Customer Experience Management – Keeping Customers Happy & Connected: Telecom software is increasingly being used by mobile operators to manage the customer experience. The need for more advanced platforms has …
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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 Italia, the company that controls Brazilian …
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Carrier Wrap: Consumer Cellular set to offer iPhone line; TeliaSonera fires 4 executives
by Dan Meyerby Dan MeyerEditor’s Note: Wireless operators are a busy bunch, and as such RCR Wireless News will attempt to gather some of the important announcements that may slip through the cracks from …
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SBA digs deeper into Brazil; picks up more than 2K sites from Oi for $645M
by Dan Meyerby Dan MeyerSBA Communications deepened its tower holdings in Brazil, announcing today that it has entered into an agreement to purchase 2,007 wireless sites from that country’s largest telecommunications provider Oi for …
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Amazon says that its own Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Fire HDX 7 were the best sellers on its website during the weekend that included Black Friday and Cyber Monday. …
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Mobile data roaming has become the enemy of international travelers, with many coming back from trips abroad with monumental bills tied to their continued use of cellular and Wi-Fi services …
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Time Trippin’: WiMAX remains defiant; Cox launches wireless service … 4 years ago this week
by Dan Meyerby Dan MeyerEditor’s Note: The RCR Wireless News Time Machine is a way to take advantage of our extensive history in covering the wireless space to fire up the DeLorean and take …
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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 pending Federal Communications Commission requirements for …
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For mobile operators considering small cell deployments, the questions are many: backhaul, logistics, handoffs, interoperability, and of course cost. Through a series of innovative partnerships, Alcatel-Lucent has created a system …
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UK government, carriers reach agreement on consumer ‘bill shock’ initiatives
by Dan Meyerby Dan MeyerA 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 a customer received unexpected charges on …
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Wheeler taps spectrum, unlocked devices as core to competitive mobile space
by Dan Meyerby Dan MeyerThough only on the job for a few weeks now, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler has quickly begun to layout his vision for how the government regulator will view …
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Alcatel-Lucent, Las Vegas first responders test LTE public safety network
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillAlcatel-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 First Responders Network Authority, or FirstNet. …
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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 planned on offering up unlocked …
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BlackBerry CEO John Chen has been on the job for almost a month now, and he is making good on his promise to focus on the software side of the …
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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.
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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 Wi-Charge is creating a wireless charging …
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CRTC ‘code’ to ease burden on Canadian wireless customers goes into effect
by Dan Meyerby Dan MeyerCanadian wireless customers beginning this week will be able to take advantage of a new “wireless code” designed to ease the burden on subscribing to wireless services. The code, which …
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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 launched its Amdocs Small Cell …
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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 may last longer. Threatened by competitors …
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UK urged to free up 650 megahertz of spectrum by 2020 to meet consumer demand
by Dan Meyerby Dan MeyerThe United Kingdom will need to free up as much as 650 megahertz of new spectrum over the next six years if it wants to keep ahead of rising consumer …
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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 Verizon Communication’s Terremark subsidiary, went down …
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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 data centers and enterprise IP applications …
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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 spectrum assets across two bands that …
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The government’s plan to auction spectrum in the so-called AWS-3 band received a significant boost this week as the Department of Defense agreed to relocate current operations in the 1755-1780 …
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Tablets are set to outsell both PCs and notebooks next year. Market research firm Canalys is predicting that 285 million tablets will ship next year, more than the 192 million …