Monthly Archives: October, 2013

iPhone 5C will be free at Best Buy Mobile

One month after its launch, the iPhone 5C is being offered for free to upgrade-eligible mobile subscribers willing to trade in a working smartphone....

Report: BlackBerry open to breakup

BlackBerry's $4.7 billion dollar deal with Fairfax Financial may be in jeopardy, with BlackBerry stock trading below Fairfax's $9-per-share offer price. Today Bloomberg is...

Empirix to be acquired by private equity firm

Service assurance and network management company Empirix will be acquired by private equity investment firm Thoma Bravo LLC. The transaction is expected to be finalized...

VoLTE winners and losers

AT&T said this week that it expects to have a voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) smartphone by the holidays, and Verizon has also said that it will...

PCIA 2013: Adelstein talks FCC, challenges, opportunities, first year on the job

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – PCIA CEO Jonathan Adelstein has had what could be deemed a “dream” first year as head of the wireless trade association,...

T-Mobile US looks international for third leg of ‘un-carrier’ strategy; LTE hits 200M pops

T-Mobile US unveiled the third leg of its “un-carrier” strategy this week, looking to relieve a pain point of frequent world travelers. The carrier...

PCIA 2013: Tower execs bullish on growth, differ on details

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – To the surprise of few, leaders from the nation’s largest tower owners remain upbeat regarding the future of their market, citing...

Sonus virtualizes its session border controller

Sonus Networks has launched its first software-based session border controller (SBC), positioning the company to better compete as networks evolve toward less purpose-built hardware...

AT&T, Cisco and Intel partner with GE on IoT

AT&T, Cisco and Intel are all part of a broad new IoT partnership announced today by GE. IoT, or the Internet of Things, refers...

Report: Crown Castle close to AT&T tower deal

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – For the second year in a row, Crown Castle looks set to pull off a big deal with a wireless carrier...

Analyst Angle: Mobile payment services in Brazil and the path to financial inclusion

Mobile payment is currently one of the hottest topics in the Brazilian ICT industry. Frost & Sullivan had the opportunity to discuss the trends of this market with telcos and value chain

Time Trippin’: AT&T tops consumer cellular poll; Ericsson tests W-CDMA … 17 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...

PCIA 2013: Small cells, spectrum, software key for next-gen networks

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – In comments kicking off this week’s PCIA Wireless Infrastructure Show, keynote speakers from Sprint and AT&T both noted the importance of...

Video: Cambium Networks aims to connect new markets with ePMP

Cambium Networks has launched a new wireless broadband product aimed at connecting rural and underserved communities in the 5 GHz band. Cambium's heritage comes from Motorola...

C Spire to build $20 million Mississippi data center

C Spire plans to build a $20 million data center in northeast Mississippi to support cloud services for enterprise customers. The 22,400-square-foot center will be...

Alcatel-Lucent to cut 10,000 jobs

Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) says that roughly one of every seven workers will be let go as the telecom equipment giant makes a last-ditch effort to...

Reality Check: Grasping the last piece of air in mobile coverage

The question we should be asking is what will happen if smart watches, devices like Google Glass and other wearable devices don’t have a strong enough mobile signal to work indoors?

Reality Check: Network emulation reduces mobile network operators’ opex

The future of network validation and optimization is in the lab. Think about the plane industry: 100 years ago no one was using flight simulators to build and fly planes. Try for a minute to

Fitch goes easy on Verizon’s credit rating, cites Verizon Wireless potential

Verizon Communications’ history of quickly cashing in on previous acquisitions has convinced at least one credit rating service that its pending deal to purchase...

Sprint to replace key executives

Sprint is replacing two of its top executives, as the nation's third largest carrier adjusts to new ownership by Softbank and increased competition from...

HetNet News: Cloud-based Wi-Fi from Enterasys

Enterasys Networks and PCM Inc. have launched a joint offering for cloud-managed wireless LANs, using Enterasys' Wi-Fi access points and OneFabric management system. The PCM...

Chip News: Qualcomm, Intel, Broadcom, Freescale and Imagination Technologies

Qualcomm gets Lenovo's Vibe Qualcomm has scored a victory with Lenovo, landing the processor in the new Vibe Z smartphone and replacing Intel, which supplied...

Reader Forum: Don’t buy – optimize!

With increasing numbers of consumers demanding ever more from their wireless connections, wireless carriers may view the acquisition of new spectrum as the best hope for meeting the demand.

Reader Forum: It’s time for TDD-LTE

Today’s wireless networks are under serious strain from the data deluge, driven by the growth in mobile video and the pervasiveness of tablets and smartphones around the world. Consequently,

Reader Forum: VoLTE’s potential goes above and beyond HD voice

With only four commercial deployments of voice over LTE networks globally – three in Korea and with MetroPCS in the United States – it’s safe to presume that it’s still a relatively nascent technology. But
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