RCR Wireless News takes a deep dive into the current small cell space as it relates to LTE deployments, talking with carriers, analysts and equipment and technology providers on how the market is currently playing out and where they expect the market to be headed in...
Dominated by the two largest Latin American telecom operators, Peru's wireless market still holds promise. As observers have noted, there is room to grow in Peru as mobile penetration is at 96%, 2G services accounts for 91% of the total market and 76% of...
The machine-to-machine sector started making waves in 2012, and is set to boom through 2013. The notion of 50 billion connected devices originally sounded optimistic, but anyone who walked
Here are the latest tidbits in heterogeneous networks — the wireless connections beyond traditional cellular networks, including Wi-Fi, distributed antenna systems and small cells.
Cox Communications launched a new Wi-Fi network for its customers in northern Virginia. Cox's Wi-Fi service allows the company’s high-speed Internet...
Carrier-grade small cells are expected to address wireless operators’ problem of limited capacity, according to three reports by Mobile Experts.
Mobile Experts noted that between 2009-2012, the small-cell market was dominated by consumer femtocells and that market has become anemic, “with weak support from mobile...
Mobile applications will become critical to value, customer retention and differentiation for every industry, according to a new report by Strategy Analytics.
The company has predicted that apps will drive more than $35 billion in revenue by 2017. That figure grows exponentially when factoring in...
As 2013 begins, predictions invariably are the attention grabbing headlines. However, trends and some predictability and draw from past performance. Carriers are the foundation for service delivery and the keystone of the mobile ecosystem.
Not so fast, small cell market.
A new small cell equipment report from Infonetics Research warns that despite a quickly growing market, the small cell space will be – well, small. Or at least, not big enough for all the companies who want a piece.
“In...
The Competitive Carriers Association kicked off its annual convention in Las Vegas by announcing a partnership with Boingo Wireless to offer Wi-Fi offload services to carriers. For CCA's regional carriers, Wi-Fi offload could mean the ability to offer coverage nationwide, and even internationally. Boingo...
Those lucky enough to be carrying the iPhone 5 this week may not be able to resist the urge to call friends to share the news, but they won't be making those calls on LTE networks. Like other LTE phones, the iPhone 5 finds...
Even as LTE deployments begin in earnest, Latin American and Caribbean wireless carriers continue to focus investments on the expansion and improvement of 3G networks. Wi-Fi, femtocells, microwaves and towers are expected to receive the largest share of telecom operators’ investments and efforts. The...
PCIA - The Wireless Infrastructure Association announced today that FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski will deliver the keynote address at this fall's Wireless Infrastructure Show in Orlando, Florida. The show runs October 1 - 4, the the Chairman's keynote will be on October 3.
Eliminating barriers...
More and more mobile device users are accessing Facebook from smartphones and tablets, and that's a mixed blessing for the social media giant. The company says that more than half a billion people accessed Facebook from a mobile device in June, and that almost 19% of those relied exclusively on smartphones or tablets to connect with friends through the site. That means those people never saw the ads Facebook serves up to personal computer users, who are of course looking at larger screens with more room for advertising.
Mobile data agitators look set to again unleash some disruptive-ness onto the cellular space, with reports going wild over a pair of companies unveiling new offerings.
One offering is from FreedomPop, which plans to begin offering a “sleeve” product that can provide WiMAX and LTE...
Small cell technology continues to make inroads into carrier deployments as Ruckus Wireless announced today that Telefonica’s O2 operations in the United Kingdom has begun deploying its products for coverage across parts of London.
Ruckus noted that the deployment uses its SmartCell 8800 products to...
One of the great promises of mobile technology is the consumers’ ability to connect to the Internet or mobile Web via any number of different types of mobile devices (e.g., feature phones, smartphones, tablets,
Almost one year after acquiring the Wi-Fi company Vex, Brazilian telecom carrier Oi announced that it has integrated both companies’ networks. As part of the integration, Oi changed the name of Vex's service to Oi WiFi, and it is expanding Oi’s services to Vex customers,...
While the use of Wi-Fi to offload 3G data traffic has just started in Latin America, wireless equipment manufacturer Ruckus Wireless is betting on increasing demand for more robust indoor Wi-Fi coverage. In an exclusive interview, the enterprise vertical director at Ruckus Wireless Latin America, Andre...
Yesterday Ericsson released its annual Traffic and Market report, which is based on the company's internal mobile traffic growth modeling exercises as well as data collected from external sources. Not surprisingly, Ericsson's report finds that mobile subscriptions, and thus, mobile traffic – particularly mobile...
Latin America has become a target for many companies because of the potential wireless growth driven mostly by an increase in data traffic, plus the healthy economic and political environment across many countries in the region. The Canadian Edgewater Wireless Systems Inc. (YFI; TSX.V) moved...
The cable industry’s dance around wireless continued today as a consortium of providers announced plans to partner on the deployment of 50,000 “metro Wi-Fi” hot spots under the “CableWiFi” brand. The service will allow customers of Bright House Networks, Cablevision, Comcast, Cox Communications and...
As I get ready to make the journey from Austin to Dublin for the TM Forum's Management World 2012 event, I'm scrolling through a few key checklist items in my mind: remember my passport, rationalize the need to pack sweaters as I sit here...
NEW ORLEANS - In a study released by the WiFi Alliance, 90% of participants said that they would stick with their current mobile service provider, while 70% said that they would switch service providers, if necessary, to gain access to such a service. Sounds...
Shares of Barnes and Noble (BKS) skyrocketed today on news that Microsoft (MSFT) will invest $300 million in a new subsidiary Barnes and Noble is forming to market and distribute its Nook tablet. Microsoft will also develop software for the Nook, even though it...
