The Next-Generation Mobile Networks Alliance has created a standard approach to reporting the specifications for base station antennas, and now companies that supported the development of the standard are trying to get it more widely adopted across the industry.
Kevin Linehan, VP and CTO of...
Telefónica has chosen Comsearch, a CommScope company that focuses on spectrum planning and analysis, for optimizing its microwave backhaul link systems.
Telefónica will use Comsearch's iQlink XG spectrum planning tool for microwave backhaul, expanding the standing relationship between the two companies by adding Comsearch's software...
Crown Castle
Crown Castle said that third quarter revenue rose 24% to $930 million, while operating profit (EBITDA) increased 21% to $533 million. The company continues to invest in new towers, but is also returning more cash to shareholders. Crown Castle will increase its annual...
The growing demand for connectivity everywhere continues to push operators’ networks to the limit, exposing holes in their coverage and capacity, especially in dense, urban areas. By 2020, cellular data traffic in the U.S. will exceed available macro capacity by almost 90%. This increased...
FCC, Department of Labor launch TIRAP at workshop
After talking about it for weeks, the Federal Communications Commission (in conjunction with the Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration) workshop, titled "Tower Climber Safety and Injury Protection" happened this past week. Many industry...
CHICAGO – Mobile subscribers usually don't know whether they're connected to a macro site, a distributed antenna system or even a Wi-Fi network. They just want to stay connected, everywhere and all the time. If connectivity is a problem, venue owners are often the...
CHICAGO – The HetNet Forum welcomed more than 600 companies to Chicago this week for its HetNet Expo, and most of the companies exhibiting at the show were focused on distributed antenna systems. Several made time to talk with RCR Wireless News about skill...
Americans want mobile broadband, and they want good jobs with potential for growth. The wireless industry can deliver both, but only if adequate training is available for the workforce.
Department of Labor, FCC announce wireless apprenticeship program
Right now, thousands of wireless infrastructure jobs are going...
ABI Research names CommScope, TE Connectivity, Axell, Corning, and SOLiD as the top vendors of distributed antenna systems (DAS) based on implementations. More than half of all DAS deployments to date are in North America, and four of the five companies are based in...
LAS VEGAS — Network densification will eventually enable operators to support service innovation and monetize their infrastructure investments. But in the near term, the focus is on cost-effective deployment of new infrastructure that will build capacity and coverage without eroding profitability, and can scale...
Alcatel-Lucent will start reaping the benefits of its partnership with Qualcomm when it launches a new enterprise small cell early next year. The company's upcoming solution will use carrier aggregation to support 3G and LTE on a single chipset, Qualcomm's FSM9955.
At launch, Alcatel-Lucent's 9962...
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Philip Sorrells of CommScope outlined key trends that he thinks will be a focus at CTIA. Sorrells said that some of the most closely watched metrics for operators are ARPU, subscriber growth and investment. Two key themes he has identified are...
Distributed antenna systems provide connectivity behind the scenes, out of sight, even underground in some cases, and at times they have been as hard to find in corporate financial results as they are in some of the venues where they're deployed. But that's starting to change....
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Tower climber injured, but OK
This past week a tower climber was injured while working on a tower in Georgia. The climber was 125 feet up on...
With more than half of all U.S. wireless calls and data sessions now originating indoors, building owners are acutely aware of the need for indoor connectivity. "Many new venue owners who don't have DAS infrastructure installed are coming to us, kind of recognizing our...
Welcome to this week’s edition of cell tower industry news, created by Jarad Matula and brought to you by Towercrews.net. Tower companies and carriers are certainly getting their day in court lately. Last week it was a federal court debating police use of cell tower...
Beyond Wi-Fi offload
As cable operators increase their public Wi-Fi deployments, mobile operators may see some Wi-Fi hotspots reaching out to grab their customers. Last week during The Cable Show, Smith Micro Software launched an over-the-top Wi-Fi "concierge" app for iOS and Android devices.
"Wi-Fi as...
Welcome to this week’s edition of cell tower industry news, created by Jarad Matula and brought to you by Towercrews.net.
Police have used data culled from cell towers for a while now to help in solving crimes, and it has largely been ignored by the general...
Infrastructure solutions company CommScope (COMM) reported net income of $64 million on sales of $935 million in the first quarter of the year, driven by its wireless offerings and strength in the U.S. market.
CommScope's net income boomed to $64 million, compared to $16 million...
CommScope Inc. recently posted on its blog an infographic capturing some of the on-going trends in in-building wireless.
Among the findings:
- Close to 80% of mobile data use occurs indoors, with usage dominated by smartphones.
- About 30 billion square meters of indoor commercial real estate...
Heterogenous Networks, or HetNets, are an increasingly important part of the wireless landscape in order to support denser networks and in-building coverage. RCR's weekly HetNet News column includes the latest on distributed antenna systems (DAS), Wi-Fi and small cells.Â
--Athena Wireless is showcasing its smoke-detector-sized,...
Small cells were in the spotlight at this year's Mobile World Congress 2014 event, but distributed antenna systems continue to outpace small cells in terms of carrier spending. And in Barcelona, it was quite clear that DAS is not giving way to small cells....
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Ever since the fatalities a few weeks back, the tower industry has been very quiet. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) used the radio silence to write an open...
Welcome to our weekly collection of all the top cell tower news stories, where we cover global, national, regional, local and distributed antenna system news. Crown Castle continues to make headlines with tower purchases, this time from CPS Energy. CPS Energy's tower sale is...
