Yearly Archives: 2013

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,

Gold rush: Apple sells out of gold iPhone 5S

Just a few hours after the iPhone 5S went on sale, Apple is already telling customers and carriers that they must wait until next...

Test & Measurement: Fluke Networks launches spectrum analyzer for DAS and small cells

Fluke Networks is aiming to shake up the test and measurement space with a new, very small in-building wireless test solution designed to make...

Dancing with elephants: startups step out with carrier partners

Carriers are courting startups more actively than ever as they seek new ways to innovate, differentiate, and disrupt, all while managing costs and network...

Sprint unveils One Up device finance option

Sprint confirmed its entrance into the device financing space, announcing the launch of its One Up program that allows customers to pay off their...

RTG re-brands to RWA, focused on rural wireless carriers

Rural wireless carriers look to be gaining more attention as the Rural Telecommunications Group has reigned in its focus, changing its name to the...

Editorial Webinar: LTE Field Testing featuring Frost & Sullivan

LTE Field Testing - New Challenges with Noise-Limited LTE Macro and Small Cell Networks  What makes LTE networks unique in terms of design, deployment and...

Addressing the ever-changing dynamics of the wireless retail space

The wireless retail space has witnessed an ever-changing dynamic of importance to mobile carriers that have at times placed strong responsibility for independent retailers...

Feature Report: LTE Field Testing

LTE Field Testing: New Challenges with Noise-Limited LTE Macro and Small Cell Networks: What makes LTE networks unique in terms of design, deployment and acceptance...

Carriers connect with Silicon Valley at TC3

What do carriers want from software companies? This is the question the Telecom Council tries to answer each year at its annual TC3 event....

CCA Fall 2013: License sizes big concern for small carriers

LAS VEGAS – Regional wireless operators have a number of specific issues challenging their ability to remain competitive in the mobile space, though it’s...

Carrier Wrap: SK Telecom expand LTE roaming to Japan; ATN throws off more cash

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...

BlackBerry said to cut workforce by 40% as Z30 launches

BlackBerry (BBRY) is reportedly planning deep cuts in its workforce just as it launches a new smartphone and extends its popular BBM service to...

Telecom Analytics: RCR TV on telco CIO challenges; VPISystems launches mobile policies

VPISystems launched a policy analytics offering dubbed OnePlan Policy Analytics, which promises to enable mobile operators to create policies that reflect their subscribers' behavior,...

AT&T invites enterprise customers to share code

AT&T says it will share its application programming interfaces (APIs) with enterprise customers, wholesale collaborators and solution providers. Its partners can use its APIs...

Facebook set to challenge mobile operators with more video

Mobile operators have learned that as subscribers gain access to faster networks, those networks can face congestion as users choose to download more video....

Time Trippin’: Nokia, Motorola reorganize; TV on a cellphone?!? … 10 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...
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