As has been often said, and in more loquacious ways, spectrum is the lifeblood of the wireless industry. Without it, we would all still be running for payphones, concentrating on our driving and having conversations with each other.
FirstNet yesterday approved a spectrum lease with the Los Angeles Regional Interoperable Communications System (LA-RICS), the first of the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP)...
Carrier aggregation is picking up speed. Several test companies have now announced submissions for validation and other testing for the eagerly anticipated LTE-Advanced feature....
U.S. Cellular continued to rationalize its spectrum position, announcing today plans to sell 10 megahertz of spectrum in the 1.7/2.1 GHz band to T-Mobile...
Verizon Communications has reportedly moved closer to entering the Canadian wireless market, having offered to purchase beleaguered operator Wind Mobile and initiating talks with...
Qualcomm Technologies Inc. is enabling the industry's first LTE-Advanced smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy S4 LTE-A, with its Snapdragon 800 processor.
Qualcomm said that the new...
Verizon Wireless looked to re-assert its dominance of the domestic LTE conversation reporting today that its LTE network now covered more than 298 million...
The consultant Paul Magnone wrote recently in Forbes about what he calls the four big data trends that will change everything. As Magnone noted, rather...
As service providers struggle to cope with capacity issues in their networks, Broadcom is launching a new high-capacity network switch to support 10 Gigabit...
South Korea’s SK Telecom has laid claim to launching the world’s first LTE-Advanced network, offering customers network speeds twice as fast as its current...
While telcos are experiencing stagnation in traditional service revenue, prices are expected to fall continuously as connectivity becomes a commodity. To guarantee revenue growth, telcos will have to
Sprint Nextel reported this morning that its shareholders have approved its pending $21.6 billion acquisition by Softbank, with the deal now set to be...
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 insights into the...
We are getting very close to the end of the quarter in the telecommunications industry. This quarter has been marked by many significant events, including:
Carrier Wi-Fi is often marketed as an offload solution, but carrier-class Wi-Fi services for mobile network operators is not only about relieving network congestion. It is also about offering the
Clearwire appeared to move step closer in its pending acquisition by Sprint Nextel, with Institutional Shareholder Services throwing its support behind Sprint Nextel’s recently...
Regional wireless operator U.S. Cellular lost its president and CEO, Mary Dillon, who abruptly resigned her position late last week. The carrier’s board of...
The battle to shape the rules for the Federal Communications Commission’s planned auction of 600 MHz spectrum licenses continued late last week as T-Mobile...
The Wi-Fi Alliance has begun its certification program for 802.11ac products, and said that more products with the certification will be available in the...
