Monthly Archives: June, 2013

HTC Butterfly S: One step further

Hoping to capitalize on the positive reviews for the HTC One, the Taiwanese smartphone maker today launched a successor to its Butterfly smartphone –...

Analyst Angle: Colombia leads Latin American MVNO market

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot...

Time Trippin’: Carriers struggle with data prices; industry with encryption … 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...

Spotlight: Meet me at the intersection of fiber and wireless

If it’s true that perception is reality, and that expectations impact perception, then a new reality meets at the corner of fiber and wireless....

C Spire adds automatic Wi-Fi through Devicescape

C Spire Wireless is the latest carrier win for Devicescape, creator of software that lets users connect to a nationwide network of public Wi-Fi...

PowerCloud expands presence with multi-tenant Wi-Fi, partner program

PowerCloud Systems, which provides cloud-based network management of what it calls “enterprise-Wi-Fi-as-a-service” without an on-site network controller, is ramping up its activities with a multi-tenant...

Sprint Nextel files lawsuit to block Dish attempt to acquire stake in Clearwire

Sprint Nextel has found a new manner in which to deter Dish Network from attempting to acquire a stake in Clearwire, filing a lawsuit...

Huawei launches ‘world’s slimmest smartphone’

Huawei may face some obstacles when it comes to selling telecom gear in the U.S., but the Chinese conglomerate continues to be aggressive in...

Reality Check: Subsidies, financing and a stronger wireless industry

For a growing number of Americans, owning the latest mobile device is more than just keeping up with the Jones' – smartphones and tablets are critical work tools and their primary way to

Women in Wireless Leadership: Spotlight on Carolyn Hardwick of SBA Communications

Middle school teacher Carolyn Hardwick took a summer job as a project coordinator for AirGate PCS 13 summers ago and never looked back. By...

Report: Verizon looks north at potential entrance into Canadian market

Published reports out of Canada suggest that Verizon Communications is shopping for an entry into the country’s wireless market, which the Canadian government has...

Apple: what we do and don’t share with the government

Apple is the latest company to disclose to its customers how much data it has shared this year with the government. The company says...

HetNet News: Reports say Wi-Fi is booming worldwide; Gowex launches free Wi-Fi in SF

ABI Research released several recent reports on the Wi-Fi and in-building wireless space. The research firm estimated that Wi-Fi hotspots will reach a total...

How telecom analysts, big data can glean value from wireless networks (video)

Wireless carriers are constantly looking for ways to glean more value from their network deployments, a process being helped by increased usage of telecom...

Intel Core i7 powers carrier data center solution

Mobile video is a double-edged sword for operators -- customers are willing to pay more each month to watch video on mobile devices, but...

AT&T Mobility to add LTE option to GoPhone platform

AT&T Mobility is set to join the growing move towards offering LTE services to no-contract customers, announcing that beginning June 21 it will open...

Reader Forum: Big data – Driving change for CSPs

In a connected world where a majority of interactions between consumers and businesses are conducted online, network events increasingly define customer behavior. Communications service providers are

Apple discloses data shared with government

Apple is the latest company to disclose to its customers how much data it has shared this year with the government. The company says...

LatAm Wrap-Up: 125,000 LTE subscribers; Brazil reaches 14.1 million cellphones

The Latin American region now has 125,000 LTE subscribers, according to 4G Americas. The industry trade organization also noted that total mobile cellular technologies...

Reader Forum: Dumb pipes? Not if big data has its say

Mobile operators have become extremely adept at building networks capable of handling explosive volumes of traffic, even as subscribers continuously change devices, download applications and

Test & Measurement: NI on load pull, Ruckus and Globalstar test new spectrum for Wi-Fi

Welcome to this week's look at news in network test & measurement. Ixia was named among the fastest-growing U.S tech companies by Forbes Magazine. The...

White House lays out new spectrum sharing initiative

The federal government re-iterated plans to free up more spectrum assets for the benefit of consumers, including looking at ways for greater sharing of...

Worst of the Week: They grow up so fast

To the surprise of few and the delight of many, Clearwire’s “special committee” nearly depleted the world’s exasperation supply this week by throwing its support behind Dish Network’s attempt to

iOS gets Microsoft Office 365

Microsoft has launched an Office app on iOS, available only to users who buy a subscription to Office 365. Users will be able...

Subscriber data and the mobile advertising opportunity

Mobile internet ad spending doubled last year, as advertisers spent $8.8 billion to reach consumers on mobile devices. More than half that amount went...
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