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Is Sprint searching...
French telco reportedly eyeing KPN and Proximus
French telecommunications group Orange is eyeing potential acquisitions in the European market with Dutch telecom services provider KPN and Belgium telco Proximus Group among the targeted firms, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.
However, the...
A forward looking report on tech trends from Ericsson ConsumerLabs found survey respondents think artificial intelligence will replace smartphones – and do so in just five years.
The Ericsson Consumer Insight Summary Report, compiled by the Swedish telecom equipment vendors ConsumerLabs division, is representative of...
5G caught telecom's imagination in 2015, as the wireless industry began chasing its dreams of what next-generation networks will look like. 5G technologies aren't expected to be in commercial deployment until at least the 2020 timeframe, but significant progress is expected to come in 2016 to begin...
Complementary coexistence or incongruous competitor?
The making of mobile standards can be a convoluted business. There's the pure technology aspect, but that's often just the tip of the iceberg. Underneath lies a pile of patent issues, lobbying efforts, regional requirements and political motives. In the...
Both Rohde & Schwarz and Keysight Technologies announced 5G testing advancements this week, reflecting the industry's increased push toward research and development of the technology as operators and equipment vendors experiment with new capabilities and speeds for the next generation of wireless networks.
Keysight and...
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 at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
Tower ownership can be a risky endeavor, but it can also deliver hefty profits for those who know how to properly allocate their resources and build strong relationships with carriers.
On this weeks Cell Tower News show, Alex Gellman, co-founder and CEO of Vertical Bridge,...
Accelerated OpenStack adoption cited in move; benefits include lower costs
The Linux Foundation continued its push in support of open source standards, announcing an online training course targeting OpenStack software.
The training course, dubbed “OpenStack Administration Fundamentals,” is said to be a self-paced course designed...
Topics for this week's Carrier Wrap include dissecting the ongoing Sprint and T-Mobile battle, and tips for IoT
On this week's "Carrier Wrap," RCR Wireless News Editor-in-Chief Dan Meyer and Managing Editor Sean Kinney dig into the ongoing marketing battle between Sprint and T-Mobile US...
As the "Internet of Things" continues to develop, with industrial applications leading the way, new chipsets are set to allow IoT devices to connect to the Verizon LTE network.
The chipsets developed to support IoT connections to the Verizon Wireless LTE network were developed by...
Apple is stealing users from rival Android in record numbers, according to a new report from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners. The report found 26% of consumers who bought the iPhone 6s in the first month it was released were former Android users. That is...
As demand for video and next-generation services increases, content needs to live one hop from the end user
Global telecommunications networks are fundamentally changing to keep up with consumer demand for mobile data. Information centric networking or ICN, which envisions bringing content servers closer to...
Qualcomm has been laying out its vision for a "5G" world in recent weeks, including a workshop in San Diego focused on its 5G vision that included demonstrating a 28 GHz millimeter wave system.
Rasmus Hellberg, senior director of technical marketing for Qualcomm, spoke at the event...
Linux Foundation notes collaborative SDN and NFV efforts at upcoming show
The Linux Foundation is adding the Open Networking Summit to its event portfolio beginning with the next show scheduled for March 14 in Santa Clara, California.
The ONS was initially started by companies focused on...
Congratulations, Sprint. In 2015 you are the most-improved network provider in quality, speed and reach in a growing number of areas from coast to coast. While there is still quite a bit of work to do, if Sprint stays on track, it could become one...
WASHINGTON – Next-generation "5G" mobile networks remain years away from standardization, but the lack of formal definitions and speculation hasn’t deterred major international interest and investment.
In the U.S., the four major carriers – Verizon Wireless, AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile US and Sprint – have...
ITU harmonizes 700 MHz for global mobile broadband
The International Telecommunications Union is wrapping up its month-long World Radiocommunications Conference in Geneva this week and has officially harmonized the use of 700 MHz spectrum for global mobile broadband use.
The ITU works on global spectrum issues and satellite orbits...
Mexico telecom regulator Federal Institute of Telecommunications unveiled rules for an upcoming auction of spectrum in the 1700/2100 MHz AWS bands specifically geared toward the deployment of LTE networks. The regulator plans to auction 80 megahertz of spectrum, divided into eight national blocks, three of which...
TBR report cites increased customer adoption of SDN indicates technology ‘here to stay’
The enterprise market and continued adoption of open standards is driving the maturation of the software-defined networking market, according to a recent report from Technology Business Research.
In its findings, TBR noted maturing...
LTE continues to evolve and present new challenges and opportunities, even as the industry begins to chase "5G" dreams. At last week's LTE North America event, both the current state of LTE features as well as new evolutions within mobile networks and the trends...
Verizon Wireless lists a range of newer tech workforce skills with potential
The telecom market today is straining to fill positions across the board, with recent government numbers showing the telecom unemployment rate in October hitting its lowest point of the year, and significantly down...
Enterprises want to focus on business value, not IT infrastructure
Google is one of the largest server manufacturers in the world and among the four big players in the cloud-computing/datacenter space. In a recent presentation, Craig Box, global lead for Google Compute go-to-market, gave a...
A big challenge to deploying telecom infrastructure is access to fiber optic cabling – sometimes cables just aren't available where infrastructure needs to be in order to provide end users the value to justify the capital expenditure.
The United Kingdom town of Chesham took a novel approach...
