Monthly Archives: March, 2013

Time Trippin’: Spectrum swaps; Execs profit from Sprint-Nextel … 8 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 telecom update: 49M mobile subscribers, 6.2M Internet broadband connections

Colombia's ministry of technology and communications (Mintic) has released the latest numbers for the country's telecommunication industry. Internet broadband connections in Colombia have reached 6.2 million, while...

C Spire taps NetCracker to bolster BSS

Regional operator C Spire signed a deal with NetCracker Technology to provide the operator with a BSS solution to consolidate its billing, customer account...

Breaking down Q4 wireless carrier results

With all the domestic wireless operators having reported their fourth quarter 2012 results, RCR Wireless News spoke with longtime industry analyst Bill Ho to...

Ericsson to provide EPC enhancement for MetroPCS

MetroPCS has again tapped infrastructure giant Ericsson to bolster its network operations, announcing a deal for Ericsson to supply equipment and services to enhance...

Report: T-Mobile USA to cut 100-plus jobs

T-Mobile USA is reportedly set for a round of job cuts ahead of its planned acquisition of MetroPCS, with more than 100 jobs expected...

Apple and Samsung gain market share

Apple and Samsung continue to solidify their dominance of the smartphone market, according to the latest MobiLens report from comScore. The iPhone 5 helped...

Mobile companies compete to hire top grads

With less than three months to go until graduation, many college students are hard at work fine tuning their resumes and scheduling job interviews....

Brazilian carriers announce LTE infrastructure sharing agreements

Four Brazilian carriers announced infrastructure sharing agreements for the deployment of LTE networks. Following an announcement by TIM and Oi that they had made...

Analyst Angle: Mobile cloud creates opportunities for carriers (video)

Consumers who first experienced the Internet through smartphones and tablets expect to synch and switch devices with consistency of experience, and this creates opportunities...

Airlines expand Wi-Fi services, expected to target mobile consumers

Airlines are expanding their Wi-Fi services and according to a new global report, are expected to become the industry that spends the most to...

MWC 2013: Chip giants went head-to-head at MWC

Qualcomm told Nvidia that its day in the sun was over, boasting at Mobile World Congress that the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor is...

Solavei tempts iPhone, Galaxy S III users with nano-SIM

Mobile virtual network operator Solavei continued to add high-end device options to customers, announcing plans today to begin offering a nano-SIM card compatible with...

Wi-Fi Alliance absorbs WiGig Alliance

The Wi-Fi Alliance and Wireless Gigabit Alliance said they have finalized a previously announced deal to consolidate WiGig technology and certification development into the...

Sprint Nextel rolls out device activation program for MVNOs

Sprint Nextel unveiled a new program that will allow customers to take their inactive device to select mobile virtual network operators. Sprint Nextel said the...

Report: Verizon, Vodafone (again) mull Verizon Wireless’ future

Could Verizon Wireless’ current joint custody quandary soon be solved? Bloomberg reported this week that Verizon Communications, which controls 55% of Verizon Wireless, and Vodafone...

Smartphone roundup: Fastest, biggest, and brightest from MWC 2013

The most stunning smartphones at Mobile World Congress were not even announced at the show; both Sony and HTC unveiled their new flagship phones...

MWC 2013: LTE-A, small cells, software top infrastructure trends at MWC

RCR Wireless News spoke with Daryl Schoolar, principal infrastructure analyst at Ovum, to get his impressions of the recent Mobile World Congress event in...

MWC 2013: Devices, small cells hot topics at MWC

RCR Wireless News Editor-In-Chief Dan Meyer spoke with Dan Hays, principal and U.S. wireless advisory leader at PwC, about what he viewed as the...

MWC 2013: Infrastructure trends

Network virtualization is on its way. If nothing else was clear from MWC 2013, it’s that networks are on the road to becoming less hardware...

Verizon Wireless not through with net additions, expects subsidy model to evolve with LTE

Despite domestic wireless penetration at or near 100%, Verizon Wireless is confident it can continue adding new customers whether from rivals or multi-device accounts. Speaking...

MWC 2013: ARM shows support for Firefox OS (video)

Many people in emerging markets will experience the Internet for the first time this year, and most of them will do so on a...

White House, FCC, and CCA support consumers’ right to unlock phones

The White House says consumers should have the right to unlock their mobile phones. The administration released a statement saying that it supports "legislative...

Reality Check: Wireless SON learning concepts

Self-optimizing network applications for heterogeneous networks address coverage and capacity optimization, energy savings and interference coordination, as well as handset management enabling

Brazil speeds up availability of 2.5 GHz, 700 MHz bands for LTE

Brazilians carriers that bought spectrum licenses in the 2.5 GHz frequency band at auction in June have until April to cover all the offices of the...
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