Monthly Archives: October, 2015

The roadmap for 5G development

South Korea, Japan and North America to lead future deployments of 5G While the telecommunications industry still needs to fully define standards for "5G" development, and...

Turkcell to launch LTE-A in July 2016

The operator aims to offer access speeds of up to 375 Mbps Turkish mobile operator Turkcell expects to launch LTE-A services in the country in...

Sprint strategy and development chief resigns

As Sprint prepares to undertake a massive network improvement strategy amid losing ground to rival T-Mobile US, the company's chief of corporate strategy and...

Cell Tower News: NATE forms drone integration committee

Drone use for towers gets integration committee The National Association of Tower Erectors announced the establishment of an Unmanned Aerial Systems Committee. In layman's terms; drones....

Sonus Webinar: VoLTE Reality Check – How Long Will Your Legacy Network Need to Live?

Voice over LTE (VoLTE) has the fastest technology adoption of all wireless technologies, yet only 28% of wireless subscribers are expected to be using...

Verizon LTE partnership with rural carriers hits milestone

Verizon LTE in Rural America service launched by all 21 partners Verizon Wireless announced a deployment milestone in its LTE in Rural America program, noting...

NetScout acquisitions boost service assurance

NEW ORLEANS – Fresh off a series of acquisitions, NetScout Systems was on hand at the Cable-Tec Expo to emphasize the importance of service assurance...

AT&T NumberSync plan looks to bridge multidevice integration

AT&T NumberSync platform taps IMS core to sync phone number across multiple devices AT&T is set to tackle multidevice integration with its NumberSync service that...

California approves ‘shot clock’ for tower applications

In an attempt to streamline the application process for cell site upgrades, California signed Assembly Bill 57 into law, setting a “shot clock” for...

RCRatx Speaker Series: Industrial IoT – Designing, Testing & Securing the Next Mega-Trend

Goldman Sachs views IoT as the third Internet wave while predicting that IoT will exceed previous Internet waves by connecting 28 billion previously unconnected things....

Sprint faces lawsuit and petition to ‘stop the shutdown’

Sprint's decision to sunset its WiMAX network on Nov. 6 could leave as many as 300,000 Americans without reliable access to the Internet, according...

Cable-Tec Expo: DOCSIS 3.1 and network convergence

NEW ORLEANS – Discussion at the 2015 Cable-Tec Expo centered around releases of the latest DOCSIS 3.1, as well as keeping user experience at...

RCR Speaker Series: Industrial IoT – Designing, Testing & Securing the Next Mega-Trend

Goldman Sachs views IoT as the third “internet” wave while predicting that IoT will exceed preceding internet waves by connecting 28 billion “things”. By...

SoftBank boosts NFV, SDN push with Cisco deal

SoftBank upgrades White Cloud SmartVPN platform with NFV, SDN technology Japanese telecom giant SoftBank said it plans to upgrade its White Cloud SmartVPN architecture using...

AT&T warns FCC about waning competition in cable

Following its $48.5 billion acquisition of DirecTV, telecom giant AT&T is now telling federal regulators a pending combination of Time Warner Cable, Bright House...

AT&T CEO admits ‘we blew it’ with response to customer advice

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson admitted his company “blew it” by sending a letter from its lawyer to a customer who suggested ways to make...

Facebook fights YouTube for video dominance

WASHINGTON – Facebook has been busy of late. In addition to steadily gaining users and announcing plans to provided free Internet to Africa via...

Cisco looks to be an IoT leader

WASHINGTON – Cisco Systems has become a household name based on the near-ubiquity of its networking equipment, and now the company is looking to...

LatAm: Paraguay preps for LTE spectrum auction

Paraguayan regulator Conatel released the final bidding terms and conditions for the country's planned 1700 MHz/2100 MHz spectrum auction in support of LTE services....

Chinese mobile operators transfer assets to China Tower

The three operators are finalizing leasing contracts with the new joint venture China’s three mobile operators – China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom –...

#TBT: T-Mobile taps tablets; Apple, Nokia unveil devices … this week in 2013

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...

Apple loses patent lawsuit

Apple's custom processors that power the iPhone and iPad include patented technology that the company used without permission, according to a Wisconsin court. The...

5G, IoT and more depend on carrier-grade Wi-Fi

The list of wireless services is long and getting longer – public Wi-Fi services, the "Internet of Things," big data, converged services, smart cities and...

ETSI NFV group releases 3 new specs focused on security, reliability

ETSI NFV work targets lawful interception, open source software, cloud-based reliability The European Telecommunications Standards Institute’s Network Functions Virtualization Industry Specification Group this week released...

AT&T response to customer advice gives T-Mobile US ammunition

An AT&T customer in California got an unexpected reply to an email he sent to AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson about how to improve the...
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