February 2016

Huawei offers systems integration solutions to help operators quickly commercialize NFV Tier 1 operators accelerate adoption of NFV to increase agility and openness while reducing operating costs The growing need …

The National Association of Tower Erectors’ annual conference is always a good opportunity to take the tower industry’s pulse, and this year attendees reported record turnouts in New Orleans despite …

ETSI said it has tasked its OSM group to use open source software for MANO tied to NFV The European Telecommunications Standards Institute this week said it have begun work …

Sprint exec bonuses impacted by 4G growth, while Verizon hypes impending LTE launch, 6 years ago this week Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping …

BARCELONA, Spain – OpenG technology combines coordinated shared spectrum, such as the 3.5 GHz band in the U.S., with neutral host-capable small cells to enable cost-effective, ubiquitous in-building cellular coverage. …

Arab telco has finalized LTE-A Pro tests in Kuwait BARCELONA, Spain – Kuwait-based telecom operator Zain expects to carry out tests of LTE-Advanced Pro technology, also referred to as “4.5G” …

The company boosted managed services contracts in 2015 Chinese telecom and technology vendor ZTE expects revenues from its service business to grow approximately 20% in 2016. Chen Huachun, VP at …

Alliance set to focus on 5G trial specification BARCELONA, Spain – Korean operators KT and SK Telecom, Japanese telco NTT DoCoMo and U.S. mobile carrier Verizon Wireless formed the 5G …

Huawei and partners show use cases of digital transformation to demonstrate importance of agile, elastic operations BARCELONA, Spain – With a focus on enabling a customer-centric business model, Huawei representatives and …

Verizon scored overall win in 3 of 6 markets tested so far, AT&T tops in a pair and Sprint No. 1 in 1 Less than two months into the new …

AT&T said its working to update its network in Mexico to the same network standards the carrier has in the U.S. market BARCELONA, Spain – Ralph de La Vega, vice …

GSMA report finds 363 million people across Latin America are still not connected to mobile broadband services BARCELONA, Spain – With as many as 363 million people across Latin America …

Sprint, T-Mobile, AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless all offered up various promos for the latest Samsung smartphones Domestic carriers quickly unveiled promotions tied to Samsung’s announced launch of its latest …

Cellular signal boosters have often been viewed as consumer product nuisances that can cause major interference to mobile operators’ networks. However, operators have sometimes made use of so-called “industrial” signal …

Time is money, and a prominent telecom analyst says the timing of Sprint’s cash flows doesn’t match up with what the company is reporting. According to Craig Moffett of MoffettNathanson, …

Comcast plans to participate in the upcoming FCC auction and exercised option to resell Verizon Wireless services Consider this interesting scenario, which seems likely to happen within the next year: …

Huawei’s fixed network modernization service solution provides integrated services that cover an entire network life cycle. With three core capabilities, powerful platforms, and customized migration solutions, the solution helps operators …

Samsung expects strong push with Galaxy S7 devices into LatAm despite flat overall sales BARCELONA, Spain – Samsung’s new Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge smartphones are schedule to be available …

BARCELONA, Spain – Claiming everybody should have access to the Internet, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg discussed projects his company is working on designed to provider greater access to the Web. “Facebook’s …

Qualcomm to remain the dominant supplier of LTE baseband chips As mobile operators increasingly accommodate new applications and use cases – 360-degree video, virtual reality, augmented reality, immersive graphics, computer …

Cisco and Ericsson claim expanded business opportunities 3 months after announcing wide-ranging partnership Cisco and Ericsson announced some progress on their “next-generation strategic partnership” that has led to “new and …

Huawei, Linux Foundation, China Mobile among members of open-source project; touted as first of its kind initiative for China BARCELONA, Spain – In order to lend agility and innovation to …

Software migration gaining strength, paying customers; allowed AT&T unlimited data move AT&T Mobility surprised many earlier this year when it re-entered the “unlimited” mobile data game, launching new rate plans …

Verizon Communications has started “5G” field tests with Nokia Networks, testing pre-standards technology in Verizon’s live network in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Verizon and Nokia said they tested an “extreme …

Seattle, WA and Vienna, Austria — Kapsch CarrierCom and Opanga Networks are pleased to announce today the formation of a new strategic partnership to bring the next generation of network …