Monthly Archives: December, 2013

Editorial Webinar: Customer Experience Management – Keeping Customers Happy & Connected

Customer Experience Management - Keeping Customers Happy & Connected: Telecom software is increasingly being used by mobile operators to manage the customer experience. The...

LatAm Wrap-Up: Brazil tells Telefónica to leave Telecom Italia or find new Vivo partner

Brazil's antitrust regulator has issued a negative assessment of Telefónica's recent move to bolster its stake in the Telco holding company that owns about 22% of Telecom...

Carrier Wrap: Consumer Cellular set to offer iPhone line; TeliaSonera fires 4 executives

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...

SBA digs deeper into Brazil; picks up more than 2K sites from Oi for $645M

SBA Communications deepened its tower holdings in Brazil, announcing today that it has entered into an agreement to purchase 2,007 wireless sites from that...

Kindle Fire HD emerges as popular gaming device

Amazon says that its own Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Fire HDX 7 were the best sellers on its website during the weekend that...

Mobile data roaming costs remain hurdle for enterprise

Mobile data roaming has become the enemy of international travelers, with many coming back from trips abroad with monumental bills tied to their continued...

Time Trippin’: WiMAX remains defiant; Cox launches wireless service … 4 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...

Cellphone-Mate unveils signal boosters meeting new FCC requirements

Signal booster design and manufacturing company Cellphone-Mate introduced four new products this week that the company says have passed all of the tests for...

Alcatel-Lucent taps non-traditional partners for small cells

For mobile operators considering small cell deployments, the questions are many: backhaul, logistics, handoffs, interoperability, and of course cost. Through a series of innovative...

UK government, carriers reach agreement on consumer ‘bill shock’ initiatives

A handful of U.K.-based telecommunication operators have agreed to a list of consumer-oriented initiatives designed to dampen the so-called “bill shock” phenomenon of when...

Wheeler taps spectrum, unlocked devices as core to competitive mobile space

Though only on the job for a few weeks now, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler has quickly begun to layout his vision for...

Alcatel-Lucent, Las Vegas first responders test LTE public safety network

Alcatel-Lucent and first responders in Nevada recently conducted a six-month trial of an LTE network for public safety, using 700 MHz allotted by the...

Moto X ‘Cyber Monday’ promotion crashes Motorola site

Motorola’s website suffered a meltdown on “Cyber Monday” as demand for the device maker’s Moto X smartphone outstripped the capabilities of its host. Motorola had...

BlackBerry embraces competitors’ devices

BlackBerry CEO John Chen has been on the job for almost a month now, and he is making good on his promise to focus...

Reality Check: Key trends, Pt. 1 – it’s all about data

This week we start an end of year “trends” series which looks at six large movements across wireless and wired worlds. This week, we will focus on two ways the industry is tackling the problem of growing data usage.

Wireless device aims to make phone chargers obsolete

Now that mobile device users are becoming accustomed to ubiquitous Wi-Fi connectivity, the next step may be wireless charging stations. An Israeli startup called...

CRTC ‘code’ to ease burden on Canadian wireless customers goes into effect

Canadian wireless customers beginning this week will be able to take advantage of a new “wireless code” designed to ease the burden on subscribing...

HetNet News: Amdocs launches new small cell, Wi-Fi products

Amdocs is moving into network-based solutions for small cells and Wi-Fi with the goal of helping service providers better monetize heterogeneous networks. The company has...

Carriers offer free LTE smartphones

Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility are both offering high-end smartphones for free with two-year contracts. The deals are in place for Cyber Monday but...

UK urged to free up 650 megahertz of spectrum by 2020 to meet consumer demand

The United Kingdom will need to free up as much as 650 megahertz of new spectrum over the next six years if it wants...

Verizon’s Terremark reportedly loses healthcare.gov contract (Mobile Minute)

Data center problems have reportedly been adding to the frustration of federal workers scrambling to improve the healthcare.gov website. The data center, run by...

Akamai to buy Prolexic

Cloud platform provider Akamai (AKAM) hopes to secure its future with the purchase of Prolexic, a Florida-based developer of cloud-based security solutions for protecting...

SK Telecom continues to push LTE-A boundaries; next stop 300 Mbps

South Korea’s SK Telecom continues to push the limits of LTE technology demonstrating late last week an upgrade to its LTE-Advanced service that combines...
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