Continuing LTE network rollouts drove Crown Castle's revenues up 26% year-over-year to $735 million, but its income took a large hit from taxes.
Ben Moreland, president and CEO of Crown Castle, said that the company "saw a significant increase in leasing activity as all four major...
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!
--AT&T announced an agreement with Disney...
ABI Research says that business and residential femtocells will increase in unit volumes this year and next, due to demand driven by operators such as AT&T, Vodafone, Telefonica, Softbank and Sprint after "lackluster" years in 2011 and 2012.
ABI's latest forecast for the indoor small...
Has microwave backhaul for LTE and 3G networks run its course in the United States and internationally or will heterogenous networks and small cells create another surge in microwave backhaul demand? Join RCR Wireless News as we explore backhaul options available to mobile operators...
Has microwave backhaul for LTE and 3G networks run its course in the United States and internationally or will heterogenous networks and small cells create another surge in microwave backhaul demand? Join RCR Wireless News as we explore backhaul options available to mobile operators...
ABI Research released several recent reports on the Wi-Fi and in-building wireless space. The research firm estimated that Wi-Fi hotspots will reach a total of 6.3 million this year, from 4.9 million globally in 2012. That figure includes wireline and wireless carriers' hotspot networks,...
Silicon vendors from opposite ends of the wireless supply chain are "meeting in the middle" as they compete to power small cells in the enterprise. Established macrocell chipset suppliers like Texas Instruments and Freescale face growing competition from mobile processor experts Qualcomm and Broadcom,...
Some interesting news came out of last week's Small Cell Summit 2013: half a dozen companies have formed a small cell wireless backhaul ecosystem around Cisco's unified RAN backhaul offering, which is a vendor-neutral support for any access technology.
The companies include Blinq, DragonWave, Fastback...
Vodafone, SK Telecom and Cisco were among the operators and vendors honored for their small cell innovation efforts by The Small Cell Forum, an industry and operator association. Awards were presented at a recent gala in London.
The awards, judged by an independent panel of...
LAS VEGAS – Verizon Wireless looks set to move aggressively into small cell deployments, announcing a deal with infrastructure powerhouses Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent to add small cells to enhance the carrier’s LTE network.
The deal with Ericsson calls for the infrastructure provider to provide its...
Range Networks, which makes open-source cellular systems, announced that its equipment now integrates with operators' SS7-MAP core networks and supports 4G. The company, which targets rural and developing markets and private industrial networks with low-cost network equipment, has been collaborating with SS7Ware and said...
The continued integration of various wireless technologies in order to provide a more complete and seamless user experience has become a significant focus of today’s mobile industry. This includes the greater integration of small cell technologies using both licensed and unlicensed spectrum bands.
However, stringing...
Mobile operators and vendors alike are awakening to the sober reality of the complexity involved in deploying 10s and 100s of hundreds of small cells in a very dense indoor and outdoor area.
Cisco has been boosting its portfolio in the heterogeneous networks arena with a series of recent acquisitions, aiming to become a star player in the small cell space.
The company has purchased Intucell for self-organizing network software that reduces interference in small cell deployment, BroadHop...
It's a busy world in DAS right now – this week marked the HetNet Forum's DAS in Action conference, and next week is the DAS & Small Cells Congress in Las Vegas.
Iain Gillot of research firm iGR offered perhaps the most expansive view of...
Welcome to this week's round-up of small cell, distributed antenna systems, Wi-Fi and other wireless infrastructure news.
A new report from ABI Research predicts that global LTE investment in base stations and the radio access network – including small cells – will increase by 82.4%...
Looking to expand its reach into the growing heterogeneous networks space, The DAS Forum announced this morning that it will be changing its name to the HetNet Forum. The news comes the day of the DAS Forum event being held in New Orleans, which...
The 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
In a move to help define the business case for small cell deployments, consulting firm Wireless 20/20 unveiled a software platform designed to allow carriers and venue owners to simulate the impact of mixing Wi-Fi and cellular-based mobile broadband services into locations such as...
Welcome to this week's news on Wi-Fi, DAS, and small cell deployments.
Qualcomm has been named an official technology partner of Major League Baseball, and is partnering with the league's interactive media and Internet company to improve wireless coverage within MLB stadiums.
Qualcomm engineers will provide...
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, but...
Cisco continued its move into mobility this week with the purchase of Ubiquisys for $310 million. Ubiquisys is a British developer of small cell technologies with several major carrier and vendor customers, including Google, T-Mobile USA and Softbank.
The acquisition highlights Cisco's growing focus...
Wi-Fi access points from Ruckus Wireless Inc. have met test requirements from railway systems for commuter trains and subways stations and platform, according to the company.
Ruckus said that its ZoneFlex 7982 indoor and 7782 outdoor access points passed tests for shock and vibration and electromagnetic compatibility,...
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 networks around the globe.”
SK Telecom said the meeting will include carrier representatives from Verizon...
