Yearly Archives: 2015

Verizon throws cash at Sprint, T-Mobile and AT&T customers

Verizon offers up to $650 for Sprint, T-Mobile and AT&T customers willing to switch Verizon Wireless has joined smaller rivals T-Mobile US and Sprint in...

Reliance Jio launches 4G network, trends on Twitter

Indian telecom operator Reliance Jio started the first phase of its "4G" network rollout. Employees of the disruptive telco will be the first to...

5G trials coming to 2018 World Cup

Ericsson and Russian telco MTS have partnered to trial 5G mobile network during global event Russian mobile network operator Mobile TeleSystems and Swedish vendor Ericsson signed...

Report: Sprint CEO Claure spent millions on consultants, ignored most advice

The Wall Street Journal reports Sprint CEO Claure spent up to $30M on consultants Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure shortly after being tapped to run the...

Kagan: Wireless industry splitting into 3 tiers

The wireless industry used to be easy to understand and easy to track and compare. No longer. Yesterday there was one segment full of...

China Mobile and Ericsson partner on 5G, Internet of Things

Swedish vendor Ericsson and China Mobile Research Institute signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on "5G" research and development as well as "Internet...

Reader Forum: Signaling networks bring vulnerabilities

Exploring SS7 fraud, mobile network security and subscriber privacy It’s been a transformative year for mobile technology. Networks are evolving quickly and consumers and enterprises...

RCR Wireless News Top 100 stories of 2015 (Pt. 2)

Before we turn the page on 2015, we thought we would take a look back at the past 12 months by highlighting what we...

Reader Forum: IoT and the automotive industry

The automotive industry is being transformed by the “Internet of Things.” Having cars connected to the Internet is changing the way people drive, order...

Ooredoo Qatar launches LTE-A network

LTE-A network offers claimed access speeds up to 375 Mbps Mobile telecom operator Ooredoo Qatar and Nokia Networks said they have launched a LTE-Advanced network...

T-Mobile 5G plans remain cautious

T-Mobile 5G plans similar to AT&T, tied to standards work T-Mobile US has joined AT&T in taking a more cautious approach to the deployment of...

T-Mobile Binge On draws sting of YouTube over throttling concerns

Report notes T-Mobile Binge On service accused of interfering with YouTube video traffic T-Mobile US’ Binge On video offering has reportedly drawn criticism from YouTube,...

RCR Wireless News Top 100 stories of 2015 (Pt. 1)

Before we turn the page on 2015, we thought we would take a look back at the past 12 months by highlighting what we...

Analyst Angle: The business case for neutral host networks in high-traffic venues

Small cell and distributed antenna system networks have become important and fast growing complements to deploying new spectrum and adding additional macro towers as...

Wireless workforce: What will 2016 bring?

Wireless workforce: What will 2016 bring? A look at hiring trends for carriers, equipment vendors, infrastructure service providers, and chip vendors.

Sprint to use Facebook Messenger for customer service

Sprint is looking to social media to help it better serve customers, teaming up with Coversocial, a cloud-based social customer service solution, to provide...

Funding trends for IoT big data analytics

As the "Internet of Things" gains momentum, expecting to be fueled and enabled by big data analytics, investors and companies are seeking to expand...

HPE and China Telecom launch NFV lab

Joint NFV lab focused on NFV, SDN research Hewlett Packard Enterprise and China Telecom Beijing Research Institute said they opened a joint lab in Beijing...

Reliance Comm, Aircel in talks to merge operations

India’s fourth- and fifth-largest carriers are in talks to combine wireless operations. The potential merger between Reliance Communications and Aircel would make them the...

Sprint job cuts begin, set to cost carrier $150M

Latest round of Sprint job cuts to last through Jan. 31 Sprint recently moved on its latest plans to cut jobs, noting in a government...

True Move, Jasmine bringing 4G LTE to Thailand

Each carrier will operate 10 megahertz in the 900 MHz band for provisioning 4G LTE services Thai mobile operators True Move and Jasmine both won licenses...

What is C-RAN?

C-RAN is one of the more misunderstood acronyms in wireless as it is used to describe two different, but related architectures. C-RAN can describe...

Verizon CEO lobbies FCC on 5G, LTE-U

Verizon Communication CEO Lowell McAdam recently met with Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler to stress the importance of opening up high band spectrum...

Reality Check: The future of the savvy field technician

At the next football game at your local high school, look around at the students sitting in the stands. They’re all unique in their...

Cloud growth set to impact ECM in 2016

Ovum predicts significant upheaval from cloud across the enterprise content management market The enterprise content management space is set for significant upheaval in 2016, with...
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