On this week’s carrier wrap we speak with Recon Analytics to dissect Q1 financial and operating results from T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T
The domestic market’s three largest mobile carriers recently reported first quarter financial results, all showing various strengths and weaknesses across different sections of...
The government raised $1.81 billion in the multiband spectrum auction
South Korea obtained 2.11 trillion won ($1.81 billion) in a recent multiband spectrum auction, well below the market expectation of 2.5 trillion won. The country’s largest mobile operator SK Telecom picked up both blocks of...
Google and Fiat Chrysler self-driving car partnership to double Google's self-driving car fleet.
Fiat Chrysler Automobile announced it was teaming with Google on self-driving technology. It is the first time Google has worked directly with a car maker to integrate its technology into a passenger vehicle....
Internet of Things VoLTE applications
Voice over LTE, or VoLTE, is in some ways the final frontier for LTE. Most voice calls still use 3G networks, but mobile operators are expected to transition more voice service to LTE in the years ahead. At the same...
LTE-Advanced service available in 976 cities across Japan
Japanese telecom operator NTT DoCoMo’s "Premium 4G" service is currently available in 976 cities across Japan, according to a company presentation. The service, which was launched in March 2015, offers downlink speeds of up to 225 megabits...
Jim Patterson looks at T-Mobile Q1 results in terms of what could slow down the carrier moving forward
T-Mobile US announced earnings last week, and the results were strong across the board. Prepaid was especially strong (807,000 net adds; 3.84% monthly churn), as MetroPCS took...
Michigan, home of the traditional automotive industry, is hoping to take the lead on autonomous driving regulation. In the meantime, Microsoft opens its Azure IoT Gateway SDK to public beta; and IPass launches its developer program, with the promises of scale and shorter time-to-market,...
Verizon strike update
1. Verizon has cancelled medical coverage for the thousands of employees who have been on strike for more than two weeks now. The company told the union last week that the employees' healthcare coverage would stop at the end of April if...
Multi-user multiple input, multiple output, or MU-MIMO, is an advanced features for 802.11ac Wi-Fi, part of Wave 2 features that are in some cases, already on the market and will start being certified for interoperability by Wi-Fi Alliance soon.
The technology enables multiple devices to...
On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check, we look at some of the top news from across the space over the past week and speak with Red Hat on evolving storage needs for cloud infrastructure
Verizon this week claimed it recently completed the industry’s largest known...
Wi-Fi Alliance this week held the latest of its workshops on LTE-Unlicensed and Wi-Fi coexistence, and said in a statement it has "made significant progress toward the development of a test regimen that will address fair coexistence between Wi-Fi and LTE-U devices."
Wi-Fi Alliance earlier...
AT&T mixed results showed own customers love unlimited data, 2G network turn down remains on track for year-end and software improving financials
Story updated to correct AT&T CTO as John Stephens
AT&T this week reported mixed first quarter results, somewhat muddled by its current state of...
With the advent of LTE-U and LAA, Wi-Fi may face radical change -- or will it? RCR looks at the status of the Wi-Fi ecosystem and its near-term future, from the latest standards work and increasing speeds to the use of Hotspot 2.0/Passpoint for...
Sprint PCS posted a quadrupling in net losses despite a tripling in revenues, while AT&T CEO Dan Hesse touted PCS-based network expansion ... 17 years ago this week
Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate...
On this week’s carrier wrap we wrap up coverage of the recent Competitive Carriers Association event with a look at a session dedicated to policy challenges of 5G
For this week’s Carrier Wrap, we finish up our coverage of the Competitive Carriers Association’s recent Mobile...
Intel's Imad Sousou: OpenStack is at a crossroads
AUSTIN, Texas – Data centers run the risk of being overwhelmed as demand for content and remote resources continues to grow. OpenStack needs to reinvent to help the industry flourish, said Imad Sousou, VP and GM of...
Wi-Fi continues to grow rapidly and take on more of the traffic that would otherwise go over cellular networks. According to Cisco’s VNI Mobile, Wi-Fi traffic from mobile and Wi-Fi-only devices will account for 53% of total IP traffic by 2019.
“Wi-Fi is part of...
The hottest seats in the house at the Wi-Fi Now conference last week were those of the panel members debating the impact of LTE on Wi-Fi as the cellular system moves into unlicensed spectrum at 5 GHz. Wi-Fi Alliance is hosting a workshop today...
Jim Patterson digs into Verizon Q1 results, noting a potential zero-rated Go90 offerings; and questions the FCC moving the goal post on the cable industry
Verizon Communications reported first quarter earnings (link here) that generally met expectations. They have already completed several items on their...
As the telecom space moves towards increased use of virtualization platforms, devops is becoming an important model to smooth the transition
Devops is not a new term, but the combination of “development” and “operations” across the telecommunications space is growing as operators looks to generate...
5 things to know today ....
1. A former T-Mobile US customer is trying to bring a class action lawsuit against the "Un-carrier." A man who bought four handsets from T-Mobile US and was paying for them in monthly installments claims the carrier's advertising campaign...
Why is AT&T able to strike a deal with the Communications Workers of America and Verizon Communications is not? Why is Verizon still struggling while their workers are on strike? This seems to make no sense in a competitive marketplace where customers can easily...
With predictions of billions of new devices with wireless connectivity over the coming years, the "Internet of Things" is expected to have a major influence on multiple verticals and consumers' everyday lives. And it turns out that already, everything from dog dishes to stuffed...
In the age of cloud computing and borderless workflow, enterprise IT is under going a seismic shift to accommodate the needs of the modern worker while enabling business-wide flexibility and responsiveness through technology integration.
In a new report from Oracle titled "The Era I Enterprise: Ready...
