North American operators are expected to purchase $260 million filter and tower-mounted amplifier products this year, as LTE deployments spur strong sales during the next five years, according to a new report from Mobile Experts L.L.C."The overall market size will continue to grow, despite...
InfiNet Wireless, manufacturer and provider of carrier-grade wireless infrastructure solutions, announced that LCR Honda has selected its InfiMan 2x2 wireless solution to provide a mobile team communications infrastructure for its race-day locations. Both engineering and mechanical teams rely on high-speed, high-capacity communications connections to...
Smartphone shipments will more than double from 478 million in 2011 to 1.03 billion in 2015, according to a new report from IHS iSuppli. By then, smartphones will comprise the majority of all cellphone shipments at 54.4%, up from 32.5% this year.Highlighting the dramatic...
InfiNet Wireless, manufacturer and provider of carrier-grade wireless infrastructure solutions, announced that LCR Honda has selected its InfiMan 2x2 wireless solution to provide a mobile team communications infrastructure for its race-day locations. Both engineering and mechanical teams rely on high-speed, high-capacity communications connections to...
Apple Inc. is expected to increase its iPad shipments at a rapid clip, according to IHS iSuppli. Tablet shipments are expected to rise to 60 million units worldwide in 2011, marking a 245.9% jump from 17.4 million in 2010, the firm calculated.At the time...
Qualcomm's Paul Jacobs believes the future of tech – in all its sci-fi glory – is already here, presenting amazing opportunities as well as serious challenges.Speaking to Om Malik on Qualcomm Live, Jacobs discussed the embedding of wireless into almost all objects, in a...
The Federal Communications Commission said it has re-started its informal 180-day review on AT&T Inc.’s (T) proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA Inc. following the submission of additional information from AT&T.The FCC noted that as of Aug. 26, the review is at day 83 under...
“The mobile workforce is now working 24x7,” according to a new report on enterprise mobility trends and mobile usage from iPass. While that initially may seem like a negative thing, iPass said its quarterly report is showing that people are working when and...
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....
ViaSat Inc. is supplying its Edge Access Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) system to Grupo TVSA of Argentina, enabling the CATV and broadband Internet provider to offer triple play services. ViaSat is also integrating a back office application for administration, provisioning, and billing from IPVision called...
ViaSat Inc. is supplying its Edge Access Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) system to Grupo TVSA of Argentina, enabling the CATV and broadband Internet provider to offer triple play services. ViaSat is also integrating a back office application for administration, provisioning, and billing from IPVision called...
Sprint Nextel Corp.’s (S) current network issues could prove to be a positive for the tower industry during the second half of the year, according to a new report from Wells Fargo Securities L.L.C.The report noted that according to industry sources, Sprint Nextel was...
Verizon Wireless (VZ) again came out the big winner in J.D. Power and Associates ranking of network quality, garnering the highest consumer scores in five of the six regions. The carrier only lost out in the North Central region to U.S. Cellular Corp. (USM)J.D....
The Federal Communications Commission has asked AT&T Inc. (T) to provide more details of its planned LTE deployment in connection with its review of the company's pending $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA Inc.The additional details include AT&T's comments that the acquisition would provide...
No matter how you slice it, today marks the end of an era for Apple Inc. Steve Jobs has resigned as CEO.Jobs isn't going anywhere immediately though. He's been elevated to chairman of the board so he's likely to remain very much involved with...
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is going to ride out this Galaxy thing, at least formally now anyway. The device maker has been using the Galaxy brand name for many of its latest Android smartphones and tablets, but now it says it has a more...
Amdocs, announced that it has completed the acquisition of Bridgewater Systems Corporation, provider of policy management and network control solutions. The transaction is valued at approximately CAD$211 million, or CAD$139 million net of Bridgewater's cash as of June 30, 2011. Read more.Vector Capital...
Natural and manmade disasters are always going to overload wireless networks as frantic people try to contact loved ones, find out what the hell is happening and in today's society, update their status, comment and upload video to social-media networks.Yesterday's earthquake along the East...
With new rumors that Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) was in line to inherit Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) iconic iPhone device in the coming months, analysts cited a cautious tone on the impact such a move might have.Most would agree that Sprint Nextel has missed out...
China Unicom Ltd. (CHU) completed the reporting of its first-half financial results for 2011, stating an increasing dependence on its mobile operations.The company, which is currently the second largest mobile operator in China, reported nearly $9.4 billion in total wireless revenues for the first...
With the recent HP shut-down of the WebOS and Palm divisions, it's becoming increasingly clear that to succeed in the mobile device market, an OS needs to have significant device, developer, and customer traction. And without one, you can't get the other two. Consider...
Human beings love a good wager. We'll put money on just about anything that looks like it has half a chance of pulling through. Ever the optimists, we lovingly put our hard earned cash on the horses, the dogs, the football, and even teen...
*Update: includes quote from CTIA*As an unusual 5.9 magnitude earthquake hit the U.S East Coast today, cell service providers grappled to deal with the demand on their networks.Both Verizon and AT&T admitted outages caused by the volume of calls being made, while T-Mobile also...
