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....
China Telecom, Huawei, and Corning Incorporated, jointly announced that the completion of China's first 100G wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) ultra long haul transmission test. The test also set a new record of 100G WDM transmission distance of over 3000...
Following are infrastructure contracts announced during the past week:ZTEPeru: With ChinaTel to provide equipment and services for the carrier's deployment of a wireless broadband telecom network in the country.Value: $48 millionJapan: With UQ Communications to provide WiMAX Pico base stations for the carrier's mobile...
LTE deployments in the Nordic region are gaining traction as Sweden has three operators competing for LTE customers and Finland gets its first LTE deployment.Swedish wireless operator Tele2 (OH6V) is using Nokia Siemens Network’s Evolved Packet Core as part of its LTE...
Despite a run of recent setbacks in the United States, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is making strategic moves, including hires, to keep its big plans for this market alive.
John Roese, former CTO at Nortel Networks, is now joining the company as SVP and GM...
Despite a run of recent setbacks in the United States, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is making strategic moves, including hires, to keep its big plans for this market alive.
John Roese, former CTO at Nortel Networks, is now joining the company as SVP and GM...
Despite a run of recent setbacks in the United States, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is making strategic moves, including hires, to keep its big plans for this market alive.
John Roese, former CTO at Nortel Networks, is now joining the company as SVP and GM...
Following are infrastructure contracts announced during the past week:Bridgewater SystemsUnited States: With Agri-Valley Communications to provide its EPC 500 System, which provides subscriber and device data management, policy control and interworking functions for the LTE packet core.Value: UndisclosedEricssonIndonesia: With AXIS to provide managed services...
Despite a run of recent setbacks in the United States, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is making strategic moves, including hires, to keep its big plans for the U.S. market alive.
John Roese, former CTO at Nortel Networks, is now joining the company as SVP and...
Despite a run of recent setbacks in the United States, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is making strategic moves, including hires, to keep its big plans for the U.S. market alive.
John Roese, former CTO at Nortel Networks, is now joining the company as SVP and...
John Roese has joined Huawei as senior vice president and general manager of the company's North American research and development unit. Roese joins the company from Nortel Networks, where he was CTO. He also has held positions with Broadcom Corp., Enterasys Networks and Cabletron.Consumer...
Despite a run of recent setbacks in the United States, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is making strategic moves, including hires, to keep its big plans for this market alive.John Roese, former CTO at Nortel Networks, is now joining the company as SVP and GM...
Following are infrastructure contracts announced during the past week:Alcatel-LucentLatin America: With America Movil to provide an IP/MPLS-based mobile backhaul solution to support next-generation mobile broadband services in 11 countries.Value: UndisclosedHuaweiPoland: With Aero2 to supply an LTE TDD network under a frame contract.Value: Undisclosed
Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. has been caught up in yet another security snafu inside the Beltway, this time for a small acquisition it made back in May.The $2 million deal to acquire staff and intellectual property of 3Leaf Systems has already closed, but the...
Failing a new partner or source of cash for their joint venture, Nokia Corp. (NOK) and Siemens AG (SI are considering an initial public offering (IPO) as one way to exit from their 50-50 stakes in Nokia Siemens Networks.A search for a new partner...
Nearly a year after launching network trials, and two years after announcing its intentions, Cox Communications commercially unveiled its wireless service. The offering's initial launch will include its trial markets of Hampton Roads, Va.; Omaha, Neb.; and Orange County, Calif. The company said the...
Several companies and individuals were honored for their contributions to the LTE industry at this year's LTE Americas event earlier this week in Dallas.Alcatel-Lucent won three of the nine awards. The company took home honors for best network or device testing product, best green...
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.October was a busy month for mergers and acquisitions in the mobile games sector. Ngmoco...
SAN FRANCISCO — Sprint Nextel Corp.'s CEO Dan Hesse declined to comment on the the carrier's reported exclusion of Chinese vendors from its upcoming network project in a morning keynote here."First of all, we haven't commented on media speculation on this topic,” he said...
Following are infrastructure contracts announced during the past week:AndrewChina: With the Taiyuan-Zhongwei-Yinchuan high-speed railway to provide a coverage and system for essential wireless communications in the Shanxi province for the new 900 kilometer line that links East and West China.Value: UndisclosedDragonWaveU.S. Virgin Islands: With...
Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) has reportedly excluded Chinese vendors Huawei Technologies Ltd. and ZTE Corp. from their upcoming network project over U.S. security concerns, according to The Wall Street Journal.The decision could have something to do with a recent conversation the carrier's CEO Dan...
RCR Wireless News Senior Editor Dan Meyer will be in Dallas Nov. 9 to host a local event on “Mobile Broadband: Innovation and Opportunity.” The afternoon event will be an interactive discussion on the policies, investments and economic growth opportunities associated with mobile broadband....
Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. has inked a deal to expand operations at its research and development center in Ottawa.The company made the announcement during a visit by Ontario's Premier Dalton McGuinty in Shanghai. Huawei will invest $66.8 million into the North American R&D expansion...
China Mobile Communications Corp. has joined the Linux Foundation, making it the first Chinese company to join the nonprofit organization.Having the world's largest telecom provider join as gold member (second tier) will definitely boost the Linux Foundation's clout as the operator continues to invest...
