Yearly Archives: 2013

AT&T Mobility has the LTE speed, Verizon Wireless the LTE coverage

AT&T Mobility may lag behind Verizon Wireless when it comes to pure LTE coverage, but the carrier can at least lay claim to faster...

HetNet News: Femtocell shipments up, 2013 expectations high

Femtocell shipments were up 66% in the final quarter of 2012, and this year is expected to be big as production and deployment of...

ST-Ericsson set to lose CEO

Chip maker ST-Ericsson announced that president and CEO Didier Lamouche would be leaving his position to pursue other opportunities effective March 31. The company,...

Report: AT&T mulls India investment

AT&T is reportedly looking to invest in Indian telecom operator Reliance Jio Infocomm, according to the Times of India. The report noted AT&T was...

Two outside execs named as candidates for Intel CEO job

Intel may look outside the semiconductor industry for its next CEO. The world's largest chipmaker has traditionally promoted from within, but ever since CEO...

Brazil’s ICT labor market looks to hire foreign LTE workers

Brazil's information and communications technology companies are facing a shortage of skilled labor. As RCR Wireless News reported previously, in January alone there were...

LTE launches in Chile; Claro first to use new technology

A mobile call on March 7 between Subtel's Undersecretary of Telecommunications, Jorge Atton, and the CEO of Claro Chile, Gerardo Muñoz, was the first...

MWC 2013: CEO and executive video roundup

Whether or not you attended Mobile World Congress 2013, we hope that you will find our collection of CEO, President and CTO videos informative....

Google to axe 1,200 more jobs at Motorola Mobility

Google will lay off another 1,200 Motorola Mobility employees, or 10% of the company's remaining workforce. The cuts will impact workers in the United...

Worst of the Week: No room for BFFs in wireless

Just a couple of years ago, AT&T and T-Mobile USA could not complement each other enough, what with AT&T dangling $39 billion in front of T-Mobile USA’s management. I am going to just assume that the money part had nothing to do with it and the compliments coming from company executives were honest and heartfelt.

Senate submits bill to allow unlocking of phones

Congress appears ready to take action to make unlocking cell phones legal again. Three Senators have introduced a bipartisan bill directing service providers to...

Canada to auction 700 MHz spectrum Nov. 19

Canada’s telecommunications regulatory body, Industry Canada, said it would begin auctioning off spectrum in the 700 MHz band on Nov. 19, as part of...

Test & Measurement: Firetide opens mobile test track; Mobile World Congress videos

The network test and measurement space is busily supporting wireless operators as they transition to LTE networks and advanced wireless services. RCR Wireless News'...

Sharp move: Samsung takes a stake in Apple supplier Sharp

Samsung may have killed two birds with one stone with its investment in Japan's Sharp Corp. For $110 million, the Korean conglomerate gets a...

Time Trippin’: Spectrum swaps; Execs profit from Sprint-Nextel … 8 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...

Colombia telecom update: 49M mobile subscribers, 6.2M Internet broadband connections

Colombia's ministry of technology and communications (Mintic) has released the latest numbers for the country's telecommunication industry. Internet broadband connections in Colombia have reached 6.2 million, while...

C Spire taps NetCracker to bolster BSS

Regional operator C Spire signed a deal with NetCracker Technology to provide the operator with a BSS solution to consolidate its billing, customer account...

Breaking down Q4 wireless carrier results

With all the domestic wireless operators having reported their fourth quarter 2012 results, RCR Wireless News spoke with longtime industry analyst Bill Ho to...

Ericsson to provide EPC enhancement for MetroPCS

MetroPCS has again tapped infrastructure giant Ericsson to bolster its network operations, announcing a deal for Ericsson to supply equipment and services to enhance...

Report: T-Mobile USA to cut 100-plus jobs

T-Mobile USA is reportedly set for a round of job cuts ahead of its planned acquisition of MetroPCS, with more than 100 jobs expected...

Apple and Samsung gain market share

Apple and Samsung continue to solidify their dominance of the smartphone market, according to the latest MobiLens report from comScore. The iPhone 5 helped...

Mobile companies compete to hire top grads

With less than three months to go until graduation, many college students are hard at work fine tuning their resumes and scheduling job interviews....

Brazilian carriers announce LTE infrastructure sharing agreements

Four Brazilian carriers announced infrastructure sharing agreements for the deployment of LTE networks. Following an announcement by TIM and Oi that they had made...

Analyst Angle: Mobile cloud creates opportunities for carriers (video)

Consumers who first experienced the Internet through smartphones and tablets expect to synch and switch devices with consistency of experience, and this creates opportunities...

Airlines expand Wi-Fi services, expected to target mobile consumers

Airlines are expanding their Wi-Fi services and according to a new global report, are expected to become the industry that spends the most to...
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