French telco Orange is expanding its African holdings with the acquisition of Liberia’s largest operator, Cellcom Telecommunications. The move is part of an international growth strategy Orange is implementing to gain momentum in emerging markets, with Africa a focal point for the European carrier....
Apple is reportedly working on an application to make switching to Google's Android operating system easier for customers. According to a report from The Telegraph, the device maker agreed to create the app after facing pressure from European operators who say Apple puts up too...
Telco aims to close deal in June; bids from Cellnex, F2i, others
Telecom Italia received three non-binding offers for the company’s 45% stake in telecoms tower unit Inwit, Italian newspaper La Stampa reported.
According to the report, Telecom Italia expects to complete a transaction by...
Little Rock, Arkansas-based Communications Sales and Leasing, a telecom infrastructure-specific real estate investment trust, late last week purchased fiber-to-the-tower provider PEG Bandwidth for $409 million.
Dallas-based PEG Bandwidth in Jan. 2015 fired up fiber backhaul services to its 2,000th cell site since activating the first location...
European telco operates in Brazil through its TIM unit
Italian telecommunications group Telecom Italia confirmed the company was not in talks with Brazilian telecoms operator Oi to merge assets in the Brazilian market. The European telco said there were no formal or informal negotiations with...
LAS VEGAS – Smart home technology is a focal point of this year’s CES show. Coldwell Banker Real Estate is a company that has been keeping a close eye on the growth of the connected home. In preparation for CES, the real estate company...
LAS VEGAS – Last year was the year sponsored data burst on the scene as Verizon Wireless, AT&T Mobility and T-Mobile US all announced plans to offer free data services. But, it was the launch of T-Mobile US' controversial "Binge On" service, which allows customers to...
LAS VEGAS – Ericsson announced a partnership with AT&T on a sustainable city initiative designed to bring connectivity to the city of Atlanta’s water supply.
The trials are said to allow the organization overseeing the Chattahoochee River Basin, which is the main drinking water...
LAS VEGAS — The "Internet of Things" is a hot topic at this year’s CES 2016 event. Ericsson is one company making a huge push to help its customers monetize IoT, announcing a number of initiatives and partnership over the last few days. The...
LAS VEGAS – Broadband Forum Chairman Kevin Foster told opening day attendees at CES 2016 the G.fast technology is key to quickly delivering innovative new services that require lots of bandwidth.
Foster, also GM for access and CPE innovation at BT, said 4K video, location-based services,...
Yahoo could face up to $750 million in fines from potential class of 500,000 Sprint users
As many as 500,000 Sprint customers could take part in a class action lawsuit approved this week by a Chicago federal judge related to Yahoo sending unwanted text messages...
Vodafone Americas dissects global enterprise challenges for 2016
Editor’s Note: With 2016 now upon us, RCR Wireless News has gathered predictions from leading industry analysts and executives on what they expect to see in the new year.
Dual global economy
Many of the customers we speak to...
Apple fans in Mexico, Chile, Peru and Argentina will soon have the ability to purchase their next iPhone straight from an Apple store, according to a report by MacRumors.
An unnamed source provided this picture of an internal posting for jobs in Mexico to backs up...
Automaker partners with Lyft on go-to market strategy for autonomous vehicles
The future of autonomous vehicles is slowing approaching with advancements like Tesla’s autopilot and driverless trams, but what will it take for fully autonomous vehicles to break into the widespread consumer market?
Investment activity may...
French telco Orange could pay $10.86 billion for rival operator
French state-controlled telecommunications group Orange signed a confidentiality agreement with rival conglomerate Bouygues to acquire the latter’s telecom business for a total of 10 billion euros ($10.86 billion) in cash and shares, French newspaper Le Journal...
Purchased Austin-based StackEngine; growth driven by cloud sales
IT giant Oracle, which provides everything from data center operation to cloud applications, is investing heavily in cloud computing with the recent acquisition of Austin, Texas-based StackEngine, as well as the unveiling of plans to build a...
Verizon Wireless, AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile US and Sprint have worked together to bring LTE service to all of Chicago’s more than 400,000 daily subway passengers. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago Transit Authority said the move makes Chicago the largest public transit in...
Apple is in trouble in Italy for allegedly failing to pay taxes in the country to the tune of $347 million. According to multiple news outlets, the issue stems from a disparity in revenue reported between 2008 and 2013. It is believed in those...
The Indian manufacturer plans to set up three new factories in 2016
Indian smartphone maker Micromax expects to manufacture all of its mobile phones in India by 2018 due to increasing local demand and higher labor costs in China, local press reported.
The company’s co-founder Rahul...
The Christmas holiday was a productive one for Apple. From Dec. 19 through Dec. 25, Apple iOS devices accounted for 49% of all device activations, according to data from an analytics firm.
But its not all good news for Apple. The company was down overall...
Indian telecom operator Reliance Jio started the first phase of its "4G" network rollout. Employees of the disruptive telco will be the first to try the new service.
Reliance Comm is looking to shake up the world’s second-largest mobile subscriber market with the launch, taking...
The wireless industry used to be easy to understand and easy to track and compare. No longer. Yesterday there was one segment full of larger and smaller players. Today the industry seems to be split into three distinct segments of wireless networks including AT&T...
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 customer service via Facebook Messenger.
“We want to build long-term relationships with our customers who choose to engage via social channels...
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 focused on network functions virtualization research with the intent of helping China Telecom plan for implementing NFV technologies.
The joint NFV...
