Wi-Fi technology is a foundational element of global connectivity, linking billions of devices and enabling countless digital services. While its adoption has been robust across residential, enterprise, and public domains, understanding its current state, technological advancements, and associated challenges...
The shift toward Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) infrastructure, built on interoperable technologies from multiple vendors, is accelerating. To unlock the full potential of Open RAN - delivering cost efficiency, performance enhancements, and greater flexibility - it's crucial...
The direct-to-cellular or D2C texting service is available on four smartphones, free of charge for eligible users
One New Zealand has become the first carrier to launch a nationwide satellite-based direct-to-cellular, or D2C, texting service to its customers, relying on...
As we march toward 2030, the relentless demand for wireless data is reshaping the landscape of connectivity. Meeting this demand requires a well-orchestrated strategy to secure new spectrum and optimize existing bands. The success of 6G, with commercial deployments...
Motivations, practical considerations and more influence how the industry defines sustainability
How the telecom industry thinks about—and defines—sustainability lead to its priorities and actions, and why it matters to the industry to work towards sustainability of telecom networks and businesses.
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In today’s dynamic business landscape, it’s essential to provide exceptional customer experiences (CX) efficiently while alleviating the burden on agents. This requires the use of automation and related technologies to expedite and manage manual processes, ensuring they keep up...
RCR Wireless News received the below 2025 predictions via email from Nvidia. They are attributed to the company's Senior Vice President of Telecoms Ronnie Vasishta.
The AI connection: Telecommunications providers will begin to deliver generative AI applications and 5G connectivity over...
In today’s increasingly competitive and digitalized world, telcos strive to remain relevant, but various challenges abound in both B2B and B2C segments. B2B customers, for example, can have a difficult relationship with their telcos across countless portals and assisted...
Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on those sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and...
Fraud management is emerging as a pivotal area where generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and AI agents are providing cutting-edge fraud detection and prevention techniques that enable telcos to more effectively fight fraud. The telecom industry has long been encumbered...
I know that now is the time of year for industry leaders to rattle off their top five predictions for the coming year, offering up a list of bullets that just so happen to fit into their product launch...
This year's defense authorization bill includes full funding for the rip and replace program for telecom networks
The U.S. Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, sending the legislation to President Joe Biden's desk. The $895 billion bill...
A couple of submissions from Nokia, here, in response to RCR's request for industry soothsayers to step forward, and tell us about the year ahead – in industrial networking, computing, sensing, analytics (and everything in between) in the name...
Inertial Labs offers solutions including GNSS tracking, LiDAR scanning and alternative PNT
Viavi Solutions is buying a Virginia company that specializes in precise positioning and navigation technologies for use aerospace, defense and industrial settings. Inertial Labs has solutions that Viavi...
The SA 5G network supports use cases like machine health monitoring, drone inspections and digital twins
Vodafone Portugal and Ericsson have partnered to deploy a Standalone (SA) private 5G at Portuguese cement manufacturer Cimpor’s production facility as part of...
In an era defined by rapid digital transformation, robust and reliable wireless networks are indispensable to modern connectivity. Nearly every aspect of daily life relies on seamless internet access, so the importance of strategic wireless tower placement has grown...
The internet of things (IoT) continues to grow apace as more industries connect devices for commercial and operational reasons. Transforma Insights forecast global IoT connections to land at 18.2 billion this year, with a projected rise to 20.4 billion...
As fraud methods continue to evolve and become increasingly rigid, these sophisticated and highly destructive cybercrimes — aimed at telecommunication providers — have brought about a fraud incident chasm. The growing gap between fraud methods and traditional fraud management...
US chip-maker Silicon Labs has said it has shipped four million Wirepas sub-GHz RF mesh IoT units for India’s advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) initiative, to go in smart electricity meters. The Indian government set new rules in 2021 to...
A couple of announcements from Germany-based IoT MVNO 1NCE: the firm has introduced a new global certification program for software ‘integrators’ to streamline IoT development and accelerate IoT innovation; as well, announced a couple of weeks back, 1NCE has...
The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in industrial enterprises is reshaping the way organizations view and implement cloud strategies. Industrial enterprises generate a staggering amount of data – from factory sensors to supply chain systems – and leveraging...
The jointly developed solution combines a 5G private network with private MEC and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software
Verizon is putting a new proposition in front of enterprise customers: a combination of its 5G private network connectivity, plus private Mobile Edge...
There will be over 100 million Wi-Fi HaLow devices, geared for mid-range IoT applications in 850-950 MHz spectrum, in circulation by 2029, reckons ABI Research. The projection describes the creation of an entire market, effectively; there are only “several...
Wi-Fi has been with us for decades. It remains one of the most important and valuable technologies in the wireless world. Most technologies have a limited life span. (You remember the fax machine and iPod, right?) But Wi-Fi never...
Nokia Bell Labs, the research and development (R&D) arm of Finish vendor Nokia, is working with the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI), the Fraunhofer Society’s electrical engineering group, and Charité, Europe’s largest university hospital, in Germany to look at...
