July 2014

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. iPhone production expected to ramp up Apple is betting big on China Mobile’s network investment, reportedly ramping up iPhone production …

Verizon Wireless Verizon Wireless  this week launched its Smart Rewards program, which allows customers to accumulate “rewards in exchange for points customers earn for their everyday activities and interactions with Verizon …

Many times when partnerships are announced between two companies at the end of a quarter, I think it’s a diversion – a “mega-corporate” Jedi mind trick.

While Corning’s Gorilla Glass is used for the screens of more than 1.5 billion devices worldwide, a new challenger is coming into view: a synthetic sapphire crystal screen. Apple is reportedly …

The domestic wireless market was at this point expected to see a slowdown in customer growth as the overall market hit saturation. However, consumer appetite for mobile services has allowed …

Ninety-nine percent of businesses worldwide are small- to medium-sized businesses, so it’s no surprise that this segment represents the fastest growing customer segment for service providers.

Rolling out VoLTE technology today is exponentially more complex than deploying LTE service was only two to three years ago. Part of the challenge stems from the complexity of the application itself,

Jeff Edlund, CTO of Hewlett-Packard’s Communications and Media Group, spoke with RCR Wireless News about reconciling the work of standards bodies with the need to be responsive to market demand, …

Crown Castle oDAS in Utah Utah’s Department of Transportation expects to be able to monitor weather and traffic in Little Cottonwood Canyon, thanks to a new distributed antenna system it …

Welcome to this week’s edition of cell tower industry news, created by Jarad Matula and brought to you by Towercrews.net. OSHA cites for free climbing One would think that after all …

Wireless carriers are constantly on the lookout for ways to improve network efficiency, including squeezing as much coverage and capacity out of their current spectrum positions. That quest has been …

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. “Pay-as-you-go” has worked well for T-Mobile US when it comes to its service offerings for customers, and the carrier says …

Delivering quality voice services in an LTE environment is a major goal of operators around the world. Voice has always been a fundamental service of mobile communications and will continue …

Network intelligence and analytics company NetScout saw its revenues grow 32% year-over-year, driven by its operator segment, and more than doubled its profits compared to the year-ago quarter. NetScout reported …

Liam Maxwell, VP of products for Oracle Communications, talked with RCR Wireless News about big data from the network, and how that ties into Oracle’s marketing automation service Eloqua and its communications portfolio. …

The shift from coverage to capacity in North America helped Ericsson to increase both revenues and margins during the second quarter. Second quarter sales were $8 billion, down 1% from …

Well, it looks like Microsoft finally found out what has been ailing Nokia’s handset business over the past several years, and this week took some action.

Editor’s Note: The ability to test network and device features and functions is an important piece of technology development and deployment. RCR Wireless News looks weekly at the test and measurement …

–Telecommunication software equipment remains a hot seller, with a new report from Infonetics Research claiming the market was on track to grow each year through 2018, with 2015 cited as …

Voice over LTE has become the latest technology challenge for operators looking to garner more efficiency out of their networks by running voice services over their LTE data networks. Most …

SAP reported that its cloud business grew 32% during the second quarter and said that it is the fastest-growing enterprise cloud company “at scale,” which it considers to be an annual …

Netflix is appealing to the Federal Communications Commission to eliminate paid prioritization of Internet traffic. In a 28-page filing submitted this week, the on-demand video provider argues that the FCC’s …

Microsoft’s latest attempt to turn around its flailing mobile operations is set to cost 18,000 employees their jobs, with most of those cuts coming from its recently acquired Nokia handset …