Monthly Archives: December, 2014

Global Telecom: China Mobile sets LTE-A speed record with carrier aggregation

Carrier aggregation helps Nokia Networks, Ooredoo Qatar, China Mobile achieve 4.1 Gbps speed China Mobile and Nokia Networks, along with Ooredoo Qatar have announced a...

FCC spectrum auction surpasses $41.5B as bids continue to slow

The Federal Communications Commission’s Auction 97 continued at a slowed pace, with the past six rounds, including the first round this morning, adding $250...

G.fast wins final approval (RCR Mobile Minute)

The International Telecommunication Union has finalized approval of G.fast, the broadband standard designed to deliver 1 Gigabit per second broadband speeds over existing copper...

Wi-Fi hot spots expanding in Ireland with UPC acquisition

UPC Business, a major Irish network services provider, announced the acquisition of operator Bitbuzz, which provides Wi-Fi hot spots to hotels, airports, pubs and...

General Communications bolsters Alaska presence with $300M acquisition

Alaska’s mobile market is set for consolidation as General Communications Group announced plans to acquire Alaska Communications Group’s customer base and stake in their...

Sponsored: Industry first enables greater in-building wireless capacity

Laird launches two new antenna products enabling superior performance in very different environments Global technology leader Laird (LRD: London), today launched two new antenna solutions, including an...

EMEA: Is net neutrality stalling in the EU?

Angel Merkel was the keynote speaker at Vodafone’s Digitising Europe conference last week and shared her vision for net neutrality. Some services in the digital...

Reader Forum: How to use big data and Hadoop to drive telecom product development

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: The trend that Facebook didn’t spot – but service providers did

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...

Global Telecom: China Mobile 4G subscribers to reach 150M

China Mobile 4G Subscribers To Reach 150M China Mobile is predicting that by the end of next year the company will have 150 million 4G...

Fiber infrastructure expanding in three U.S. markets

Fiber infrastructure expansions from Zayo and Southern Telecom are poised to bring better connectivity options to three American markets. On Dec. 4, Zayo Group Holdings,...

Google Fiber Austin unveils Fiber Space

Google Fiber is now in Austin, Texas.  Austinites can now experience Gigabit Internet speed. In conjunction with the rollout of Fiber, Google opened a...

Test and Measurement: JDSU on testing NFV

JDSU has launched a virtualized test solution for software-defined networking environments and virtualized network functions, bringing the functionality of its TrueSpeed solution into the...

Reliance taps Ericsson for network management (RCR Mobile Minute)

In infrastructure news this week, Ericsson and Reliance Communications are expanding their relationship, as are several network equipment providers. Alcatel-Lucent and Hewlett-Packard are integrating one...

FCC spectrum auction pace continues to slow, crawls past $41B

The Federal Communications Commission’s Auction 97 slowly crawled past the $41 billion mark over the past few rounds of activity, with total auction proceeds...

Cell Tower News: China Tower to build 1M towers

China Tower to build 1 million towers Wait, who is this incredibly ambitious company looking to bring so many new towers? China Tower is a...

Worst of the Week: Why moms love KISS

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...

EMEA: Amdocs quad-play and carrier-grade Wi-Fi

It’s been a busy week for Amdocs with announcements related to carrier-grade Wi-Fi and quad-play acceleration. Starting with the carrier-grade Wi-Fi announcement (covered by RCR...

FCC restarts clock on AT&T/DirecTV, Comcast/Time Warner Cable deals

The Federal Communications Commission this week restarted the 180-day review clock on a pair of significant acquisitions pending in front of the government regulator....

Software: Big data, analytics set to drive telecom spend

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

CENTRI Webinar: Cloud Transformation: Tackling Growing Challenges

Organizations of all sizes have been migrating to the cloud for increased flexibility, accessibility, and cost efficiency. While the benefits of shortened deployment times,...

Telecom infrastructure: China carriers create tower company

China’s three mobile carriers have created a new company, China Tower, which will take over ownership of the three firms’ telecom infrastructure while ambitiously...

Report: Verizon Wireless begins 1.9 GHz refarm to support LTE

Verizon Wireless appears to be moving forward on its previously stated plans to begin refarming 1.9 GHz spectrum to support its LTE service. According...

Carrier Wi-Fi deployments set to surge

Carriers have lagged behind cable operators in Wi-Fi deployments, but now it looks like mobile operators are ready to catch up. Carrier-grade Wi-Fi hotspots...

Hastened FCC spectrum auction nears $41B

Activity on most expensive licenses closed The first round of bidding under the Federal Communications Commission’s revised schedule resulted in only a small decline in...
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