Verizon Communications CFO Fran Shammo reiterated the company’s bullish stance on LTE multicast, a bandwidth-friendly way to deliver live TV to mobile devices, but said it’ll be another year before a consumer offering will be ready to go.

WASHINGTON--The FCC voted to approve new rules designed to accelerate the deployment of wireless infrastructure, something carriers and the infrastructure industry have been clamoring for as operators look to densify their networks with new small cells, Distributed...

NEW YORK, Oct. 16, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Many utility companies prefer to own a wireless network in order to ensure availability and reliability, and they have found that Long Term Evolution (LTE) may be a viable option for utility applications, according to the latest...

Are you a Vodafone 4G customer? Good news, your downloads could soon get that much quicker. As part of a billion pound investment into its network, the carrier has begun rolling out the UK's first widely accessible LTE Advanced network. LTE-A, as it's known, will go...

AUSTIN, TX -- (Marketwired) -- 10/15/14 -- In-building small cells are part of the heterogeneous network concept that many mobile operators are moving toward in order to meet the rising demand for mobile data. The heterogeneous network or het-net combines RAN...

TAUNTON, Mass., Oct. 13, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- General Dynamics C4 Systemsrecently demonstrated how the company's fourth-generation (4G) long-term evolution (LTE) wireless broadband network could expand the capability of U.S. Army tactical networks like the Warfighter...

The number of LTE small cells deployed is forecast to double annually for the next five years. By 2019, ABI Research expects LTE small cells to account for almost 70 per cent of the small cell equipment market by value.

Just a short while ago, Ericsson confirmed that it is involved in helping T-Mobile with its various LTE networks. Today, yet another European company has announced that it is – also – involved in helping T-Mobile with carrier aggregation. Nokia’s head of technology...

Another Prime will soon follow in the footsteps of the selfie-centric Galaxy Grand Prime, the Samsung Galaxy Core Prime. While it's camera department is less impressive it seems like the new Core will compensate with LTE connectivity.

The Federal Communications Commission is taking steps to speed up the rollout of wireless network infrastructure in the U.S. AT&T is pretty happy about what it thinks the FCC can do. AT&T’s VP of Federal Regulatory, Joan Marsh, wrote a blog post that went up...

New Wireless Infrastructure Power Amplifiers Deliver World-Class Efficiency and Linearity for TD-LTE Equipment, Including Picocells, Enterprise-Class Femtocells and CPE Devices

Alcatel-Lucent, currently ranked as the leading vendor of small cell equipment, has a new partnership that will put more small cells on urban “street furniture,” such as bus stops, benches and billboards. Alcatel-Lucent has partnered with its neighbor in Paris,...

Qualcomm, Facebook, and other tech companies are experimenting with technology that lets smartphones use their LTE radio to connect directly to other devices up to 500 meters away. A new feature being added to the LTE protocol that smartphones use to communicate with...

Huawei plans to invest over $4 billion in Fixed Broadband (FBB) technology research and development over the next three years. The investment will focus on products and solutions which will support their customers with providing an improved service experience for end...

DALLAS, TX, Sep 24, 2014 (Marketwired via COMTEX) -- Creating a first-of-its-kind solution to deliver consistent and reliable power to dozens of cellular communications nodes spread across heavily populated venues, such as a stadium or campus, GE GE, -0.35% today...

PARIS, Sept. 23, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) is extending its wireless mobile backhaul capabilities to allow operators to more quickly and easily deploy high-capacity ultra-broadband coverage via LTE heterogeneous networks...

Leading wireless giant Verizon Communications (VZ - Analyst Report) has reportedly activated Voice over LTE (VoLTE) service on iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus.  With this new feature, customers can now enjoy HD Voice, which offers improved audio quality, on the latest...

Small cells, carrier WiFi, DAS (distributed antenna systems) and C-RAN (cloud radio access networks) infrastructure is set to account for more than 50% of all mobile data traffic by 2015-end, whilst overall investments in the HetNet ecosystem are expected to amount to...

QUEBEC CITY, Sept. 18, 2014 /PRNewswire/ - EXFO Inc. (NASDAQ: EXFO) (TSX: EXF) announced today the release of a brand-new version of TravelHawk Pro, the world-leading portable live LTE troubleshooting tool. TravelHawk Pro is a portable live network troubleshooting...

AT&T Inc. (T) Chief Strategy Officer John Stankey said Mexico is poised for investment, and that he sees a lot of options, both near-term and long-term, in Latin America. Stankey’s comments at an investor conference were the clearest sign yet that the largest U.S....