Monthly Archives: August, 2014

Sprint plans price cuts (RCR Mobile Minute)

Sprint gets ready to launch price cuts next week... Mobile Minute: Sprint's new CEO Marcelo Claure reportedly told his employees yesterday that the company has no...

Test & Measurement: Agilent beats guidance as it preps for Keysight spin-off

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...

Reality Check: Making voice over Wi-Fi a reality

Wi-Fi is now an essential part of our smartphone and tablet-enabled lifestyle. Today, more than two-thirds of our monthly wireless data is consumed over...

EMEA: The Internet of everything?

Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and Security. Having experience at an operator, software and hardware...

Empirix acquires RAN real-time analytics company, Verios

Empirix has acquired real-time analytics company Verios Software & Systems for a big data approach to radio access network management and the user experience,...

Cell Tower News: FCC streamlines antenna rules; cemetery towers

FCC streamlines antenna rules The FCC made a decision late last week sure to make tower owners happy. Part 17 of rules and regulations for...

CommScope outlines key trends ahead of CTIA

Sponsored content from CommScope: Philip Sorrells of CommScope outlined key trends that he thinks will be a focus at CTIA. Sorrells said that some of...

T-Mobile US plans LTE throttling (RCR Mobile Minute)

T-Mobile says it will slow data speeds for users who break the rules Mobile Minute: T-Mobile US is the latest carrier to confirm plans to "throttle"...

Big Data & Analytics: Big data jobs top 500,000

Editor's Note: The ecosystem of big data and analytics, and its intersection with mobile networks and cloud computing has increasing relevance to wireless in areas...

POV: Tom Wheeler, LTE and the 't-word'

Consumers call it throttling, carriers call it network optimization... T-Mobile US is the latest carrier to announce LTE throttling The Federal Communications Commission is sure to...

Cisco to cut 6,000 jobs, increase software focus

Cisco says it will end the year with roughly the same headcount it started with, but the mix will be different. Cisco continues to realign...

Spirent digs into 4G user experience in the U.K.

Spirent Communications studied more than 47,000 calls and 170,000 data tests on iPhone 5C devices across wireless operators in the United Kingdom and found that...

#TBT: Nextel pursues NextWave; Sprint PCS preps mobile Internet … 15 years ago this week

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...

EMEA: Secure your data – German style

We all know that Germany takes its rules, process and privacy seriously. I’m not being sarcastic; I live here, so I can say this....

LatAm: NII Holdings may file for bankruptcy; Telecom Italia considers GVT counterbid

NII Holdings, which operates in Latin America under the Nextel brand, announced it will likely file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection because it cannot fulfill its financial...

Big data and privacy: Facebook's Messenger missteps

Oh, Facebook. All it wanted was to shift people to a new Messenger app, and conveniently extend its reach in the ways that people can...

Hadoop set for ‘as-a-service’ boost worth billions

The awkwardly named Hadoop market is set to receive the “as-a-service” boost that is sweeping the wireless telecom space, and it could potentially reap...

Verizon confirms VoLTE this year (RCR Mobile Minute)

Mobile Minute: Verizon Wireless has reiterated its plan to launch voice-over-LTE late this year. Speaking at the Oppenheimer Technology, Internet & Communications Conference, Verizon CFO...

Policy: FCC adopts E911 text messaging mandate

The Federal Communications Commission adopted rules requiring text messaging providers to support E911 text messaging, a move that builds on previous commitments from the...

Survey: Government mobility readiness limited but growing

David Smith, director of state and local government for Citrix, spoke with RCR's Kelly Hill about the recent Mobile Work Exchange report commissioned by the...

EMEA: Telekom Austria revenues fall; Tina Turner yodels for Swisscom

Telekom Austria reported a net loss of $401 million in the first half of 2014. The Vienna-based telecom, which is now controlled by billionaire Carlos...

Analyst Angle: Sprint's next steps

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the...

Analyst Angle: Latin America’s OTT mobile messaging apps threat

Over the Top (OTT) Services The over-the-top trend started in the telecommunications sphere with free, IP-based telephony services but has now crossed to all other...

T-Mobile US challenges FCC auction rules

T-Mobile US says the Federal Communications Commission needs to stand by its recent comments on carrier competition by revisiting its rules for the 600...

Technology advances boost operator profits, realign workforce

The telecommunications industry has seen operations transformed by advances in technology, which have spurred innovation and profits, while at the same time supporting leaner...
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