Starting Dec. 18, T-Mobile US will begin its final offer of the holiday season. The "Un-carrier" plans to offer customers $100 off the Samsung Galaxy S6, S6 Edge, Edge+ or Note5 smartphones, as well as a full year of Netflix when they purchase one...
A new study from WinterGreen Research predicts the small cell and femtocell markets combined will reach $5.98 billion by 2019. That would constitute tremendous growth from the $420 million the market brought in just three years ago.
The report, titled “Small Cells and Femtocells: Market...
1. AT&T Mobility is offering two iPhones for the price of one this holiday season. Customers who buy a new iPhone 6s through AT&T Mobility's Next 24 plan can receive a second phone for no charge. Each month, AT&T Mobility will credit the customer's...
Complementary coexistence or incongruous competitor?
The making of mobile standards can be a convoluted business. There's the pure technology aspect, but that's often just the tip of the iceberg. Underneath lies a pile of patent issues, lobbying efforts, regional requirements and political motives. In the...
5 things to know today...
1. Verizon Wireless is rolling out Wi-Fi calling December 8, starting with the Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge. Verizon is the last of the nationwide carriers to offer Wi-Fi calling, and is saying that the capability will come to...
As part of its annual year-end evaluation, Samsung has chosen a new leader of its handset division. Koh Dong Jin, who had been in charge of Samsung’s research and development division will take over for long-time Samsung Mobile head JK Shin.
Recently, Jin has...
This has turned out to be a banner year for wireless charging.
If you doubt that claim, peer into any one of 200 Starbucks coffee shops in San Francisco and around the United Kingdom where you will find customers wirelessly charging their smartphones and other...
T-Mobile US to launch rival specific promos starting next week
As part of a holiday promotion, T-Mobile US said it will provide current postpaid customers with smartphones on its Simple Choice plans with three free months of unlimited data access. The promotion is set to...
Samsung leads the market with 13.1% growth
One out of three smartphones shipped in the Indian market in the third quarter of this year were "4G" enabled, according to a new report published by International Data Corp.
IDC’s Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker reported a total of...
Sprint offers 1 year of Prime, lease deals on select Samsung devices ahead of holiday rush
In a move to goose interest ahead of the upcoming holiday shopping season, Sprint is now including a year subscription to Amazon’s Prime service for all customers activating an...
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....
Huawei expects to sell 100 million smartphones this year, making the Chinese wireless giant a solid No. 3 in the smartphone market behind Samsung and Apple. The company said it sold 27.4 million smartphones during the third quarter, and that one-third of those were...
South Korea, Japan and North America to lead future deployments of 5G
While the telecommunications industry still needs to fully define standards for "5G" development, and 4G LTE has room to continue expanding in both advanced and emerging markets, telecom equipment vendors and mobile operators in...
Samsung mobile payment service is supported by all four major U.S. carriers
With the addition of Verizon Wireless, Samsung's newly launched mobile payment application will be supported by all four major domestic carriers. The feature went live in North America last week.
This is Samsung's answer...
One month after going live in South Korea, $30M in transactions recorded
Samsung Pay, the tech giant's answer to mobile payment services like Apple Pay or Android Pay, was rolled out in the U.S. this week, a month after going live in South Korea.
Since the...
This week, we will examine five of the top 10 developments for the third quarter and determine their short- and long-term effects on the telecommunications industry. These events are in no particular order and several of them have been suggested by readers.
Apple launch: Quién...
5 things to know today this Monday ...
1. The scramble for unlicensed spectrum is turning enemies into allies, as carriers team up to promote LTE in the 5 GHz spectrum band currently used by Wi-Fi. Today, Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile US joined Qualcomm and...
AT&T is skeptical of Verizon Wireless' plans to unveil “some level of commercial deployment” of "5G" by 2017. Verizon Wireless' plans are significantly ahead of most industry estimates that don’t foresee the next generation of wireless technology coming to fruition until around 2020.
"We're not...
5 things to know today
1. Samsung and Verizon Wireless plan to test LTE-enabled femto cells in unlicensed spectrum. Verizon Wireless has been a leader in the movement to extend LTE to the unlicensed spectrum used for Wi-Fi. The companies expect the LTE-U enabled small...
Verizon expects faster speeds, lower latency, support for IoT in 5G plans
Verizon Wireless is moving aggressively into the “5G” space, announcing plans for field trials of the still un-defined network standard beginning next year with a number of key vendor partners.
Verizon Wireless said it...
Samsung feels the pressure, Apple and Verizon prepare for product launches
5 things to know today ...
1. Samsung is preparing to cut thousands of jobs, according to a Korean news source. (Update 9/10: Samsung says it is not cutting jobs, but will instead relocate certain...
South Korean telco has already signed deals with 25 firms in the smart home sector
South Korean operator SK Telecom has unveiled a cooperation agreement with compatriot companies Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics to interconnect its smart home platform with respective smart home platforms of...
T-Mobile video calling service set to battle OTT providers
T-Mobile US launched its Video Calling service, tapping into its growing LTE network to offer a branded service set to battle with numerous over-the-top applications offering similar capabilities.
The T-Mobile US service is accessible through the standard...
SK Telecom the first carrier in South Korea to install 5G equipment in its building
South Korean mobile telephony operator SK Telecom said it completed building a system to support the development of millimeter-wave technology, seen as one of the key enabling technologies for "5G,"...
