Monthly Archives: June, 2013

Cisco, SK Telecom, Vodafone win Small Cell Forum awards

Vodafone, SK Telecom and Cisco were among the operators and vendors honored for their small cell innovation efforts by The Small Cell Forum, an...

Test & Measurement: New products and upgrades from Rohde & Schwarz, Agilent

Rohde & Schwarz has made a series of new additions to its portfolio recently, as well as some new customer wins. The company introduced a...

Apple stores reportedly ready for iPhone trade-ins

Apple is reportedly launching a trade-in program in its stores, taking old iPhones off the hands of customers who want to upgrade to the...

Sensor sales set to soar

Sensors are a small but growing part of the worldwide semiconductor market, expected to grow faster than any market segment except memory chips, according...

AT&T Mobility reports half-million postpaid net adds for Q2

AT&T provided a preview of how the current second quarter is progressing, reporting that its wireless operations were on track to post 500,000 postpaid...

Worst of the Week: When grown men cry

I must confess up front that I love spectrum auctions. LOVE THEM! (Maybe not as much as I love scotch, but they are right up there.)

EE claims 500,000 LTE customers; plans to increase network speeds

U.K. operator EE said it has signed up more than 500,000 customers to its recently launched LTE service, with plans for further increase network...

Device review: Microsoft Surface RT

Sales of Microsoft's Surface RT tablet have been sluggish. IDC reports that Microsoft sold just 200,000 Surface RT tablets in the first quarter, down...

Verizon reportedly ordered to submit customer data to government

The U.S. government has apparently ordered Verizon's business service unit to hand over its customers' phone records. The National Security Agency is requiring the...

AT&T divests 540M America Movil shares; is Vodafone a target?

AT&T divested itself of 540 million shares in Latin American-based telecom giant America Movil in a move the carrier said was designed to maintain...

Telecom Analytics: Moving from descriptive to prescriptive models; Salesforce, Guavus acquisitions

Emphasizing that big data's greatest benefit is the business value it brings, Gartner analysts said that CIOs must put analytics at the center of...

Carrier Wrap: Canadian carriers play spectrum swap; iDEN on the ropes

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...

Sprint Nextel reportedly plans to launch its own smartphone (Mobile Minute)

Sprint Nextel reportedly plans to market its own smartphone brand. Engadget reports that ZTE will manufacture the LTE phone for Sprint and that it...

FirstNet board approves increased budget, organizational structure

WESTMINSTER, Colo. -- The FirstNet board met yesterday and approved an increased budget for 2013 to allow for hiring to shift ongoing management functions...

Dish counters Sprint Nextel claims in letter to Clearwire

Dish Network reacted quickly to claims by Sprint Nextel that its pending offer to acquire a stake in Clearwire violates certain laws and shareholder...

FreedomPop to offer ‘free’ voice, text, data services later this year

FreedomPop continues to make waves through its “free” service offerings, this week pushing its boldest offer yet. The company said it will offer “completely...

Analyst Angle: Telefónica’s Central American stake sale does not point to overall regional repositioning

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’: AT&T tops in revenues; carriers see bigger as better … 16 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...

White Paper: LTE-Advanced Ready Timing Solution

Mobile operators are looking for ways to provide a remarkable and differentiated user experience. Maintaining an accurate frequency and phase synchronization between radio access and...

Lenovo seeks partner for smartphone business

Lenovo has made no secret of its ambition to expand into the U.S. smartphone market, and now the Chinese company is reportedly seeking a...

Samsung annoints Intel for 10-inch Galaxy Tab 3

The ice is definitely breaking for Intel, the 800 pound gorilla that for a time seemed frozen out of the market for mobile processors...

Qualcomm looks across Pacific with latest chip design

Qualcomm unveiled a new quad-core Snapdragon 400 with integrated multimode 3G/4G LTE at COMPUTEX in Taiwan. The new processor also integrates TD-SCDMA, HSPA+ (up...

Canada looks to infuse competition into mobile space; delays 700 MHz auction

The Canadian government said it plans to more actively promote competition in the wireless space, announcing a number of decisions today that it said...

CTIA Special Conference examines big data analytics for communication carriers

The rapidly growing field of data analysis tools and platforms designed for telecom and mobile carriers was the focus of the Telecom Analytics Conerence, a partner...

Reality Check: Electronics and high-tech companies underperforming in innovation

There is widespread commitment to innovation throughout the electronics and high-tech industry. But this commitment is not reaping commensurate rewards. This needs to change. Innovation is too critical
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