Extending mobile connectivity beyond smartphones and tablets is a key goal for companies across the wireless ecosystem, and this spring it appears that wearables may temporarily steal the spotlight from the connected car. Google, Samsung, Motorola, and LG have all announced new wearable technologies...
A group of wireless carriers currently serving more than 550 million customers announced plans for a network sharing initiative targeting the Middle East and Africa. The partnership is designed to speed the delivery of mobile broadband services in those regions.
The initial partners include Bharti...
The European Union's quest to create a single telecom market has cleared a key hurdle. The Industry Research and Energy Committee approved the “Telecoms Single Market Regulation,” a package of new policies that include ending roaming and enacting a form of net neutrality. It...
The “Internet of things” promises to usher in a new wave of technological evolution. In a few years’ time, billions of things – cars, utility meters, TVs and even furniture – will be linked
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...
With the Federal Communications Commission’s planned AWS-3 auction expected to begin later this year, wireless carriers are getting out ahead of proposed rulemaking in hopes of influencing those plans.
AT&T this week again got in on the lobbying, throwing its support behind rumored plans to...
Now that the mobile industry’s largest show is over, it is a good time to digest the fire hose of information that is Mobile World Congress. And I’m happy to say that I believe we will
Quantenna Communications, which specializes in Wi-Fi chipsets including 802.11ac, announced recently that it has two new investors.
Vivint Wireless has completed a strategic investment in the company, as has NTT Finance, which is part of NTT Group. Other investors in the company include Swisscom and Telefonica.
Vivint...
With AT&T's new ad campaign set to make DAS and small cells household words, wireless infrastructure trade organization PCIA and the HetNet Forum are asking the Federal Communications Commission to remove barriers to deployment. The trade associations are asking the FCC to streamline the...
Canadian media has reported that the country’s three dominate wireless carriers have slowly increased the price of wireless services over the past couple of months by around $5, roughly in line with the recent completion of a nationwide spectrum auction that failed to generate...
Intel's momentum in mobile hits a roadblock
Consumers are not the only ones losing out if reports that Google and Microsoft are killing the Transformer Book Duet are true. Intel championed the Asustek device, which was set to define a new device category of hybrid...
The network functions virtualization market received a boost today as the European Telecommunications Standards Institute and the Open Networking Foundation announced a strategic partnership to further the development of NFV specifications.
The organizations noted that the agreement will focus on how software-defined networking can enable...
Mobile network operators place a high premium on control – of their network, services, brand and most importantly, their customers. This is not surprising, as operators that invested heavily
The truth is, it didn’t take Facebook to convince insiders that WhatsApp and its brethren are the social-networking and mobile entertainment future. For a few years now, hundreds of millions
Amdocs, which focuses on customer experience and OSS and also has a small cell planning solution, released some research on deploying and managing small cells at last week's Cable Congress event. The January 2014 survey from Real Wireless included 40 wireless and wireline operators...
Ericsson CTO Ulf Ewaldsson joined Limor Schafman of RCR-TV at Mobile World Congress 2014 to discuss emerging opportunities for wireless network operators. He said that in his conversations with carriers he sees a variation of business models. "Some are just choosing the model of...
Huawei continued its push into the software-defined networking space, showing off what it terms a prototype SDN virtual transport platform with a built-in “APP” system. The infrastructure giant said the platform is part of its SoftCOM solution targeting next-generation networks to provide a greater...
Carriers and their customers who look forward to devices that can run both Android and Windows may be disappointed. Google and Microsoft reportedly agree that dual boot tablets are a potential threat, and have pressured Taiwan's Asustek to delay its planned launch of the...
Fresh off dumping its U.S. wireless interests for a cool $130 billion, Vodafone continued to expand its European play announcing plans to acquire Spain’s Grupo Corporativo Ono for $10 billion.
Vodafone noted that Ono currently serves more than 7.2 million homes with its next-generation network,...
