carriers need to develop business models that address customer...

Time Trippin’: Merger-mania!; RIM introduces wireless e-mail … 14 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’s UNE invests $2.5 million to expand LTE service coverage

Colombia’s public telecom operator, UNE EPM, is investing U.S.$ 2.5 million to launch LTE services in the city of Barranquilla. The investment will be used...

Nokia returns to profitability

Nokia Corporation (NOK) reported its first quarterly profit in over a year today, earning $270 million on revenue of $10.7 billion. The numbers were...

Infrastructure update: Carrier-grade small cells expected to grow; AT&T beefs up Big Easy network with DAS

Carrier-grade small cells are expected to address wireless operators’ problem of limited capacity, according to three reports by Mobile Experts. Mobile Experts noted that between...

Skyway Towers receives $75 million in new funding for expansion

Skyway Towers has secured an additional $75 million from its investors. Tinicum and Permit Capital Private Equity Fund made the commitment to continue development...

Chile sets new standards for telecom services

Chilean watchdog Subtel has set new service quality indicators for Internet, mobile and fixed telephony services that will be used starting this year. According...

Apple earnings: outlook clouded by lower margins, more competition

Record sales of iPhones and iPads were not enough to renew Wall Street's appetite for Apple. The stock fell 10% in after hours trading...

2013 Predictions: Three points for 2013: Spectrum, smartphones, security

Federal Communications Commission approval of the 2012 acquisitions (Softbank acquires Sprint Nextel; Sprint Nextel buying Clearwire; and T-Mobile USA

Cloud, mobile and Hana push SAP revenues up

German enterprise software giant SAP's revenues were boosted by its key innovation areas: SAP Hana, mobile and cloud computing. When SAP released its full year...

Digicel Group taps eVolution Networks to provide SES in Jamaica

Digicel Group has chosen eVolution Networks to provide a smart energy solution (SES) across its network in Jamaica. Digicel aims to slash energy consumption...

2013 Predictions: Carrier painkillers – MDM, the ‘right’ apps, the decline of device subsidy

Editor’s Note: With 2013 now upon us, RCR Wireless News has gathered predictions from leading industry analysts and executives on what they expect to...
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