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Huawei hires former Samsung telecom exec (RCR Mobile Minute)

Mobile Minute Huawei has hired George Reed to head up solutions and marketing for Huawei Technologies. Reed will lead product management, solutions development, integrated marketing communications and sales management across wireless and wireline for Huawei's carrier and enterprise business groups in the United States. Reed...

Nokia Networks WiMAX to TD-LTE-Advanced migration solutions

In a follow on to today’s earlier announcement, Nokia Networks continued with its pre-Super Mobility Week announcements. The latest focuses on WiMAX to TD-LTE Advanced migration. There are three topics addressed in this latest announcement. 3.5 GHz TD-LTE radio with integrated Wi-Fi This new radio is...

Analyst Angle: Dark fiber’s role in the mobile backhaul ecosystem

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. Dark fiber — the dirty word of early-2000s telecom — is back en vogue in...

Nokia Liquid Radio expands capacity and performance

Nokia Networks announced a wide-reaching set of portfolio enhancements today in support of their Liquid Radio portfolio. As these announcements are touching on many different aspects of the portfolio, I will try to group them into sub-classifications. Carrier Aggregation In order to increase density in metro...

Reality Check: Iliad’s bid for the U.S. market; lessons from France

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and experiences. Over the past 18 months, Iliad has grown from a small fixed-broadband provider to become one of the key players...

HetNet News: American Tower DAS, Cisco Wi-Fi stats

International Speedway is one of several American Tower DAS customers boosting demand for engineers who have experience with distributed antenna systems. DAS skills in demand Experience with distributed antenna systems is in demand as tower companies and infrastructure service providers win new contracts and upgrade existing...

EMEA: CDN in the RAN with Saguna and Akamai

Saguna Networks announced today its work with Akamai to deliver content for mobile subscribers from 4G mobile base stations. The solution will be jointly demonstrated at 4GWorld/CTIA next week. The demonstration will show a content delivery network (CDN) operating within a mobile base station. In...

EMEA Perspectives: Africa innovation

The last couple of weeks I’ve focused primarily on Europe news, so in fairness, it’s time to focus on other parts of EMEA. Today we will focus on Africa. Highlights from last week’s news for the region show new offers and new challenges being...

Reader Forum: Is your infrastructure in for a VoLTE of shock?

Editor’s Note: In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this Reader Forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible, but we maintain some editorial control...

Cell Tower News: CTIA asks FCC to revise; OSHA cites manufacturer

CTIA asks FCC to revise wireless siting CITA CEO Meredith Attwell Baker recently wrote a blog urging the FCC to revise its rules in order to expedite the process of building and updating wireless network sites. She goes on to describe the different types of...

AT&T turf vendor list grows with demand for cell sites

AT&T has added new contractors for wireless infrastructure deployment... AT&T Turf Vendor Program AT&T Mobility's 4G network is nationwide, but the deployment and maintenance of that network happens state by state and even city by city. Unlike Verizon Wireless, which assigns a network manager to each...

Network convergence key to AT&T's move

AT&T's marriage of its business solutions and mobility groups reflects the union of its wireline and wireless businesses. The carrier has already merged its wireless and wireline network operations. Through its Project Velocity IP, AT&T is investing $6 billion in wireline initiatives and $8...

Wireless Infrastructure Service Provider Update Feature Report

In the latest editorial feature report from RCR Wireless News, wireless infrastructure providers, tower company executives, industry analysts and recruiters are interviewed about current trends in the North American wireless infrastructure services market. Wireless operators keep pace with the relentless demand for mobile data by...

White Paper: VoLTE is Coming. Are you ready? Every twist and turn. Tried and tested.

Enhance your understanding of VoLTE and rethink your own testing strategies with this eBook which includes commentary from some of the wireless industry's most influential analysts and experts. Bringing VoLTE-enabled mobile devices and related services to market is harder than it has ever been, and...

RCR Insights: Wi-Fi Offload

U.S. carriers are learning to see Wi-Fi as a supplement to their coverage rather than a competitor, but they have been slower to adopt it than have some of their counterparts overseas. Analyst Claus Hetting of Hetting Consultants and Matt Davis, VP of program...

Nokia acquisition highlights pressure to 'self-perform'

Having shed its mobile device unit, Nokia is putting some of its cash to work here in the United States. Yesterday the company said it had closed on its purchase of SAC Wireless, an Illinois-based provider of wireless infrastructure services. SAC contracts with wireless...

Sprint's bright spots

Sprint's financial performance may get worse before it gets better as the carrier relies on price cuts to bring in new subscribers. But wholesale service and Sprint Business are two bright spots for the nation's No. 3 carrier. During the first half of this year,...

EMEA: Europe takes the long road to LTE

European carriers seem to be emphasizing the “Long” in "Long Term Evolution" technology. While the region is home to some of the world's biggest economies, it continues to trail other developed markets in adopting LTE-based high-speed mobile technology, often referred to as 4G. In South...

Reality Check: The enterprise is the edge of the network


The blurring of the lines between the enterprise and service provider networks will extend the "edge" of the mobile network from the operator's core into the enterprise premise.... The inside-out 2020 mobile network We have started the transition from a wireless to a mobile enterprise network...

Cell Tower News: FCC studies spy towers; NATE led Safety Task Force

FCC studies spy towers No, it's not the plot of some Cold War movie from the 80s, it's the FCC's involvement in the latest development in a story we reported on back in March. To catch you up to speed, these fake cell towers for spying...

Feature Report: Infrastructure Service Company Review

Wireless carriers cannot roll out 4G networks without the contractors and subcontractors who bring next generation networks from vision to reality. Infrastructure service providers work hand-in-hand with mobile network operators, but some of these relationships are shifting as AT&T and Verizon shift their focus...

HP beats expectations, signs Helion customer

The mobile revolution has hit HP particularly hard, but the server giant finally served up some good news for investors yesterday, posting its first year-on-year revenue increase in almost three years. HP reported third quarter net revenue of $27.6 billion, up 1% from the...

Editorial Webinar: Infrastructure Service Company Review

Wireless carriers cannot roll out 4G networks without the contractors and subcontractors who bring next generation networks from vision to reality. Infrastructure service providers work hand-in--hand with mobile network operators, but some of these relationships are shifting as AT&T and Verizon shift their focus...

HetNet News: Stadium DAS, public safety, carrier Wi-Fi

Stadium DAS deployments continue Infrastructure providers say the DAS RFPs keep coming from public venues, especially sports arenas. This week JMA Wireless said that Crown Castle will deploy JMA's Teko distributed antenna system at Rutgers University's High Point Solutions Stadium. The Rutgers DAS will be ready...