Nokia, Apple, AT&T and others reported earnings in excess of quarterly projections. In fact, holiday season sales of Apple's iPhone 6 and 6 Plus propelled the company to the biggest quarterly profit – $18 billion – ever recorded by a public company.
Nokia’s Networks unit...
Editor’s Note: With 2015 now upon us, RCR Wireless News has gathered predictions from leading industry analysts and executives on what they expect to see in the new year.
in·flec·tion point (noun)
1. Mathematics: a point of a curve at which a change in the direction...
Vendor financing deals total $1.8B, include Nokia Networks, Samsung and Alcatel-Lucent
More than a year after announcing its 2.5 GHz-powered Spark initiative, Sprint today announced it had signed $1.8 billion in vendor financing agreements with three equipment vendors and added $300 million in credit with...
Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA for RCR Wireless News, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and security. Having experience as an operator, software and hardware vendor and as a well-known industry analyst, she has many opinions on the market. She’ll be...
Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA for RCR Wireless News, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and security. Having experience as an operator, software and hardware vendor and as a well-known industry analyst, she has many opinions on the market. She’ll be...
Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA for RCR Wireless News – has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and security. Having experience as an operator, software and hardware vendor and as a well-known industry analyst, she has many opinions on the market. She’ll be...
Claudia Bacco, managing director – EMEA for RCR Wireless News, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and security. Having experience as an operator, software and hardware vendor and a well-known industry analyst, she has many opinions on the market. She’ll be sharing those...
The rush to facilitate voice-over-Wi-Fi for service providers continues with a partnership that will place Genband's evolved packet gateway in Nokia Networks' mobile broadband portfolio. The solution will be integrated into Nokia’s Liquid Core portfolio to support multimedia voice, data and video sessions.
Genband has...
Nokia Networks and Hewlett-Packard this week announced a partnership to provide a telecommunications-focused cloud with network function virtualization designed to help mobile operators become more competitive in the market.
The new initiative is based on a combination of Nokia Network’s virtualized network functions, which allow...
Nokia Networks and Saudi Arabia-based Mobily on Nov. 5 announced a continuation of their partnership, which includes managed services and expansion of the telecom operator’s 2G, 3G and LTE mobile networks.
Nokia and Mobily have been in business together for the past three years and,...
T-Mobile US said it has tapped network partner Nokia Networks to expand the reach and capabilities of its LTE network, including the deployment of LTE-Advanced equipment, greater spectrum support for LTE services, and expanded availability of voice over LTE and Wi-Fi services.
The new contract...
Ericsson joined Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia Networks in launching a new small cell solution at Super Mobility Week, describing its tablet-sized RBS6402 as a "plug-and-play" solution that can be live on an operator's network within 10 minutes. The infrastructure giant wants its small cell solution...
Nokia Networks announced what it claims is the first commercial carrier-grade telco cloud set to go live by the end of the year. Although the location and operator involved were not named, the announcement describes a launch that will utilize network function virtualization to...
In a follow on to today’s earlier announcement, Nokia Networks continued with its pre-Super Mobility Week announcements. The latest focuses on WiMAX to TD-LTE Advanced migration. There are three topics addressed in this latest announcement.
3.5 GHz TD-LTE radio with integrated Wi-Fi
This new radio is...
Nokia Networks announced a wide-reaching set of portfolio enhancements today in support of their Liquid Radio portfolio. As these announcements are touching on many different aspects of the portfolio, I will try to group them into sub-classifications.
Carrier Aggregation
In order to increase density in metro...
Nokia Networks is highlighting the potential of big data-driven artificial intelligence and automation, aiming to show a vision of the future for networks that allows them to more precisely allocate resources and run more efficiently.
Ajit Kahaduwe, head of ecosystem innovation for Nokia Networks, said the company...
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!
--T-Mobile US announced plans to alter...
