March 2018

Choosing a vendor Businesses are increasingly migrating to the cloud in order to deploy applications, scale resources on-demand, cut costs, among other benefits. In order to reap the benefits of …

The middleprise – defined as commercial venues with up to 500,000 sq. ft. of space – has long been underserved when it comes to solutions that solve in-building cellular coverage …

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 up the time machine, put on …

Going forward, almost every electronic device in your house, or in your work environment, is going to be connected to the network or internet and sending data of one kind …

Cognitive manufacturing — the combination of data collection, massive data storage and artificial intelligence — holds the promise of transforming industry. We talked to IBM, one of the pioneers in …

  Digital Transformation was the theme song of this year’s Mobile World Congress.  Good news: every telecom company now has a “Go Digital” strategy.  The challenge? Few have a real …

Cloudflare makes Cloudflare Workers generally available Web security company Cloudflare announced the general availability of Cloudflare Workers, which enable developers to launch their code directly at the edge of the …

T-Mobile US continues its efforts to clear 600 MHz spectrum as quickly as possible. The carrier has a new agreement with a Dallas/Fort Worth-area broadcaster, NBC 5/KXAS-TV, to move to …

Nutanix announces intent to purchase Netsil Cloud computing software company Nutanix Inc. announced it intends to purchase Netsil Inc. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. Netsil is a …

Netcracker VP discusses commercialization and monetization of 5G Ari Banerjee, Netcracker’s vice president of strategy, reflected on the prominence of 5G and related news that came out of Mobile World …

ONF announces new open source Stratum project The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) announced a new project, dubbed Stratum, with the aim of implementing a reference platform for a software-defined data …

System-in-package technologies are making a significant impact on the electronics supply chain as the semiconductor industry strives to meet the perpetual demand for higher performance, smaller size, and lower cost. …

The Finnish government acquired a 3.3% stake in Nokia via its fully-owned holding company Solidium The Finnish government has acquired 3.3% of the shares in Nokia Corporation for approximately  844 …

Huawei software tool uses AI, data analysis to streamline field operations As operators around the world continuously upgrade and densify their networks, managing that increasingly complex environment brings increasing costs …

Vodafone Germany and Bosch partnered on C-V2X trial Huawei, Vodafone Germany and Bosch have successfully tested the extended usage of cellular vehicle to everything (C-V2X) technology in combination with Bosch’s …

RFIs for 5G core are coming out now; RFPs to follow in 2019, Oracle VP says 5G, for operators, is all about efficiency and flexibility–lowering the cost per bit per …

5G technology is still in its infancy, with widespread deployment not expected until about 2021, yet as we enter the limited test phase, it’s time for businesses to begin considering …

Global container market to hit $706.2 million by 2022 The global container monitoring market is expected to swell from $169.6 million in 2017 to $706.2 million by 2022, at a …

ORLANDO, Fla.–5G networks are expected to be significantly more dense than current LTE networks, both due to the shorter propagation range of millimeter-wave frequencies as well as the need for …

AT&T moving from testing to deploying OpenROADMs Having achieved optical interoperability between equipment made by different vendors, AT&T is moving forward with plans to scale Open Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer …

Blockchain, 5G and private LTE are key to Telefónica industrial digitalization strategy Telcos like Telefónica are in the interesting position of going through internal digital transformation while simultaneously turning those …

Nokia announces Enterprise Session Border Controller Nokia introduced a new cloud-native Enterprise Session Border Controller (eSBC), which the company said provides high-quality IP voice and video services. Nokia’s eSBC is …

Move to block hostile takeover of Qualcomm seems pinned to concerns about Chinese technology ambitions After the Department of Treasury’s Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. ordered Qualcomm to …

The 5G testbeds will receive approximately $35 million in funding The U.K. government has allocated £25 million ($ 34.7 million) in new funding to six 5G pilots across the country. …

  The broadband performance and economics of cellular with 4G and 5G is making it possible for many of us to do without any wired connection at all — already …