Monthly Archives: March, 2014

Network trends videos: SDN, small cell, 100G and cloud

Small cells, software-defined networking, cloud networking and the move toward 100G networks are among the major trends in telecom right now, and RCR Wireless News...

SxSW 2014: Creating the console experience in mobile gaming

AUSTIN, Texas – This year’s South by Southwest Gaming Expo hosted several panels about the world of mobile gaming. One of the aspects of...

European Carrier News: British, Germans partner on ‘5G,’ ‘Internet of things’

Speaking at the CeBIT conference in Hanover, Germany this week, British Prime Minister David Cameron announced a collaboration with Germany to drive research on...

Telecom Exchange West 2014: Net neutrality, Comcast/Netflix hot topic on CEO panel

DENVER – Net neutrality has been a hot topic among telecommunication providers for years, increasing in importance in the Internet age. A recent court...

Telecom Exchange West 2014: Pondering the M&A market

The potential for mergers and acquisitions in telecom continues to be high, agreed company leaders at the recent Telecom Exchange event in Denver. With...

Feature Report: Spectrum Economics – The Emerging New Paradigm of Spectrum Use

Spectrum is the lifeblood of the wireless telecommunications space, and with a finite resource straining to serve an increasingly data-hungry consumer base, the pressure...

Time Trippin’: Vodafone to focus on Verizon Wireless; AT&T re-born … 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...

Analyst Angle: A Japanese reality check

When I first became a wireless analyst, Japan was portrayed as an almost mythical wireless wonderland where everything was perfect and so much better than the unenlightened and backward countries

Telecoms see advantages of network function virtualization

NFV provides faster time-to-market and improved customer satisfaction. 

SxSW 2014: What makes a great mobile ad?

AUSTIN, Texas – Mobile advertisements. They’re in our favorite free applications and games, and an everyday part of life for every mobile consumer. Yet,...

Xirrus launches new AP, FCC talks more Wi-Fi spectrum

Wi-Fi vendor Xirrus is boasting a new 802.11ac access point that it says will bring the new Wi-Fi standard to the mainstream with a...

SxSW 2014: Top brands discuss future of wearable technology

AUSTIN, Texas – Wearable technology was a major focus at CES 2014, and since then buzz has only continued to grow as multiple panels...

Son takes his case for T-Mobile US to the airwaves ahead of D.C. presentation

Ahead of a scheduled presentation in front of the Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C., Sprint and Softbank Chairman Masayoshi Son took to U.S....

Capital markets: Verizon has a rough day

Verizon's stock woes highlight this week's capital markets round-up.

Reality Check: The ‘Internet of things’ meets recurring revenue

There's a lot of buzz these days surrounding the "Internet of things.” Unfortunately the term itself is fuzzy, leading to ambiguity and misunderstanding of what it actually means.

Reality Check: Net neutrality – will the slow and fast lanes collide?

The net neutrality debate is bound to continue to make news for some time to come with Netflix, Comcast and Verizon bringing it to the headlines once again.

Reality Check: Wireless pricing battles heat up

It has been an eventful week in the telecom industry with each change supplementing three broad themes developed in previous columns: a) the critical nature of data value to each wireless segment;

Advantages of SDN in a telecommunications setting

SDN technology has myriad benefits to offer telco service providers.

4G Americas: LTE reaches 200 million connections, AT&T launches LTE-A in Chicago

Wireless trade association 4G Americas said that LTE connections reached 200 million at the end of 2013, with half of those coming from North...

SxSW 2014: Snowden speaks on security, app encryption

AUSTIN, Texas – Edward Snowden, the famed NSA whistle-blower gave his first public appearance since leaking secret information about the NSA’s massive web of...

SxSW 2014: Monetizing the second screen

AUSTIN, Texas – With mobile advertising projected to hit $18 billion this year, service providers are increasingly eyeing mobile devices as a potential source...

Policy news: Sprint goes to Washington

A Sprint executive goes in front of Congress in this week's policy news round-up.

HetNet News: Qualcomm, Sprint demo small cells at NASCAR

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and Sprint Corp. recently demonstrated phase two of an over-the-air trial of TD-LTE small cells at the Phoenix International Raceway in...

Research shows considerable growth in tablet sales

New research from Gartner stated that tablet sales increased by 68 percent last year.

Reader Forum: Testing LTE devices for LBS is critical to device OEMs, wireless networks

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum...
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