Monthly Archives: August, 2015

FCC Commissioner pushes next-gen 911

Federal regulators have fined operators $40M for outages in last four months WASHINGTON – Tom Wheeler, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, is not happy...

AT&T continues prepaid fight against T-Mobile, rivals with Cricket expansion

Cricket Wireless now offers calling plans to Latin, South America; Canada roaming AT&T Mobility further bolstered the international reach of its Cricket Wireless prepaid brand,...

Making sense of the big 4 carriers’ quarterlies

Competition among the big 4 carriers is fiercer than ever. Taking a look at their most recent quarterly results gives some insight into just how...

Verizon labor dispute drags on, no end in sight

Union says Verizon’s ‘greed knows no bounds’ WASHINGTON – Some 38,000 Communications Workers of America and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union employees have been...

Kagan: Congrats AT&T, Sprint and wireless industry

The most recent studies were just released by both J.D. Power and RootMetrics, and they both say the entire wireless community looks better and...

EMEA: First international VoLTE calls with BICS

BICS today announced the first end-to-end voice-over-LTE call between Asia and Europe. Working together with SK Telecom's SK Telink – international carrier services division...

Reality Check: AT&T – let’s get fibered up

AT&T pushes fiber future, Samsung overwhelmed with iPhone users AT&T recently held an analyst day to present a revised view of the company as a...

Brocade Webinar: The Evolution of Network Visibility Architectures

Service Providers are increasingly leveraging analytics tools to monitor their networks, improve customer experience and identify opportunities for revenue growth. As traffic volumes surge...

Wireless companies hit by Wall Street selloff

A sharp selloff on Wall Street hit wireless companies on Monday morning. Verizon Communications, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile US all saw their stock prices...

Telefónica partners with Huawei on SBC to support VoLTE, RCS

Huawei's SBC platform designed to support VoLTE, RCS, voice-over-broadband services Spain’s Telefónica continues to push virtualization technology across its network, with the latest move coming...

Microsoft cuts 2,300 Nokia jobs in Finland

Cuts are part of ‘restructuring plan’ largely targeting Nokia ops Microsoft on Friday confirmed it will close a Nokia handset product development office in Salo,...

Apple iPhone 6S rumor roundup

Release and preorder date, camera upgrades and Force Touch display Last week leaked documents set the release date for Apple’s new iPhone 6S as Sept....

China Mobile adds nearly 100M LTE subs in one year

LTE technology represents more than 23% of the operator’s overall mobile subscribers The world’s largest mobile telephony operator China Mobile ended the first half of...

FCC eyes regs for DAS, small cells

The feds want to detail how wireless infrastructure upgrades will impact historic buildings The Federal Communications Commission has solicited public comment on how it should...

Reader Forum: 4G LTE’s role in U.S. smart city development

Smart city development is on the rise. In fact, the smart city market is set to experience a compound annual growth rate of 22.5%...

Reader Forum: Traditional signaling service takes the connected world back to the future

If you were to talk to an average mobile phone user, “4G” LTE access and over-the-top applications would be at the top of the list...

Verizon suitor for Dish spectrum?

Verizon cited as potential candidate for Dish spectrum at the right price With T-Mobile US rumored to be in the sights of a potential acquisition...

Creating independent games – Coders Episode 23

This week I'm joined by indie game developer Ryan Waller of Forthright Entertainment. We discuss the tools for making games, what it takes to...

T-Mobile target of a cable takeover?

New report claims Comcast or Charter ripe for a T-Mobile US takeover T-Mobile US’ future remains a hot topic among the analyst community, with waves...

How NFV bolsters voice, video

Kontron discusses the impact virtualization can have on network capacity, including how NFV bolsters voice and video efficiency Network capacity issues continue to...

The medical data above us

https://youtu.be/p6m2j71X54s This week Chris Hare speaks with Dan Pollard CEO of MyDrugCosts. Dan's company and background are focused on delivering drug cost and side effect...

The networked society – HetNet Happenings: Episode 27

This week on HetNet Happenings, RCR Wireless News Managing Editor Sean Kinney learns about the networked society from Ericsson Head of Strategy and Technology...

Improving Wi-Fi quality with FILS – and why the carrier Wi-Fi market is upside down

Are massive, aggregated Wi-Fi networks the way of the future? This week’s news items includes iPass & Devicescape teaming up to produce a network...

CommScope Webinar: Capacity & Throughput Enhancements in LTE Networks

It’s no surprise that long-term evolution (LTE) networks are quickly becoming the global norm for wireless communications. With significantly higher data speed than 3G,...

EMEA: Securing the connected car with INSIDE Secure

Security and the connected car seem to be linked on a daily basis in the news the last few weeks. The question regarding hacking...
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