LTE-based fourth-generation wireless networks have become the new nexus of the IT industry. A multitude of companies – from handset makers to software developers and from network operators to e-commerce players
Today “5G” is not yet a newborn; and we, as its parents, are still trying to define its genetic makeup. As it is impossible to predict all the use cases of the future, we need to ensure that the DNA of 5G is as flexible as
Wireless trade association 4G Americas said that LTE connections reached 200 million at the end of 2013, with half of those coming from North America. The trade group also said that AT&T Mobility has already deployed LTE-Advanced carrier aggregation in Chicago, and that there...
Wireless carriers often take a back seat to infrastructure, devices and software at the annual Mobile World Congress event, but that does not mean they aren't there making news. This year's event saw a number of announcements surrounding advanced in LTE technology, tapping into...
Editor’s Note: Wireless operators are a busy bunch, and as such RCR Wireless News will attempt to gather some of the important announcements that may slip through the cracks from the world’s largest carriers in a weekly wrap-up. Enjoy!
--SK Telecom continued to push the...
JDSU's CellAdvisor JD780A Base Station Analyzer series now supports LTE-Advanced with the ability to analyze up to five
component carriers for carrier aggregation, and MIMO with up to four transmitting branches.
JDSU has also added basic PIM detection, so that a tech can tell whether interference is...
The push by telecom operators to implement software-defined network capabilities continued this week as wireless backhaul provider Ceragon Networks said it has received orders from two “leading national operators” in North America and India to provide its SDN-ready IP-20-based platform. The deals, which Ceragon...
South Korea’s SK Telecom continues to push the limits of LTE technology demonstrating late last week an upgrade to its LTE-Advanced service that combines spectrum assets across two bands that the carrier claims can provide theoretical network speeds up to 225 megabits per second.
The...
Editor’s Note: Wireless operators are a busy bunch, and as such RCR Wireless News will attempt to gather some of the important announcements that may slip through the cracks from the world’s largest carriers in a weekly wrap-up. Enjoy!
--U.K.-based wireless operator EE said this...
With true 4G networks only now beginning to see commercial deployments, telecommunications equipment giant Huawei is looking to the future announcing plans to spend at least $600 million by 2018 on “research and innovation” related to “5G” technologies. The Chinese-based vendor said it expects...
Editor’s Note: Wireless operators are a busy bunch, and as such RCR Wireless News will attempt to gather some of the important announcements that may slip through the cracks from the world’s largest carriers in a weekly wrap-up. Enjoy!
--Verizon Wireless this week said it...
Korean telecom operator SK Telecom announced plans to weave in additional spectrum holdings into its LTE network to speed up network speeds using wider link channels.
The carrier said the addition of 35 megahertz of spectrum in the 1.8 GHz band will allow it to...
Ericsson and Australian carrier Telstra announced that they have made the first call on combined 1800 MHz and 900 MHz spectrum bands in a commercial network, using the LTE-Advanced feature carrier aggregation.
The call took place on July 31 via a transfer of data across...
Anite has announced that it is the first to release a device testing solution for enhanced Inter-Cell Interference Coordination, or eICIC, an LTE-Advanced feature that deals with interference issues in heterogeneous networks that include both macro sites as well as small cells.
Anite said its...
Ruckus Wireless has acquired a location-based services company, YFind Technologies Private Limited. Terms of the deal were not disclosed; YFind specializes in indoor positioning and real-time location analytics.
Ruckus said that it "intends to enable new location-based services by combining its unique, Smart Wi-Fi technology with...
Worldwide mobile data traffic doubled over the past 24 months and is expected to continue growing at a similar rate, due to the continuous rise in smartphone sales and increasing video traffic. To support the
Qualcomm Technologies Inc. is enabling the industry's first LTE-Advanced smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy S4 LTE-A, with its Snapdragon 800 processor.
Qualcomm said that the new Galaxy S4 LTE-A will be launched on all three mobile operators’ LTE networks in Korea, starting with SK Telecom, and...
South Korea’s SK Telecom has laid claim to launching the world’s first LTE-Advanced network, offering customers network speeds twice as fast as its current LTE network, which was launched in 2011.
The carrier said the newly launched network provides theoretical downlink speeds up to 150...
Mobile operators are looking for ways to provide a remarkable and differentiated user experience. Maintaining an accurate frequency and phase synchronization between radio access and mobile core network is an easy way to achieve this objective. For more information, download Juniper's White Paper about LTE-Advanced...
The vision of small cell and centralized radio access network (C-RAN) has recently generated significant interests among the research community, the device suppliers and the original equipment manufacturers
South Korean telecom operator SK Telecom said it will host a meeting of the Next Generation Mobile Network Alliance this week to “discuss measures to facilitate commercialization of next-generation mobile networks around the globe.”
SK Telecom said the meeting will include carrier representatives from Verizon...
The worldwide LTE market is set to double this year, surpassing the $10 billion mark in equipment sales as carriers prepare for the second wave of network deployments, according to a new report from Infonetics Research.
The firm noted that growth in 2012 in the...
RCR Wireless News spoke with Daryl Schoolar, principal infrastructure analyst at Ovum, to get his impressions of the recent Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain. Schoolar noted that with some relief a number of topics he predicted would garner attention at the show...
