Yearly Archives: 2015

Startup Twin Prime tackles the last mile of mobile content delivery

Startup company Twin Prime is seeking to speed up mobile content delivery by addressing the variability in the last mile of mobile networks, between...

Deutsche Telekom eyes future with 5G research ‘haus’

Ericsson, Duetsche Telekom, China Mobile and others eye the future As carriers continue the research and development that will inform the next generation of 5G...

Sprint pays $131M to settle fraud lawsuit tied to Nextel acquisition

Class-action lawsuit claimed Sprint and executives falsified synergy claims Sprint has reportedly agreed to pay a $131 million settlement on a class-action lawsuit that claimed...

Ericsson, Apple suit prompts international probe

ITC to look into Ericsson vs. Apple patent infringement The Ericsson vs. Apple battle escalated again with the agreement by the U.S. International Trade Commission...

Alcatel-Lucent optimizes for metro networks

New Alcatel-Lucent optical transport platforms for deployment in dense metros In the race to keep up with growing demand for data from enterprises and individuals,...

IBM SDN, virtualization, automation centers set for Dallas, Nice

Service providers, enterprises targets of IBM’s SDN, virtualization, automation centers IBM is set to open a pair of “network innovation centers” designed to allow clients...

Verizon CEO blasts FCC in new letter

Verizon chief: Congress needs to 're-take responsibility’ for Internet from FCC WASHINGTON – Verizon Communications CEO Lowell McAdam recently pressed federal lawmakers to rein in...

Super Wi-Fi from Microsoft coming to Seattle

Super Wi-Fi runs over unused TV white space Seattle Mayor Ed Murray announced Microsoft had installed a novel "super Wi-Fi system" at the popular Seattle Center...

EMEA: GfK talks connected cars

GfK recently conducted an online study of 5,800 participants in Brazil, China, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States on the topic...

Reality Check: Top 10 events of Q1 (Pt. 1)

These next two weeks, we’ll recap the first quarter with a quick spin through the top 10 events that will influence telecom earnings calls...

Chicago tapped as first Sprint LTE-A market, to add 300 jobs in city

Sprint LTE-A deployment part of $45 million investment Sprint is set to add LTE-Advanced technology and more than 300 jobs by the end of next...

Stress-testing diameter signaling

As more users migrate to LTE networks supported by Internet Media Subsystem underpinnings, mobile operators have to deal with a rise in diameter signaling...

Ericsson invests in 5G research units

Ericsson and SK Telecom plan 5G demo at 2018 Winter Olympics With commercial availability of 5G cellular networks projected for 2020 – the same year...

T-Mobile US coverage map taps crowd-sourced data

Crowd-sourced data said to provide T-Mobile US with more detailed maps Perhaps tired of being dinged for inferior network coverage compared to some of its...

AT&T expands GigaPower to Cupertino and beyond

GigaPower expansion overlaps with Google Fiber plans AT&T is expanding its GigaPower high-speed Internet and television service to the tech-centric market in Cupertino, Calif. AT&T GigaPower...

Alcatel-Lucent wins China Telecom contract

LTE in China Alcatel-Lucent said today that China Telecom will deploy its radio access network equipment to bring LTE to 40 cities across 12 Chinese...

Cause of AT&T outage in major metro revealed

Central Texas AT&T service outage lasted 1 hour A severed fiber optic cable is to blame for a major AT&T service outage in Central Texas...

FCC circulates R&O tied to 3.5 GHz spectrum for Wi-Fi, small cell use

Draft Report and Order looks to unleash up to 150 megahertz of new spectrum for unlicensed, small cell use The Federal Communications Commission took the...

Alcatel-Lucent CTO: Small cell is central to 5G

Deploy small cell more efficiently using street furniture ATLANTA – Michael Peeters, CTO for Alcatel-Lucent’s wireless division, highlighted the need for rapid small cell deployments...

Chinese smartphone-maker ZTE nearly doubles profit in 2014

ZTE is top 10 global smartphone OEM China’s ZTE saw its net profit soar by 94% in 2014 thanks mainly to growth in its global...

EMEA CEOs: Brite:Bill helps mobile operators differentiate through billing

I recently had the opportunity to meet with Alan Coleman, CEO of Brite:Bill to learn more about the company’s offering and its activities in...

Reader Forum: Small cell backhaul – a construction project

On my first day at Aviat Networks 6 years ago, I met one of the company’s most insightful and interesting employees – a certain sales...

Reader Forum: Why carrier CMOs need to own the customer experience

They say “communications is a close-knit industry” and I think that’s a pretty accurate description after taking the 08.40 FGC train from Plaça d’Espanya...

Oracle shows carrier-grade NFV solution

NFV demo through partnership with Intel, OpenStack Oracle Communications claims that through a partnership with Intel and parts of the OpenStack platform is has produced...

Generation Wireless: The myth of Apple and Saint Jobs

The consumer obsession with Apple products is hurting American regional carriers, even though Apple is not the best device on the market. That was a...
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