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 …
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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 …
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Carrier Wrap: SK Telecom speeds up LTE-A; BT, Alcatel-Lucent set fiber speed record
by Dan Meyerby Dan MeyerEditor’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 …
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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. …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Carrier Wrap: Verizon Wireless completes 700 MHz sale; SK Telecom expands LTE-A support
by Dan Meyerby Dan MeyerEditor’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 …
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SK Telecom throws more spectrum at LTE-A service, boosts speeds to 225 Mbps
by Dan Meyerby Dan MeyerKorean 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 …
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Ericsson, Telstra make first carrier aggregation call with 1800 & 900 MHz spectrum bands
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillEricsson 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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Reader Forum: Front-haul compression for emerging C-RAN and small cell networks
by Dan Meyerby Dan MeyerThe 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
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Carrier aggregation is creating new opportunities for carriers to make better use of their spectrum, and now the technology has made its way onto the chips that power small cell …
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Analyst Angle: MWC 2013 preview – small cells, a little LTE-A and big data
by Dan Meyerby Dan MeyerIn thinking about what I expect from this year’s edition of Mobile World Congress, I don’t really have to look much further than my previous experience. I will eat lots of ham sandwiches
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RCR Wireless News takes a deep dive into the current small cell space as it relates to LTE deployments, talking with carriers, analysts and equipment and technology providers on how the market …
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Agilent Technologies recently introduced what it claims is the industry’s first signal generator and analysis product for LTE-Advanced 8×8 MIMO. LTE-Advanced is designed to enable peak data rates of up …