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Driven by ever-increasing demands for higher data rates, lower latency and higher capacity, cellular radio access technology has advanced dramatically over the past decade.
This paper examines:
Evolution and realities of...
AT&T broadened its international LTE roaming to 13 countries, building on an initiative it began late last year. The carrier said it now offers LTE roaming services across 15 countries.
The latest expansion adds roaming services to Spain, France, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Hong Kong,...
As the mobile industry gears up for one of the biggest events of the year, the industry is buzzing about what new technologies and innovations are going to surface at this year’s Mobile World Congress.
In its simplest form, big data analytics can be broken down into two parts that differentiate it from business intelligence or data warehousing and mining:
Telecommunications providers can now leverage a new big data analytics tool, a spectrum interference and monitoring system, an improved network testing tool and a platform for better deployment of business mobility services.
Editor’s Note: Wireless operators are a busy bunch, and as such RCR Wireless News will attempt to gather some of the important announcements that may slip through the cracks from the world’s largest carriers in a weekly wrap-up. Enjoy!
--T-Mobile US continued to tinker with...
The wireless telecommunications world is set to again descend on Barcelona, Spain, for the annual Mobile World Congress event. The gathering is known as the largest wireless-specific event on the trade show calendar, drawing tens-of-thousands to discern what the market has in store for...
The United States trails 13 countries when it comes to LTE network speeds, according to the latest OpenSignal report. The report found that average LTE network speeds in this country have declined 32% this year. Australia posted the fastest LTE speeds, with an average...
Network policy control solutions provider Sandvine announced that hosted infrastructure and managed services provider ClearSky Technologies will tap into Sandvine’s virtualized Policy Traffic Switch platform. Let’s just call it “hosted squared.”
The agreement calls for ClearSky to use Sandvine’s products to enable carrier customers to...
Telecommunications giant Vodafone said it plans to expand LTE roaming into 18 countries later this year at the same roaming rate it charges for current 3G roaming services. The carrier noted it already offers LTE roaming across its own networks in Greece, Italy, Portugal,...
T-Mobile US expanded its international offering with a new SIM card product targeting the machine-to-machine space. The carrier said the product will eliminate roaming costs for M2M products in the United States and Canada.
T-Mobile noted the product includes both a physical SIM card that...
Cooperation with a competitor – even going so far as to share network resources – is not a scenario that typically would be used to describe the hotly competitive mobile network operator world.
NSN base station supports 300 Mbps LTE-A speeds
Using NSN's Flexi Multiradio 10 base station in combination with Broadcom Category 6 LTE-A user equipment, Finnish carrier Elisa has demonstrated speeds of up to 300Mbps on a live commercial network. That's almost six times as fast...
It was a busy week in test and measurement, with a number of new products and upgrades, as well as technological advances.
--Anite has had a big week, both with its announcement of remote control for field units and its launch today of a major...
The Latin American giant telecom group América Móvil (AMX) posted its fourth quarter and full year results for 2013. While in the 4Q13, AMX's profit rose 15.7%, when comparing the entire year of 2013 to 2012, net income was down 18%. According to AMX, in the...
Editor’s Note: Wireless operators are a busy bunch, and as such RCR Wireless News will attempt to gather some of the important announcements that may slip through the cracks from the world’s largest carriers in a weekly wrap-up. Enjoy!
--Sprint expanded its Spark network offering...
Sprint continues to list in the waters of the domestic wireless space, caught between the winds and currents of needing to spend money to improve network operations, while at the same time trying to make money.
The carrier’s fourth quarter financial results showed that during...
In this note, we focus on handsets, operating systems and the networks that support them. As we consider handsets, OS and networks, a few bottom line conclusions spring to the fore.
Despite an attempted shot of adrenalin, bidding continued to slow in the Federal Communications Commission’s Auction 96 of wireless spectrum licenses in the 1.9 GHz band. Only 78 new bids were placed through the seven rounds of bidding on Tuesday.
Bidding started out slow with...
Some mobile subscribers in Finland may soon be enjoying LTE-A speeds twice as fast as anything available on currently deployed LTE networks elsewhere in the world. Nokia Solutions and Networks, Broadcom and Finnish carrier Elisa say they have demonstrated LTE Advanced carrier aggregation Category...
Broadcom targets low-cost LTE smartphone market
Carriers and device makers are increasingly focused on low-cost smartphones, and chipmakers are ready to give them what they want. Today Broadcom unveiled two new mobile platforms aimed at the sub-$300 LTE smartphone market. The solution set features a...
Following months (years?) of disappointing financial results, Sprint ended last year on a bit of an upswing. The carrier posted fourth quarter financial results that came in a bit ahead of expectations, though challenges still remain.
Sprint said it added 477,000 net customers to its...
Three major trends are converging to offer service providers the opportunity to better understand their networks and their opportunities to monetize them and reduce churn: The transition to all-IP, LTE networks; the accelerating trend toward cloud connectivity and network virtualization; and big data collection...
