Monthly Archives: November, 2013

Reader Forum: SMS is helping grow revenue, support new uses in unexpected ways

There are eight minutes left in the second quarter and the excitement in the stadium is palpable. The roar of the crowd barely drowns out the growls from your stomach. The game is too exciting

NATE launches website for safety training

The National Association of Tower Erectors (NATE) is taking an important step to keep tower climbers safe by offering training to anyone with access...

Mobile Minute: Top stories for the week

BlackBerry canceled its plan to go private and instead will carry on with a new CEO, John Chen, former CEO of Sybase. Chen says...

Worst of the Week: Fresh fruit for rotting vegetables

Well, few could argue that it’s been a long week (month, year, years) for BlackBerry. This one-time proud (and oddly-named) non-polar bear or hockey monument

Test & Measurement: NC, Virgina test labs gain CTIA certification

The Wireless Research Center of North Carolina is newly certified as a CTIA Authorized Test Lab – the only one in the state. AT4...

Leap loses customers, boosts ARPU

Leap Wireless (LEAP) says its Cricket prepaid service lost 140,000 customers during the most recent quarter, while the company lost $83.4 million on revenue...

Mobile chipmakers talk 64-bit

Apple's launch of its 64-bit A7 processor has clearly turned up the heat on its competitors, even though there is still very little a...

Cell Tower News: Huawei to Invest $600M in ‘5G’ Research

Welcome to the weekly wrap-up of everything in the world of cell tower companies. We cover top-level industry stories, DAS, and regional/local news. Cell...

Root Metrics tests Canada’s LTE networks; Bell most reliable, Rogers fastest

Root Metrics recently conducted network speeds tests and availability across three markets in Canada to find out which of that country’s three largest operators...

Goodman Networks Webinar: Thinking Big by Thinking Small – Keys to Successful Small Cell Deployments

The wireless industry is in the midst of a major transition from Macro to Small Cell and Wi-Fi architectures to address the surging data...

Wheeler names FCC staff; Sohn, Milkman among additions

Days after gaining delayed approval on his nomination to head the Federal Communications Commission, Tom Wheeler this week unveiled the staff that will assist...

Telecom Software: Rockstar Consortium Lawsuit; Android 4.4

Welcome to our weekly wrap-up of everything in the world of telecom software. After last week's focus on looking back, this week seems to...

Device distribution: PCD, TDMobility change hands

Quality One Wireless has completed its acquisition of the assets of wireless device distributor PCD, saying the purchase price was north of $125 million....

Qualcomm squeezed by device manufacturers

With Samsung and Apple dominating the mobile device market, Qualcomm is feeling the pressure as these powerful buyers push for lower chip prices. Qualcomm...

Towercrews Featured Jobs for the Week of 11/6/2013

RCR Wireless’s tower jobs sections is powered by:   Tower Climber/Field Tech Perform installations, maintenance, path and line of site surveys, network testing, including electrical, RF and...

LatAm Wrap-Up: Brazil issues 700 MHz decision, to vote on Internet, net neutrality rules

Big changes are in the works for Brazil's telecommunication policies. At the end of last week telecom regulator Anatel published a resolution on the...

Carrier Wrap: EE brings LTE-A to the UK; LightSquared future remains dim

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...

Ceragon launches new platform for hetnet backhaul

Wireless backhaul provider Ceragon Networks unveiled a new platform for high-capacity backhaul designed to serve heterogeneous networks while integrating software-defined networking readiness. The IP-20 "supports...

AOptix looks to shake up mobile backhaul market

CAMPBELL, Calif. – A small company in California with a defense-contractor pedigree is looking to make a big splash in telecom networks, using a...

Ntelos posts Q3 operational gains; LTE launch on the horizon

Regional telecommunications provider Ntelos continued to squeak out customer gains during the recently completed third quarter, a noteworthy achievement as many operators lacking a...

M-commerce (infographic): A mobile shopper’s path to purchase

Citrix this week released a quarterly report detailing a variety of statistics related to the mobile industry, including statistics on application usage and e-commerce...

New BlackBerry CEO outlines plan

Incoming BlackBerry CEO John Chen says the company is not really in the smartphone business. "We're not really in phones, but we're in phones...

Huawei to invest $600M in ‘5G’ research by 2018

With true 4G networks only now beginning to see commercial deployments, telecommunications equipment giant Huawei is looking to the future announcing plans to spend...

Ericsson’s role in Sprint Spark should not be underestimated

Longtime Sprint partner Ericsson will not be a supplier for Sprint Spark, the carrier's upcoming TD-LTE network, but the telecom equipment giant will still...

TM Forum 2013: Legacy systems pose challenges for agility

Service providers seeking to become more agile businesses face the complex reality that the very systems that have brought them success thus far are...
- Advertisment -

Most Read