Small cell technology – shoebox-sized mobile masts mounted on street furniture – will play a key part in taking the pressure off straining mobile networks, according to a Virgin Media Business expert. Bruce Girdlestone, senior business development manager at the firm,...

AUSTIN, TEXAS—From iGR: Mobile operators are looking to small cells as a way to solve in-building coverage/capacity issues, as a great deal of mobile phone usage happens indoors. A Distributed Antenna System, or DAS, is a type of small cell that is characterized by...

Verizon Wireless has tapped enterprise small cell vendor SpiderCloud to bring its first dual-band 4G small cells to its business customers and public venues, the pair announced Tuesday. SpiderCloud Wireless has been an early mover in enterprise small cells. The vendor...

Public-safety answering points (PSAPs) should be able to get much more accurate location data from 911 callers using wireless devices indoors by leveraging information provided by commercial infrastructure such as small cells, Wi-Fi systems and Bluetooth beacons,...

The small cell backhaul equipment market will cross $5 billion revenue in 2019, said ABI Research. Telecom network vendors such as Alcatel-Lucent, NEC, Ericsson, DragonWave, Ceragon, Aviat, CCS, and Siklu will benefit from this growth. “2015 will now witness...

Ericsson today announced the completion of the commercialization milestone for the end-to-end LTE-A Carrier Aggregation solution capable of supporting data speeds up to 450 Mbps. Today's milestone confirms the maturity and readiness of the ecosystem to support...

OAKLAND, Calif. — Qualcomm announced its fifth-generation LTE modem, a Category 10 chip with global carrier aggregation, and second-generation RF360 envelope tracker. The Gobi 9x45 modem is based on 20 nm technology.

DALLAS—At least one major U.S. wireless carrier is deploying neutral-host distributed antenna systems (DAS) to deliver high-bandwidth indoor coverage inside of buildings that can be shared with other carriers, but financial and operational factors prevent the same...

Nokia Networks demonstrated LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) carrier aggregation in small cells delivering a peak data rate of more than 200 Mbps. The demo, which was conducted at a Nokia lab in Arlington Heights, Illinois, showed small cell LTE-A intra-site carrier aggregation....

Mavenir Systems® (NYSE:MVNR), a leading provider of software-based networking solutions, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Stoke, Inc., subject to customary closing conditions.Stoke provides mobile gateway solutions to the broadband...

Mavenir Systems (NYSE: MVNR) announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Stoke, Inc., subject to customary closing conditions.

The growth in public Wi-Fi installations by cable companies will far outstrip the deployment of small cells by telcos, according to Mobile Research, an analysis firm that specializes in the mobile market.

The in-building wireless (DAS) market size — equipment and deployments — will nearly double by 2019, said ABI Research. Last month, Infonetics Research said the global distributed antenna system (DAS) market rose 11 percent to $1.1 billion in the first half of 2014....

Small cells are defined as low-powered radio access nodes that operate in licensed bands. They are mostly used in indoor and densely populated areas for providing better wireless network coverage. The coverage area of small cells varies from 32 feet to more than 3,280...

BASKING RIDGE, N.J. and DALLAS, Nov. 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon and AT&T said today the companies are taking the next step in the evolution of VoLTE (Voice over LTE) technology by enabling VoLTE- to-VoLTE connections between Verizon Wireless and AT&T...

REDWOOD SHORES, CA--(Marketwired - Nov 3, 2014) - iPass Inc. (NASDAQ: IPAS), the world's largest commercial Wi-Fi network,has revealed the results of the broadest and most in-depth research into global public Wi-Fi hotspot deployments through its Wi-Fi growth map. The...

According to the new market research report "Voice Over LTE Market by Long Term Evolution (Technology-FDD and TDD, End User Devices-Smart Phones, Dongles, and Routers), by Technology (CSFB, VOIMS, and Dual Radio/SVLTE), and by Geography - Analysis & Forecast to...

Mobile operators are planning to shift more than 20 percent of their mobile traffic from the macro network onto small cells by 2018, according to a survey by Infonetics Research.

Nokia is upbeat about its networking business after reporting strong profit growth in its third quarter, driven by major LTE network deployments in the US and China.

CCS (Cambridge Communication Systems Limited), creator of the world’s first self-organising small cell microwave backhaul system for mobile networks, has announced that China Mobile has expanded its deployment of CCS’ technology with a new installation in its Fujian...