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China Mobile set to slash LTE pricing, increase network spend

Increased competition appears to be hitting the Chinese mobile market, with reports that the country’s largest operators – and some of the largest in the world – are set to slash rate plans in order to maintain their tremendous growth. The Wall Street Journal reported...

Cell Tower News: 2014 PCIA Wireless Infrastructure Show recap

Welcome to this week’s edition of cell tower industry news, created by Jarad Matula and brought to you by Towercrews.net. Just as we expected, this week's PCIA Wireless Infrastructure Show saw the tower companies more vocal than they have been in a while. This week's cell tower...

T-Mobile US jumps on VoLTE train, launches service in Seattle

T-Mobile US got in on the recent voice over LTE fun, announcing today that it has launched the data-based voice service in the Seattle area. T-Mobile US CTO Neville Ray explained in a blog post that the VoLTE service allows for call set-up times twice...

Feature report: Tower & Antenna technology review

New network technologies and standards-based features driving changes at macro cell sites, and networks are moving toward HetNets with the advent of small cells and the increasing focus on indoor coverage through technologies such as distributed antenna systems (DAS). A new feature report from RCR...

Verizon Wireless accelerates LTE Multicast trials during Indy 500

Verizon Wireless continued testing its LTE Multicast technology, announcing it has been offering the service this month at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway ahead of this weekend’s Indianapolis 500 event. During the actual race, Verizon Wireless said it plans to incorporate live video from the race...

PCIA 2014: Tower companies see record applications, and Wall Street takes notice

ORLANDO, Fla. – Surging mobile data demand means that wireless operators need to add coverage and capacity to their networks, and that often means co-locating a cell site on a tower occupied by one of their competitors. "Volume and demand for co-locations and new towers...

LatAm: Brazil approaches 2.5 million LTE connections

Brazil's mobile market ended April with almost 2.5 million LTE connections. Although the total LTE base is still relatively small (less than 1% penetration), LTE use has been increasing, with record growth last month. Led by Claro, which added 177,000 new LTE connections in April,...

Reader Forum: Executing a small cell deployment with minimal headache

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

PCIA 2014: AT&T outlines network priorities

Orlando, FL. AT&T's Bill Smith, president of network operations and AT&T Services, told his audience at PCIA's 2014 Wireless Infrastructure Show today that vendors should not worry that AT&T's planned investment in DirecTV will divert network spending. "I don't think anybody should be concerned...

Verizon Wireless set for nationwide VoLTE launch later this year

Just days after rival AT&T Mobility announced immediate plans to rollout voice over LTE services, Verizon Wireless threw out a reminder that it too was on track to offer VoLTE later this year. The carrier said its VoLTE plans will include a nationwide rollout of...

PCIA 2014: Tower companies split on DAS

Orlando, Fla. – Tower developers at this week's PCIA 2014 Wireless Infrastructure Show were not united in their assessment of the opportunity in distributed antenna systems. Larger players are investing heavily in DAS while smaller tower companies are focusing on macro sites, for the...

PCIA 2014: AT&T outlines network priorities

Orlando, Fla. – Bill Smith, president of network operations and AT&T Services, told his audience at this week's PCIA 2014 Wireless Infrastructure Show that vendors should not worry that AT&T's planned purchase of DirecTV could divert network spending. "I don't think anybody should be...

PCIA 2014: Tower leaders bullish on carrier spending

Orlando, Fla. – Leaders from the nation's three largest tower companies took the stage to kick off PCIA's 2014 Wireless Infrastructure Show. Crown Castle International, American Tower and SBA Communications all projected a continuation of current growth trends. Specifically, the group highlighted network densification...

Chip News: LTE baseband market growth projected to slow

LTE baseband market projections Forward Concepts estimates that 219 million LTE baseband modems shipped last year, more than double the 103 million shipped in 2012. The firm's analysts project 47% growth this year. "We expect tablets and hybrid notebooks to drive standalone LTE modem penetration rates...

Reality Check: FCC’s plans and free AT&T broadband

While it would be impossible to cover the entirety of the meeting in the remaining space of this brief, suffice it to say that the tone of this meeting was more passion-filled than all of this year’s previous meetings – combined.

Verizon Wireless super-sizes LTE under 'XLTE' banner

Verizon Wireless unveiled the “XLTE” brand for its LTE service boosted by the inclusion of its 1.7/2.1 GHz (advanced wireless services) spectrum assets. The move followed rumors last week of a potential XLTE launch. The carrier said the enhanced service will provide faster network speeds...

Zayo Group continues European fiber expansion

Bandwidth infrastructure company Zayo Group, LLC continues its strategy of growth by acquisition with the purchase of Geo Networks Ltd., a London-based fiber provider that will add more than 2,100 route miles to Zayo's European network. Geo, founded in 2002, owns and operates a high-capacity...

HetNet News: AT&T neutral host DAS, Huawei indoor small cells

AT&T neutral host DAS at University of Kansas AT&T says its distributed antenna systems business is separate from its wireless service, and can offer solutions that will serve customers of all wireless networks. The University of Kansas is onboard, having just contracted with AT&T to...

Cell Tower News: Tip to prevent copper theft; brotherly tower opposition

Welcome to this week’s edition of cell tower industry news, created by Jarad Matula and brought to you by Towercrews.net. It's been a quiet week in the tower industry leading up to PCIA's Wireless Infrastructure Show. Since most companies have posted their first quarter earnings already,...

Napatech launches new accelerator with 100G in mind

Network analysis adapter company Napatech launched a new accelerator designed to support 100 gigabit per second Ethernet and allow network equipment manufacturers to offer applications that run faster than the networks they manage and protect. Napatech said the NT100E3-1-PTP (pictured at right) supports packet...

Wireless Infrastructure: 5G, LTE-A and free Wi-Fi

New York requests RFPs for free citywide Wi-Fi Service providers have until June 14 to respond to New York City's request-for-proposals for a free, citywide Wi-Fi service. New York' wants a "new type of telecommunications convenience to be installed on the city’s streets." The city...

Editorial Webinar: Tower & Antenna Technology Review

RCR Wireless News takes stock of the latest in tower and antenna technologies. We will look at fiber to the antenna (FTTA) and remote radio head (RRH) use, as well as backhaul trends, including millimeter, microwave, LOS/NLOS, fiber and the small cell backhaul dilemma.This...

NTT DoCoMo, AT&T set for VoLTE launch

The long-wait for commercial voice over LTE services could be coming to an end as a pair of substantial carriers announced plans to launch VoLTE services in the coming months. Japan’s NTT DoCoMo reported yesterday that beginning in late June its “extra-high speed” XiTM service...

Text-to-911 goes live, and regional carriers are getting ready

The nation's four largest carriers are turning on text-to-911 services in several areas today as the first step in a process that should be complete by the end of the year. The Federal Communications Commission wants all mobile subscribers in the U.S. to have...