Cisco predicts that 578 million people in the world will be using wearable devices in the coming four years, a fivefold increase over the 109 million people using them in 2014. With smartwatches and fitness gear becoming the latest fad, the mobile data traffic will...

The nation's largest wireless carriers offered some insights into how they prepared for Sunday's Super Bowl XLIX game between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks, as well as how much traffic they saw on their networks during the game.

Bell Labs, the industrial research arm of Alcatel-Lucent, via its research - IntelliSpektrum - finds that today’s ultra-broadband mobile networks can make significant energy savings and performance gains by deploying a mix of macro and small cell radio base...

OSLO -- Cloudberry Mobile, the Small Cell network operator, today announced its zero-cost, hosted small cells solution that allows network operators to address coverage blackspots. While many enterprises and consumers are facing coverage problems, operators have...

Oh, what a difference a year has made in the town’s discussions about wireless/cellular coverage. Thanks to a study New Canaan paid for last year that used radio equipment to measure and map actual coverage, the town is now working to get “of one mind” on a plan — or...

Some football fans who work for Crown Castle, TE Connectivity, Galtronics, AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile US will be watching the Super Bowl carefully this weekend. They’ll be checking out the crowd shots and watching the fans who are glancing repeatedly at...

When is a big air-fan vent not an air-fan vent? When it’s a fake vent covering a hidden cellular antenna, put there to keep people from noticing the technology that’s keeping their cell phones connected. Before kickoff at Super Bowl XLIX Feb. 1 in Glendale, Ariz.,...

Deploying many low-power, compact antenna nodes to handle cellular traffic can make wireless communication more reliable and adaptable

In the run up to the biggest football game of the year, international telco AT&T has upgraded the DAS (distributed antenna system) at the University of Phoenix stadium in Glendale, Ariz., while also dropping some 23 DAS and small cells to enhance fans’...

SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Yonhap) -- Samsung Electronics Co. is set to add two more models to its low-end lineup later this week as it struggles to shore up its presence in the global smartphone market amid the rise of Chinese rivals, industry watchers said Wednesday.

Cloud RAN, sometimes abbreviated C-RAN, has been a topic in macro mobile networks for several years now. Wikipedia describes C-RAN as “a centralized, cloud computing-based new radio access network architecture.” Vendors began actively promoting macro C-RAN products...

Boingo Wireless said it has installed Network Function Virtualization (NFV) technology at five airports in the United States. The company said it has completed the installation of NFV technology in the John Wayne Airport in Orange County, Calif., the Austin-Bergstrom...

T-Mobile has spent the last two years revamping itself and becoming the “Uncarrier”. The approach seems to be working, as T-Mobile added 8.3 million new customers in 2014, its largest annual addition ever. In Q4 alone, T-Mobile added 2.1 million new customers, making...

A new report from telecommunications industry analysis firm IGR projects distributed antenna system spending will reach nearly $30 billion by 2018. A DAS is a type of small cell that is primarily deployed to increase coverage and capacity in large indoor spaces like...

Tessco Technologies Incorporated (NASDAQ: TESS) unit Ventev Wireless Infrastructure and the Venti Group, LLC said they plan to introduce high-performance antennas and RF technologies that will meet carrier and enterprise demand for increased indoor 3G and LTE network...

AT&T’s Paula Doublin likes to say that she is part of the “greatest business on Earth.” As assistant vice president of antenna solutions, DAS and small cells at AT&T, Doublin oversees in-building wireless projects throughout the United States. She says her job...

Analyst: T-Mobile to use License Assisted Access (LAA) 'extensively,' may offer compatible handsets by 2015

As mobile network coverage demands move indoors and into large venues, carriers are stuck with the conundrum of how to cost-effectively test and monitor the performance of distributed antenna systems, particularly through the lens of the customer experience.

United States Cellular Corp. (USM), a leading regional wireless service provider, recently entered into a definitive agreement with Vertical Bridge Holdings, LLC to sell 595 wireless towers for approximately $159 million.  The transaction is expected to close in the...

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