DragonWaveNorth America: With Atlantic Tele-Network Inc. for the company’s Horizon packet microwave and pseudowire backhaul products to support its operations in North America, Bermuda and the Caribbean.Value: UndisclosedJordan: With The Blue Zone to provide a backhaul solution for the carrier’s WiMAX expansion.Value: UndisclosedBridgewater...
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in our September Special Edition, Behind the Scenes, a focus on integrated subscriber and network management systems. To download the complete Special Edition, click here. By Dan MeyerFor years telecommunication operators waxed poetically about how their divergent...
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.In Canada, they celebrate “Victoria Day” on the Monday closest to May 24. In the United States,...
Following are infrastructure contracts announced during the past week:AlvarionCanada: With Barrett Xplore Inc. to deploy a national 4G network, including subscriber devices and professional services, that will allow the carrier to offer new services to existing customers and to expand into new service areas.Value:...
HOLLYWOOD, Fla.—LightSquared Chief Network Officer Drew Caplan shared the wholesale operator's philosophy on its planned role in the wireless space, telling PCIA's Wireless Infrastructure 2010 audience that while operators are not dumb pipes, they aren't the companies inventing great applications either.In a Day 2...
LightSquared took its first major step to fulfilling its promise of launching a nationwide, LTE-enabled wholesale wireless network announcing it had closed on a $850 million of debt funding from UBS AG. LightSquared said terms of the credit facility will be four years and...
Looking to capitalize on its satellite service capabilities, LightSquared announced a partnership with the Indian Health Services federal agency to provide free phones and service for use in American Indian and Alaska Native communities through 2020. The plan calls for LightSquared to provide up...
Verizon Wireless and Bug Labs announced they formed a strategic relationship that will allow product designers, software engineers and others to build and program wireless devices to be used on Verizon’s network. The carrier said devices that use the Verizon-approved Bug Labs’ modules and...
Following are infrastructure contracts announced during the past week:Nokia Siemens NetworksAustria, Lichtenstein and Slovenia: With Telekom Austria Group to replace and modernize the carrier's radio networks to support next-generation technologies under a five-year agreement.Value: UndisclosedZTEPoland: With Polkomtel to upgrade the carrier's national CDMA network,...
WiSpry Inc. said it signed an agreement with NTT DoCoMo Inc. to jointly develop tunable filters for mobile phone applications based on WiSpry's RF-MEMS technology. The agreement calls for both companies to cooperate and combine expertise to design and deveop new and enhanced tunable...
Exalt CommunicationsUnited States: With Northeast Missouri Electric Power Cooperative for advanced microwave backhaul systems to support both TDM and Ethernet traffic.Value: UndisclosedCeragon India: With an undisclosed operator to provide its FibeAir mobile backhaul equipment to facilitate the carrier's network expansion.Value: UndisclosedMotorolaUnited States: With the...
ADC TelecomDenmark: With engineering company Ramboll to deploy its InterReach Fusion distributed antenna system at its new headquarters in Orestad to provide multi-operator mobile voice and broadband data services. Value: UndisclosedAmerican TowerUnited States: With T-Mobile to deploy an outdoor distributed antenna network throughout Grosse...
Looking to keep its foot to the floor, LightSquared said it has delivered a notice to satellite communications provider Inmarsat plc (IMASF.PK) triggering “Phase 1” of their agreement that calls for Inmarsat to begin re-banding its L-Band spectrum covering North America. The plan,...
The following infrastructure contracts were announced in the past week:Alcatel-LucentChina: With China Telecom to upgrade the carrier's CDMA network in 56 cities across nine provinces.Value: UndisclosedNokia Siemens NetworksChina: With China Mobile to provide its IMS core platform, hiQ MMTel application server and Session Border...
Following are infrastructure contracts announced during the past week:Exalt SystemsAntigua and Barbuda: With ACT Telecommunications Ltd. to deploy a microwave backhaul system to link key aggregation points in its WiMAX network.Value: UndisclosedNokia Siemens NetworksUnited States: With First Communications to provide its long-haul dense wavelength...
Harris Corp. (HRS) and Nokia Siemens Networks have teamed up to develop an LTE network solution targeted at public-safety markets. The VIDA Broadband LTE solution is a complete 700 MHz Broadband Long Term Evolution network solution that includes NSN's LTE technology and is...
The wireless industry used to be fairly straightforward but now crazy-headed institutions like the U.S. Library of Congress are doing things that impact the wireless industry. When did that happen?
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....
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.Greetings from a warm but rockin' Kansas City (Paul McCartney and the Manchester United visit on the...
The downward trend for Nokia Corp. (NOK) continues. Few companies can sustain a nearly one-third drop in profit for long, but Nokia did just that in the recently closed second quarter, reporting a 31% drop in profit from last year.
The downward trend for Nokia Corp. (NOK) continues. Few companies can sustain a nearly one-third drop in profit for long, but Nokia did just that in the recently closed second quarter, reporting a 31% drop in profit from last year.A single percentage point gain...
Fresh off its agreement to buy Motorola Inc.'s networks business, Nokia Siemens Networks said it will build Harbinger Capital Partners' LTE network in an eight-year deal valued at $7 billion, marking NSN's biggest North American contract and the largest outsourcing deal in the United...
Following are infrastructure contracts announced during the past week:Alcatel-LucentUnited States: With OG&E, Oklahoma’s largest electric utility company, to build a private wide area network to support its smart grid implementation.Value: UndisclosedAruba NetworksIndia: With Indus International Schools in to deploy high-speed adaptive 802.11n networks in...
Nokia Siemens Networks should be able to increase its presence in the United States and Japan with the announced acquisition of Motorola Inc.'s networks business. The $1.2 billion acquisition was hinted at last week. Motorola will retain its iDEN networks business.Nokia Siemens will pick...
