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Portuguese authorities said they conducted a search of Portugal Telecom’s offices as part of a fraud investigation. Newspaper Diaro Economico reported that the PT shareholder assembly to approve the sale of …

Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA for RCR Wireless News, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and security. Having experience as an operator, software and hardware vendor and as …

Verizon Wireless recently held a job fair in the Rochester, N.Y., area, looking to fill up to 300 positions at a Henrietta-based call center. According to the Rochester Business Journal, …

LAS VEGAS – Looking to bring the shipping industry into the 21st century, Ericsson launched its Maritime ICT Cloud platform designed to provide an end-to-end solution targeting connectivity and tracking …

LAS VEGAS – As wireless network equipment becomes smaller and less expensive, the Consumer Electronics Show is increasingly important to providers of cellular network infrastructure. Ericsson says CES is a “huge …

NTT DoCoMo plans foreclosure action NTT DoCoMo is threatening to foreclose on former partner Tata Sons’ assets if the company fails to buy back its stake in Tata Teleservices. Tata …

Smart solutions are being used for a range of projects in Europe, from the fantastical—like Van Gogh-inspired bike path in the Netherlands (above) to the very practical—smart meters, smoke detectors and trash …

Editor’s Note: With 2015 now upon us, RCR Wireless News has gathered predictions from leading industry analysts and executives on what they expect to see in the new year. Who’s …

Editor’s Note: With 2015 now upon us, RCR Wireless News has gathered predictions from leading industry analysts and executives on what they expect to see in the new year. There’s …

Software QA and testing company A1QA provides workforce insight Software is increasingly becoming an integral part of modern telecom equipment, which has put a greater emphasis on companies finding qualified …

Smartphones are now practically everywhere, having penetrated the consumer and enterprise markets early on and are now taking aim at the ruggedized environments. A handful of such devices have been …

Is Xiaomi the world’s most valuable tech startup? Xiaomi, the Chinese hardware company that recently cracked the top five for smartphone vendors, raised $1.1 billion in new funding. Xiaomi co-founder …

Hadoop is expected to continue to grow in 2015, with more companies building smart applications that use the data-sifting, open-source software platform. In a report, Forrester predicts Hadoop will become …

Telecom giant reportedly poaches SDN leader Inder Gopal from IBM Ericsson bolstered its support of software-defined networking technology, with reports indicating the infrastructure giant has hired Inder Gopal, OpenDaylight Project founding …

China Unicom 4G focus in 2015 China Unicom’s subscriber base continues to slow. In November, the carrier registered fewer than 1.1 million 3G and 4G users, the lowest number in more …

Looking back at 2014 regulatory issues, ahead to 2015 challenges The telecommunications industry has kept the federal government plenty busy over the past year with a pair of spectrum auctions, …

AT&T announced that its board of directors has approved a 2.2% increase in the company’s quarterly dividend, which means a quarterly increase from 46 cents to 47 cents per share, …

With the anticipated end of the U.S. embargo against Cuba, telecommunication services are expected to increase, bringing the country into the 21st century. The general expectation is that Internet access will grow since the U.S. …

Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA for RCR Wireless News, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and security. Having experience as an operator, software and hardware vendor and as …

Mobile giant Vodafone has joined forces with JCDecaux, the largest outdoor advertising company in the world, to increase network connectivity by deploying small cells on billboards, benches and other outdoor …

Amazon rainforest to join 4G LTE lineup Telecom giant Ericsson is working with Telefonica’s subsidiary in Peru to connect schools, health care centers and other rural parts of the Amazon …

Software is becoming an increasingly important part of telecommunication networks and deployments as both wired and wireless carriers look to add functionality to operations while increasing simplicity and reducing costs. …

Tech research firm Ovum is forecasting telecom capital expenditures over the next five years will top $2 trillion. In the United States, Ovum tallied some $364 billion in capex this …

A new mobile app will be available in 2015 from the International Telecommunications Union outlining the relationship between electromagnetic fields and health, and lays out internationally agreed-upon guidelines and standards for development …

Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA for RCR Wireless News, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and security. Having experience as an operator, software and hardware vendor and as …