Monthly Archives: April, 2014

Waiting for China: Qualcomm sales slide as China results disappoint

Qualcomm (QCOM), the leading maker of smartphone chipsets, reported lower-than-expected sales for its second quarter as China's emerging LTE market failed to create the...

Nuage Networks sees SDN coming to fruition

Nuage Networks says it has conducted 30 successful trials of network virtualization around the world in the past year, and that its initial focus...

Verizon Wireless customer growth shows competitive strain, financials remain healthy

It appears the recent pricing moves by Verizon Wireless were indeed caused by competitive pressures as the carrier announced slowing growth and increased churn. Verizon...

Apple hits a home run

Apple (AAPL) knocked the cover off the ball with its second financial quarter earnings report, scoring a 7.3% year-on-year profit increase as it sold...

Carrier Wrap: T-Mobile US closes on 700 MHz spectrum deal; AT&T expands Domain 2.0

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...

LatAm Wrap: Brazil enacts Internet bill of rights

On the same day the global Net Mundial event began in São Paulo, Brazilian president, Dilma Rousseff, enacted the Marco Civil da Internet bill, which aims to protect online privacy...

OTA testing: MIMO standards, costs and the ‘death grip’

The controversy over over-the-air testing standards – or lack thereof – for LTE MIMO, as well as cost and complexity, are some of the...

Towercrews.net Featured Jobs for the Week of 4/23

RCR Wireless News’ featured jobs section is powered by Towercrews.net   Tower Foreman Lead the construction, installation and maintenance of communication towers & support structures. Savannah, GA   Experienced Tower Techs Perform...

FCC continues push to free up spectrum in 3.5 GHz band

The Federal Communications Commission’s move to free up spectrum in the 3.5 GHz band for small cells and other wireless broadband uses took another...

Google ready to pay Samsung legal fees (RCR Mobile Minute)

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. There are few companies in the world that appear less in need of financial assitance than...

TE Connectivity posts strong quarter

Wireless connectivity and distributed antenna provider TE Connectivity reported a strong second quarter performance, with net sales up 6% year-over-year to $3.43 billion. The company's...

Ericsson sales slip as North American builds slow

Ericsson (ERIC) saw sales slide 9% during the first quarter as the pace of mobile network buildouts slowed for two of its major North...

CTIA names Baker to replace Largent

Wireless trade association CTIA announced that industry veteran and former Federal Communications Commission commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker will take the reins of the trade...

Europe: Troubled TeliaSonera profits decline in first quarter

TeliaSonera, the dominant carrier in Sweden and Finland, saw its profits slip as mobile sales continued to slow. Sales for the carrier's main mobile unit...

Cellular baseband modem market analysis (Pt. 2)

Although the LTE modem market is still just a fraction of the overall market, it is by far the fastest-growing area, and is the...

Mobile patents: Samsung dominates in U.S. and Europe

Chetan Sharma Consulting has analyzed more than 7 million patents to create an in-depth look at the mobile patent landscape. The firm analyzed patent...

Analyst Angle: Two out of three: number of licenses, speed, cost

The FCC appears ready to continue the narrow channelization idea for the upcoming incentive auctions intended to reallocate up to 120 megahertz of broadcast spectrum to wireless broadband.

Time Trippin’: WCS auction fizzles; DoJ approve Bell Atlantic, Nynex merger … 17 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...

AT&T posts robust customer growth, strong interest in Next program

AT&T set a noteworthy bar for its rivals to meet for first quarter operational results, announcing strong customer growth and growing uptake of its...

Verizon report: 9 patterns of data breach attacks

Verizon's annual examination of data breaches around the world found that most of the 100,000 security incidents over the past 10 years fall into...

Cellular baseband modem market analysis (Pt. 1)

LTE represents the fastest-growing part of the cellular baseband market, but 2G and 3G solutions still dominate the market. Just 13% of the cellular...

3G, LTE boost China Mobile customer growth, profits dip

China Mobile said it added 13.88 million new customers during the first quarter of the year, pushing its world-leading customer base to more than...

Nike reportedly plans to abandon FuelBand (RCR Mobile Minute)

Top stories: AT&T looks to expand fiber into 100 markets AT&T hinted that fiber deployments may not be a done deal throughout all the communities it's...

Policy: AT&T threatens auction boycott

AT&T and the FCC go head-to-head in this week's policy news round-up.

Reality Check: ‘5G’ – moving beyond the hype

Today “5G” is not yet a newborn; and we, as its parents, are still trying to define its genetic makeup. As it is impossible to predict all the use cases of the future, we need to ensure that the DNA of 5G is as flexible as
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