This week’s Carrier Wrap looks at Sprint network plans and financial results
Following a rough week on Wall Street, Sprint this week provided a bit of clarity on its network plans as part of the release of its third fiscal quarter results. Those details were...
Roger Entner dissects Sprint as a viable carrier, finds hope in need of focus
Sprint had a good subscriber quarter with an extremely aggressive pricing plan offering 50% off competitor pricing plans, guaranteeing the low prices until 2018. Sprint is basically buying customers. Nothing wrong...
Sprint is reportedly laying off 2,500 people, while at the same time posting more than 1,300 job openings on its website. Sprint's website lists job openings for retail sales associates in Sprint-owned stores and in RadioShack stores, as well as openings for RF engineers,...
Verizon LTE small cell said to cover up to 31,500 square feet, 42 concurrent users
Verizon Wireless’ continued push into small cell technology now includes a deal with Samsung Electronics to offer a LTE “network extender” for enterprise customers.
The device is designed to support mid-sized...
Iain Gillott from iGR breaks down Sprint network plans and does not like what he sees
Much has been written and speculated in the last week about Sprint’s network plans after the publication of a Re/Code article and the plan to significantly cut network expenses....
Telecom Italia currently owns 60% of telecom infrastructure firm Inwit
A consortium comprising Spanish operator Cellnex and Italian infrastructure fund F2i is the front-runner to buy 45% of Italian telecom tower operator Inwit, controlled by Telecom Italia, Reuters reports.
Earlier this month, Telecom Italia said it...
New solutions to be based on SK Telecom ThingPlug platform
SK Telecom inked an agreement with networking giant Cisco Systems to develop new solutions for "Internet of Things" technology, The Korea Herald reported.
Under terms of the agreement, the two companies will develop new solutions combining...
WOTW looks at this week's Sprint network news and T-Mobile encouraging early morning drinking
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 this column is a chance for us...
The global data center market is expected to grow into a $22.73 billion business, according to research firm Research and Markets. The study predicts between 2015 and 2019, the industry will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 9.3%. Migration to cloud technologies...
As software-defined network architectures move into the mainstream, a number of challenges and trends are emerging. RCR Wireless News asked Roark Pollock, VP of solutions marketing for Ixia, to weigh in on the company's perspective on momentum in the SDN and network functions virtualization market,...
AUSTIN, Texas – Market outlook for small cells deployments, in both the enterprise and carrier segments, was a major point of discussion during Verizon's In Building Technology Users Forum; SpiderCloud Wireless director of enterprise services Art King spoke with RCR Wireless News about the...
Retailers this week are focusing on the relationships among mobile and big data analytics at the National Retail Federation show, with the mobile experience and retail analytics particularly expected to impact retail trends.
"Mobile shopping continues to grow in its reach and breadth," said Carolyn...
VC investments and M&A activity topped $600 million across NFV and SDN space last year
Venture capital funding is increasingly finding its way into the virtualized software space, with firms specializing in network functions virtualization and software-defined networking garnering hundreds of millions of dollars in...
Stagnant growth in IT infrastructure investment to drive data center colocation market
Information technology infrastructure is expensive. No matter how much data continues to transition to the cloud, it still needs a place to live in the analog world. With spending on IT infrastructure expected...
A deep dive into Sprint network overhaul reports, AT&T’s unlimited data and the future of FirstNet
Lots of news this week, and we will cover two pieces (AT&T Mobility’s unlimited pricing plans and Sprint’s rumored network architecture changes) prior to analyzing the opportunity presented by...
HetNet Happenings Episode 45 looks at chipsets with Altair Semiconductor, Imagination Technologies and Nvidia
The 2016 CES event placed a huge emphasis on the "Internet of Things" and how IoT technology is poised to revolutionize consumer, enterprise and industrial markets.
But the problem with CES (because...
CES 2016 Internet of Things (IoT) musings from the IoT Innovation gang.
Listen in as Sean Kinney, Managing Editor - RCR Wireless News; Chris Hare, CEO - nTeTe; and Steve Brumer, Partner - 151 Advisors, share CES 2016 Internet of Things (IoT) highlights with IoT Innovations...
On this week’s show we speak with Sonus on NFV and SDN trends we saw in 2015 and what to expect in 2016
For this week’s featured interview, we spoke with Myk Konrad, VP of go-to-market for Sonus, to get his insight into the major...
T-Mobile US' new Binge On streaming video offering has reduced video data rates compared to non-Binge On video watching before the service was launched, according to new data from P3 Group.
"The T-Mobile customer video data rate was reduced much less than the maximum bandwidth," P3 Group concluded,...
5 things to know today ...
1. Apple could face an $8 billion tax bill, according to an analysis from Bloomberg Intelligence. The iPhone maker has been engaged in an ongoing dispute with tax authorities over its subsidiaries in Ireland. The European Commission says Apple...
T-Mobile CEO Legere apologizes and AT&T offers up unlimited data? 2016 looks like a party!</h2
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 this column is a chance for...
With the emergence of the "Internet of Things" ecosystem, single-mode LTE chips have gained momentum beyond broadband connectivity. Altair Semiconductor has been focusing on single-mode LTE chips for more than a decade and recently opened a new research and development center in Taiwan.
RCR Wireless News...
On this week’s Carrier Wrap we dig into unique government solutions to meet spectrum demand
Consumers’ insatiable demand for mobile data services has wireless carriers scrambling to bolster their networks. This includes the ongoing deployment of new network technologies like small cells as well as...
Continents, cultures linked by subsea fiber optic networks
The world is becoming an increasingly connected place. In this wireless world it’s easy to forget all these connections require hundreds of thousands of kilometers of fiber optic cable to carry terabytes of data across the world’s...
