Distributed antenna systems are set to go underground in New York as DAS provider Solid said it was tapped by Transit Wireless to support the extension of wireless coverage throughout the New York City subway system. The project is reported to include 277 stations,...
Advanced mobile services such as LTE are forcing mobile operators to re-evaluate macro-focused network architecture. Even 3G service coverage maps are believed to be optimistic in many cases,
Small cells consist of femtocells, picocells and microcells. They are defined by what they aren’t – traditional macro cell networks. Small cells exist to improve data and/or voice coverage via throughput for users
Politics is a 24/7 proposition, but every four years politics takes on a more significant tint thanks to the presidential elections. Most found the 2008 election season to be the first that really began to include mobility as a core outlet for voters and...
RCR Wireless News Editor-In-Chief Dan Meyer and panelists discuss the indoor DAS market and how deployments can help carriers solve coverage and capacity challenges from large events taking place in indoor venues. The upcoming Republican and Democratic National Conventions are set to showcase the...
Just days after announcing a small cell partnership with Alcatel-Lucent, Sprint Nextel today said it has an agreement with Samsung to develop small cell network infrastructure for the carrier’s ongoing Network Vision program.
The agreement calls for Sprint Nextel and Samsung to bolster the carrier’s...
Alcatel-Lucent’s LightRadio offering garnered a significant domestic customer as Sprint Nextel said it will use the “metro cells” to augment coverage in high-traffic areas. Sprint Nextel noted that initial deployments would be to enhance indoor coverage and capacity improvements.
The deployments are part of Alcatel-Lucent’s...
American Tower is looking to rev-up its distributed antenna business, having signed a deal with racetrack owner International Speedway to deploy DAS networks at 12 venues across the country. International Speedway owns such venues as Daytona International Speedway, Talladega Superspeedway and Michigan International Speedway.
The...
Small cell technology continues to make inroads into carrier deployments as Ruckus Wireless announced today that Telefonica’s O2 operations in the United Kingdom has begun deploying its products for coverage across parts of London.
Ruckus noted that the deployment uses its SmartCell 8800 products to...
A new report predicts that the distributed antenna system market will ship 2.5 million DAS nodes in 2017, or nearly doubling its current rate of sales.
Read more about small-cell deployments in the recent RCR Wireless News report “Small Cells, Big Future.”
The Mobile Experts report...
There is no doubt that the wireless space is in the midst of one of the greatest technological transformations since its inception. This is being led by carriers moving away from legacy 2G and 3G networks, that were loosely based on 1G services, and...
DAS is an exciting technology as it allows for greater usage and bandwidth transfer in heavily populated areas. Whether building outdoor DAS or in-building DAS, fiber serves as the building block to a successful DAS implementation.
Yesterday Ericsson released its annual Traffic and Market report, which is based on the company's internal mobile traffic growth modeling exercises as well as data collected from external sources. Not surprisingly, Ericsson's report finds that mobile subscriptions, and thus, mobile traffic – particularly mobile...
NEW ORLEANS – Sprint Nextel has been hammered from all sides for poor decision making in the past, but you have to give this beleaguered carrier credit for at least attempting to right some of those questionable turns. More impressively – or foolishly –...
Take me out to the ballpark... and please make sure my phone works while I'm there. At US sports arenas and stadiums, wireless connectivity ranks right up there with hot dogs and beer as a part of the experience customers expect when they enter...
This week saw me whisk away to lovely Atlanta for the DAS Forum’s DAS in Action event. Now, this is not one of the bigger events on the yearly wireless telecommunications calendar, though I do give it credit for having one of the better names.
ATLANTA – The wireless industry’s move to small cells has been accelerated by consumer demand for service in increasingly difficult places to reach with traditional cellular infrastructure. These locations include densely occupied buildings, packed public venues and underground.
This push to small cells led...
The Copenhagen Metrosubway changed its distributed antenna system (DAS) to better meet the need for wireless coverage in stations and trains with an investment of U.S. $2 million, according to Vasko Toshev from Niras, the company which implemented the system.
The chosen solution was TE...
Most of us are familiar with “wireless triangulation,” which involves identifying the approximate location of a wireless device using IEEE 802.11 standards.
Well, almost everything. When it comes to network deployments by mobile network operators large and small, I learned almost everything I know by attending State Wireless Association events and other PCIA/DAS Forum events.
As one of the founding board members of the Texas State Wireless...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.
Miles of telecommunications fiber have been installed nationwide over the last few years, much by rural telecommunication...
As data usage continues to increase, the networks must keep up. Small cells provide a quick fix for network infrastructures at an extremely affordable price. They say good things come in small packages. And for wireless networks, this is beginning to ring true. Until...
In the United States, operators are turning to small cells to boost network capacity and revenue opportunities. Small cells are no longer seen as alternatives to DAS or to Wi-Fi; instead operators are starting to see all these technologies as key parts of heterogeneous...
