Did you know that QNX has been around for more than 30 years and has been a part of the Blackberry family for four? And it has been involved in the automotive landscape for ten years. QNX is the underlying software for many platforms in...
Merger and acquisition activity in the tech space is up, according to a new report, and mobile companies are driving the growth.
Ernst & Young's (EY) update on global tech M&A for the three months from April to June of this year reflected a 57%...
There’s a wealth of information available to organizations wanting to market to you within your mobile device. Mobile operators already understand the importance of this data and how to craft services around this information. As wearables and connected cars become more widespread, how can...
OK, maybe no videotapes. Late last week TeliaSonera released its half-yearly transparency report detailing the amount of lawful intercept requests coming from the government agencies in Sweden and Finland. You will see by the chart to the right that although these figures are comparatively...
What are the implications of Voice over LTE and software-defined networking/network function virtualization when it comes to network analytics and management?
In this week's inaugural 15 for Wireless, I talked with Scott Sumner, VP of solution development at Accedian Networks, about those topics. There are...
AT&T Mobility is jumping into the carrier price wars through its Cricket prepaid brand. It is targeting T-Mobile US, offering $100 to anyone who switches from T-Mobile US or its MetroPCS service. There is no limit to the number of lines one customer can...
Building on today’s early article about the Internet of Things (IoT) and all of the beneficial things these technologies can do for us. We’ll now focus on those topics that I’m not so sure about or that just simply defy logic.
Here are five questionable...
The Internet of Things (IoT) or the Internet of Everything, if you prefer, needs involvement from the mobile operators in order for this vision to become a success. Although many are playing in the machine-to-machine (M2M) space, does this really take us down a...
Three days after Sprint slashed mobile data prices, T-Mobile US fired back with an offer that could turn its customers into ambassadors for its network. The "un-carrier" is offering a year of unlimited LTE data to Simple Choice customers who bring in a new...
The mobile revolution has hit HP particularly hard, but the server giant finally served up some good news for investors yesterday, posting its first year-on-year revenue increase in almost three years. HP reported third quarter net revenue of $27.6 billion, up 1% from the...
Four years ago Telekom Austria created a separate organization to focus on M2M. What had started as an opportunistic business focused on meeting customers’ needs by using existing products and customizing them as required had grown to justify standing on its own two feet.
Now...
Zoom Wireless and Volo have partnered to bring high-speed Internet access to Northern Uganda. There’s a lot of innovation going on in this story, although that may surprise you given the location.
Let’s start with Volo. Its state mission is enabling Internet service providers to bring low-cost...
Popular topics seem to always include LTE news, government oversight concerns (see the view in Germany) and customer service complaints. So we’ll go with these for today’s commentary.
LTE
Although it seems LTE deployments are moving slower in Europe then in the United States, there still...
Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and Security. Having experience at an operator, software and hardware vendors and as a well-known industry analyst, she has many opinions on the market. She’ll be sharing those opinions along...
T-Mobile says it will slow data speeds for users who break the rules
Mobile Minute:
T-Mobile US is the latest carrier to confirm plans to "throttle" some LTE customers. According to an internal memo obtained to TmoNews, the practice will start Sunday and will only impact...
David Smith, director of state and local government for Citrix, spoke with RCR's Kelly Hill about the recent Mobile Work Exchange report commissioned by the company examining trends in government mobility readiness.
Mobile Work Exchange is a public-private partnership that focuses on mobility in the government...
Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and Security. Having experience at an operator, software and hardware vendors and as a well-known industry analyst, she has many opinions on the market. She’ll be sharing those opinions along...
Network quality assurance company NetScout has filed a civil lawsuit against analyst firm Gartner, alleging that Gartner's highly vaunted Magic Quadrant ratings system is a pay-for-play arrangement rather than an unbiased evaluation of the best companies in a given sector.
NetScout filed the lawsuit in...
The move to the cloud for enterprises continued to accelerate, with a new report from the Harvard Business Review and commissioned by Verizon Communications finding 70% of those surveyed had adopted cloud computing into their operations.
Of those firms that have adopted cloud computing, the...
Welcome to this week’s edition of cell tower industry news, created by Jarad Matula and brought to you by Towercrews.net.
OSHA cites S&S for W.Va. collapse
You'll likely recall when we reported on a tragic tower collapse that injured two and claimed two lives in February. Paperwork must be...
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. RCR Wireless News is keeping an eye on recent developments through its weekly “Software”...
Finding connected cars on the road today are not common, but GSMA Connected Car Forum reports 20% of global vehicle sales will have "embedded connectivity solutions" and over 50% will be connected by tethering or integrating a smart phone by the end of 2015....
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