February 23 2011 - 1:22 pm ET | Tracy Ford | RCR Wireless News
American Tower Corp. (AMT) posted strong fourth-quarter and full-year financial results, noting double-digital growth in both Q4 and full-year revenue and income. Going forward the company expects to earn between...
rcrtv on livestream.com. Broadcast Live FreeORLANDO, Fla. – The model used to bring white-spaces spectrum to market could be applied to licensed frequencies to free up bits of spectrum in geographic areas where it is being under-used today, according to two executives taking part...
AUSTIN, Texas–IBM Corp. is exhibiting at SouthbySouthwest for the first time this year as part of its Startup America $150 million commitment to bring more jobs to the United States. The company is hosting a series of five session as part of the technology...
In a bit of a tangled infrastructure web, Nokia Siemens Networks said it would not complete its proposed acquisition of Motorola Inc.'s wireless networks infrastructure business this quarter because Chinese regulatory authorities are still reviewing the matter. The delay is just the latest twist...
Exalt Communications announced that General Moly. Inc., which may become the world’s largest primary producer of molybdenum (moly) through two mining operations in Nevada, has deployed Exalt microwave backhaul systems to connect its Mount Hope, Nev., mine with its site office in Eureka, Nev....
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.At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last month, smart phones and tablets weren't the only feats...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared in RCR Wireless News' January Special Edition: "Unwrapping the Opportunities, the next generation of smart devices. To see all of the articles from that issue, click here. One constant in the wireless sector is that it constantly...
Real-time policy management and charging solutions provider Volubill announced that the company has completed interoperability testing with Sandvine, a provider of network policy control solutions for fixed and mobile wireless operators, to create a solution that gives network operators an understanding of network...
BARCELONA, Spain – Machine-to-machine communications are gaining traction among the world's top wireless operators and vendors, which recognize the potential of the emerging market, characterized by lower revenues, but also lower churn and the potential to gain new business partners and customers as enterprises...
Bigfoot Networks, the technology company that owns the Killer line of networking products for online games, introduced the new Killer Wireless-N family of Wi-Fi adapters. The new adapters perform up to five times faster than competing products through the use of the latest 802.11n...
Synchronica | March 1, 2011 | Press Release
Highlights:
Porta Ecuador offers Synchronica-based mobile instant messaging (IM) service to all 10.3 million subscribers
Porta's carrier-branded mobile IM service will create customer stickiness and reduce churn
Synchronica's industry-standard IMPS technology provides Porta with the opportunity to gain a high...
Synchronica | March 1, 2011 | Press Release
Highlights:
Porta Ecuador offers Synchronica-based mobile instant messaging (IM) service to all 10.3 million subscribers
Porta's carrier-branded mobile IM service will create customer stickiness and reduce churn
Synchronica's industry-standard IMPS technology provides Porta with the opportunity to gain a high...
Carrier Ethernet companies Overture Networks and Hatteras Networks announced plans to merge the two companies into one firm. The combined company, which will use the Overture Networks name, will offer telecommunications and other service providers with a one-stop shopping solution for carrier Ethernet solutions.The...
OKLAHOMA CITY–Tim “Huey” Burnham, president of operations of Alpine Tower and Technology in Wasilla, Alaska, leads a tower company that must overcome the unique challenges of operating in a tundra of rugged conditions.The firm has approximately 27 tower workers and started in 2003, performing...
Q: What is Huawei's reason for doing this interview? We would like to provide the basic facts behind the recent 3Leaf matter that has been the subject of much attention and discussion about Huawei. These facts will not only help understand the real...
OKLAHOMA CITY—“Compassion kills,” said Steve Fleming, director of training for Safety One International, as he addressed a crowd at the National Association of Tower Erectors' (NATE) 16th annual conference and exposition in Oklahoma City. “Do you all believe that?”Fleming was speaker at NATE's educational...
American Tower Corp. (AMT) posted strong fourth-quarter and full-year financial results, noting double-digital growth in both Q4 and full-year revenue and income. Going forward the company expects to earn between $330 and $370 million in 2011 on revenues of $2.2 billion to $2.24 billion.The...
Jobs in the computer sector improved in 2010, as did the overall economy, although the telecommunications sector did not fare as well, according to figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.Companies in the IT engineering and telecom spaces were slow out of the...
BARCELONA, Spain – L.M. Ericsson signed a strategic alliance with Akamai Technologies Inc. to jointly develop solutions around improving the end-user experience on the mobile web. Ultimately, the combination could enable over-the-top content providers to help develop better partnerships with wireless operators, said Mikael...
BARCELONA, Spain – Single radio access networks are just the beginning of how new wireless networks should be architected, said Dr. Bernhard Scholl, VP, Deutsche Telekom, during a panel at the LTE Forum here. The baseband components need to be able to support different...
BARCELONA, Spain – Sequans Communications announced an initiative named 4Sight that allows operators to go forward with next-generation wireless plans, without immediately having to decide on whether to use the LTE or WiMAX protocol.4Sight is designed to streamline 4G network transition and to future-proof...
As President Obama lays out his wireless broadband initiative today at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Mich., the Federal Communications Commission is moving forward with its own plans to reduce regulatory barriers to broadband deployment. Both initiatives are evidence that the administration realizes...
Bytemobile said it has updated its Unison Smart Capacity platform to help wireless operators increase existing network capacity by 50%, which is increasingly important as wireless operators try to keep up with potentially crippling traffic demands as more users watch videos on mobile devices.Bytemobile...
HERSHEY, Pa.—There may be disputes about what the connected home will look like, or how utilities will use wireless technologies to better manage their networks, but most everyone agrees that both the connected home and the smart grid will redefine how people manage their...
