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#TBT: AT&T throttles unlimited data; Verizon cuts 3,000 jobs; New iPad … this week in 2012

AT&T begin throttling unlimited data customers at 3 GB, Verizon closes call centers and Apple launches New iPad … 4 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...

5G focus at MWC; Sprint brings back service contracts

This week’s Carrier Wrap looks at 5G news coming out of MWC and Sprint brings back service contracts The recent Mobile World Congress event was chock-a-block full of news surrounding the ongoing development of “5G” technology. Vendors and carriers alike were bullish on their plans...

Ooredoo posts $2.18B in Q4 revenues

Ooredoo ended 2015 with 117 million customers Qatar-based telecom group Ooredoo posted QAR 7.97 billion ($2.18 billion) in fourth quarter revenues, down from QAR 8.37 billion in the same quarter last year. The group’s net profits for the quarter totaled QAR 360 million, an increase of...

Amdocs targets growth in APAC, Latin America

Amdocs aims to reach double-digit growth across target regions in 2016 North America remains the key market for Amdocs despite increasing growth from other emerging markets, according to Vincent Rousselet, VP for customer insight and strategy at the company. According to the company’s latest financial report, North America...

Securing Wi-Fi’s future

Xirrus wants to make Wi-Fi as secure and reliable as LTE Most of us have seen headlines that say Americans value Wi-Fi more than food, friends and sex, at least in the short term. But if you read beyond the headlines, people actually value a...

Redknee enables industrial IoT smart city, energy billing, charging and analytics

Redknee is an IIoT technology enablement platform processing 3 billion to 4 billion transactions every hour Redknee Solutions (TSX: RKN) CEO Lucas Skoczkowski provides RCR Wireless News with an overview of how Redknee enables industrial IoT solutions as well as an update on the progress the company...

How the industry is addressing small cell deployment challenges

Issues of site acquisition, backhaul and power have been significant small cell deployment challenges, but the industry is starting to get a better handle on how to address them – and as a result, small cell deployments began to ramp up in 2015, with...

Nokia, EE demo MEC technology supporting live video

Firms explain the MEC demo taps edge video orchestration to support streaming content Nokia Networks and U.K.-based operator EE demonstrated a pair of mobile edge computing-enabled services run over a MEC-enabled network at the recent Mobile World Congress event. The demonstrations included the use of edge...

Telefónica Q4 revenues flat year-over-year

Net loss of 1.83 billion euro in Q4 due to extraordinary factors Spanish telecom giant Telefónica recorded 11.88 billion euro ($12.98 billion) in fourth quarter 2015 revenue, flat compared to the year-ago period. The company’s net loss for the quarter reached 1.83 billion euro, compared...

6 predictions for the small cell market

The small cell market has seen its share of ups and downs in the past few years, with initial hype for the technology not panning out as quickly as many had hoped. But 2015 seems to have been a turning point for small cells,...

OpenDaylight releases Beryllium SDN open source platform

Beryllium is the fourth platform release from OpenDaylight targeting open source SDN In keeping with its periodic table-inspired naming architecture, the OpenDaylight Project recently rolled out its latest open source platform under the Beryllium name. The platform, which targets programmability for software-defined networks, is the...

Worst of the Week: Apple, it’s time to one-up Samsung

WOTW gives full props to Samsung for taking lucky No. 7, but really hopes it draws a snarky response from Apple Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so...

NATE Unite 2016

The National Association of Tower Erectors' annual conference is always a good opportunity to take the tower industry's pulse, and this year attendees reported record turnouts in New Orleans despite the fact the Mobile World Congress event occurred at the same time in Barcelona,...

ETSI taps open source software for MANO specs

ETSI said it has tasked its OSM group to use open source software for MANO tied to NFV The European Telecommunications Standards Institute this week said it have begun work on using open source software for management and orchestration of network functions virtualization in connection...

Verizon, KT, SK Telecom, NTT DoCoMo launch 5G initiative

Alliance set to focus on 5G trial specification BARCELONA, Spain – Korean operators KT and SK Telecom, Japanese telco NTT DoCoMo and U.S. mobile carrier Verizon Wireless formed the 5G Open Trial Specification Alliance targeted at developing an aligned "5G" trial specification designed to serve...

What role can signal boosters play in small cell networks?

Cellular signal boosters have often been viewed as consumer product nuisances that can cause major interference to mobile operators’ networks. However, operators have sometimes made use of so-called “industrial” signal boosters: rural operators have used them to enhance their coverage in areas with few...

Flat sales push Samsung to expand ecosystem; Galaxy S7 to hit LatAm in March

Samsung expects strong push with Galaxy S7 devices into LatAm despite flat overall sales BARCELONA, Spain – Samsung’s new Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge smartphones are schedule to be available for sale across Latin American countries by the end of March, Andre Varga, product engineering...

Zuckerberg: Facebook’s mission is to connect everyone

BARCELONA, Spain – Claiming everybody should have access to the Internet, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg discussed projects his company is working on designed to provider greater access to the Web. “Facebook’s mission is to connect everyone in the world,” Zuckerberg said during a speech at this...

IoT race heats up at MWC 2016

Carriers race against dedicated low-power networks BARCELONA, Spain – Mobile World Congress is all about the newest wireless technologies, but this year the end of an old technology is driving conversations around the "Internet of Things." Second-generation networks are being decommissioned to make room for...

SK Telecom, Nokia demonstrate 20 Gbps speeds

Korean telco plans to unveil 5G device prototype BARCELONA, Spain – Korean operator SK Telecom and Nokia Networks claimed a network test resulting in over-the-air transmission speeds of 20.5 gigabits per second at this week's Mobile World Congress event. SK Telecom said the test meets...

NGENA: service providers announce network alliance at MWC

NGENA aims to launch services in early 2017; comprises Deutsche Telekom, Reliance Jio, SK Telecom and more BARCELONA, Spain – CenturyLink, Deutsche Telekom, Reliance Jio Infocomm and SK Telecom announced their Next Generation Enterprise Network Alliance during this week's Mobile World Congress event. The alliance plans...

ZTE expects to sell ‘pre-5G’ tech in Asia, Europe this year

'Pre-5G' initiatives include massive MIMO, UDN and MUSA BARCELONA, Spain – Chinese vendor ZTE said it expects to market "pre-5G" technology in certain parts of Asia and Europe this year. “This year, 'pre-5G' is the key technology,” said Zhang Jianguo, GM of ZTE's wireless product operation division, just...

Drones deliver data for cell tower industry

Drone operators from other industries look to cell towers for new business The cell tower industry is just one of many that could be transformed by unmanned aerial systems, more commonly known as drones. Many of us think first of Amazon.com when we think of...

Worst of the Week: Sprint, maybe it’s time to take a breath

WOTW loves what Sprint is doing, but for its own good thinks maybe it's time to sit out a few plays Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so...