--Comcast said its Xfinity Wi-Fi network now contains one million hotspots around the country, including its outdoor hotspots, hotspots for patrons at enterprises that Comcast includes for free with its business Internet service, and neighborhood hotspots where Comcast enables residential customers to have a second...
Network equipment vendors Cisco and Juniper are sharing information about their vulnerability to Heartbleed, the software security flaw that could enable hackers to steal passwords and other encrypted data from many of the servers on the Internet.
Cisco says that many of its products...
Wireless industry professionals may often feel they're swimming in an alphabet soup of acronyms: NFV (network functions virtualization) and SDN (software defined networking) are enabling PCRFs (policy and charging rules functions) to run on COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) hardware in order to reduce TOC (total...
ZTE is signaling a shift in strategy that could be good news for its competitors. The Chinese maker of network infrastructure and smartphones said today that it has boosted profits by turning down low-margin contracts. ZTE was referring to infrastructure projects outside China.
For years...
Long Term Evolution is indeed turning out to be a technology with a long lifespan, and the telecom industry is only in the early stages of mining the benefits of LTE -- but there are hefty challenges that must still be dealt with, according...
A new report from the Urban Land Institute and EYÂ says that telecommunications infrastructure is one of the top factors that influence decisions on real estate investment and development around the world.
The Infrastructure 2014 report was released this week at ULI's spring meeting and is...
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Our top story this week comes from Corpus Christi, Texas, where an airport worker was injured while climbing a communications tower for repairs. The tower collapsed, causing the man to fall...
Swimming in a sea of SDN, NFV, PCC, PCRF, PCEF, EPC, DPI virtual alphabet soup? You are not alone. RCR Wireless News attempts to make sense of it all as we explore the evolution of policy control and the implications of virtualizing policy control...
The fifth-largest carrier in the U.S. is expanding its LTE reach with plans to add more than 1,200 new sites this year in partnership with King Street Wireless. In addition, U.S. Cellular says it will expand its existing LTE service, which already covers roughly...
Gogo Inc. said today that it will begin rolling out Wi-Fi service on Air Canada's entire North American fleet next month.
The airline already has two Wi-Fi equipped aircraft, Airbus 319 models, which are operating in Canada and the U.S. Gogo expects to outfit an...
AT&T has expanded its contract with Transit Wireless to bring wireless voice and data coverage to more New York City subway stations.
The two companies have already worked together on coverage in six stations from an initial build in Chelsea and 30 other stations in...
Editor’s Note: The RCR Wireless News Time Machine is a way to take advantage of our extensive history in covering the wireless space to fire up the DeLorean and take a trip back in time to re-visit some of the more interesting headlines from...
Mobile Minute:
U.S. Cellular is the latest carrier to offer its customers contract-free pricing, as well as incentives to abandon their current contracts. The Chicago-based carrier is offering unlimited talk, text and data for $40 a month. For $50 a month, customers can get the...
Freescale has agreed to purchase Mindspeed's communications processor unit for an undisclosed amount. Mindspeed was acquired by MACOM last year, and at the time the RF and microwave specialist said that it would try to sell Mindspeed's Comcerto communications processor business, or wind it...
--Mobile Experts expects that the small cell market will reach $10 billion in 2018.
Joe Madden, principal analyst at the firm, said that the deployment of 200,000 small cells in Asia "has validated the accuracy of our forecasting over the past five years. This year,...
WhatsApp has been all over the news after signing a $19 billion deal with Facebook. It has a lot of people speculating what it means for the telecom industry.
Systems integrators who specialize in DAS deployments are working overtime to meet demand, and scrambling to find enough qualified RF engineers. "I have guys working 24 hours a day seven days a week. Obviously not one team, but it is not uncommon anymore for...
Women in Wireless Infrastructure: Small Cell Forum CEO Sue Monahan
Sue Monahan is all about the network. She says the network is what she loves best about both her current jobs: She is director of GSMA North America and she has recently added the role...
TE Connectivity has agreed to buy Seacon Group, which provides underwater connector technology and systems, for $490 million in cash.
The Seacon Group serves verticals that do sub-sea work including remotely operated vehicles, such as oil and gas, environmental and oceanographic applications and the military...
Welcome to this week’s edition of cell tower industry news, brought to you by Towercrews.net.
It is an understatement to say that this year has been tragic so far when so many tower climbers have died within the first quarter. In response, OSHA handed out stern...
Wi-Fi connectivity is the first thing many people look for when they enter a hotel, restaurant or airport waiting area. But many Wi-Fi access points are facing the same challenge that plagues cellular networks: too many people downloading too much data.
"We're starting to see...
T-Mobile US looks to have re-gained some of its LTE network reputation, with a new report from OpenSignal finding the market’s smallest nationwide operator providing the highest network speeds during the first quarter of the year. However, the scope of LTE coverage remains in...
