What is it with carriers? Every time there is a ‘new' infrastructure technology, it takes years for the actual deployment to take place. My rule of thumb is now a decade or longer between when a vendor starts promoting a totally new concept to...
Following are infrastructure contracts announced during the past week:ADC Telecom Canada: To deploy its InterReach Fusion and InterReach Unison distributed antenna systems to provide multi-operator wireless and public safety service at all major sports venues and many hospitality sites in Vancouver during the...
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.Season's greetings to the Reality Check faithful. It's been a trendful year, and while the pundits regurgitate...
Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
Tarpon Towers completes tower acquisitions – Now owns 75 towersFrom: Tarpon TowersBRADENTON, FL- December 1, 2009 – Tarpon Towers, an acquirer and developer of wireless communications sites, today announced it had completed a 37 tower acquisition and now owns over 75 towers. With the...
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.In the mobile market, flexibility is critical. Subscribers want flexibility in their voice and data plans and...
SAN DIEGO – The CDMA Development Group handed out their 2009 CDMA Industry Achievement Awards at this year's 3G CDMA Americas Regional Conference in San Diego, Calif., this week. Winners were selected by industry ballots and included companies and individuals leading the deployment of...
The tower industry gets its turn on the trade show spotlight this week as PCIA’s 2009 Wireless Infrastructure Show is set to kick off at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Hotel in Nashville, Tenn. The event’s festivities start on Monday, Sept. 21 with the...
Wasn’t it just yesterday the wireless industry was all abuzz about third-generation networks and how they would revolutionize the way we communicate? Taking a look at the headlines today that tout the same life-altering benefits of 4G and you would almost think those 3G...
Nothing seems to drive adoption of a service as well as cutting the price of using that service. And for the wireless industry, the service of choice remains voice, and in case you were not aware, we are in the midst of a price...
CHICAGO – What's that old saying: I can't miss you if you won't go away. That seemed appropriate for day 1 of the 4G World 2009 event held this week in Chicago where while the focus of the conference is obviously on "4G" technologies,...
Hello!And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way. We...
Femtocells are just starting to hit the wireless market, but considerable momentum is building for the technology to play a key role when carriers start to deploy LTE networks.More than 18 wireless providers said they are planning to deploy LTE technology within...
With three of the four largest wireless providers in the United States selling femtocells to boost indoor coverage, and the fourth expected to join the party, a Massachusetts company is banking millions that the technology will take off.Verizon Wireless was the most recent to...
Looking to boost indoor coverage for customers, Verizon Wireless is rolling out its femtocell offering through its Network Extender base station that will be available for $250.The wireless provider unveiled its new product today. Existing customers can purchase the base stations online, by phone...
In 2009, the wireless industry is apt to suffer many of the same consequences exacted upon others by the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression: layoffs (likely giving way to stepped-up outsourcing), reduced capital spending, lower revenues and slimmer profit margins, tight credit,...
Research indicates that 2010 will be the year that femtocell technology will boom, and the major carriers are positioning themselves to take advantage by selling a product that boosts wireless signals in homes and offices that have spotty coverage.Sprint Nextel Corp. was the first...
StarHub and Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. announced the launch of a new, commercially available 3G femtocell network in Singapore, which they said provides mobile-phone services through the carrier's cable network.StarHub has launched Home Zone to its customers and uses 3G femtocells, portable cellular access...
The fixed-mobile convergence market is being driven forward by new services like T-Mobile USA Inc.'s @Home service and Orange SA's unik service in Europe, and the market will face its first real competition from services like Sprint Nextel Corp.'s femtocell-based Airave solution.ABI Research predicts...
CHICAGO - The Wireless History Foundation celebrated the 25th anniversary of the first cellphone call with an evening of festivity featuring a celebrity attendee list similar to what you'd find in People magazine - if People magazine covered the wireless industry.
Look below for pictures...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.To adapt the words of famed chaos theorist Edward Lorenz who coined the term "butterfly...
A study from ABI Research predicts the market for femtocell semiconductors could top $1.8 billion 2013, from $72 million this year, growing at an annual compound growth rate of more than 300%.The lucrative market is attracting more and more silicon vendors, including heavyweights Freescale...
The fast-growing femtocell market will generate $360 million in revenues for companies that provide device and service management for femtocell networks, according to a research brief from ABI Research.These companies provide functions such as performance management, remote configuration, security provisioning, timing, traffic routing and...
Despite the buzz surrounding the femtocell market, 2008 will probably be a low-key year for femtocell vendors with only about 100,000 units expected to ship, according to predictions from ABI Research.By 2010, however, the market will begin a serious ramp-up, hitting double-digit millions in...
