Wireless

MBlox, a global provider of application-to-person messaging, just completed a capital-raising round of $43.5 million. Investors included Comerica and Horizon Technology Finance Corp., as well as some of MBlox’s existing …

The virtualization movement continues to gain steam as the mobile space looks for ways to increase efficiency while reducing costs. The latest push comes from the Small Cell Forum, which …

Welcome to this week’s edition of cell tower industry news, created by Jarad Matula and brought to you by Towercrews.net. Tragedy in Kentucky It was supposed to be a quiet, easy …

Ivan Mishanin, managing director at Bright Box, gave RCR Wireless News a demonstration of the company’s connected car platform that allows users to control aspects of an automobile via smartphones and …

Software is becoming an increasingly important part of telecommunication networks and deployments as both wired and wireless carriers look to add functionality to operations while increasing simplicity and reducing costs. …

Wi-Fi networking software provider Meru Networks said it was issued a conformance certificate from the Open Networking Foundation, citing Meru’s use of software-defined networking and OpenFlow to allow for third-party …

Welcome to this week’s edition of cell tower industry news, created by Jarad Matula and brought to you by Towercrews.net. AT&T infrastructure investment slows, contractor layoffs It’s been a rough week …

As we watch the story unfold related to connected cars and consider how operators will play in this scenario, it’s also interesting to watch the telecom equipment vendor movements in …

It seems the telecom industry does this on a regular basis. We come up with an idea, and we talk about if for years and it still seems to be …

The quest for scale and intellectual property appear to be motivating chip companies to consolidate, with three transactions announced this week. Qualcomm buys RF specialist Qualcomm has purchased Austin’s Black …

Opera has acquired three-year-old mobile video advertising platform company AdColony for $75 million plus up to another $275 million tied to “ambitious” platform revenue goals over the next two years, …

Distributed antenna systems have had a long history in the mobile network space, having been one of the first widely deployed “small cell” technologies used to densify network coverage and …

Welcome to this week’s edition of cell tower industry news, created by Jarad Matula and brought to you by Towercrews.net. Climber Dies in Texas Once again tragedy has struck in the tower …

Software is becoming an increasingly important part of telecommunication networks and deployments as both wired and wireless carriers look to add functionality to operations while increasing simplicity and reducing costs. …

Qualcomm in the hood The mobile chip giant wants to be part of your neighborhood, or your small business if you have one. At Small Cells World Summit 2014 Qualcomm …

RCR Wireless News caught up with Nokia’s Jane Rygaard, head of CEM, Core and OSS marketing, at TM Forum Live 2014. Rygaard shared an update on Nokia’s OSS interoperability initiative. …

Cisco continues its wireless shopping spree, this time with the $175 million acquisition of Tail-f, a developer of multi-vendor service orchestration solutions. The purchase is part of Cisco’s drive to …