Monthly Archives: September, 2013

Mobile Minute 9/25/13

Amazon is taking tech support to a whole new level. The online retailer has launched live 24/7 video tech support for its brand new...

Verizon Wireless down on unlimited data; up on ‘5G’ video, U.S.

Any thoughts that Verizon Wireless would be forced to go back to offering unlimited data plans to mobile customers in the face of similar...

ABI: LTE networks will carry more data traffic than 3G by 2016

ABI Research expects usage of LTE networks to grow so quickly that the data traffic on LTE will surpass that of 3G networks within...

Analyst Angle: Latin American regulators measures to foster competition will not have a big impact in the short term

Latin American regulators are more concerned about the mobile market concentration in some countries, such as Colombia, Mexico and Peru, and they have implemented a range of measures in an attempt to foster competition.

Inside the iPhone 5c

A teardown of the iPhone 5c reveals what many consumers already suspected -- the c in the name could stand for "copy." Analysts at...

Ntelos, Sprint resolve billing issue

Regional telecommunications provider Ntelos said it has reached a settlement with network partner Sprint regarding disputes in their “strategic network alliance,” that had previously...

U.S. No. 4 in LTE penetration survey

The United States leads the world in the number of LTE subscribers, but in terms of LTE penetration the United States is in fourth...

Analyst Angle: M2M is already a $10B sector – SMEs, emerging markets are major growth opportunities

Machine-to-machine is often portrayed as a nascent industry sector. However, operators are already generating strong revenue in this sector, amounting to $10 billion worldwide in 2013, and

Time Trippin’: Verizon on challenges of No. 1; 4G takes shape … 13 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...

AT&T’s spectrum feast to feed LTE, margins, broadcast video

AT&T has been a very busy company over the past two years, gobbling up smaller carriers and spectrum at an alarming rate in an...

Altair: A ‘paradigm shift’ in LTE

The coverage of LTE networks is becoming ubiquitous enough that the market for single-mode LTE chipsets is growing, according to Altair Semiconductor. Eran Eshed, co-founder...

SouthernLINC set for generational jump to LTE

One take away from the recent Competitive Carriers Association Fall 2013 event was the desire by many rural operators to move into the LTE...

Microsoft launches 2 new Surface tablets, teases LTE

Microsoft has updated both versions of its Surface tablet, launching a new Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2. Pre-orders for both tablets started today...

Reality Check: Enterprise mobility reaching maturity

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...

Reality Check: Earnings drivers for Q3 (Pt. 1)

Last week was an action-packed week for the telecom industry, with AT&T announcing that they are in discussions with J.P. Morgan and TAP Advisers to sell their tower portfolio for up to $5 billion; Sprint revealing

BlackBerry to go private in $4.7 billion deal

BlackBerry (BBRY) says it has a plan to be acquired by a group led by Fairfax Financial in a $4.7 billion deal. Fairfax already...

RCR Wireless Mobile Minute 9/23/13

Apple says it sold a record 9 million new iPhones this weekend. That includes sales of the 5S and the 5C. The company also...

HetNet News: Boingo to acquire Advanced Wireless

Boingo Wireless has agreed to acquire Advanced Wireless Group, which claims to be the second-largest airport Wi-Fi provider in the United States. Terms of the...

15 set to contest Canada’s 700 MHz spectrum auction

Canada’s plans to auction 700 MHz spectrum licenses will be contested by 15 entities looking to get their hands on wide-reaching spectrum set to...

AT&T completes Alltel purchase, admits potential tower sale

The Federal Communications Commission has given AT&T the green light on its $780 million acquisition of Atlantic Tele-Network's Alltel assets. The two companies closed...

PCIA: Wireless infrastructure investment to produce $1.2T in economic growth, 1.2M new jobs

Wireless infrastructure industry trade organization PCIA funded a report put together by Information Age Economics showing that over the next five years private investments...

BlackBerry confirms job cuts, delays BBM launch

The contrast could not be more stark: This weekend while Apple was selling a record nine million iPhones and while 200 million iOS users...

LatAm Wrap-Up: Argentina to invest $1.4B in telco; Brazil’s Telefónica expands fiber

Brazilian telecom operator Vivo announced plans to expand its fiber optic network across state capitals of Recife, Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba, Brasília, Salvador and...

Reader Forum: The need for traffic detection function in LTE

Mobile broadband is the fastest-growing medium for accessing the Internet and its unlimited array of content and services. With the rising use of smartphones, tablets and

Reader Forum: Smartphone vs. tablet marketing – where context matters

For some, the definition of mobile covers an expansive range of devices: anything that is not a PC is considered a mobile device. For others, mobile relates only to smartphones. But for mobile marketers,
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