This week Nürnberg was host to Embedded World, three days of embedded system technology companies showcasing construction elements, modules, full systems, operating systems and software. With roughly 900 exhibitors from more than 35 countries, this is the world’s largest trade fair for the embedded...
Jibe Mobile announced the expansion of its global interconnection showcase for next week's Mobile World Congress event being held in Barcelona, Spain. Although this announcement is focused on a demonstration, the functionality behind the demonstration is the more interesting part.
Deutsche Telekom, Sprint, Vodafone and KPN...
Nokia Networks today announced smart location experiences. The theory behind the announcement is that operators can now offer their subscribers personalized content-delivery experiences based on their interests, device type, mobile subscription and location.
The core of this solution is enabled by Nokia Networks’ Liquid Applications...
A new European Commission digital study showed growing Internet use in Europe, but also highlighted a deep geographical divide across the continent.
Northern European countries led the rankings in the new Digital Economy and Society Index, which was presented this week in Brussels. Denmark topped the list,...
In case you don't know what it is, Cellwize is a self optimizing network software company. With its first SON beta customers in 2013 and five more customers in 2014, they boast seven operator wins at this point. That's impressive for such a young company, and...
RCR Wireless News recently spoke with Christian Stammel, CEO of Wearable Technologies about the state of the wearables industry and the possibilities for the future. The good news is that there are still many opportunities for innovation yet to come. However, the bad news...
After buying most of French operator SFR from Vivendi in November, Altice is now back for the rest. The company, owned by billionaire Patrick Drahi, announced an offer to purchase Vivendi's remaining 20% stake in the merged Numericable-SFR. Altice will pay 46 cents per share which...
What to do with big data? Everyone talks about it as if it’s some elusive holy grail, but do companies really understand how to use it and do operators really have the tools to enable that usage?
Inrix has announced a new platform to provide...
CommScope's ION-U simplifies DAS troubleshooting in Europe
Today CommScope announced the ION-U for European markets. By supporting the five frequency bands common to Europe in a single solution, the deployment of indoor and outdoor distributed antenna systems in Europe should be less complicated and costly.
One...
When Microsoft and Spectra Wireless announced the first commercial Internet service network in Africa to use TV white spaces, university students in Ghana saw an immediate cost savings. But not everyone is cheering.
Apparently, the U.S. software giant's interest in Africa is making many carriers on...
Heddoko was one of the companies demonstrating their solution at the Munich Wearable Technologies conference and also one of the Innovation World Cup finalists in the sports and fitness category. RCR Wireless News had the opportunity to record a video overview of their technology...
COBI was one of the companies demonstrating its wearables solution at the Munich Wearable Technologies conference, and also one of the Innovation World Cup finalists in the lifestyle category. RCR Wireless News had the opportunity to record a video overview of their technology while at...
The content service provider (CSP) landscape continues to evolve in order to keep up with changing technologies, customer expectations and new business models. Comptel is an integral part of the CSP discussion and I recently had the opportunity to discuss these topics with their...
MUNICH – This week, Munich was home to the 14th annual Wearable Technologies Conference – Europe. There was a large showing of participants ranging from startups still in the funding phase, to well-established, large organizations. Many industries were touched upon – fitness, health care,...
Amdocs has released its annual State of the RAN report this week, which looks at the implications of increasing data usage growth and LTE as a solution to that challenge.
The methodology for the report takes a global view on those topics with a focus on busy city locations....
"Roam like home" is the promise that some European operators make to their customers, who cross national borders more frequently than do their North American counterparts. But few of these operators are ready to completely eliminate all roaming fees, despite a European Parliament mandate...
VimpelCom selling Djezzy for $2.6B
While other carriers look for mergers and acquisitions in Europe, two major Dutch telecoms are shrinking their asset portfolios.
VimpelCom recently announced it is selling its 51% stake in Algeria's Djezzy for $2.6 billion. The Amsterdam-based telco and its subsidiary Global Telecom Holding...
Four industry groups issued a statement on Jan. 26 that the European Union's proposed net neutrality rules shouldn't force them to treat traffic on their networks equally. The statement was backed by ETNO, GSMA, Cable Europe and Make the Net Work – groups that represent a number of carriers...
The data-threat landscape continues to gain sophistication. With every solution launched to protect our data, there seems to be a new tactic in play to undermine that protection. F-Secure is working hard to stay ahead of the criminals, hackers and espionage activities as they become...
European Commissioners in charge of developing the Digital Single Market have been discussing some of their plans this week, including taxing U.S. tech companies like Google.
Guenther Oettinger, the commissioner for digital economy and society, fears that Europe is currently the "loser" in the ICT field. He touted investment and research...
Telecom Egypt in $2B deal
Telecom Egypt signed a $2 billion contract to provide infrastructure and calling services to Mobinil and Vodafone. Mobinil's deal is for five years, while Vodafone signed a three-year deal to use Telecom Egypt's infrastructure.
The Egyptian government, which owns 80% of...
Leaders of Hong Kong-baed Hutchison Whampoa and France's Orange each indicated that their companies will be looking for mergers and acquisitions in Europe in the near future.
The South China Morning Post reported that Hutchison Whampoa managing director Canning Fok Kin-ning said there were more acquisitions to come following the company's deals in...
Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA for RCR Wireless News, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and security. Having experience as an operator, software and hardware vendor, and as a well-known industry analyst, she has many opinions on the market. She’ll be sharing...
Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA for RCR Wireless News, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and security. Having experience as an operator, software and hardware vendor and as a well-known industry analyst, she has many opinions on the market. She’ll be sharing...
