The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued American Tower Corp. (AMT) a subpoena seeking tax-related documents dating from 2007 to current financials. This is in the midst of a company push to change its corporate status in a manner that should reduce taxes in...
RCR Wireless News is set to visit Baltimore the week of July 18 as part of our Mobile Broadband Tour and Conference series. The RCR Wireless News Mobile Broadband Baltimore tour will include several days meeting with local telecommunication leaders and associations...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.—FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski wants to be known as the broadband chairman, and as such has been at the forefront of removing obstacles that prevent wireless broadband deployments, said Josh Gottheimer, senior counsel to the chairman during PCIA's DAS Forum “DAS In Action:...
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Galtronics Corp. Ltd. said its single in-building distributed antenna that provides MIMO for the LTE 690-806 MHz band outperformed spatially separated SISO (Single In Single Out) antennas in data throughput tests conducted by American Tower Corp. (AMT) at the Las Vegas...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.—FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski wants to be known as the broadband chairman, and as such has been at the forefront of removing obstacles that prevent wireless broadband deployments, said Josh Gottheimer, senior counsel to the chairman during PCIA's DAS Forum “DAS In Action:...
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Distributed Antenna System (DAS) providers need to understand the safety and reliability concerns of utility companies if they want to avoid contentious relationships over pole attachments, said NextG Networks Inc.'s Norine Luker, senior director, utility administration at the DAS provider.
Speaking on...
PHILADELPHIA – Timing, scale and the long-term sustainability of a business and business model are key factors to betting right in the mobile broadband business, panelists agreed at RCR Wireless News' Global Mobile Broadband Tour and Conference Philadelphia. And it's good to own spectrum...
Cellular service throughout Latin America is about to get a jolt as wireless operators deploy advanced-generation networks capable of carrying all kinds of content across the airwaves. From Brazil to Mexico, governments are auctioning off new 3G and 4G spectrum bands to try to...
PHILADELPHIA – The tower industry has seen its fair share of ups and downs, a trend that seems set to continue as new entrants in the mobile space could help replace those being lost to consolidation and those that remain look to both save...
HAYS, Kan. – In this day and age of elevated unemployment levels across the country, you might think it would be difficult to find a company in a high-tech field like wireless desperate to find suitable employee candidates to fill vital holes. Welcome to...
Wavion Ltd. updated its outdoor W-Fi offloading solution designed for wireless service providers facing congested networks in urban areas. The company's WBSn (Wavion Base Station based on the 802.11n standard) combines spatially adaptive two-way Beamforming technology with the latest 802.11n standard and 3x3:3 MIMO...
Watch live streaming video from rcrtrack2 at livestream.comPHILADELPHIA – It doesn't take much looking to realize that the wireless industry is in the midst of a network capacity crisis. With data hungry smartphones flooding the market, carriers have been forced to come up with...
Henkels & McCoy Inc. has bought In-Building-Wireless to expand its Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) efforts. The two companies have worked together through Henkels & McCoy's H&M Networks business, collaborating on projects across the carrier, enterprise and federal vertical markets.
Silver Spring, Md.-based In-Building-Wireless brings more...
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RCR Wireless News’ visit to Philadelphia is set to begin next week, bringing with it a one-day conference scheduled for June 8 as well as a visit to the city to get an update on its municipal Wi-Fi project. The RCR Wireless News Mobile...
PHOENIX—Arizona's Regional Wireless Cooperative (RWC) is one of the largest public-safety radios systems in the country, serving 17 member cities, towns and fire districts in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Getting there, including a Project 25 trunked radio system that is interoperable across multiple jurisdictions,...
ARLINGTON, Texas — Everything is bigger in Texas so it is no surprise that Cowboys Stadium boasts the largest TV screen in the world, along with a lot of other “boasts,” like retractable roofs that open and close in 12 minutes, not a bad...
Clearwire Corp. (CLWR) said it plans to transition more of its customer care operations to current partner TeleTech Holdings Inc. that could impact approximately 700 employees.Clearwire noted that the expansion of its current agreement calls for TeleTech to take over management of Clearwire’s day-to-day...
LightSquared continues to draw media attention with competing reports this week claiming the company is close to signing network deals with Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) and AT&T Mobility (T).Bloomberg is reporting that LightSquared is in preliminary talks with AT&T Mobility to purchase capacity on...
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,...
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,...
TEMPE, Ariz. – Native American tribes are spread across the state of Arizona, and Mark Goldstein, president of the International Research Center in Tempe, Ariz., consults with some of the independent nations to make their lives more accessible with technology.The Hopi Nation's borders rest...
PHOENIX — Arizona is making an online interactive broadband map using federal funding. In addition to creating its own state coverage map, like all U.S. states, the data is being rolled-up into the building of the Federal Communication Commission's national map showing broadband availability...
DALLAS—AT&T Mobility (T) formed its Antenna Solutions Group to focus on improving AT&T customers' experience by enhancing the network from the inside out, said Jim Parker, senior manager of the unit within AT&T. In that way, AT&T's Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) business is different...
