Monthly Archives: July, 2016
Quickly Detect, Identify, and Locate Interference Sources
A service provider eliminates interference from an unauthorized signal booster thanks to Viavi InterferenceAdvisor
Mobile repeaters or signal boosters are wireless devices used to enhance...
Is automation the key to unlocking SDN and NFV potential?
This week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check looks at some top headlines, including an AT&T and Amdocs deal, and speaks with Glue Networks on automation
For our...
Test and Measurement: Keysight outlines role in 5G initiative
Keysight Technologies has given some insight into how it will carry out its commitment to the new White House initiative on "5G" development, which...
Worst of the Week: T-Mobile may have won the battle, but Sprint is still crazy
WOTW gives its own spin on which carrier ran the table in terms of the latest quarterly results, with T-Mobile and Sprint the two...
Microsoft plans to ax an additional 2,850 employees
Latest round of job cuts builds on 1,850 layoffs Microsoft announced in May
Continuing to tighten its belt, Microsoft plans to get rid of some...
Rio Olympics: Inside the Technical Operations Centre
With the Rio Olympics around the corner, information and communications technology infrastructure deployments are in the final stages. The Technology Operations Centre is the...
Rio Olympics: Cybersecurity a high priority
Security is one of the major concerns surrounding the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and not only physical security. Information and communications technology providers interviewed...
Telefónica quarterly revenue down 7.7%
Telefónica ended June with 50M LTE subscribers
Telefónica reported 12.7 billion euro ($14.07 billion) in revenue for the second quarter of 2016, down 7.7% compared to...
SK Telecom ends June with 20M LTE subscribers in Korea
SK Telecom reports $3.8B in revenue for Q2
Korean operator SK Telecom said it ended the second quarter of 2016 with 20 million subscribers in...
Rural farms connect to harness precision agriculture
"Connecting" rural farming to accommodate a booming global population
Connected and precision agriculture, which heavily revolves around providing low-income rural farming areas with mobile networks...
OnFarm teams with ThingWorx to optimize precision agriculture
There are a number of variables that can impact a farmer’s yield, from variations in temperature to soil composition. IoT deployments allow all of...
AT&T tops T-Mobile, Verizon and Sprint in satisfaction survey
AT&T supplanted T-Mobile as the best performing full-service carrier in the latest J.D. Power customer care survey, Consumer Cellular tops for no-contract service
AT&T Mobility...
Nestlé and Samsung team up on new IoT health platform
Samsung and Nestlé announced the two companies are to collaborate on a new IoT health platform designed to advance digital health.
As the market for...
AT&T taps Amdocs as ECOMP integrator, global marketer
Amdocs to work with telecom operators and cloud developers looking to integrate the AT&T ECOMP platform
AT&T signed a deal with Amdocs to be the...
Oracle to buy NetSuite for $9.3B
Oracle said today that it will spend more than $9 billion to buy "the very first cloud company." NetSuite, led by a former Oracle...
L-com picked up by private equity-backed Infinite RF
Radio frequency components and cabling company L-com is set to merge with Infinite RF, which is a portfolio company of RF component brands backed...
AT&T will lead robocalling task force
AT&T chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson will lead a national task force to fight robocalling. The nation's largest provider of telecom services said Federal...
Which countries are leading in the internet of things?
See which countries are leveraging the internet of things to drive business transformation
A lot of vendors throw around the projection that by 2020 there...
Sprint, T-Mobile CEOs skeptical of Verizon's Yahoo buy
T-Mobile and Sprint CEOs are skeptical of telcos getting into the content business
Earlier this week Verizon Communications announced its intention to acquire Yahoo's internet-related...
Vodafone, Huawei trial 4.5G with LTE TDD
The new technology combines MIMO with multiuser beamforming
U.K. telecommunications operator Vodafone and Chinese vendor Huawei are conducting technical trials of "4.5G" (TDD+) with LTE...
Orange ends Q2 with more fixed and mobile subs
Orange LTE coverage in France reaches 82% of the population
French mobile operator Orange reached 9.4 million LTE subscribers at the end of June, posting 1.4 million...
Digital Greenwich to host 5G smart city incubator with 5GIC
The University of Surrey’s 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC) and Digital Greenwich have partnered to co-create and trial new 5G smart city technology.
The University of...
How industrial IoT is revolutionizing waste management
In 2013, Americans generated about 254 million tons of trash, or 4.6 pounds per person per day, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency....
IIoT cuts food waste with refrigerated container monitoring
Industrial internet of things (IIoT) a partial solution to a serious food problem
Around 30% of the food the world produces is lost each year,...
#TBT: Sprint lull continues; Dish targeting T-Mobile? … this week in 2013
Sprint continued to see operations impacted by ownership uncertainty, while Dish looked to be eyeing a T-Mobile acquisition … 3 years ago this week
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