Monthly Archives: May, 2013

Nokia 928 details emerge; Verizon may be exclusive carrier

Nokia appears to be using camera technology to differentiate the newest flagship device in its Lumia line of Windows-based smartphones. Although the struggling Finnish...

Aruba Networks, others cite delayed deployments in results

Aruba Networks, Inc. said that that it expects its revenues for the quarter ended April 30 to fall below its guidance, citing delays in...

Analyst Angle: U.S. carriers – there is no place like home

President Obama’s visit to Myanmar a few months ago was considered as a major sign of U.S. interest in this part of the world. For the telecommunication industry, this is certainly the

Time Trippin’: Verizon to shut down CDPD; Microsoft OS delay… 10 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...

What’s next for T-Mobile US?

Now that T-Mobile USA has completed its merger with MetroPCS, birthing the newly named T-Mobile US, where does the operator go from here? RCR Wireless...

RCR Mobile Minute 5/3/13: BYOD inspires new devices

ShoreTel is trying to bridge the gap between mobile devices and traditional business telecom networks with a docking station that turns iPhones and iPads...

Ruckus sees network delays; Ceragon looks ahead to network transitions

Wi-Fi company Ruckus Wireless' revenues jumped 27% year-over-year to $57.2 million, but the company had expected even more and cited delayed deployments for not...

Ntelos posts strong Q1 customer, ARPU growth

Rural wireless operator Ntelos continued to buck the trend among many of its larger rivals in adding customers across its product offering and riding...

Reality Check: The sober reality of small cells

Mobile operators and vendors alike are awakening to the sober reality of the complexity involved in deploying 10s and 100s of hundreds of small cells in a very dense indoor and outdoor area.

Intel unveils Silvermont

Intel's move to mobile is picking up steam. The company has unveiled Silvermont, a new architecture that Intel says delivers three times the peak...

HetNet News: Samsung’s Galaxy S4 supports Hotspot 2.0

A major milestone for the new Hotspot 2.0-era for seamless roaming between Wi-Fi and cellular networks: the new Galaxy S4 smartphone from Samsung ships...

Postpaid defections, smartphone sales impact U.S. Cellular Q1 performance

U.S. Cellular reported a shifting customer base moving increasingly towards the carrier’s prepaid services as well as growing impact from the sales of LTE-equipped...

Smartphone shipments vs. subscribers

LG, Huawei and ZTE are the up-and-comers in the smartphone market, but they have a long way to go. The latest report on the...

Clearwire ‘special committee’ favors Sprint Nextel offer

Clearwire looks to have officially endorsed its pending acquisition by Sprint Nextel, with a “special committee” set up by the carrier sending a letter...

Reader Forum: CPRI and DAS

One of the enduring challenges in matching up a distributed antenna system with a mobile base station has been the need to use RF as the method of interface. Using RF as the interface adds complexity and

Reader Forum: Beyond the ‘connected home’ to ‘connected lives’

Most consumers are now familiar with the concept of the connected home, and some are even utilizing it today through services like Verizon’s Home Monitoring and Control offering.

LatAm Wrap-Up: Brazil’s carriers meet LTE goals for Confederations Cup

April 30 was the final day to deploy LTE networks in the Brazilian host cities of the FIFA Confederations Cup, and the largest four...

Aspire R7 could be a game changer (video)

This could signal the future of corporate computing: the newest Windows 8 notebook released by Acer today is a $1,000 laptop that includes the...

U.S. Cellular to offer Apple ‘products’ this year

Regional operator U.S. Cellular looks set to join the dark side, announcing plans to offer Apple products by the end of the year. The...

Test & Measurement: New flagship tester from R&S; Agilent automates VoLTE tests for Verizon

Rohde & Schwarz has launched  a new flagship test product, the R&S SMW200A high-end vector signal generator. The box combines a baseband generator, RF generator...

National Technical Systems reports record quarter; Ixia has ‘solid start’

National Technical Systems, which provides testing and engineering services to the telecom industry among others, had a record quarter of growth. Revenues were up...

Verizon hints at no Verizon Wireless dividend in 2013, confident no premium needed for control

The power play over control of Verizon Wireless could be set to take another turn as an industry analyst noted that the wireless carrier...

GenBand consortium spans wireless ecosystem

The blistering pace of innovation in wireless has many companies evaluating build versus buy decisions as they look for ways to enter new markets....

Worst of the Week: A billion laughs

Who knew billionaires were so petty, sensitive and funny? And, more importantly, how awesome is it that billionaires are so petty, sensitive and funny?

Telecom Analytics: Cloud, social, big data, ‘Internet of things’ can bring carriers more revenue

The combination of mobile, cloud, social, big data and the "Internet of things" is driving company efforts from many different industries, and telecom operators...
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