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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 shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! Nokia, Alcatel Lucent...

Whether it’s keeping up with work while on the move, staying in touch with co-workers and friends, or just looking for some entertainment, travelers want to stay connected. Now, this demand is spreading to the transportation systems themselves. Roch Muraine, Global Sales Director, Transport...

Nokia's new Android smartphone and a cross-licensing deal with Xiaomi are not the only big changes underway at the company. Today the wireless equipment maker said it has changed the way it reports its financial results in order to better reflect changes to its...

Nokia CEO calls the deal "historic" Although Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell, which manufactures switching, transmission and other telecom network infrastructure, have been operating jointly since January 2016, the integration is targeted for an official close in July. The new joint venture, called Nokia Shanghai Bell,...

Nokia set to split Global Services business from its Mobile Networks division and redraw executive responsibilities beginning April 1. Nokia is set for a major reshuffling of business operations, announcing plans to break its Mobile Networks business into a pair of separate operating...

Nokia’s Nuage Networks division to see its SDN Virtualized Services Platform used to support 2,000 public cloud servers for China Mobile. Nokia’s Nuage Networks division snagged a deal with China Mobile to deploy the vendor’s Virtualized Services Platform as part of the...

AT&T announced plans to expand its public Wi-Fi service in NYC, while industry veteran Craig McCaw was set to resign from Clearwire … 6 years ago this week. Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our...

Ericsson said it was on track to slash a portion of total jobs cuts as part of massive reorganization, with associated costs pulled into 2016 results. Ericsson has moved on eliminating more than half of the 3,000 jobs it said was necessary...

Nokia unveiled a “templating system” it said is based on ETSI NFV, TOSCA and OpenStack specs designed to simplify VNF management and orchestration. The exceedingly complicated process of virtual network function lifecycle management could be gaining some help with Nokia publishing what...

Nokia was very busy 1 year ago this week, with the vendor closing on the sale of its Here mapping unit, while shareholders approved its acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent. Nokia closes $3 billion sale of Here mapping unit Telecom solutions powerhouse Nokia completed the sale...

Cable television giant Cox said it would partner with Sprint on network plans, while $1B class-action lawsuit targets Sprint’s ETF policy … 8 years ago this week Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the...

5 things to know today 1. Nokia said second-quarter sales were down 11% vs. the same period last year. Nokia, which acquired Alcatel-Lucent early this year, said the combined companies' second-quarter sales were $6.3 billion, excluding the impact of international financial reporting standards. During the...

ExteNet platform and Nokia radios enable shared infrastructure Sprint plans to extend its service footprint in northern New England through a reseller agreement with Great Northwest Woods Wireless, which plans to offer seamless roaming service to Sprint customers in rural New Hampshire and to build...

Nokia 5G demonstration plans include a claimed first ever network running on commercial platforms and cloud orchestration-based network slicing Ahead of this week’s 5G World event, Nokia said it plans to demonstrate a “5G” network running on commercial platforms at the show in London. The...

Nokia said it achieved symmetric uplink and downlink speeds of 10 gigabits per second using hybrid fiber coaxial cable. The tests used a prototype technology called XG-Cable, based on applications developed by Bell Labs, which Nokia acquired through its $16.5 billion purchase of Alcatel-Lucent...

On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check, we speak with Ron Haberman, VP of Nokia Network’s CloudBand Business Unit, to discuss platform updates and get an overview on carrier adoption Nokia Networks recently closed on its acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent, which bolstered its equipment and services portfolio...

New business units and changes in North America Ericsson reported another quarter of disappointing financial results and said that it will reorganize and change parts of its executive leadership team. Hans Vestberg will remain CEO of the company, Jan Frykhammar will continue as CFO, and...

Unlicensed spectrum is hugely valuable, and mobile operators are increasingly eager to leverage that spectrum. They started with Wi-Fi offload, and are now moving to LTE-Unlicensed and new ways to integrate Wi-Fi in their networks (carrier Wi-Fi, LWA). The Senza Fili report, “LTE unlicensed and...

Network providers are combining technologies as they add multiple operators to their systems. Carriers are bringing their solutions of choice to the network, and providers are finding ways to accommodate them. In Atlanta, Crown Castle is in the process of building 459 nodes to support...

Sprint was focused on the growing iPhone buzz, while Apple pushed off OS work to focus on iPhone development … 9 years ago this week Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines...

Brocade Communications has agreed to buy Ruckus Wireless in a deal worth $1.2 billion, which the companies say will create a "pure-play networking company." The goal is to deliver products and solutions that span the continuum from the heart of the data center to...

China Unicom NFV and SDN partnership with ZTE looks to build off template of ‘a decoupled and intensive network architecture’ based on user and data centers ZTE recently announced a deal with China Unicom to cooperate on the development of software-defined networking and network functions...

The current first quarter 2016 outlook for the wireless base station original equipment manufacturer market is weak according to the latest report from EJL Wireless Research titled “Vector Analysis of Wireless Infrastructure Industry Q4 2015 Review and Q1 2016 Outlook.” The analysis covers the...

Register for CableLabs' Inform Wireless Conference today The cable industry has been playing an increasing role in advancing wireless technologies as fixed and mobile networks are converging. Today the cable industry provides wireless customers with the largest footprint of wireless hotspots in an environment of increasing...