July 2014

AT&T and Verizon Communications will almost certainly be keeping a close eye on XG-FAST developments at Alcatel-Lucent’s Bell Labs, following last week’s announcement that the lab has achieved speeds of …

Working for a Fortune 500 company has done nothing to dampen the entrepreneurial spirit of Edgecast founders James Segil and Alex Kazerani. The two partners, who jointly won Ernst & …

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on …

Essence has been around for 20 years providing professional-graded security solutions. While not the first type of company that comes to mind when thinking about home care solutions, they have …

América Móvil has decided sell some of its assets to comply with Mexico’s new anti-trust telecom rules that forbid companies from controlling more than 50% of the market. On July 8, América …

Slightly tired by the hype around network function virtualization and software-defined networking – and by the fact that everybody has to find some way to add these acronyms to their slide decks –

Wireless spectrum is obviously an important element to the commercial mobile communications market, as it is the medium in which consumers can walk-and-talk unimpeded by cables. As such, the need …

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless Sprint is shuttering its Zact service in favor of an in-house customizable prepaid plan. Zact was a Sprint MVNO that …

IBM announced a collaborative effort with Chinese universities to nurture skills in big data analytics through software donations worth $100 million, plus additional support to increase the number of skilled …

As operators build heterogeneous networks to expand coverage and capacity, they want best-in-breed solutions and are ready to work with multiple vendors. Vodafone has shown that equipment from more than …

Vodafone selected Alcatel-Lucent as a “supplier of reference” for small cell and Wi-Fi technology as part of its Project Spring investment program. Through Project Spring, Vodafone plans to spend about …

The Federal Communications Commission has set up a steering committee to oversee pending deals between Comcast and Time Warner Cable and between AT&T and DirecTV. The committee will be chaired …

When T-Mobile US made its announcement, the immediate question was “how much data are they giving away?” Obviously, music streaming services can use a lot of data in a day, depending on how many hours they are streaming.

Verizon Communications said it received approximately 72,500 government subpoenas through the first half of this year requesting information on its customers. The information was released as part of the telecommunication …

This Understanding Guide gives an overview of the Carrier Aggregation evolution in HSPA and LTE networks, discusses implication on the architecture and the User Equipment. A special focus will be …

Within six years, the number of connected devices that are NOT smartphones, tablets or PCs will skyrocket to 26 billion, according to Gartner. The means that the Internet of Things …

MBlox, a global provider of application-to-person messaging, just completed a capital-raising round of $43.5 million. Investors included Comerica and Horizon Technology Finance Corp., as well as some of MBlox’s existing …

The virtualization movement continues to gain steam as the mobile space looks for ways to increase efficiency while reducing costs. The latest push comes from the Small Cell Forum, which …

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless Samsung’s slide is starting to look like a trend. For the third straight quarter, the Korean giant is predicting lower …

Amit Daniel, EVP of marketing & business development for CVidya, spoke with RCR Wireless News about its revenue analytics solution that is now employed by 150 operators worldwide. The company …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and experiences. Cisco predicted recently that individuals …

The Canadian government is looking to maintain a fresh supply of spectrum for that country’s mobile industry as well as attempting to encourage new entrants, announcing this week plans to …