The First Responders Network Authority board has issued a draft request for proposal outlining significant details of potential plans for the national LTE network for public safety that it has been tasked with building and operating.
The draft RFP, posted yesterday, is the latest move...
A conversation with Steve Hratko, director of service provider marketing, Ruckus Wireless
Download a transcript of the complete interview and the complete report.
There are two dimensions that are crucial to the deployment and success of LTE in the 5 GHz unlicensed band: spectrum and site...
Carriers are planning their investments in HetNets carefully as they balance the need for more coverage and capacity with pressure on the top line created by incessant data price wars. Investments must be made to satisfy current network demands while anticipating future developments, including...
Carriers are planning their investments in HetNets carefully as they balance the need for more coverage and capacity with pressure on the top line created by incessant data price wars. Investments must be made to satisfy current network demands while anticipating future developments, including...
OpenCloud touts "the power of open." Being open is an important concept, but is not necessarily a new topic. Consider the context in which "open" plays a role in this specific discussion.
Networks today are pretty much standardized. Although services are different from a packaging...
Cell tower would be 75-feet tall, disguised as evergreen tree
AT&T wants to build a 75-foot-tall cellphone tower adjacent to a Eugene, Ore., church, but local residents and officials are pushing back against the carrier’s capital ambitions.
The wrangling has been going on four weeks and involves...
The telecom industry has buzzed about small cell technology for years, but as the race toward 5G and ultra-dense metros speeds up, small cell is just now becoming a viable part of heterogeneous network deployments.
Take Cleveland, for example. In that market, Verizon Communications has...
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A conversation with Narayan Menon, CTO and EVP of Engineering, XCellAir discussing a shared solution to manage Wi-Fi and LTE unlicensed traffic.
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XCellAir a spinoff from InterDigital announced in February 2015, provides a shared solution...
Merger puts pressure on Ericsson to step up its wired and optical portfolio
With the recent $16.5 billion merger of Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent, telecom industry watchers are speculating that Ericsson and Juniper Networks (JNPR) could soon be making merger news.
The pending acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent would...
The Brazilian telco market had total revenue of $77.24 billion in 2014, an equivalent of 4.2% of the country's GDP.
All together, telco operators invested $9.57 billion last year; if the acquisition of spectrum licenses is concluded, the total rises to $11.42 billion.
The country ended 2014...
Analyst: Combined company better suited to compete against Ericsson, Huawei
Nokia officials confirmed on April 14 that the Finnish company is in “advanced discussions” with Alcatel-Lucent on a potential purchase of the rival networking firm.
Nokia released the statement following numerous media reports that suggested Nokia is...
In a previous post on RCR Wireless News, we discussed near-far and its “Effect on In-Building DAS Performance.” Near-Far is a term describing performance reduction when a mobile device is operating within a distributed antenna system's coverage area, but is being serviced by a distant macro cell tower.
Near-Far...
Wi-Fi is in place and DAS in the works for Rust Belt fans
With a deployment just in time for the kick-off of baseball season, Major League Baseball officials completed installation of a free public Wi-Fi network in Comerica Park, home of the Detroit Tigers.
Building...
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration is suspending the funding for the Los Angeles Regional Interoperable Communications System's LTE project that utilizes 700 Mhz Band 14 spectrum, one of five pilot projects across the country that are aimed at providing a foundation for the...
Pilot of Project Ara set for Puerto Rico
Google plans to launch its Project Ara, a modular, customizable smartphone platform, later this year in Puerto Rico, partnering with Ingram Micro Mobility on forward logistics.
Google describes Project Ara on its website as: “The smartphone is one...
JMA Wireless upgrades distributed antenna system product line
JMA Wireless upgraded its distributed antenna system portfolio to include multi-input, multi-output functionality, which serves to increase data throughput.
The upgraded Omni-MIMO ceiling-mounted unit is equipped with two 698-2700 MHz X-Pol antennas, which are PIM certified for up to...
ITC to look into Ericsson vs. Apple patent infringement
The Ericsson vs. Apple battle escalated again with the agreement by the U.S. International Trade Commission to investigate Ericsson's claims that the iPhone maker infringed on its LTE technology patents.
The companies have been at odds since the...
Ericsson and SK Telecom plan 5G demo at 2018 Winter Olympics
With commercial availability of 5G cellular networks projected for 2020 – the same year analysts expect there will be some 50 billion connected devices – Ericsson is ramping up investment in research and development that looks beyond...
Sequans announces Verizon-certified LTE modules
Sequans new Colibri LTE chipset, along with two of the French company’s LTE modules, designed for "Internet of Things" and machine-to-machine deployments have been certified as carrier grade by Verizon Wireless.
The new Colibri chipset is rated category four, meaning it...
China Mobile network build-out contributed to profit loss
China Mobile, which reported a 10% decrease in profits for 2014, plans to cut back on its capital expenditures for 2015.
In 2014, China Mobile, the largest carrier in China and the world, spent big on expanding its...
Nokia radio access equipment covered by 7-year agreement
Russian carrier MegaFon will expand its LTE footprint through a 7-year deal with Nokia Networks, which will provide the mobile network operator with radio access equipment.
Nokia and MegaFon announced the agreement on March 11. MegaFon subscribers in...
LAS VEGAS – The early pioneers in public safety LTE broadband shared some of their experiences in a panel discussion at IWCE 2015, and some of their pain points – probably unsurprisingly – sounded like those of commercial mobile operators, including opposition to tower siting impacting...
ExteNet providing hardware for $32.5M upgrade
Distributed antenna system vendor ExteNet Systems will contribute to the Chicago Transit Authority’s project to bring 4G LTE to the Windy City’s subway.
City leaders announced the project back in February; the DAS will cover the blue and red lines...
Carrier Aggregation is now widely deployed as a key LTE-Advanced technique for exploiting fragmented spectrum, increasing peak data rates and improving network capacity. In this webinar we will examine the evolution from two to three carriers and beyond.
You will gain insights into:
• The...
