Test equipment reseller Electro Rent has agreed to be acquired by Platinum Capital for more than $323.4 million, drawing the ire of shareholder litigation firms claiming shareholders aren't getting a fair shake in the deal. Electro Rent, which sells new test equipment as well as providing...
Test equipment reseller Electro Rent has agreed to be acquired by Platinum Capital for more than $323.4 million, drawing the ire of shareholder litigation firms claiming shareholders aren't getting a fair shake in the deal. Electro Rent, which sells new test equipment as well as providing...
5 things to know today ...
1. Smartphone shipments will increase by 3.1% this year, according to IDC Research. The firm expects 1.48 billion units to ship. The market is expected to keep growing for the foreseeable future, but it is not expected to repeat...
With T-Mobile set for Un-carrier 11, WOTW offers some advice on how the carrier can position the event as a great follow up to Binge On
Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes...
5G coverage and capacity means new infrastructure
With early use cases taking shape as carriers begin trials, RCR Wireless News caught up with IBB Consulting Partner Hillol Roy to get his insight into the likely phased commercialization of "5G" mobile networks.
Roy was on hand in...
Sprint and WorldCom defended their proposed $115B merger to the European Commission, and Palm targets enterprise with HotSync Server … 16 years ago this week
Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines...
On this week’s Carrier Wrap we speak with Signals Research Group to break down the current pace of 5G technology development
With deployment of true “4G” networks still in their infancy, the mobile telecom space has turned its full attention to plans for the next...
EJL Wireless Research just published its new macrocell base station market analysis and forecast research report. The findings indicate the overall market grew by 16% in 2015, and reached record shipment levels with Huawei Technologies still the number one supplier. LTE technology also represented...
7 key takeaways from the Wireless Infrastructure Show
PCIA completed its last Wireless Infrastructure Show. From now on, the annual event will be a production of WIA – The Wireless Infrastructure Association. PCIA has rebranded itself as The wireless Infrastructure Association to better reflect the nature...
Nokia's purchase of Alcatel-Lucent has reduced the number of radio access network equipment makers that supply the major carriers. There are now five major players instead of six. Two are based in Scandinavia, two in China and one in South Korea.
1. Huawei
With $35.3 billion in...
As a wireless analyst, columnist and speaker, I have an opinion on everything. I was going to say everything wireless, but if you ask my kids they would say to leave off the word wireless. I know ... kids. I have used most of...
On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check, we look at using SDN to control workload placement with greater mobility and ROI models
This week’s featured interview is with Cirba where we discuss the use of SDN to control workload placement with greater mobility, hidden benefits of...
Chipset vendor Quantenna is pushing forward with testing capabilities designed to support advanced 802.11ac features in development as well as in large volumes for manufacturing.
Quantenna is continuing two long-standing test vendor relationships as it expands those 802.11 testing capabilities. It is using LitePoint's IQxel-MW for calibration...
WOTW looks at a complaint lodged this week indicating the T-Mobile EIP program is playing loose and free with understandable business models
Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry,...
Mobilitie President Christos Karmis says the company plans to use its own name as it works with cities and counties to develop small cell sites, and will rely less on subsidiary names in the future. Over the past several months, attorneys who represent city governments...
ETSI claims Release 0 from its Open Source MANO initiative unveiled one month ahead of schedule, with Release 1 expected within six months
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute’s Open Source MANO initiative rolled out its Release 0 code package, which it claims integrates seed code...
DALLAS — As we enter an era of on-demand TV anywhere, content creators and distributors are only one part of the equation. Without the wireless infrastructure to make that content available over mobile networks, and at a high-quality, a huge potential audience is unavailable.
That...
Sprint restructure plans progress in move to allow cable split, while Enron moves forward on IoT plans … 18 years ago this week.
Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from...
This week we speak with Wireless 20/20 on the FCC’s 600 MHz auction, which could see record bids from the likes of Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile
Few would argue about the complexity of the Federal Communications Commission’s ongoing 600 MHz incentive auction proceedings, with the...
Wireless Infrastructure Association President and CEO discusses tower trends and emerging workforce skills gap
DALLAS – As evidenced by a rebranding effort emphasizing the infrastructure layer, Wireless Infrastructure Association President and CEO Jonathan Adelstein, who held the same role at the renamed PCIA, stressed the...
In its immediate attempts to right its financial ship, is Sprint hampering its competitive position going forward against rivals Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile?
Time for the third – and last – article on the immediate outlook for Sprint. And in the words of Billy Joel,...
Ralph de la Vega told an investor conference the AT&T SDN and NFV efforts are financially beneficial, enable simultaneous international service launch
AT&T remains one of the telecommunications industry’s most vocal proponents of tapping software for greater control of its network using software-defined networking, network...
T-Mobile commits to small cells as groundwork for 5G
Small cell deployments are proving to be more complex, costly and time consuming in the U.S. than they were in East Asia, but wireless carriers know they need to move forward and are slowly but surely...
DALLAS — Following its formation in 1995 as the Personal Communications Industry Association, the since shortened PCIA is changing its name to the Wireless Infrastructure Association. WIA President and CEO Jonathan Adelstein announced the name rebranding in the opening session of the group's annual conference.
"We consider...
