Alcatel-Lucent announced its role in two new LTE deployments this week as well as supporting VoLTE and optical networking upgrades.
In Taiwan, the vendor is working with telecom provider Asia Pacific Telecom (APT), to build an LTE overlay network that is aimed at making APT the...
RootMetrics took its road show to the United Kingdom during the second half of last year, returning with network quality data claiming a solid win for operator EE, and excuses from last-place finisher Vodafone.
RootMetrics said that it tested wireless networks for U.K. operators EE,...
Executives from the nation’s largest carriers took to the stage this week at the Deutsche Bank Annual Media, Internet & Telecom Conference, each highlighting trends they are seeing across their operations.
Following a week of build up, Sprint and Softbank Chairman Masayoshi Son took to the stage in front of the Washington D.C. Chamber of Commerce in a presentation detailing where the United States is falling behind in terms of broadband service, but decidedly absent...
Small cells, software-defined networking, cloud networking and the move toward 100G networks are among the major trends in telecom right now, and RCR Wireless News spoke with a series of companies recently on the impact of those technologies.
At last week's Telecom Exchange event in Denver,...
The potential for mergers and acquisitions in telecom continues to be high, agreed company leaders at the recent Telecom Exchange event in Denver. With big-name companies such as Google and Facebook looking for ways to spend cash and a good equity market, the biggest...
Spectrum is the lifeblood of the wireless telecommunications space, and with a finite resource straining to serve an increasingly data-hungry consumer base, the pressure is on to free up new assets, for carriers to get their hands on what’s available and for equipment vendors...
When I first became a wireless analyst, Japan was portrayed as an almost mythical wireless wonderland where everything was perfect and so much better than the unenlightened and backward countries
Wi-Fi vendor Xirrus is boasting a new 802.11ac access point that it says will bring the new Wi-Fi standard to the mainstream with a price point comparable to the fastest 802.11n APs.
Increased competition on price may signal a new phase for the 802.11ac market,...
AUSTIN, Texas – Wearable technology was a major focus at CES 2014, and since then buzz has only continued to grow as multiple panels at South by Southwest 2014 addressed the rising trend. Several of the world’s largest brands, including Coca-Cola and Visa, spoke...
It has been an eventful week in the telecom industry with each change supplementing three broad themes developed in previous columns: a) the critical nature of data value to each wireless segment;
Wireless trade association 4G Americas said that LTE connections reached 200 million at the end of 2013, with half of those coming from North America. The trade group also said that AT&T Mobility has already deployed LTE-Advanced carrier aggregation in Chicago, and that there...
AUSTIN, Texas – Edward Snowden, the famed NSA whistle-blower gave his first public appearance since leaking secret information about the NSA’s massive web of surveillance. No, he wasn’t there in person, but was beamed into a Google Hangout with the Austin audience, pinging the...
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and Sprint Corp. recently demonstrated phase two of an over-the-air trial of TD-LTE small cells at the Phoenix International Raceway in Phoenix during a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race.
The venue  was selected for the trial because of large fan attendance and...
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,...
Display technologies are evolving at an unprecedented rate. They have evolved so much that we can now see the minutest picture details on our devices – be it television sets, tablets or smart phones.
The domestic pricing battle among wireless carriers continues to heat up as just a day after T-Mobile US released adjustments to its plans, AT&T Mobility announced changes of its own.
AT&T Mobility said that beginning this weekend, customers will be able to sign up for...
T-Mobile US tightened up the data offerings on its Simple Choice rate plans, offering entry-level and mid-tier users a bit more to play with while charging heavy users a bigger toll. The announcement came late Friday afternoon, a time when companies typically look to...
With its pending acquisition by AT&T set to close this month, Leap Wireless released what is likely its last report as an independent carrier on its operational performance. And from looking at the results, operations have been running thin for the one-time no-contract leader.
According...
A couple of reports surfaced this week handing out pats-on-the-backs to some wireless operators, and notes of shame to others. Those reports were great in that they named and ranked carriers according to what the surveys founds,
