Welcome to our weekly collection of all the top cell tower news stories, where we cover global, national, regional, local and distributed antenna system news. Crown Castle continues to make headlines with tower purchases, this time from CPS Energy. CPS Energy's tower sale is...
Motorola Solutions (MSI) reported a solid quarter with an increase in government revenue, but the company's stock took a fall due to warnings on its guidance for the first quarter.
Fourth quarter sales for the company, which focuses on networks and rugged devices for public...
Cisco continues to dominate the market for edge routers and carrier Ethernet switches, with service providers also naming Juniper, Alcatel-Lucent and Huawei as top vendors.
“There’s a big gap between these four and their competitors, and it just gets harder for any manufacturer who’s...
In order for organizations to take full advantage of what software-defined networks have to offer, users must first understand what SDN means, what the process entails and how it can benefit their business.
A reinvented Nokia posted losses for the fourth quarter and the entire year of 2013. However, the Finnish company, which sold off its devices unit to Microsoft in 2013, remained upbeat about its continuing businesses in networking, mapping and advanced technology.
Nokia reported net sales...
Forward-looking operators who are not deploying LTE yet will use 2014 to update their network equipment and architecture, preparing their networks for the arrival of LTE.
TE Connectivity Ltd. (TEL) recorded its best quarterly earnings ever, and the company is raising its guidance.
Sales were up 6% year-over-year to $3.33 billion. Operating income soared from $293 million in the previous year's first quarter to $479 million, and net income jumped from...
MasTec (MTZ) has purchased Dynis for an undisclosed amount, bringing together two leading infrastructure services vendors. MasTec executes contracts for all the Tier 1 wireless carriers in the United States. Its biggest customer is AT&T - MasTec is AT&T's primary contractor for wireless infrastructure...
Global Wi-Fi sharing network company Fon has just completed a $14 million round of funding. Qualcomm Ventures, Qualcomm Inc.'s venture capital arm led the round; it is already a significant investor in Fon.
Fon said it is in the process of developing a new router...
Resilience Capital Partners recently announced the acquisition of Mill City TEC, a provider of construction and technical services for the wireless sector and other industries.
With mobile data use once again continuing on an upswing, averaging more than 60% annual growth, I predict that we are going to see mobile network operators worldwide looking even deeper
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Sprint could be the next major carrier to offer free calling over Wi-Fi. T-Mobile US has offered Wi-Fi calling for several years on certain phones, and now Android Central is reporting that Sprint is preparing to launch Wi-Fi calling on the Samsung Galaxy...
Northern New England telecommunications provider FairPoint Communications, Inc. recently announced the completion of two broadband expansion projects. The initiatives grow the company's service footprint and boost bandwidth availability in five towns.
Welcome to our weekly collection of all the top cell tower news stories, where we cover global, national, regional, local and distributed antenna system stories. While hoopla surrounding the "polar vortex" may have subsided, we're still in the dead of winter in many parts...
DragonWave Inc. saw its most recent quarterly revenues plunge year-over-year, to $22.2 million from $38.5 million during the same period last year. Profits improved, however, with a net loss for the quarter of $5.5 million compared to $13.9 million in the previous year's fiscal...
Telefónica has agreed to provide NII Holdings’ subsidiaries in Brazil and Mexico with nationwide voice and data coverage services using the Telefónica's 3G wireless networks in those markets. NII Holdings operates under the Nextel brand in the two countries, and the agreement with Telefónica aims...
As of today, there are 263 Long Term Evolution commercial networks globally, according to the latest update from the Global Mobile Suppliers Association.
More than 100 LTE networks were launched during 2013, bringing the total as of Dec. 31 to 260; three more have been...
The GSMA is the global trade association for the mobile industry, and it has a vital role to play in communicating to governments and the public. As mobile takes on a greater impact in consumers’ lives,
RAD Data Communications and Nakina Systems reported product interoperability for a “major” North American cable operator that the companies claim is one of the first real-world examples of network functions virtualization, with software being using to control hardware deployment.
The interoperability was generated between RAD’s...
Satellite broadband provider Hughes Network Systems LLC is partnering with Aruba Networks on a new managed Wi-Fi service for retailers which optimizes network traffic from the in-store wireless local area network (LAN) to the corporate wide-area network (WAN). The two companies said that the...
The push by telecom operators to implement software-defined network capabilities continued this week as wireless backhaul provider Ceragon Networks said it has received orders from two “leading national operators” in North America and India to provide its SDN-ready IP-20-based platform. The deals, which Ceragon...
Mobile cell sites are transitioning from simple base stations for voice and low-speed mobile data access to multi-functional hubs for delivery of new services, multimedia-rich content and
Welcome to our weekly collection of all the top cell tower news stories, where we cover global, national, regional, local and distributed antenna system stories. It's the first full week back to work of the new year and it seems that news is happening...
The increasing momentum of the new 802.11ac standard was evident in the Wi-Fi-related product launches this week at CES 2014. Here's a look at some of the new products:
--Netgear unveiled two new Wi-Fi range extenders that support a/b/g/n devices as well as the new...
