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...
Welcome to our weekly wrap-up of telecom software news. It's been a week of big deals and big reports in the telecom space. Verizon Communications acquired Intel Media, VMware bought AirWatch, Subex landed $10 million worth of contracts and Redknee signed a $5...
Editor’s Note: Wireless operators are a busy bunch, and as such RCR Wireless News will attempt to gather some of the important announcements that may slip through the cracks from the world’s largest carriers in a weekly wrap-up. Enjoy!
--SK Telecom continued to push the...
It’s that time of year again – time to hop into our DeLoreans and make the short leap forward to 2014. What will the coming year bring for telecom? What technologies will make waves and
Before we turn the page on 2013, we thought we would take a look back at the past 12 months by highlighting what we felt were the top 100 stories across the mobile space. Since it would be foolish to rank these in order...
Before we turn the page on 2013, we thought we would take a look back at the past 12 months by highlighting what we felt were the top 100 stories across the mobile space. Since it would be foolish to rank these in order...
Alcatel-Lucent will sell its wholly-owned subsidiary LGS Innovations LLC to investor groups Madison Dearborn Partners and CoVant for $200 million.
LGS Innovations was formed during the Alcatel and Lucent merger as a subsidiary to provide networking and communications solutions to the U.S. federal government, due...
Welcome to our weekly wrap-up of everything in the world of telecom software. With winter in the air and the year winding down, it seems like everybody's either wrapping up unfinished business for 2013 or building out new opportunities to start 2014 with a...
Sprint CEO Dan Hesse told investors yesterday that the carrier's decision to "rip and replace" its entire network had led to "dust issues" which have elevated churn in some markets. "As we are building out Network Vision ... it is something that really hasn't...
Welcome to the weekly wrap-up of everything in the world of cell tower companies. We cover top-level industry stories, DAS, and regional/local news. This collection of news spans last week's shortened holiday week and this week. Good news for tower climbers everywhere is the...
For mobile operators considering small cell deployments, the questions are many: backhaul, logistics, handoffs, interoperability, and of course cost. Through a series of innovative partnerships, Alcatel-Lucent has created a system that it hopes can solve at least two of these problems: backhaul and logistics....
Alcatel-Lucent and first responders in Nevada recently conducted a six-month trial of an LTE network for public safety, using 700 MHz allotted by the First Responders Network Authority, or FirstNet.
The Las Vegas Metro Policy Department, Nevada Department of Transportation, and other first responders were...
Welcome to our weekly wrap-up of everything in the world of telecom software. While last week seemed to be spent on reflection and awards, this week sees an embrace of the new: Oracle, CenturyLink and Teoco's acquisitions, CVidya and Ruckus' new software and new...
Alcatel-Lucent scored a win with the announcement that China Mobile has selected its Evolved Packet Core portfolio to support its roll-out of LTE.
China Mobile awarded more than $3 billion in LTE contracts a few months ago, out of a total expected spend of more...
Welcome to our weekly wrap-up of everything in the world of telecom software. Winter chill is in the air and that means it's the end of the year and a time for reflection on the past year, which usually means giving out awards. NetCracker,...
Welcome to our weekly wrap-up of everything in the world of telecom software. After last week's focus on looking back, this week seems to be all about the new: new high-profile lawsuit; new version of Android with new security and headaches for Verizon Wireless;...
Longtime Sprint partner Ericsson will not be a supplier for Sprint Spark, the carrier's upcoming TD-LTE network, but the telecom equipment giant will still have an important role to play. Ericsson will continue to manage Sprint's entire network as part of a $5 billion...
Alcatel-Lucent continued its struggle with profitability during the third quarter, even with encouraging results on revenue growth.
The company's revenues were up 7% year-over-year at constant exchange rates, but it still reported a net loss ofabout $270 million.
Alcatel-Lucent is in the midst of a major...
Welcome once again to our weekly wrap-up on tower technology. RCR Wireless News brings you the top stories related to the tower industry and tower-related technology in one place so you don't have to scour the internet to stay in the know. This week...
Welcome once again to our weekly wrap-up on tower technology. RCR Wireless News brings you the top stories related to the tower industry and tower-related technology in one place so you don't have to scour the internet to stay in the know. This week...
RIO DE JANEIRO — Alcatel-Lucent is betting on the growth of small cells across the Caribbean and Latin American region. In a meeting with members of the press at the Futurecom event, Osvaldo Di Campli, president of Alcatel-Lucent's CALA unit, announced that the vendor has secured...
Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Telecom Software weekly wrap-up where we gather top telecom software news stories for the week:
U.S. Cellular is working with its billing company Amdocs to fix glitches that caused multiple inaccurate bills for customers and other errors.
Actix rolled...
Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) says that roughly one of every seven workers will be let go as the telecom equipment giant makes a last-ditch effort to turn its business around. About 20% of the 10,000 job cuts will take place in North and South America, with...
Alcatel-Lucent continues to beat the drum for software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV), with the creation of an open ecosystem for service providers, developers and vendors interested in adopting NFV.
The CloudBand Ecosystem Program was initially rolled out to a limited group of...
