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Aio Wireless clips prices

AT&T Mobility’s Aio Wireless brand modified its offerings, providing more separation between recent changes to the mother ship’s rate plans and that of the prepaid-focused Aio plans. The new plans include lower prices and increased data buckets and follow up on comments made last...

Analyst Angle: The reality of smartphone market saturation

Already we’ve heard from Apple and Samsung that their future is not as rosy for smartphones as investors had hoped. In reality it is like expecting early automobile dealers to continue to grow sales

AT&T appoints new chief medical advisor

AT&T has named Eric Topol its new chief medical advisor.

Samsung announces US availability of Galaxy Note Pro, Tab Pro

Samsung Electronics America announced that beginning Feb. 13, U.S. customers will be able to purchase the Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 and the Tab Pro 10.1 and 8.4.

OpenDaylight releases new SDN solution

The OpenDaylight Project, an open community focused on software defined networking and virtualization solutions, recently announced the availability of its first open source software called Hydrogen.

Time Trippin’: Nextel sets standard on mobile Internet, tower sales … 15 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...

Analyst Angle: Go-to-market tune ups for small cell infrastructure players

Tower providers, fiber players, integrators and others are focused on capturing business from the next round of U.S. mobile infrastructure expansion – small cells.

FCC’s Auction 96 pushes past $1.2 billion; bidding suspended due to weather

All H-Block spectrum licenses up for bid in the ongoing Federal Communications Commission Auction 96 are now in play with all 176 “economic area” licenses now having received at least a minimum bid. The last to fall was the 10 megahertz EA license covering...

Sponsored: Galtronics Announces Low Profile MIMO Omni Antenna

Introducing the PEAR M5542i from Galtronics. Today the company announced this low profile, MIMO, PIM Certified iDAS antenna, available commercially for cost-effective in-building small cell LTE applications. Low Profile, 8.19" PIM Certified iDAS Antenna Commercially Available for Cost Effective In-Building Small Cell LTE Applications TORONTO, ON--(Jan 28,...

US telecom policy news: Privacy questions abound

Data privacy and net neutrality are featured in this week's roundup of mobile policy news.

National Instruments, Broadcom sign license agreement

National Instruments announced that it is the first vendor with a manufacturing test license agreement with Broadcom, which will allow NI to provide testing solutions to Broadcom original equipment and design manufacturers. Broadcom's MTL program is a new one which allows test equipment vendors to...

Report indicates FCC ‘skepticism’ over Sprint/T-Mobile US merger

Rumors of Sprint’s interest in acquiring smaller rival T-Mobile US seem to be hitting a regulatory wall as reports indicate little support for such action from government officials. Reuters reported that current Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler has “expressed expressed his skepticism about...

AT&T Mobility drops T-Mobile US-targeted promotion

AT&T Mobility has reportedly stopped offering to pay current T-Mobile US customers up to $450 to switch their mobile service, an offering the carrier began making just last month. According to The Wall Street Journal, an AT&T spokesman said the offer ended Jan. 31, noting...

Ericsson networks chief sees growing carrier investment in VoLTE, SDN

Ericsson executive vice president Johan Wibergh became head of the company's networks business in 2008, just before the global recession and the emergence of low-cost Asian competitors delivered something of a one-two punch to the largest part of Ericsson's business. But the company's networks...

Ericsson to host OpenDaylight Project SDN, NFV lab

Telecommunications infrastructure giant Ericsson announced plans to launch a new lab in support of the OpenDaylight Project community, which is looking to propel the development, testing and verification of software defined networking services. The Ericsson lab, which will be run in conjunction with the...

Study: Mobile payment penetration grows, but fraud is a looming threat

A new research study has found that fraudulent transactions via mobile devices result in $2.83 of fraud costs for every dollar of actual fraud losses. That figure is actually better than the $3.10 spent per dollar of fraud for the on-line channel, in part...

H-Block spectrum auction adds $100M to kick-off the week

The Federal Communications Commission’s auction of the H-Block spectrum kicked off the week at a more heated clip that resulted in an additional $100 million in potential winning bids. The auction of 10 megahertz of spectrum in the upper 1.9 GHz band surpassed $1.1 billion...

HetNet News: Gogo chooses DragonWave for backhaul

In-flight Wi-Fi provider Gogo Inc. has selected packet microwave supplier DragonWave Inc. to support its ongoing expansion. The two companies have been working together for several years and are expanding their relationship. Gogo's technology is available on more than 2,000 commercial aircraft and more than 6,500...

Mobile Minute: Hackers reportedly hit Orange, other top stories

Other top stories: AT&T Mobility throws more gas on price war AT&T Mobility over the weekend unveiled new family plan pricing increasing the heat burning through the mobile space. ... Read More Foxconn reportedly moves into chip design The acquisition may be a sign that the manufacturer wants...

India puts wireless spectrum licenses up for auction

India reduced the minimum price for airwave access in an attempt to sell mobile wireless service spectrum in a recent auction. This is the second time airwave access has been put up for auction in India, as the first sale in 2012 saw few takers.

Verizon Wireless demonstrates LTE Multicast service at Super Bowl

Updated with comment from Verizon Wireless Verizon Wireless used this weekend’s Super Bowl as the test bed for its LTE Multicast service that is based on the LTE Broadcast standard for one-way streaming of video content. The test was part of the carrier’s Power House...

Foxconn reportedly moves into chip design

Hon Hai Precision Industry, more commonly known as Foxconn, is reportedly buying a Taiwanese chipmaker that specializes in ARM-based SoCs, the applications processors most commonly used in smartphones and tablets. Socle Technology Corporation licenses the ARM Cortex MPCore processors, ARM Mali (GPUs), ARM11MP-S, ARM1176-S,...

AT&T Mobility throws more gas on price war

The domestic pricing wars continue to heat up as AT&T Mobility is the latest to stoke the fires of a battle rippling across nearly all of the country’s mobile operators. The carrier over the weekend unveiled a new family plan that provides for unlimited talk,...

Telecom policy news roundup: NSA, FCC make headlines

Questions abound regarding NSA data collection, the FCC looks to overhaul landline networks and telecoms lobby hard in this week's policy news round up.