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....
AT&T CEO says legal action imminent
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Federal Communications Commission has yet to release its long-awaited net neutrality recommendations on whether to enact Title II regulations in regard to the Internet.
Yet, the legal wrangling is already beginning. AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said...
TIM Brasil's gross revenue fell 1.5% in the fourth quarter of 2014 compared to the same quarter of 2013 and decreased 2.2% year-over-year for 2014. However, earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization increased 6.4% in 2014 when compared to the previous year. During Q4, EBITDA...
Network function virtualization is set to disrupt several parts of the wireless ecosystem, and Accedian Networks is determined to be ahead of the curve. The network monitoring and assurance specialist said it has launched the industry’s first performance assurance controller using NFV to replace...
The number of LTE device manufacturers has more than doubled within the last year, according to the latest data from the Global Mobile Suppliers Association. There are 275 companies now making LTE devices, and the number of different devices on the market is up...
After buying most of French operator SFR from Vivendi in November, Altice is now back for the rest. The company, owned by billionaire Patrick Drahi, announced an offer to purchase Vivendi's remaining 20% stake in the merged Numericable-SFR. Altice will pay 46 cents per share which...
NetScout and Gartner continue to battle over Gartner's Magic Quadrant vendor ratings, and while the related court case slowly proceeds, the most recent report has fanned the flames.
NetScout initially filed a lawsuit against Gartner last August, alleging that the analyst firm's Magic Quadrant ratings...
NFV service orchestration platform targets carrier deployments
Oracle Communications recently unveiled its Network Service Orchestration Solution, targeting one of the greater challenges facing mobile network operators as they make plans toward virtualizing parts of their operations using network function virtualization and software-defined networking technology.
Oracle stated...
Nokia Networks announcement ahead of Mobile World Congress
Nokia Networks announced a cloud-based network architecture targeting telecom operators designed for dynamic allocation of resources using existing transport and access infrastructure. The platform includes the Nokia Radio Cloud, Nokia Cloud Security Director, a commercially available Nokia...
Many of you have called/written me about the general chatter regarding regulatory changes proposed by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler. The telecom industry needs to take Aaron Rodgers’ advice and “r-e-l-a-x.” While it is strangely undemocratic that the FCC chairman would be very...
CommScope's ION-U simplifies DAS troubleshooting in Europe
Today CommScope announced the ION-U for European markets. By supporting the five frequency bands common to Europe in a single solution, the deployment of indoor and outdoor distributed antenna systems in Europe should be less complicated and costly.
One...
T-Mobile and Sprint make marked improvements
Nationwide mobile networks are being improved by carriers and resulting in improved customer experience, according to test and measurement firm Rootmetrics, which picks Verizon as the best carrier in the United States.
Rootmetrics released its “U.S. Mobile Network Performance Review”...
Heddoko was one of the companies demonstrating their solution at the Munich Wearable Technologies conference and also one of the Innovation World Cup finalists in the sports and fitness category. RCR Wireless News had the opportunity to record a video overview of their technology...
COBI was one of the companies demonstrating its wearables solution at the Munich Wearable Technologies conference, and also one of the Innovation World Cup finalists in the lifestyle category. RCR Wireless News had the opportunity to record a video overview of their technology while at...
It’s no secret that this was the year of the wearables and “Internet of Things” at CES. From new smartwatches, to baby monitoring teddy bears, app-controlled hearing aids and smart collars for Fido; it seems that everyone’s trying to take a bite out of...
In the test and measurement world this week, Keysight Technologies' T3111S system for near-field communications conformance testing was chosen by China Telecom Corporation Test labs in Guangzhou, China, for its lab there. The system focuses on radio frequency and protocol measurements for NFC, which is a...
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....
The OpenDaylight Project announced the availability of 14 internships as part of its 2015 Internship Program. The offer is said to provide “real-world development experience” targeting the software-defined networking and network function virtualization fields, which OpenDaylight noted had more than 100 job openings at companies...
Italian Embassy hosts Digital Diplomacy panel discussions
WASHINGTON – Since late 2012, diplomats at the Italian Embassy in Washington, D.C., have hosted a series of events called Digital Diplomacy.
The goal of the series is to engage, in an academic setting across multiple schools of thought, about the...
MUNICH – This week, Munich was home to the 14th annual Wearable Technologies Conference – Europe. There was a large showing of participants ranging from startups still in the funding phase, to well-established, large organizations. Many industries were touched upon – fitness, health care,...
Antonio Carlos Valente, the president of Telefónica Vivo, said the company is waiting for a decision from the Administrative Council for Economic Defense before moving forward with integrating GVT's operations. Telefónica bought GVT last year from the French group Vivendi.
Speaking with members of the press during the Campus Party...
"Roam like home" is the promise that some European operators make to their customers, who cross national borders more frequently than do their North American counterparts. But few of these operators are ready to completely eliminate all roaming fees, despite a European Parliament mandate...
VimpelCom selling Djezzy for $2.6B
While other carriers look for mergers and acquisitions in Europe, two major Dutch telecoms are shrinking their asset portfolios.
VimpelCom recently announced it is selling its 51% stake in Algeria's Djezzy for $2.6 billion. The Amsterdam-based telco and its subsidiary Global Telecom Holding...
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 of new products and...
