In this week's infrastructure news, Cisco blames service providers for its lower forecast, Hewlett-Packard partners with Nokia Networks, and Alcatel-Lucent affirms its commitment to router hardware, even as it launches new edge routing software.
Cisco trims forecast as service providers trim capex
Cisco reported record revenue...
The transformation of the Mexican telecom market has begun, following the passage of reform legislation. AT&T's $2.5 billion acquisition of the Mexican operator Iusacell has breathed new life into the market. Although it will not reduce the market share of the dominant player América Móvil (AMX) immediately, AT&T...
SAP has announced two major deals: one with Nokia, to integrate geo-location data from its Here unit into SAP's HANA in-memory data platform, and one with Samsung to develop an enterprise mobility ecosystem based on Samsung mobile devices, including wearables for business applications.
SAP "plans...
Mobility in the enterprise has moved beyond device management to applications and from stand-alone solutions to a full platform approach to mobility, and adoption of custom business apps is exploding, according to the latest quarterly mobility survey from Good Technology.
Custom app adoption in the...
Some of Europe's biggest carriers, including Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica, Orange and Telecom Italia, reported quarterly earnings that beat expectations, leading to renewed optimism about a market recovery in Europe.
“You have further weight to the theme that European wireless is recovering,” Guy Peddy, an analyst with Macquarie...
Wi-Fi is a workhorse for the wireless Internet service providers who deliver broadband Internet to places that cable and telco providers do not choose to serve. Wireless Internet service providers (WISPs) typically mount antennas atop communications towers and use wireless radios instead of fiber...
AT&T says capital expenditures related to its existing businesses will be roughly $18 billion next year. The projection was included in the carrier's news of a $2.5 billion deal to buy Mexico's Iusacell. Taken together, the two announcements suggest some AT&T capital expenditures shifting...
Argentina auctioned 10 bands of spectrum and raised about $2.23 billion. The bands auctioned were 850 MHz, 1900 MHz, 1.7/2.1 GHz and 700 MHz. The auction focused on increasing the country's mobile Internet access, including LTE. Four pre-qualified companies bid in the auction: three market incumbents —Telefónica,...
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. RCR Wireless News is keeping an eye on recent developments through its weekly “Software”...
Microsoft clearly values mind share and market share more than software royalties when it comes to mobile, at least in the short term. The software giant is making more features of its ubiquitous Office software available for free on Android and iOS devices. The...
NFV predicted to dominate virtualized space
In a new report, Infonetics Research said it expects the global service provider software-defined networking and network function virtualization market to grow from less than $500 million in sales last year to $11 billion in sales by 2018.
For its...
China’s No. 2 mobile operator China Unicom reported a slowdown in customer growth for its third quarter, a trend echoed by rivals China Mobile and China Telecom.
China Unicom said it added 2.1 million new customers during Q3, which was a fraction of the 10.6...
Stockholm’s thriving technology ecosystem, anchored by giants like Ericsson but also a huge draw for startups, is beginning to draw comparisons to the U.S. hub of innovation in Silicon Valley.
RCR Wireless News recently sat down with three tech leaders to compare and contrast the...
AUSTIN, Texas – High-speed broadband takes on a whole new meaning in the world of Formula 1 racing, where data delivered a second too late can mean the difference between life and death, or between winning and losing. When driver Sebastian Vettel experienced a...
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. RCR Wireless News is keeping an eye on recent developments through its weekly “Software”...
In a move to expand LTE roaming capabilities, Japanese telecom giant NTT DoCoMo announced that it has installed Oracle Communications’ diameter signaling router platform.
Oracle explained that the router will allow the carrier to rapidly launch services to leverage its LTE network infrastructure, with a...
AT&T continues to counter T-Mobile US’ requests that the Federal Communications Commission move forward with clarifying the “commercially reasonable” standard in its 2011 data roaming rule.
Joan Marsh, VP of federal regulatory at AT&T, noted in a recent blog post that roaming rates T-Mobile US...
A new survey of business leaders found that enterprise employees will probably have to learn more about data-based decision-making for their companies.
The survey, sponsored by SAP and conducted by Wakefield Research, found that 86% of enterprise decision-makers believe that "all employees in a company will...
Increasing consumer demand for mobile data services is a boon for the backhaul space as mobile operators and their infrastructure partners look to stay ahead of potential bottlenecks in the system.
The preferred method of meeting this demand is through the use of optical fiber...
Vietnamese-owned Viettel Group last week officially launched its Bitel-branded mobile service in Peru. The operator, the fourth entrant into the market, launched with a 3G network that it said covers 80% of the nation with mobile broadband service.
Viettel in early 2013 initially launched technical...
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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. RCR Wireless News is keeping an eye on recent developments through its weekly “Software”...
CHICAGO – Cisco Systems is a big proponent of the boldly dubbed “Internet of Things,” which was also the topic of its recent event in Chicago. As a company set to power many of these “things” expected to be connected through the IoT, it...
SÃO PAULO — Speaking at this week’s Futurecom event, TIM Brasil CEO Rodrigo Abreu said that the move from voice to data is changing the role of carriers and their future relies on understanding that providing connectivity is only the tip of the iceberg.
“We must understand how...
