Network Infrastructure

Lack of fiber availability brings radio and microwave solutions to the forefront Densification in metro networks becomes increasingly challenging largely due to limited real estate and fiber access. This trend …

Nokia continues to focus on 5G research with a new network architecture developed in partnership with SK Telecom. The companies have separated the user plane from the control plane. SK …

Exclusive interview with Hugh O’Kane Electric Company CEO, discussing NYC DAS, Wi-Fi, Fiber and Colocation If you are interested in a telecom career installing and maintaining in-building DAS, Wi-Fi, fiber …

As LTE World Summit comes to a close this week, this is the last go round for this event and location. Next year it’s moving to London and shifting the …

Thai provider AIS aims to reach 3,000 small cells by end of 2015 with Alcatel-Lucent deal French telecommunications infrastructure provider Alcatel-Lucent is currently working with Thailand’s largest mobile telephony operator, Advanced …

LTE in unlicensed spectrum has been getting a lot of attention this month, most notably from the Federal Communications Commission. It is clear that some Wi-Fi equipmentmakers will not welcome …

By 2020, networks will need to support 1000 times more capacity, driving the need for ultra-dense networks (UDN). These will be critical to support over seven billion people connecting using …

Small cells and monopoles planned for Miami, potentially giving peek of larger Sprint network densification push Sprint is looking to up its network and retail game in the Miami area, …

New service is offered through 1800 MHz and 800 MHz bands The United Arab Emirates’ second-largest operator Du launched its LTE-A network through a partnership with Nokia Networks. The telco used …

In-building distributed antenna systems (DASs) are used to enhance cellular coverage within buildings to provide wireless customers better coverage and capacity while simultaneously greatly enhancing the user experience. Sounds simple, …

Broadband spectrum auction rules to be posted on July 17 Mexico is getting ready to auction 700 MHz spectrum bands. Local media outlet El Financiero reported that the Ministry of Communications and …

U.S. mobile operators have had something of a love-hate relationship with Wi-Fi in recent years. AT&T Mobility, Sprint and T-Mobile US were all owners of public Wi-Fi hot spots at …

Agile operators no longer view Wi-Fi as competition; instead they look at unlicensed spectrum as a tool that can be used to help build a truly heterogeneous network offering users …

As Wi-Fi hot spots proliferate and mobile operators transition to IP-based networks, voice over Wi-Fi is emerging as a viable way for service providers to increase coverage. Regional operators and …

Ruckus Wireless to provide equipment, Alepo to provide software for Wi-Fi to support 20 million Sri Lankans Service provider Sri Lanka Telecom today announced a plan to deploy an islandwide …

Telco aims to launch LTE services in the Democratic Republic of Congo in late 2015 African telecommunications operator Smile Communications has signed an agreement with Swedish infrastructure provider Ericsson that …

The comment period for the Federal Communications Commission’s query on the use of LTE over unlicensed spectrum ends this Friday, but companies are heatedly dueling over the technology in the industry …

3M is investing big money in the future of the climber safety industry with a $2.5 billion agreement to acquire fall-protection equipment maker Capital Safety from global investment firm KKR. …

The operator aims to invest $400M in the next two to three years South East Asia Telecom has partnered with Chinese infrastructure provider ZTE to deploy a FDD-LTE network in Cambodia. Under the …

Cell tower gets cut down, hits power lines, leaves thousands without AC during summer in the desert Law enforcement is claiming sabotage in the June 20 felling of a wooden, …

Of all the wavelengths in the spectrum used for wireless data transmission, perhaps the least well known is the millimeter wave band. However, it is precisely this band (and the …

Cisco is trying to make things right with China after reports that the National Security Agency secretly used Cisco routers for spyware put a damper on the company’s Chinese sales. …

Remaining three CDMA markets served by MetroPCS were decommissioned on June 21 T-Mobile US on Sunday shut down the legacy CDMA network that supported subsidiary MetroPCS; 190,000 MetroPCS customers were …

Quarter-billion-dollar investment is coming from FCC’s Connect America Fund WASHINGTON – Frontier Communications has announced the receipt of $238 million from the Federal Communications Commission’s Connect America Fund to expand …