Small cell technology continues to make inroads into carrier deployments as Ruckus Wireless announced today that Telefonica’s O2 operations in the United Kingdom has begun deploying its products for coverage across parts of London.
Ruckus noted that the deployment uses its SmartCell 8800 products to...
The rollout of LTE services in Europe has been a deliberate process, with only a handful of innovative operators having launched services in select market. This latency in LTE deployments has been partially blamed on spectrum constraints as many countries have only just recently...
Telefonica’s O2 operations in the United Kingdom unveiled plans for a LTE trial to begin this month across London. The nine-month trial will include more than 25 cell sites covering 40 square kilometers (about 15.4 square miles) using 2.6 GHz spectrum under a “test...
PaidContent: UK | June 17, 2011 |Â Ingrid Lunden
Attention mobile operators: here’s a cautionary tale for you about what happens when you try to wedge yourself into the app ecosystem created by the likes of Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), but fail to engage developers.
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Starhub’s CEO Neil Montefiore became a bit of a hero at TM Forum’s Management World 2011 this week when he declared that roaming charges were outrageous and that the GSMA should do something about it.
DUBLIN – Highlighting the changing telecommunications ecosystem, IBM's global industry leader Bob Fox cited a recent study released by the company revealing that around 33% of consumers choose social media as their main source of information when looking for communications, products and services, jumping...
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.Several companies provided earnings and further guidance last week. Interestingly enough, all of these earnings results were...
Neustar Inc., provider of solutions and directory services that enable trusted communication across networks, applications, and enterprises around the world, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the assets and certain liabilities of the Numbering Solutions business from Evolving...
BARCELONA, Spain — In most respects, the dream and even idea of walking by a shop and getting bombarded by mobile advertising is dead. That kind of advertising is spam, no matter how you slice it.The onus on the mobile advertising community nowadays is...
Ingrid Lunden| MocoNews |Â Dec 20, 2010 9:41 AMÂ ET
—Telefonica/BlueVia: The Spain-based operator Telefonica (NYSE: TEF), which has extensive operations throughout Europe as O2 and Latin America, is launching a new open-API program to encourage developers to make apps for its own app store initiatives, which...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
Microsoft Corp.'s long-anticipated update to its mobile device portfolio finally got off the ground today as the computing giant unveiled launch details for devices powered by its Windows Phone 7 operating system.The launch will include nine devices set to be available in time for...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. This article is an excerpt from RCR Wireless News' July Special Edition, "Riding the...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
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...
VoIP continues to gain traction with carriers and push into mainstream, with Jajah announcing Thursday it was launching its IP-based long distance call service with Telefónica Europe across Europe under O2’s banner.
Big shows are all about emerging industry trends and CommunicAsia in Singapore this week is no exception, with a number of mobile and wireless fads and fashions on the horizon. Of all the hype, however, no trend is so great or prevalent as the mobile video phenomenon, taking Asia and the world by storm.
Satnav software maker Telmap is a company that clearly knows which direction it’s going in. The privately held white label mapping and navigation firm has recently been undergoing a strategy shift, transforming itself from a subscription company into one offering LBS (location-based services) to operators like the Orange FT Group, Vodafone, Vodacom, SFR, O2, Telefonica, AOL, Pelephone, Carphone Warehouse and more.
Congested cellular networks are an increasing and crippling problem. Many firms have only just begun grappling with the severe overload issues being caused by increased end user demand for video and rich media beamed over dilapidated and outdated cellular network infrastructure, but Flash networks - the self-proclaimed leading provider of intelligent mobile Internet services – believes it has an answer.
Editor's Note: The companies listed below represent the 10 largest wireless carriers worldwide based on subscriber numbers at the end of the first quarter of 2010 unless noted. The No. 11 through No. 20 largest carriers will be listed next week.
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Cloud computing is no longer such a nebulous concept, with many major players in the industry pushing to make media convergence something of a priority, as the cloud content revolution takes off.Not everybody, however, is aware of the potential the cloud has to offer,...
Editor's Note:This article is an excerpt from RCR Wireless News' March Special Edition, "The Perfect Storm – A Focus on Mobile Messaging, Marketing, Content and Apps." The 80-page special edition is available here.
Following years of promises, and highlighted by the annual claim that...
