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PCIA to set wireless training standards
PCIA has won a $750,000 grant from the Department of Labor to establish standards for wireless training programs, and certifications to enable workers to meet those standards. The grant is part of the...
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Editorial Webinar: Test and Measurement Series: Service Assurance
Service assurance has been an ongoing struggle for wireless carriers as they look to balance their spectrum and network assets with growing consumer demand. Advances in software have become the latest...
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Towercrews.net Featured Jobs for the Week of 10/8
RCR Wireless News’ featured jobs section is powered by Towercrews.net Foreman Read blueprints and layout jobs, perform sweep testing, PIM testing, fiber optic testing and down tilt procedures....
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#TBT: Sprint Nextel finds a suitor; Dish remains sold on wireless … 2 year...
Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted...
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Software: Nuage Networks scores SDN data center deal with Europe’s OVH
Software is becoming an increasingly important part of telecommunication networks and deployments as both wired and wireless carriers look to add functionality to operations while increasing simplicity...
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EMEA: Sharpening the radar focus on automobiles
Everyone talks about connected cars today. A very hot topic, but one that is still relatively unclear in it’s definition. Although it’s fun to talk about infotainment and all the things you’ll be able...
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Measuring consumer behavior: social capital
Social capital, as John Feland explains, looks at the strength of the relationship between people and their devices or products. Feland, who founded Argus Insights, became interested in the metric when...
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Holiday shopping and the role of mobile
With Christmas decorations now cropping up next to Halloween costumes, the holiday shopping season seems to be creeping earlier every year. And so are the predictions about what the all-important...
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HetNet News: The week ahead
Next week the wireless industry converges in Chicago for HetNet Expo. Panelists at the show include leading analysts and executives from the distributed antenna systems world as well as a some...
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Worst of the Week: Driven to distraction
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...
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Test and Measurement: EXFO sales down, bookings up
Editor’s Note: The ability to test network and device features and functions is an important piece of technology development and deployment. RCR Wireless looks weekly at test and measurement news to...
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Market signals possible weakness in wireless and mobile (RCR Mobile Minute)
Two corporate earnings reports are indicating softer demand in the mobile and wireless sector. Juniper said late yesterday that third quarter earnings will come in below expectations, and blamed weaker...
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Reality Check: Macro cells and edge cloud
There are different ways to implement edge clouds, depending on the access technology. Macro cells vendors embed secured computing and virtualization capabilities directly into 3G or 4G base stations....
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Nokia signs $970M China Mobile contract
Nokia’s 20-year history with China Mobile is paying off as the world’s largest carrier builds its TD-LTE network. On Friday Nokia Networks said China Mobile will spend $970 million dollars on Nokia’s...
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Reader Forum: 4 ways to accelerate enterprise adoption of cloud-based UC
Editor’s Note: In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this Reader Forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as...
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EMEA: Orange takes on connected cars
Last week I mentioned the Orange-Tesla partnership announcement and since then have had the opportunity to discuss in more depth with Samuel Loyson, Orange Business Services Head of Connected Car...
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Samsung readies 60 GHz Wi-Fi for 2015 (RCR Mobile Minute)
Samsung is trumpeting a Wi-Fi breakthrough that it says will offer Wi-Fi speeds that could rival the fastest fiber speeds available today. Using the 60 GHz spectrum band and beamforming technology,...
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M&A chatter: Verizon’s towers, T-Mobile US’s suitors
American Tower told analysts last week that it could have an interest in the Verizon Wireless towers if the carrier does decide to sell. The tower portfolio is not officially on the market, but Verizon...
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Sonus bolsters SBC platform, talks increased virtualization
The ongoing move towards virtualizing network functions is growing to include such services as policy, routing and diameter. This move is seen as ideal for such functions, which are becoming...
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AT&T Mobility taps Labs for SQM network service assurance platform
AT&T Mobility is seen by many as one of the most aggressive on the software front among domestic operators, bolstered by its history and connection with AT&T Labs. The carrier recently began...
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