Alcatel-Lucent (ALU), which announced its “Shift Plan” a year ago, is now looking to shift some of its submarine cable business. When the Paris-based telecom equipment company released its 2014 second quarter results, it announced a planned initial public offering for the subsidiary scheduled...
AT&T continues to bolster its User-Defined Network Cloud program, this week announcing the addition of Alcatel-Lucent and Fujitsu Network Communications to the program.
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Crown Castle sees strong carrier spending, adds small cells
Tower giant Crown Castle International (CCI) reported second quarter revenues of $916.3 million, up 25% from the year-ago quarter. The company noted continuing network investment by all four major...
The shift from coverage to capacity in North America helped Ericsson to increase both revenues and margins during the second quarter. Second quarter sales were $8 billion, down 1% from the year-ago quarter, but up 15% from the first quarter. North American revenues were...
--Telecommunication software equipment remains a hot seller, with a new report from Infonetics Research claiming the market was on track to grow each year through 2018, with 2015 cited as being set for especially strong growth. The research firm noted this growth was on...
Operators are securing enterprise small cell contracts with promises of faster and more reliable connectivity. Putting those promises into practice requires close cooperation with vendors like Alcatel-Lucent and SpiderCloud Wireless, who discussed the challenges on a recent RCR Insights panel along with Peter Jarich...
We live in a digital world where consumers and business alike are looking to improve the end-user experience. This can often mean breaking the status quo by finding new ways to achieve the end goal.
AT&T and Verizon Communications will almost certainly be keeping a close eye on XG-FAST developments at Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs, following last week's announcement that the lab has achieved speeds of 10 gigabits per second over a distance of 30 meters, using two bonded pairs...
América Móvil has decided sell some of its assets to comply with Mexico’s new anti-trust telecom rules that forbid companies from controlling more than 50% of the market.
On July 8, América Móvil issued a statement announcing that its board has analyzed several alternatives and recommendations, and resolved to reduce...
As operators build heterogeneous networks to expand coverage and capacity, they want best-in-breed solutions and are ready to work with multiple vendors. Vodafone has shown that equipment from more than one vendor can interoperate within a single location by integrating Alcatel-Lucent's small cells with...
Vodafone selected Alcatel-Lucent as a "supplier of reference" for small cell and Wi-Fi technology as part of its Project Spring investment program. Through Project Spring, Vodafone plans to spend about $11 billion to expand and improve its LTE and 3G coverage in Europe and...
Wi-Fi at the World Cup
Wi-Fi offload is a big part of the game plan for Brazil's mobile operators during the World Cup. TIM Brasil and OI SA are both working with Aptilo Networks to offload mobile data traffic without losing control of their subscribers....
Vendors focus on signaling
The explosion in mobile data traffic has led to an even bigger increase in signaling traffic within the networks, and infrastructure vendors are focused on helping operators recognize and address the issue. There are different types of "signaling storms," - those...
The race towards the next evolution of mobile technology received a boost today as the European Commission and South Korea announced plans to work towards a common definition of “5G” technology.
The Joint Declaration on Strategic Cooperation in Information Communications Technology and 5G agreement calls...
Small Cell Industry Awards
The Small Cell Forum announced the Small Cell Industry Awards for 2014 as part of last week's Small Cells World Summit in London. For small cell innovoation leadership, Alcatel-Lucent won for its site certification program. Cisco won the vendor award for...
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”...
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...
Many service providers come to a point where they could benefit from a rethink and refresh of their IP core network. So why exactly should service providers consider rethinking their IP core network architecture
Small Cell World Summit
The Small Cell World Summit 2014 is set to bring hundreds of carrier representatives and solutions providers together in London this week. The Small Cell Forum said it will discuss the recently announced third iteration of its use cases and best...
Former Alcatel-Lucent subsidiary LGS Innovations is in its early days of new ownership, and CEO Kevin Kelly is ready to expand the company's reach.
LGS, headquartered in northern Virginia, was formed during the Alcatel and Lucent merger to serve the telcom needs of the U.S. federal...
Increased competition appears to be hitting the Chinese mobile market, with reports that the country’s largest operators – and some of the largest in the world – are set to slash rate plans in order to maintain their tremendous growth.
The Wall Street Journal reported...
Verizon Wireless continued testing its LTE Multicast technology, announcing it has been offering the service this month at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway ahead of this weekend’s Indianapolis 500 event.
During the actual race, Verizon Wireless said it plans to incorporate live video from the race...
NTT DoCoMo is looking towards the future, announcing this morning agreements with a half-dozen equipment vendors to conduct trials of so-called “5G” technologies. Those vendors include Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Fujitsu, NEC, Nokia and Samsung.
NTT DoCoMo, which is Japan’s largest wireless operator, said the trials will...
Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) stock is up this morning on renewed rumors that Nokia wants to combine forces in order to take on market leader Ericsson. Nokia has a new CEO, a fresh focus on its NSN infrastructure business, and more than $7 billion in cash...
