Yearly Archives: 2021

Active antennas are essential to 5G deployments (Analyst Angle)

The base station antenna is an increasingly complex and essential part of the mobile network as networks evolve to 5G. The evolution from 3G...

Editorial Webinar: Monetizing MEC: What’s the value in the edge?

With some operators projecting MEC-related service revenues in the 2022 timeframe, what's the current state of play? Beyond operators building out new compute infrastructure,...

Editorial Webinar: The challenges and opportunities of small cell network densification

As digital services evolve and users continue to demand faster speeds and higher availability, network densification is proving to be a key driver for...

Vivo, Nokia launch 5G tests in Rio de Janeiro

Brazilian carrier Vivo has announced the start of 5G tests in the 26 GHz band in partnership with Finnish vendor Nokia, local news site...

Liberty Latin America acquires Claro Panama for $200 million

Liberty Latin America CEO: 'Panama as an important digital hub for the region' Liberty Latin America’s subsidiary business, Cable & Wireless Panama, has agreed to...

Nokia resumes technical works with O-RAN Alliance

Nokia said it resumed its technical contribution to the O-RAN Alliance, after the group offered assurances its work complied with U.S. legislation. In a blog,...

CCA debuts a rip-and-replace deep dive, more at annual convention

Network expansion and upgrades, customer relationships, cybersecurity, fighting robocalls, finding new revenue streams -- there's a lot for small and rural mobile network operators...

What is vRAN (virtualized RAN)?

A Virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN) is an agile approach to RAN deployment and management that offers carriers the promise of improved operational efficiency...

Johnson Controls signs partnership with Tempered Networks

  Smart buildings specialist Johnson Controls selected Tempered Networks to provide secure communications and network management for its OpenBlue services. The firm said that the new...

5G manufacturing use case spotlight: Supply chain optimization

Verizon said 5G could help improve visibility in supply chains and prevent inventory shrink as well as provide more accurate product location

Phones with Wi-Fi 6E are exciting – but city and business adoption of the new standard is essential (Reader Forum)

The release of the latest iPhones is always an occasion for excitement, and this week’s announcement is no exception. Prior to release, Apple’s new...

#TBT: 3G’s not dead yet; Would Deutsche Telekom buy Sprint Nextel?; Motorola unveils its first Android device … this week in 2009

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...

Edzcom partners on mission-critical private 5G for emergency services, heavy industry

Finnish industrial networking specialist Edzcom is working with France-based communications software provider Streamwide to bring higher-grade security to mission critical private LTE and 5G...

Arm intros reference architecture to help automakers grasp ‘software-defined future’

UK-based chip design company Arm has announced new software architecture and hardware platforms for emerging software-defined automotive systems, including for driver assistance, infotainment, electrified...

Microsoft joins LoRa Alliance board, labels LoRaWAN ‘critical fabric’ for digital twins

Microsoft has joined the board of the LoRa Alliance, the marketing and development body for the LoRaWAN  low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) standard. Microsoft said...

Rohde & Schwarz White Paper: The single score for network quality of experience (QoE)

Download this white paper to learn how the NPS integrates voice and data KPIs to calculate an overall network score and deliver improvement recommendations. The...

Telefónica, NEC to carry out O-RAN pre-commercial trials in four markets

Telefónica and NEC announced an agreement to carry out Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) pre-commercial trials in Spain, Germany, the U.K. and Brazil,...

Dish selects IBM’s automation and orchestration software for cloud-native 5G network

IBM's software will allow Dish to accelerate the creation and delivery of new services and will make 5G network slicing possible IBM is now involved...

Quectel Masterclass No3 NA: Optimizing Antenna and RF Performance for 5G Connected Devices

5G is challenging the way we communicate. The next generation of mobile networks, 5G, introduces a paradigm shift requiring low latency, high throughput, and...

Orange selects Amdocs to support 5G SA Open RAN test network

Amdocs announced that it has been selected by French telecommunications group Orange to provide the business support systems (BSS) for the latter’s 5G Standalone experimental...

BrainBox AI inks partnership with KMC Controls

  Canadian autonomous building tech company BrainBox AI announced a partnership with KMC Controls, a manufacturer of building automation and technology solutions. Under the partnership, both...

Terabee launches new smart building sensor solution

    French sensor solutions technology company Terabee has launched a new smart building sensor solution dubbed People Counting M. In a release, the firm noted that...

Telecom Italia expands O-RAN footprint in Italy

Italian operator Telecom Italia (TIM) announced the activations of Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) systems in the cities of Matera and Turin following...

Midband spectrum strategies: T-Mobile US

T-Mo serves up the layer cake Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of three stories laying out the national mobile network operators’...

Huawei CTO on Open RAN interoperability: ‘This thing is going to take years’

Opex is operator’s primary problem, Huawei exec said; RAN is around 12% of per-site capex Of the big three global infrastructure providers, Huawei has been...
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