Windstream has boosted its network management capabilities and reach in the northeast with the purchase of New York-based MASS Communications for $37.5 million. MASS CEO Darren Mass is also joining …
Kelly Hill
Kelly Hill
Kelly Hill reports on network test and measurement, AI infrastructure and regulatory issues, including spectrum, for RCR Wireless News. She began covering the wireless industry in 2005, focusing on carriers and MVNOs, then took a few years’ hiatus and returned to RCR Wireless News to write about heterogeneous networks (remember those?) and network infrastructure. Kelly is an Ohio native with a masters degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, where she focused on science writing and multimedia. She has written for the San Francisco Chronicle, The Oregonian and The Canton Repository. She lives in northern Virginia, not far from Data Center Alley.
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Competition for public safety customers continues to heat up, with AT&T launching its network core for the First Responders Network Authority — and Verizon responding with the general availability of …
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Steel in the Air President Ken Schmidt has some recent analysis of what the national distribution of 100,000 small cells over the next few years could look like, if you …
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Keysight Technologies’ Ixia Solutions Group collaborated with networking company Innovium to validate terabit-speeds on an Innovium switch for supporting large-scale data centers. The Innovatium Teralynx Ethernet switch line was able …
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Although the standard for the next generation of Wi-Fi technology hasn’t been officially finalized, that hasn’t stopped chipsets, reference designs and test equipment from making it to the market to …
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#TBT: Cheap cellular in Chicago; 40% customer growth; hot telecom M&A … this week in 1996
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillEditor’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 …
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Rohde & Schwarz said it is the first test company to validate Rich Communications Services conformance tests, amid growing global momentum for RCS. RCS is a set of IMS technology …
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Uber has pulled its self-driving vehicles from the roads after one of its autonomous vehicles struck and killed a pedestrian in Arizona, according to published reports. This is believed to …
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Millimeter wave signals were more found to be more robust than expected and provided high speeds — although not gigabit speeds — at distances of several thousand feet from a …
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Telecom Tweets of the Week: Academics identify new LTE security vulnerabilities
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillAcademic researchers have identified 10 new security vulnerabilities in LTE protocol procedures, using a testing approach they call LTEInspector. Those weaknesses are in addition to nine previously identified attack types. …
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Test and Measurement: OpenSignal breaks down regional carrier LTE battles
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillWhile T-Mobile US came out ahead of Verizon by a hair on LTE availability on a national level in OpenSignal’s most recent round of app-based testing, regional battles have heated …
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In the three years since Keysight Technologies’ last investor day, the company has been working on one theme: transformation. From being part of Agilent to charting its own path as …
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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 …
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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 …
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ORLANDO, Fla.–The battle over public safety wireless customers has been joined. At this year’s International Wireless Communications Expo, Verizon defended its position as the market leader in providing service to …
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AT&T plans to add Band 14 to one-third of its cell sites this year ORLANDO, Fla.–One year into the public-private partnership between AT&T and the First Responders Network Authority, the …
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Test and Measurement: Maja Systems, Presto Engineering work on mmwave high-volume test
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillMillimeter-wave chip company Maja Systems and Presto Engineering said this week that they have successfully collaborated on high-volume, automated production testing for Maja’s AirData products. Michel Villemain, CEO of Presto …
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ORLANDO, Fla.–Smart cities. Public safety communications. Cellular evolution, including LTE and future 5G systems. Land Mobile Radio. The internet of things. Telecom technologies are evolving rapidly, and panelists at a …
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#TBT: Apple Watch debuts; smart whiskey labels; Canada’s one-day spectrum auction … this week in 2015
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillEditor’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 …
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ORLANDO, Fla.–FirstNet CEO Mike Poth missed last year’s International Wireless Communications Expo because the First Responders Network Authority’s 25-year contract with AT&T for a national public safety broadband network was …
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Partnership focuses on analytics, data architecture Cisco and Teradata are partnering on a platform for smart cities that integrates Cisco’s Kinetic for Cities IoT platform with Teradata’s big data analytics …
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Mobile World Congress is the industry’s biggest showcase of the year, and if you can manage to sift through the hype and the sheer volume of show news, you can …
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The internet of things was one of the hottest topics at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, with news of expanding networks and more momentum for various types of …
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For the test industry, this year’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) came down to two major themes: 5G and the internet of things, with a little virtualization thrown in just to …
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Design has been called “a formal response to a strategic question.” In an IoT context, the device is the embodiment of what strategic questions a business is considering as it …
