Monthly Archives: December, 2014

Global Telecom: Xiaomi smartphone sales up 336%

Xiaomi cracks top 5 smartphone vendors Gartner has released its third-quarter report on mobile phones, which reveals that smartphone sales grew 20% in Q3 of 2014....

FCC spectrum auction eases into new week

Auction 97 tops $43.7B as bidding continues to slow The Federal Communications Commission’s Auction 97 posted a slow start to the new week, as bidding...

Telco cloud transition ongoing for AT&T

AUSTIN, TEXAS – Alicia Abella, AT&T’s AVP of the cloud technologies and services research organization, discussed the communication giant’s ongoing transition to operating on...

2014: year of 4G; 2015: year of 5G?

4G Americas look back, ahead Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News over the next two weeks will begin to look back at 2014 and ahead to...

Comcast sued over neighborhood hot spot plans

Lawsuit claims Wi-Fi service costs consumers Comcast’s attempt to spread the reach of its Internet signal by tapping into its customers’ Wi-Fi routers has run...

IEEE GlobeCom: The 5G arms race

AUSTIN, TEXAS – With an industry target of 2020 to unleash "5G" on the world, the race to set 5G standards is ramping up....

Reader Forum: Application-centric plans in a virtualized telecom world

Editor’s Note: In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this Reader Forum for those with something meaningful to...

Reader Forum: Exceeding customer expectations in a multidevice world

Editor’s Note: In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this Reader Forum for those with something meaningful to...

EMEA: Automotive Ethernet – safe or sorry?

Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA for RCR Wireless News, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and security. Having experience as an...

EMEA: Driving with Here

Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA for RCR Wireless News, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and security. Having experience as an...

FCC spectrum auction hits $43.6B as activity slows

Following a brief surge of new activity, bidding in the Federal Communications Commission’s Auction 97 has again shrunk back to a tepid pace, though...

Test and Measurement: Progress on 3-component-carrier aggregation

• Rohde & Schwarz announced this morning that it was able to simulate an LTE-Advanced network with three-component-carrier carrier aggregation in the downlink and...

Software: TM Forum updates NFV best practices, Frameworx suite

Software is becoming an increasingly important part of telecommunication networks and deployments as both wired and wireless carriers look to add functionality to operations...

Cell Tower News: Vertical Bridge buys towers from U.S. Cellular, IHeartMedia

Vertical Bridge buys over $500M worth of towers The holiday shopping spree continues this week. Last week it was American Tower buying up towers. This week...

FCC seeks input on 600 MHz incentive auction procedures

The Federal Communications Commission is asking for comments on procedures for its planned 600 MHZ incentive auction, following up on a Notice of Proposed...

Worst of the Week: T-Mobile throw down

Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so...

Vodafone taps T-Mobile US to re-enter U.S. market

MVNO service to target enterprise customers; launch late 2015 Story updated with small cell plans International mobile telecommunications provider Vodafone Group announced plans to re-enter the...

NetNumber Webinar: Redefining the Signaling Landscape to Deliver Service Agility

Network traffic is increasing dramatically and signaling is set to grow even faster as a result of VoLTE and legacy interworking. The Internet of...

DAS training offered at no cost to women in wireless (RCR Mobile Minute)

More than 100 companies that have partnered with CommScope on distributed antenna system projects have been notified that CommScope will offer free DAS training...

Tech firms claim $45.4B investment loss tied to Title II

60 firms, including Intel, Cisco, Qualcomm, IBM sign letter to FCC President Barack Obama’s recent suggestion that the Federal Communications Commission bring Internet regulation under...

AT&T bolsters SDN, NFV plans

Telecom giant adds Cisco, Ciena, Brocade to Domain 2.0 program AT&T continues to bolster its software-defined networking and network function virtualization plans, announcing the addition...

EMEA: Nokia Security Center live in Berlin

Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA for RCR Wireless News – has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and security. Having experience as an...

LatAm: Oi approves PT asset sale to Altice; Oracle CEO talks analytics

Oi's board of directors has approved the sale of Portugal Telecom shares to Altice. The transaction is estimated at $9.1 billion and involves the...

#TBT: Fraud forces NYC roaming suspension; RCR POTY … 20 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...

Qualcomm layoff reports highlight pressure on chip prices (RCR Mobile Minute)

Qualcomm has confirmed reports that it is eliminating roughly 600 jobs. The chip giant says that some of those impacted will be offered new...
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