T-Mobile US quest for customer growth looks to be taking a toll financially as the nation’s scrappiest carrier saw its net losses widen year-over-year during the fourth quarter.
The carrier reported a loss of $20 million during the final three months of 2013, an...
The giants of the personal computer world are a force to be reckoned with at this week's MWC 2014 event, and their agendas are strikingly similar. Intel, Dell and Hewlett-Packard all announced new initiatives this week related to network function virtualization.
Intel is working with...
Mobile is booming in Latin America. The region now accounts for 10% of the global mobile market in terms of revenues and is the second fastest growing region globally. With 500 million
The Federal Communications Commission’s H-Block spectrum auction has slowed to a painful crawl as the number of new bids Monday hit an all-time low.
A total of 22 new bids were placed across 12 rounds of action totaling under $4 million in new funds, which...
An industry safety task force is kicking off an education campaign this week aimed at increasing the safety of tower climbers by urging them to tie-off 100% of the time.
Todd Schlekeway, executive director of the National Association of Tower Electors, called the campaign “an extremely high...
Telecom Software Press Releases
AT&T introduces user-defined network cloud
Alcatel-Lucent partners with Intel for cloud solutions
Telefonica to use Alcatel-Lucent's CloubBand NFV platform
Ericsson also partners with Telefonica for NFV
Dell expands collaboration with RedHat for OpenStack NFV
HP launches OpenNFV
Cisco quantum virtualized packet core solution passes portability testing with...
Editor's note: This is a compilation of Mobile World Congress 2014 news in the HetNet space, including small cells, Wi-Fi and distributed antenna systems (DAS). This list will be updated daily. Email khill@rcrwireless.com to have your release included.
NSN expands its Flexi Zone small cell line...
Barcelona, Spain. Alcatel-Lucent clearly sees software as the key to its comeback, and has made that clear with a slew of announcements at Mobile World Congress. The company is partnering with Intel for virtualized RAN, cloud platforms and packet processing for advanced IP/MPLS platforms,...
Editor's note: This is a compilation of Mobile World Congress 2014 news in the test and measurement space, from network and equipment testing to application testing. This list will be updated daily. Email khill@rcrwireless.com to have your release included.
LitePoint will showcase its new testing...
Nokia Solutions and Networks kicked off Mobile World Congress with the introduction of new small cell solutions in its Flexi Zone line. Its newest small cell models support TDD-LTE and support for additional frequency bands, as well as Wi-Fi. NSN said that its new...
With its $130 billion purchase of Vodafone’s 45% stake in Verizon Wireless now complete, Verizon Communications not surprisingly said it expects to expand margins and grow revenues in 2014.
Verizon’s management said the deal will boost earnings per share by 10%; increase consolidated revenues by...
AT&T broadened its international LTE roaming to 13 countries, building on an initiative it began late last year. The carrier said it now offers LTE roaming services across 15 countries.
The latest expansion adds roaming services to Spain, France, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Hong Kong,...
As the mobile industry gears up for one of the biggest events of the year, the industry is buzzing about what new technologies and innovations are going to surface at this year’s Mobile World Congress.
In its simplest form, big data analytics can be broken down into two parts that differentiate it from business intelligence or data warehousing and mining:
Software is expected to be big news at this year’s Mobile World Congress event as the wireless industry looks to glean greater efficiency from mobile networks. Leading up to the event, a number of announcements were made in regards to software enhancements, including network...
Suppliers of small cells and the components that differentiate them are heading into Mobile World Congress with confidence, as their solutions finally start to gain traction in the market. AT&T says it has now added small cells to its network in 18 states, and...
Somehow, someway, the Federal Communications Commission’s Auction 96 made it to the weekend as bids continued to trickle in.
Friday witnessed 82 new bids through the 12 rounds of activity, which was actually a slight increase from the previous day. Nearly half of the new...
Verizon Communications announced today that it has closed on its $130 billion acquisition of Vodafone’s 45% stake in Verizon Wireless, giving the domestic telecom giant full control over its leading revenue-generating division.
The deal, which was announced last September, consisted mostly of cash and shares...
Sprint is getting ready to bring its Sprint Spark LTE service to enterprise customers. The carrier is launching a wireless router in partnership with NETGEAR that combines LTE wireless broadband, 802.11ac Wi-Fi, and Gigabit Ethernet. Sprint is promising peak speeds of 50-60 Mbps now,...
Google is reportedly working on a new app to automatically connect users to its Wi-Fi network.
Other top stories:
U.S. lags in network speeds
The U.S. has seen a greater decline in network speeds this year than any other country, according to OpenSignal. Read More
FCC dives back...
Traditionally, competitive juices in the wireless communications space flow between companies in the same market segment. We have often seen this when one carrier touts its “superiority” to a rival
This week's news gives a preview on what test and measurement companies will be focused on at Mobile World Congress.
--Rhode & Schwarz has added new functions to its R&S CMW500 wideband radio communications tester, including support for three-component carrier downlink testing for LTE-Advanced carrier aggregation...
