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Wireless Infrastructure: CCI sees more carrier investment, Alcatel-Lucent scores hetnet win

Crown Castle on U.S. carrier investment Speaking at the Raymond James 35th Annual Institutional Investors Conference, Crown Castle CEO Ben Moreland was optimistic about the prospects for continued carrier investment in wireless networks. "What's important in our business, and one of the first things I...

RCRTV: Digging into the impact virtualization, SDN and NFV will have on the wireless space

Network virtualization is creating a growing buzz across the wireless telecommunications space as carriers look for ways to trim network build out costs as well as grasp for ways to rollout services faster to compete against the rising tide of over-the-top applications. RCR Wireless...

Sprint shakeup – Azzi out, Saw promoted

Sprint’s operational transformation has taken a few scalps as a couple of key network executives ere leaving the carrier. Bob Azzi, SVP of networks at Sprint, and president of network operations Steve Elfman are both set to depart. Fierce Wireless first reported this week that...

New software offerings from GL, SwitchRay, Qosmos and BT

GL, SwitchRay, Qosmos and BT unveiled new telecommunications software. 

Ixia completes financial review, CFO resigns

Ixia said it has completed a review of its finances after the resignation of former CEO Victor Alston due to falsified credentials. The company said it found that despite the controversy on his resume, there was no evidence of "intentional misconduct" in regards to...

Huawei unveils SDN traffic optimization engine

Huawei recently announced its latest development in carrier-grade SDN.

FiberLight, RWA, Frontier, Champion ONE and SAP welcome new talent

SAP, FiberLight, RWA, Frontier and Champion ONE welcomed new talent this week. 

Vodafone taps Huawei for network upgrade

Vodafone is adding Huawei to its roster of primary vendors for Project Spring, its $11 billion network upgrade. Huawei joins Ericsson and NSN in supplying Vodafone, which is upgrading its network in 15 countries in Europe and Africa. During the next two years, the...

Apple suffers setback in court

Apple suffered a setback today in its ongoing patent dispute with Samsung. Judge Lucy Koh, who has been presiding over most of the patent litigation between the two leading smartphone makers, denied Apple's motion for a permanent injunction against Samsung. Apple was seeking an...

Inside the T-Mobile US trade-in program

T-Mobile US has been harvesting BlackBerries with an aggressive trade-in program that ended this week. The agile "un-carrier" offered customers $200 to trade in an old BlackBerry for a new device, and $250 if they wanted to trade it in for a BlackBerry Z10...

Carrier Wrap: Verizon Wireless further delays VoLTE, aces J.D. Power network survey

Editor’s Note: Wireless operators are a busy bunch, and as such RCR Wireless News will attempt to gather some of the important announcements that may slip through the cracks from the world’s largest carriers in a weekly wrap-up. Enjoy! --Verizon Wireless looks again to be...

Softbank’s Son set to press T-Mobile US case in front of regulators

Softbank Chairman Masayoshi Son is reportedly set to take his case for a Sprint acquisition of T-Mobile US to U.S. regulators next week, according to published reports. Son, who’s Softbank acquired a controlling stake in beleaguered Sprint last summer for $21.6 billion, is set on...

LatAm Wrap-Up: NII Holdings slumps; report claims Brazil not mobile-ready for World Cup

NII Holdings, which operates in Latin America under the Nextel brand, posted a rough 2013, with the company reporting losses in both subscribers and revenue. “We are clearly disappointed with our operational performance in 2013, and we are taking actions to improve our business results,...

Analysts see growth in HetNets, TD-LTE

Several recent research reports assess trends in the small cell and HetNet space, as well as recognizing the growth of TD-LTE in the global wireless market. ABI assessed vendors in the small cell market and carrier Wi-Fi market and put Alcatel-Lucent, Huawei and Cisco at...

Mobile Minute: T-Mobile US gets the last laugh

Other top stories: Verizon, AT&T dominate Root Metrics survey Verizon took first place, but both Verizon an AT&T were far ahead of the Sprint and T-Mobile US. Read More NATE Unite 2014: Emphasis on safety At the National Association of Tower Erectors conference, attendees grappled with safety issues...

Sprint, US government go to court

Sprint faces charges alleging it overcharged the government for years.

RadioShack’s falling fourth quarter profits prompts store closures

RadioShack plans to close up to 1,100 stores due to financial results. 

Parallels report details continued cloud adoption by SMBs

A new report from cloud-services enabler Parallels predicts explosive growth of cloud adoption by small-to-medium businesses, amid a global market that it says is expanding at a compound annual growth rate of 26% to reach $125 billion by 2016. In mature markets, the company reported...

Sprint partners with IMS for connected car solutions

Sprint is looking to capitalize on the growing market for connected devices that monitor drivers in order to calculate more accurate insurance premiums. Today the carrier announced a partnership with Intelligent Mechatronic Systems, a developer of connected car technologies, that calls for Sprint to...

Verizon Wireless, AT&T Mobility dominate RootMetrics’ nationwide network survey

The latest network report card from RootMetrics showed a clear win for Verizon Wireless, though rival AT&T Mobility came in a close second. More telling, the nation’s two largest operators scored well ahead of their smaller rivals Sprint and T-Mobile US. The report, which RootMetrics...

AirWatch ready to attack VMWare customer base

AirWatch CEO John Marshall did not look like a man who had just spent four days at a trade show when he met with RCR Wireless News at the close of the recent Mobile World Congress 2014 event. Marshall is clearly energized by his...

European Carrier News: Bidding war in France for Vivendi’s SFR

A battle of billionaires is underway in France as media company Vivendi has reportedly given bidders until March 5 to submit final offers for its telecom unit, SFR, the second largest operator in France. The two contenders are the French cable company Numericable, whose...

Analyst Angle: When will wireless matter in the consumer broadband access battle?

The broadband ecosystem continues to evolve but a key question remains: When will wireless operators play a major role in disintermediating wired broadband service providers?

Time Trippin’: Apple cracks open the iPhone; wireless carriers and warrantless wiretaps … 6 years ago this week

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...