Network Infrastructure

Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and Security. Having experience at an operator, software and hardware vendors and as a well-known industry …

BlueStream Professional Services has purchased parts of Tempest Telecom’s DAS business, and will bring one of the industry’s most experienced distributed antenna system professionals onboard to manage its DAS and …

High-tech communications entrepreneur Brian Hinman is out to “revolutionize the wireless service provider industry” with his newest startup, Mimosa Networks. Mimosa is working to create Wi-Fi hardware that can offer connectivity …

Distributed antenna systems provide connectivity behind the scenes, out of sight, even underground in some cases, and at times they have been as hard to find in corporate financial results as …

The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. Cost cuts and restructuring are paying off for Europe’s major wireless infrastructure vendors, all of whom saw significant margin improvement in the …

EMEA in Perspective is a Monday column focused on the identification of regional trends and outcomes of the prior week’s news. Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA, has spent her …

Samsung’s network infrastructure business gets some of the blame for the company’s slide in sales and operating profit during the second quarter. The company cited its domestic market as well …

Welcome to this week’s edition of cell tower industry news, created by Jarad Matula and brought to you by Towercrews.net. OSHA directive on hoisting In a new step towards safer practices …

Editor’s Note: The ability to test network and device features and functions is an important piece of technology development and deployment. RCR Wireless News looks weekly at the test and measurement …

Alcatel-Lucent (ALU), which announced its “Shift Plan” a year ago, is now looking to shift some of its submarine cable business. When the Paris-based telecom equipment company released its 2014 …

Liam Maxwell, VP of products for Oracle Communications, spoke with RCR Wireless about how the transition from single-service providers to bundled offerings has affected customer relationship management, BSS and OSS, and …

Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and Security. Having experience at an operator, software and hardware vendors and as a well-known industry …

Wi-Fi continues its march toward ubiquity, particularly in transit systems. Wireless connectivity is even coming to an international flight near you – if it hasn’t already. Connectivity on transit poses …

Nokia Networks has agreed to buy Panasonic’s 3G/LTE base station business, aiming to strengthen its offerings in Japan. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but it covers base stations and …

Nokia Networks scored a big LTE win in North America when Sprint tapped the company for its Sprint Spark build, and now Nokia is clearly eager for more. Recognizing that …

Cellular and billboard lease acquisition company Lease Advisors has formed a joint venture for wireless infrastructure with privately-held tower company InSite Wireless Group, which owns and manages about 800 cell …

Like many other successful companies, American Tower is outgrowing its name. “American” no longer refers just to the United States; towers in other parts of North and South America are …

Digital advertising network VisionChina Media Inc. announced a partnership with infrastructure vendor Huawei to explore a national mass transit Wi-Fi network in China, expanding the company’s efforts to position itself …

Welcome to this week’s edition of cell tower industry news, created by Jarad Matula and brought to you by Towercrews.net. Couple sues American Tower One couple in West Virginia is mad …

Investment in wireless infrastructure is a big part of capital spending for both Verizon and AT&T, and both carriers spent more during the most recent quarter than analysts had expected. …

Ulf Ewaldsson, SVP & CTO of Ericsson, spoke with RCR Wireless News recently about the role of standards such as those established by 3GPP, TM Forum and others, and the implications of a changing …