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Report: iPhone 6 will have 4.7-inch screen (RCR Mobile Minute)

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. Apple is reportedly ordering displays for the iPhone 6, expected to launch this fall with a 4.7-inch screen. That would be a major change for the iPhone, which has stuck with its 4-inch screen even as...

Report: T-Mobile US has the LTE speed, Verizon Wireless the LTE reach

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...

Capital news: Oi-Portugal Telecom merger gets go-ahead

Capital markets news: The Oi-Portugal Telecom merger moves forward.

Aricent taps Intel reference design for SDN, NFV platform

Aricent is taking advantage of an Intel reference design in rolling out software-defined network and network functions virtualization software that runs on the chip maker’s Open Network Platform Switch Reference Design. Aricent explained that the design, which is now available for trials, is designed to...

Chip news from Sequans, Renesas, Intel and Texas Instruments

Sequans wins contracts for LTE-only modems LTE-only modems are gaining traction on both sides of the Pacific, with China Telecom announcing today that its upcoming LTE launch will include devices powered by Sequans' single-mode TD-LTE CPE units. The devices will be made by Chinese manufacturers...

Reality Check: The 10 most important events of the first quarter

Normally, we take the end of the quarter to evaluate key long-term trends and see how they might change as a result of events. We are trying a new end of quarter theme

AT&T, Verizon invest in Texas telecom infrastructure

AT&T and Verizon recently invested in Texas's telecom infrastructure. 

SDN and virtualization in telecom data centers

New data center opening highlights SDN and virtualization benefits.

Wireless Telecom Group’s sales up 14% annually

Wireless Telecom Group reported that its net sales were up 16% year-over-year, driven by strong growth in its network solutions segment. The company designs and manufactures radio frequency and microwave-based products for wireless, including components for distributed antenna systems and technologies including Wi-Fi and WiMax....

RCR Mobile Minute: Judge allows Apple video

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. Jury selection is underway in the latest court battle between Apple and Samsung. This time the two leading smartphone makers are arguing about patents related to the iPhone 5 and the Galaxy S3. Apple says Samsung...

Unlicensed, Wi-Fi services set for 100 megahertz boost

Unlicensed wireless services, including Wi-Fi, is set to receive a spectrum boost as the Federal Communications Commission has moved forward with plans to free up 100 megahertz of spectrum in the 5 GHz band for unlicensed use. The FCC adopted a Report and Order that...

FCC lays out partial AWS-3 rules to the cheers, jeers of an industry

To the cheers and jeers of an industry, the Federal Communications Commission announced licensing rules for its highly anticipated AWS-3 spectrum auction that appears to cater to concerns of smaller carriers and consternation of larger operators. In its notice of proposed rulemaking, the FCC has...

Policy news: Verizon invests in Texas infrastructure

Policy news: Verizon makes a major investment in Texas infrastructure.

Public safety: FirstNet update; IWCE news

The First Responders Network Authority is on the path of a strategic roadmap to build a national wireless network for first responders. FirstNet's board met earlier this month and has voted to proceed on its preliminary strategic roadmap for that network, which is aimed at...

Small cells for small operators: hosted solutions target regional carriers

The cost of a large scale small cell deployment is out of reach for most regional carriers in the United States, but the need to offload traffic and increase capacity can be just as urgent as it is for their larger rivals. One possible...

HetNet News: Aerohive goes public; small cell growth expected

Aerohive Networks (HIVE) stock began trading Friday. The company priced its initial public offering of 7.5 million shares at $10 per share, and it dropped 9% in the first day of trading but rebounded to close at $10. In its pre-IPO filing with the Securities...

CCA Spring 2014: Spectrum, keynotes, roaming highlight CCA event

SAN ANTONIO – The Competitive Carriers Association has seen its prominence across the mobile space grow in recent years thanks to its ability to attract larger carrier members and significant wins in lobbying efforts for its traditional carrier members. CCA President and CEO Steve...

Alcatel-Lucent scores SDN win in Europe

Alcatel-Lucent's Nuage Networks has won a data center contract with Numergy, a French cloud services firm created by SFR, Bull and the French government. Numergy plans to open two data centers this year and ten more over the next three years. The company will...

Reader Forum: Wireless network security – a cautionary tale

The fun and flurry of retail discounts during the high-volume holiday shopping season were marred last year by the much-publicized breach of customer data at popular retailer Target.

Reader Forum: ‘Freemium’ models and sponsored data – giving the people what they want?

Following on the heels of increasingly common, albeit still fairly new “freemium” service offerings, AT&T’s recently announced sponsored data service launch has been unusually controversial.

BlackBerry boost security, devices approved for Verizon network use, Apple device news

BlackBerry, Apple, Asentria and Verizon announced new device offerings. 

What mobile companies are using Hadoop?

Telcos like China Mobile are exploring the benefits of Hadoop.

RCR Mobile Minute: Broadcasters share spectrum

Mobile Minute: Two Los Angeles television stations have been sharing the same broadcast frequency as part of a test. Broadcasters are interested in so-called channel sharing because it may enable them to free up some spectrum that could then be sold to wireless operators, with...

CCA Spring 2014: Sprint prioritizes voice-over-Wi-Fi over VoLTE

SAN ANTONIO - Sprint VP of technology Ron Marquardt told an audience at CCA Global Expo 2014 that the carrier's current CDMA network's voice delivery is comparable to VoLTE (voice-over-LTE) in terms of spectral efficiency, and that in the near term Sprint is more...