Monthly Archives: August, 2013

Cisco to lay off 4,000 people

Cisco (CSCO) is clearly in the process of transforming its business, and the changes are prompting the networking giant to shift its workforce. CEO...

Gartner: Four out of five smartphones sold during Q2 were Androids

Android has 79% of the smartphone market according to the latest research from Gartner. The firm estimates that in the second quarter of this...

FirstNet offers 2014 business plan, makes mixed progress on spectrum leases

FirstNet, which is planning a nationwide public safety LTE network, marked its first anniversary by approving a business plan for 2014 and signing its...

LG challenges Google Chromecast

LG has teamed up with Azuki Systems to market an "Android stick" to compete with Google's Chromecast. Both devices enable users to stream Internet...

Business Only Broadband building a business on wireless broadband

A large, fixed wireless broadband network in several major metropolitan areas has been capitalizing on the flexibility and nimbleness of wireless as a supplement...

White Paper: LTE Mobile Transport Evolution

This paper discusses the changes that LTE will bring and examines their impact on mobile transport networks. It also introduces the Alcatel-Lucent Mobile Backhaul...

Huawei tops LTE vendor list

China's Huawei is currently the top worldwide supplier of LTE network equipment, according to new research from Informa Telecoms and Media. The research firm...

Time Trippin’: Birth of the ‘two-way’; Oki exits … 15 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...

ZTE taps CEVA for base station DSPs

Silicon Valley's CEVA (CEVA) says that China's ZTE Corporation has licensed its CEVA-XC DSP to power its multi-mode base station system-on-chips. Semiconductor companies designing...

iPhone launch date leaked

Details about Apple's newest smartphone may be less than a month away. The company is planning an iPhone launch for September 10, according to...

Wireless backhaul providers report mixed results

Quarterly results from wireless backhaul providers Ceragon Networks and Ubiquiti Networks were mixed. Ceragon reported revenues of $90.1 million, a drop of 20% from the...

White Paper: Voice Over LTE (VoLTE)

With LTE networks now a growing commercial reality, migrating traditional voice services to LTE becomes ever more pressing. GSMA IR.92 – IMS Profile for...

Reality Check: Faux G – the reality of today’s ‘4G’

LTE and 4G are two terms firmly rooted in every wireless subscriber’s vocabulary. The networks themselves, however, have a comparatively marginal grip on the global marketplace.

Reality Check: Leveraging policy engagement to increase service uptake and customer satisfaction

Policy management used to focus on implementing traffic shaping, identifying content usage through deep packet inspection, and enforcing rules to keep the network strong and to protect it from abuses such as

Accelerate your global business through M2M : the telecom carrier perspective

Is there money to be made in M2M? Clearly the answer is a resounding yes, given the dedicated corporate departments, products and solutions,...

BlackBerry board weighs its options

Ten years after it launched its first smartphone, BlackBerry (BBRY) may be nearing the end of an era. Today the company said its board...

HetNet News: Boingo posts strong results; AT&T details network investments

Boingo Wireless beat expectations for the quarter, reporting revenue of $26.2 million, up from $24.3 million for the second quarter of 2012. The company reported...

Ericsson, Telstra make first carrier aggregation call with 1800 & 900 MHz spectrum bands

Ericsson and Australian carrier Telstra announced that they have made the first call on combined 1800 MHz and 900 MHz spectrum bands in a...

Out of pocket: wearable wireless could challenge smartphone form factor

Google Glass has barely scratched the surface of the huge market for wearable technology, according to researchers who have analyzed the market from several...

LatAm Wrap-Up: On Telecom starts in Brazil; Mexican telecom sector grew 7.7% in 1H13

A new carrier was announced in Brazil last week. On Telecom will begin its operations backed by billionaire financier George Soros. The new competitor,...

Reader Forum: Utilizing TV white space, unlicensed spectrum in an M2M world

Recently, the wireless industry has found that the use of unlicensed spectrum and TV white space are promising areas of research. It’s becoming widely talked about and experts have begun to focus on

Reader Forum: Survey reveals winning strategies to accelerate innovation, increase ARPU

As the digital economy prevails with the rise of LTE, operators continuously seek innovation to better serve customers and compete. This is driving more sophisticated charging and

2013 LTE Capex and Opex predictions. By 2017, U.S. carriers expected to spend over $90 billion in capex and opex

According to a recent LTE capex and opex forecast published by iGR, Tier One operators (AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, and T-Mobile USA) and Regional...

Report: BlackBerry looking at buyout

BlackBerry (BBRY) may follow the lead of other troubled tech companies by going private in an effort to turn its business around without the...

Test & Measurement: Anite advances LTE-A interference testing

Anite has announced that it is the first to release a device testing solution for enhanced Inter-Cell Interference Coordination, or eICIC, an LTE-Advanced feature...
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