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The Linux Foundation’s recently launched Open Platform for NFV Project expanded its membership role as well as announced a director to head up the OPNFV plans to provide a “carrier-grade, integrated, open source reference platform intended to accelerate the introduction …

Regional telecom operator Ntelos expanded the reach of its LTE network to more than 81,000 potential wireless customers in portions of Roanoke, Va., and Charleston, W.Va. The expansion included enabling LTE services on 26 cell sites. The service expansion is …

First in Europe to auction 700 MHz band Germany’s Federal Network Agency, which regulates the telecommunications, utilities, postal and railway industries, announced it would conduct a spectrum auction in the 700 MHz range in May and June. The news came …

China Mobile developing 5G technology China Mobile has started developing “5G” technologies. A senior executive of the company made the announcement during a development forum over the weekend. China Mobile beat rivals China Unicom and China Telecom in 4G by …

Hotel fined $600,000 for jamming Wi-Fi hot spots After being fined $600,000 for jamming a guest’s personal Wi-Fi hot spot, Marriott Hotel Services will not press a petition against the Federal Communications Commission, which took a firm position on the …

I had the opportunity to speak with Todd Greene, founder and CEO of PubNub about real-time data streams. The company is about 5 years old and offers almost instant access to data for social applications, gaming, home automation and automotive …

Test and Measurement News: JDSU revenue impacted in Q2 JDSU reported a net loss of $25 million for its most recent quarter, with its revenue impacted by less carrier spending, according to a statement by CEO Tom Waechter. Revenue was $437.1 …

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 …

Defining the industry connected car landscape was challenging. It started with the very first question for the interview participants: What category would you describe yourself as within the connected car landscape? Thinking this would be an easy question, many respondents considered it …

Sky set to add mobile to platform beginning in 2016 U.K.-based satellite television provider Sky said it plans to add mobile services to its portfolio through a mobile virtual network operator agreement with Telefónica UK, which offers wireless services under …

Two big moves by large carriers within a single week will bring big changes to Latin American wireless markets. AT&T’s announcement that it will acquire Nextel Mexico showed how the U.S.-based carrier plans to expand its operations further in the country after its purchase of Iusacell. “AT&T announced …

2015 was supposed to be the year that EU roaming charges went away. It’s been delayed again – say it isn’t so. As a mobile operator I can see them jumping for joy, but as a consumer and business traveler I …

Auction 97 bidding activity slow, but continues The Federal Communications Commission’s ongoing spectrum auction continues to defy predictions of its demise as bidders continue to put up at least a handful of new bids per round. Through round 320 this …

SK Telecom and Nokia Networks claim first commercialization of EICIC SK Telecom announced Wednesday that it, along with Nokia Networks, has commercialized “enhanced inter-cell interference coordination,” as part of the LTE-Advanced technology standard. EICIC is designed to control signal interference between …

Telekom Austria has announced a partnership with Porsche Holding Salzburg in order to provide a broader solution set in the telematics arena. The machine-to-machine space isn’t new for Telekom Austria, which created a separate division to focus on M2M more than four …

Bharti Airtel partners with Nokia Networks to launch 4G services in India’s first FDD-LTE on 1800 MHz Bharti Airtel has announced that it is partnering with Nokia Networks to expand its 4G presence using Nokia Networks’ radio network. The deal …

The data-threat landscape continues to gain sophistication. With every solution launched to protect our data, there seems to be a new tactic in play to undermine that protection. F-Secure is working hard to stay ahead of the criminals, hackers and espionage …

Huawei NFV lab will focus on multivendor interoperability Huawei recently opened a new lab in Xi’an, China, focused on developing multivendor integration verification capabilities for network function virtualization. The lab is said to be an expansion of Huawei’s move to …

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 …

LTE-Advanced testing continues to make progress across the ecosystem. In this week’s test and measurement news: • Anritsu said that its ME7873L RF/RRM conformance test system has received Global Certification Forum approval for more than 80% of radio frequency and …

World Economic Forum: Vodafone CEO questions if spectrum should be free Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao raised questions surrounding spectrum at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, Thursday. Colao reportedly compared spectrum to oxygen and water, and questioned if there is …

Even though the use of white space is not regulated in Brazil, the WhiteSpace Alliance is conducting a pilot test to check its availability for potential broadband use. White space is frequency that is assigned for television broadcasting but not fully utilized. …

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy …

AOptix uses lasers for wireless communications Michael Klayko, former CEO of Brocade Communications Systems, was tapped as new CEO of California-based AOptix Technologies. AOptix uses laser radio technology to support high-capacity wireless data transport. “AOptix’s highly differentiated product offerings have …

End-users expect to be able to access their desired content – fully personalized social media such as Facebook, YouTube videos or Netflix – on whatever device they happen to be using, wherever they are, whenever they want. Increasingly, those devices are smartphones …