As network build outs begin to taper off and subscribers take up LTE devices, carrier operating expenditures will surpass capital expenditures by 2015 according to a report released by iGR Market Research last week. “Most of the largest U.S. operators are already well advanced in their LTE network rollouts,” Iain Gilliott, president and founder of [...]
View Article iGR Market Research, LTE, wireless infrastructureThe greatest thing about wireless technology is also the most maddening thing about it, at least from the carriers’ viewpoint. It marches continually forward. Never resting on its laurels. Before one generation of wireless is completely rolled out, the next one enters the technology pipeline, while carriers struggle to get their return on investment. True [...]
View Article Gray Beards Consulting, Jake MacLeod, Samsung, wireless infrastructureT-Mobile, already busy with its massive network modernization, appears to be taking its merger with MetroPCS in stride. Barely two weeks from the deal’s closing, the system integration of T-Mobile and MetroPCS has already begun, with a system cutover in Las Vegas, J. Braxton Carter, T-Mobile CFO, told the 41st Annual J.P. Morgan Global Technology, [...]
View Article wireless infrastructureAT&T’s Project Velocity IP (VIP) is running ahead of schedule with nearly 200 million LTE POPs covered to date, and the carrier expects to complete almost 90 percent of 300 million POPs by the end of this year, John Stephens, senior executive VP and CFO, told AT&T’s first quarter earnings call. “It’s still early, but [...]
View Article wireless infrastructureThe wireless infrastructure industry can expect to deploy significantly more cell sites as voice over LTE is implemented, James Taiclet, president, CEO and chairman of American Tower, told the first quarter earnings call. “Based on recent independent technical assessments that we’ve commissioned, we now believe that VoLTE will result in significant network densification or cell [...]
View Article wireless infrastructureNewCore Wireless, a hosted wireless service provider that is owned by and serves rural operators, has selected Ericsson as its LTE vendor. Ericsson will supply its Evolved Packet Core LTE solution to NewCore, along with an LTE radio access network to New Core Wireless’ partner rural operators. NewCore will work with Ericsson and wireless system [...]
View ArticleDeutsche Telecom is putting its money where its mouth is in the coming year, funding T-Mobile’s LTE and HSPA + rollouts, according to Rene Obermann, CEO, Deutsche Telecom, at the carrier’s Capital Markets Day, Dec. 6, in Bonn, Germany. The biggest chunk of Deutsche Telecom’s total CAPEX next year will be spent in the United [...]
View Article Deutsche Telecom, Rene Obermann, T-Mobile (USA)Neville Ray, chief technology officer, T-Mobile USA, expounded on how the combination of MetroPCS and T-Mobile is accelerating the carrier’s LTE strategy, as Deutsche Telekom hosted a Capital Markets Day at its headquarters, Dec. 6, in Bonn, Germany. T-Mobile’s LTE rollout will reach 100 million pops in the first half of 2013 and 200 million [...]
View Article HSPA+, John Legere, LTE, Neville Ray, T-Mobile (USA)Responding to the carriers’ rush to deploy LTE, ip.access has begun shipping an LTE version of its E-100 dual-mode access point to five customers for laboratory and field trials, a milestone toward full commercial deployment. The manufacturer, which passed the half a million mark for 3G access points last year, said it has accelerated work [...]
View Article ip.access, LTE, Seth Buechley, small cellsHaving seen its WiMAX network go the way of Sony’s BetaMAX, Sprint has turned on its LTE network, known as Network Vision, in 15 cities in Georgia, Kansas, Missouri and Texas. The initial deployment covers users in the Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City and San Antonio markets. Sprint plans to launch additional LTE markets in [...]
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