Monthly Archives: August, 2015

Worst of the Week: Let’s get Sprint and T-Mobile in the same cage!

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...

Ericsson, SK partner on IoT platforms for medical, transport

ICT ecosystem, authentication, network security all covered by the deal Networking powerhouse Ericsson has partnered with SK Holdings of South Korea to jointly develop "Internet...

Samsung offers $1 device test-drive for Apple users

Hardware giant Samsung, turning up the heat on competitor Apple, is offering a 30-day test-drive of its devices for $1 with the goal of...

Cell Tower News: Third man charged in tower thefts

Third man charged in N.J. tower thefts New information has been released related to the cell tower thefts RCR Wireless News reported earlier this week. There is...

Swisscom launches LTE-A combining FDD and TDD

The telco ended Q2 with 6.57M mobile subscribers in Switzerland Swiss mobile telephony operator Swisscom has launched a new mobile service combining the FDD and...

Tower site acquisition

On the inaugural episode of Cell Tower News, host Joey Jackson of RCR Wireless News discusses cell tower site acquisition and attendant topics with...

Test and Measurement: New signal generators from Tektronix

Tektronix launched new signal generators this week, adding to its lineup with two options designed to deliver better performance than similarly priced equipment from competitors. The AFG3000C...

Apple gains on Samsung as smartphone growth slows

Apple is gaining ground on Samsung in a slowing smartphone market, according to Gartner's latest report on mobile device sales. Samsung remains the market...

Keysight reports solid profits, has an appetite for acquisition

Currency issues and lower revenue impacted Keysight Technologies' quarterly results, but the company still pulled in $70 million in profit during its most recent quarter. As...

Sprint’s road ahead: Small cell deployments can be complex

Sprint said this week that it plans to deploy tens of thousands of small cells as part of its network upgrade. The carrier said...

FCC lays out next steps in 600 MHz incentive auction process

FCC states plans to release additional rules for reverse, forward auction components this fall The Federal Communications Commission continues to work toward the planned March...

Learning to code with the Iron Yard – Inside Telecom Careers Episode 9

Learning to Code with The Iron Yard was the focus on this week's episode of Inside Telecom Careers sponsored by Nexius: Accelerating Network and Business...

Northstar disputes FCC decision to revoke bidding credits

Northstar claims move was politically based and goes against tenants of DE program The Federal Communications Commission’s decision this week to revoke a $3 billion...

Anritsu Webinar: Enabling Connectivity to the Internet of Things

Are you developing products with wireless internet connectivity? You cannot afford to miss this Anritsu webinar!  The Internet of Things (IoT) has become a catch-all...

Ericsson carrier aggregation, plus 4 more things to know today (RCR podcast)

Court case in Berkeley; carrier aggregation in Europe, and Sprint's network upgrade 5 things to know today: 1. Carriers have a lot riding on a California...

GEANT partners with ON.Lab on ONOS SDN deployment

GEANT taps ONOS SDN platform to connect European research facilities The Open Network Lab’s Open Network Operating System project scored a significant deployment win as...

China Mobile, Huawei max out LTE with data compression

China Mobile, Huawei and Qualcomm Technologies said they completed the commercial verification of TDD+ uplink data compression technology on a commercial LTE-TDD network. UDC is...

Virgin Media plans Wi-Fi network for UK

Network will be based on existing customers’ hot spots Following in the steps of other service providers bolstering public networks by piggybacking on private hot...

Republic Wireless launches cellular-to-Wi-Fi voice support

'Salsa' software update begins rolling out to select devices Republic Wireless has begun to rollout an update to its service that the mobile virtual network...

Google loses data to lightning strikes

Belgium data center struck causing errors on Google Compute Engine persistent disks Four lightning strikes affecting the power grid around the Google Compute Engine data...

Sprint confirms network upgrade plans

Sprint confirmed its network upgrade plans, saying it will deploy thousands of new macro sites and tens of thousands of small cells. CTO John...

LatAm: Telcos increase deals with OTT; video rises in Brazil

Competition between communication service providers and over-the-top players could be set to change. According to Ovum’s "Telco-OTT Tracker" survey, Latin American telecom operators are...

#TBT: Sprint closes on Nextel deal; iTunes phone set for launch? … this week in 2005

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...

Samsung theorizes ‘mobile Internet from the heavens’

Thousands of low-Earth orbit satellites would use millimeter wave tech to bring wireless connectivity to the world Google’s Project Loon has brought the concept of...

Join us for the RCRatx Studio Lounge August open house event

You are cordially invited to join RCR Wireless News on Wednesday, August 19, for the latest open house event of the RCRatx Studio Lounge, home...
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