Monthly Archives: April, 2013

U.S. Cellular launches test drive program, moves forward with job cuts

Regional wireless operator U.S. Cellular unveiled a new trial test drive program for customers allowing them to check coverage in areas where they actually...

Ericsson to buy Microsoft Mediaroom

Ericsson says it will buy Microsoft's Mediaroom for an undisclosed amount, a move that will give the world's largest maker of mobile telecom equipment...

Set-top box market set to explode, led by video gateways

Ericsson's purchase of Microsoft's Mediaroom underlines the growing importance of the video-on-demand market market for mobile operators. Demand for set-top boxes is set to...

Reader Forum: When should a wireless carrier disclose location data to law enforcement?

Wireless carriers often receive court orders to assist electronic surveillance by law enforcement agencies. In fact, over the last decade, the number of court orders for electronic surveillance has doubled to some 3,000 per year,

LatAm Wrap Up: Entel buys Nextel Peru; Virgin Mobile MVNO launches in Colombia

Last week was a busy one for Latin American carriers. While U.S.-based NII Holdings announced it is exiting Peru by selling its Nextel operations to...

Reader Forum: Bringing greater quality-of-service to small cells

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for...

Test & Measurement: Anite chosen by CanvasM lab in N.J.

Anite's test solutions for 2G, 3G and LTE conformance and interoperability testing will be used in CanvasM Technologies' new test lab in New Jersey....

Worst of the Week: Buzz kill!

Dang! This week started off so promising, but just as quickly that promise was nipped in the bud by a certain Buzz Killington.

NII Holdings sells off Peru operations for $400M

NII Holdings, which is based in Reston, Va., announced it has sold its Peru operations to Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (ENTel) for $400 million....

Time Trippin’: T-Mobile USA unveils new prepaid plans; Nokia and CDMA? … 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...

Facebook partners with AT&T and HTC on new user experience

Facebook says its new mobile interface is all about shifting devices away from apps and tasks, and towards friends and people. Today the company...

Samsung to open 1,400 stores with Best Buy

Samsung says it will launch branded stores at 1,400 Best Buy locations by this summer. Best Buy employees will help customers purchase and activate...

Webinar: Evolving to the Application Delivery Network

Service providers have been buffeted by the explosive growth in data traffic.  Meanwhile many networks remain highly siloed and are becoming more complex even...

Alcatel-Lucent launches new SDN venture, Nuage Networks

Several major recent announcements in the SDN space reflect the high level of interest in software-defined networking, and network function virtualization -- where software,...

Clearwire investor offers funds; Dish dips into debt market

Funding news added some new twists and turns to the future of both Clearwire and Dish Networks. At Clearwire, minority shareholder Crest Financial said it...

Capital Markets update: Tableau, Marketo, Simple.TV

Big data is wasted wealth if you can't see what it means, so visualization software is increasingly important to companies that find themselves drowning...

BlackBerry gets support from Telefonica

BlackBerry is getting a boost from its longtime partner Telefonica. The global carrier has made a commitment to buy roughly $200 million worth of...

T-Mobile USA posts branded Q1 growth, first in 4 years

T-Mobile USA today broke a bit with tradition announcing preliminary first quarter results showing the carrier’s first branded customer growth in years, bolstered by...

Telecom Analytics: Study shows big data critical to customer-centric cultures

Both marketing and IT executives believe that big data is a key competitive differentiator and will be core to implementing a more customer-centric business...

Carrier Wrap: NII Holdings looks to unload Peru operations; LTE continues to expand

Editor’s Note: Wireless operators are a busy bunch, and as such RCR Wireless News will attempt to gather some of the important announcements that...

Actix: Chatty smartphones, RAN impede network quality

A recent report from network analytics company Actix on the state of mobile networks concluded that the vast majority of smartphone sessions are data-related...

U.S. chips speed time-to-market for Asian manufacturers

40 years after Motorola's Marty Cooper made the world's first cell phone call, the race to bring new mobile phones to market has never...

Verizon denies partnership with AT&T for Vodafone takeover bid

Verizon Communications provided a bit of sanity to rumors this week that it was looking to partner with AT&T for a potential acquisition of...

Cisco to buy Ubiquisys

Cisco continued its move into mobility this week with the purchase of Ubiquisys for $310 million. Ubiquisys is a British developer of small cell...

Mobile backhaul market tops $8B in 2012

Continued growth in mobile broadband deployments propelled the mobile backhaul market to more than $8 billion in sales last year, according to Infonetics Research....
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