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.
With the “Internet of Things” exploding for both enterprises and consumers, the machine-to-machine market has seen...
Mobile operators in Africa are using the power of their medium to combat the spread of Ebola. Their efforts include launching continentwide text-messaging donation campaigns, expanding help lines and analyzing mobile data to better target aid to affected areas.
Many major operators in Africa are participating in...
SK Telecom rolls out tri-band LTE-A service
SK Telecom claims it has commercialized the first tri-band LTE-Advanced service. The company made the announcement Sunday, noting that the service is in an effort to develop so-called "5G" networks.
The tri-band LTE-A service is designed to allow users...
China Unicom 4G focus in 2015
China Unicom's subscriber base continues to slow. In November, the carrier registered fewer than 1.1 million 3G and 4G users, the lowest number in more than three years.
The operator is planning to focus on 4G devices in 2015. Forbes reports...
Mobile giant Vodafone has joined forces with JCDecaux, the largest outdoor advertising company in the world, to increase network connectivity by deploying small cells on billboards, benches and other outdoor installations.
This planned large-scale deployment, announced on Dec. 10, is an expansion of a pilot...
MVNO service to target enterprise customers; launch late 2015
Story updated with small cell plans
International mobile telecommunications provider Vodafone Group announced plans to re-enter the U.S. space through its Vodafone Americas subsidiary operating as a mobile virtual network operator running across T-Mobile US’ network. The...
Carrier aggregation helps Nokia Networks, Ooredoo Qatar, China Mobile achieve 4.1 Gbps speed
China Mobile and Nokia Networks, along with Ooredoo Qatar have announced a new LTE-A speed record with carrier aggregation. The three companies said they reached 4.1 Gbps per second over the hybrid TD-FDD LTE...
China Mobile 4G Subscribers To Reach 150M
China Mobile is predicting that by the end of next year the company will have 150 million 4G mobile subscribers. The company expects to reach 300 million 4G subscribers by the end of 2016. In October, China Mobile...
TeliaSonera and Telenor today announced they will merge their operations in Denmark. The two Nordic operators will each own 50% of the joint venture, and the combined company will command 40% of the Danish mobile market with 3.5 million subscribers and expected annual revenues of...
Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA for RCR Wireless News, has spent her entire career the telecom, IT and security. Having experience at an operator, software and hardware vendors and as a well-known industry analyst, she has many opinions on the market. She’ll be...
SK Telecom raided
State prosecutors and the government descended on SK Telecom headquarters Tuesday. Agents raided the company's headquarters in Seoul, seizing computer hard drives and documents related to the health care division of the company. The investigation is into whether SK Telecom illegally collected its...
NTT DoCoMo promotes LTE speeds with shrimp cannon
Japan's NTT DoCoMo is promoting the speed of its LTE network by frying shrimp. The video advertisement shows shrimp flying through cannons and open flames. The shrimp is "cooked" in 3 seconds. The cooking demonstration and advertisement...
British Telecommunications in preliminary talks to buy EE
Deutsche Telekom and Orange may be considering selling consumer network EE to BT. EE is the largest mobile operator in the United Kingdom. Orange and Deutsche Telekom have previously considered whether they should list EE on the stock...
Indonesia's largest mobile operator Telkomsel is partnering for IOT/M2M Cloud services
Telkomsel is partnering with Jasper to bring "Internet of Things"/Machine-to-Machine services to businesses across Indonesia. The partnership will allow Telkomsel business customers to use the cloud-based Jasper IoT Service Platform to launch, manage and...
Both Vodafone and Telefonica recently made announcements related to a stronger linkage in the telematics space. One is a partnership and one is an acquisition. On the surface I wasn’t really sure why these moves made sense from companies mainly focused on the value...
U.K.-based BT is looking to re-enter the country’s mobile space in a deal that could include an acquisition of a current mobile operator.
BT, which has previously stated interest in re-entering the U.K. mobile industry after abandoning the market in 2001, acknowledged that it is...
• China Mobile has completed field testing for pre-5G base stations. Partnered with ZTE to test pre-5G 3D/massive multiple-input, multiple-output technology, the company reports that the tests exceeded expectations and improved coverage in buildings and in rural areas. Both companies believe the new technology...
•NTT DoCoMo is teaming up with China Mobile to offer customers traveling to China outbound roaming on the TD-LTE China Mobile network. DoCoMo customers will see speeds up to 150 megabits per second on the LTE network. The company also is planning to partner with other...
Spirent Communications released the latest results from its ongoing analysis of customer experience on LTE networks in the United Kingdom, including new data from a dozen cities. They ranked O2 as the top U.K. operator for customer experience.
This is the second round of the...
A quick wrap-up of global carrier news.
• SK Telecom has developed and commercialized new technology that makes 2G and 3G services possible through the LTE network. Enhancing the stability of 2G/3G mobile networks, "2G/3G over LTE" uses the LTE network instead of a fixed-line 2G/3G infrastructure. SK Telecom...
A quick wrap-up of global carrier news.
• SK Telecom and Telecom Italia are teaming up to work on LTE and the "Internet of Things." SK Telecom said the partnership will have a positive impact on technology and communication in both Asia and Europe. SK...
Some of Europe's biggest carriers, including Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica, Orange and Telecom Italia, reported quarterly earnings that beat expectations, leading to renewed optimism about a market recovery in Europe.
“You have further weight to the theme that European wireless is recovering,” Guy Peddy, an analyst with Macquarie...
After Hungary’s long-awaited spectrum auction, Hungary’s Magyar Telekom wasted little time in boosting its LTE covering, turning on 450 new LTE base stations the day after receiving new spectrum licenses following the country’s highly anticipated spectrum auction. The carrier, which is majority owned by...
Using big data to prevent impacts from fraud has been part of the focus in a case study discussed by Vodafone and Argyle Data in this video from the recent Telecom Council Carrier Connections event in Silicon Valley.
"We have a tremendous amount of data that...
