Monthly Archives: March, 2014

CCA Spring 2014: Sprint/Softbank’s Son offers financial assistance to rural carriers

SAN ANTONIO – Sprint Chairman Masayoshi Son took to the stage during a keynote address at this week’s Competitive Carriers Association event to reiterate...

LatAm Wrap-Up: Brazil moves ahead with Internet bill; Mexico’s telecom law sent to senate

After almost five years of discussion, the lower house of Brazil’s congress, the Chamber of Deputies, voted in favor of approving the Internet bill...

Carrier Wrap: AT&T expands LTE; C Spire teases cheaper unlimited plan

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...

CWG, Clavister, Verizon and Lawrence Blake appoint new executives

CWG, Clavister, Verizon and Lawrence Blake name new executive officers.

CCA Spring 2014: Low-band spectrum unites rivals

SAN ANTONIO - RCR's Dan Meyer sat down with Sprint and T-Mobile US to discuss spectrum, focusing on an event that will unite the...

CCA Spring 2014: Sprint, CCA, NetAmerica partner on LTE expansion plans

SAN ANTONIO – Sprint is looking to expand its LTE footprint with the help of the Competitive Carriers Association membership and an alliance with...

Cell Tower News: 2 more tower deaths; cities use fake tower devices

Welcome to this week’s edition of cell tower industry news, brought to you by Towercrews.net. 2014 is quickly becoming a tragic year for the tower industry....

CCA Spring 2014: Incentive auction process to keep FCC busy

SAN ANTONIO – The Competitive Carriers Association’s Global Expo kicked off with a keynote question-and-answer session with Roger Sherman, acting chief of the Federal...

RCR Mobile Minute: Top stories for today

Top stories: Sprint executive exodus continues Sprint's revolving door continued to spin as reports indicated that another key exeicutive has left the company. ... Read More <a...

Why mobile operators and software companies are using Hadoop

Hadoop can help mobile operators and software companies enhance their customer engagement efforts.

Sprint executive revolving door continues to spin, Hesse feted

Sprint’s executive exodus continued this week as reports indicated that VP of network technology development and integration Iyad Tarazi has left the company. FierceWireless reported...

European Carrier News: Telenor sells digital TV unit, faces antitrust investigation

Norwegian telecom giant Telenor had a busy day today. The company announced the sale of its subsidiary Conax to the Swiss company Kudelski for 1.5...

Time Trippin’: Angel flies in Fort Worth; hype vs. reality for mobile Web future … 14 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...

Hadoop 101: What is Hadoop?

Telcos must understand how Hadoop works and how they can implement it.

Gogo goes live with international in-flight Wi-Fi on Delta

Gogo Inc. said that its in-flight Wi-Fi service has gone live on the first aircraft in Delta's long-haul international fleet, available as of yesterday...

Axell Wireless installs DAS at One World Trade Center

Axell Wireless has installed its largest-ever public safety wireless system at One World Trade Center. The distributed antenna system, or DAS, was implemented by Axell and systems...

Ixia Webinar: HetNets Up-Close: Essential Steps to Successful Deployments

Heterogeneous Networks (HetNets) represent a major paradigm shift in mobile network designs, and set the stage to add network capacity and enhance performance.  But HetNet...

HTC One (M8) set to challenge Galaxy S5

HTC today launched its newest flagship Android phone, the HTC One (M8). Hoping to attract Android users inspired to upgrade by the Galaxy S5,...

Capital markets: AT&T acquisition gets FCC approval

An AT&T acquisition gets approved in this week's capital markets round-up.

Wheeler cautious on incentive auction, moving forward on 3.5 GHz sharing

With the Federal Communications Commission’s plans for its highly anticipated incentive auction process set to begin mid-2015, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler spoke at a...

12 companies in wireless ecosystem make list of most ethical firms

Several mobile and wireless companies have made this year's list of the world's most ethical companies, chosen by Ethisphere. Companies are ranked based on...

Ciao Telecom latest to target unique MVNO position

Mobile virtual network operators continue to bring unique pricing plans to market, with the latest venture being offered up by Ciao Telecom. The company...

CCA Spring 2014: Competition, spectrum expected to headline event

The Competitive Carriers Association is set to host its spring event this week, with many of its members set to make the trek out...

Reality Check: Enterprises need to gain control of app environment

Today, applications are as personal as the mobile handset is to end users, and their usage continues to explode. Gartner predicts that by 2017, more than 268 billion mobile apps will be downloaded

Policy news: Comcast sheds light on FISA requests

Comcast releases its first transparency report and other carriers face down Congress in this week's policy news round-up.
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