Yearly Archives: 2015

RF Engineer demand driven by IoT and 5G – Telecom Careers Insider Episode 15

RF Engineer demand driven by IoT and 5G.  In this episode of Telecom Careers Insider, Jeff Mucci from RCR Wireless News takes an insider's...

Telenor to sell its stake in VimpelCom

The Norwegian telco said the market value of its stake is $2.38B Norwegian telecom operator Telenor announced it will sell its 33% stake in international...

Will FCC extend olive branch to Wall Street?

Commissioner Pai calls out talking policy behind ‘closed doors’ WASHINGTON – Recent rumors have circulated on blogs and from Cablefax.com that the Federal Communications Commission...

AT&T calls out Sprint, T-Mobile US on Wi-Fi calling

Letter from AT&T to FCC says competitor Wi-Fi calling service not in line with disability requirements In a letter sent to Federal Communications Commission Chairman...

Stolen T-Mobile US customer data for sale on dark web

Data stolen from 15 million T-Mobile customers over a two-year period has started showing up on the Internets' underbelly. An Irish fraud prevention startup called...

Industry rallies to fight smartphone theft

Consortium of trade groups, carriers and device makers updating anti-theft guidelines WASHINGTON – CTIA – The Wireless Association, along with several major carriers and smartphone...

EMEA: Intelligent transport programs from InterDigital

Recently I had an opportunity to speak with InterDigital about oneTransport, which has emerged from Innovate UK’s integrated transport initiative and is the concept for...

Kagan: Why Sprint is cutting costs

Why has there been so much written about Sprint cutting costs in the last few days? This is not a surprise. This is exactly...

ONF launches workforce-focused SDN certification program

ONF Certified SDN Professional Program designed to support changing skill sets The Open Networking Foundation is looking to bolster support for its open software-defined networking...

Reader Forum: Behind the connected stadium

With more than 110 sports and entertainment venues currently being built or proposed for construction worldwide over the next few years, it makes sense...

Reader Forum: Top reasons to upgrade your subscriber data management systems

Subscriber data management has gone from being the technology that would be a “nice to have” to an essential tool that operators are looking...

EMEA: CyberSecure Car 15 roundup

Last week, Dresden was host to the CyberSecure Car 15 conference with experts from the automotive and security markets discussing the topic in detail....

Flexible use of millimeter wave spectrum focus of FCC NPRM

Wheeler circulates NPRM looking at flexible use plans for bands above 24 GHz Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler circulated a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking...

T-Mobile US talks small cells; roadmap to 5G

This week on HetNet Happenings, host Sean Kinney, the managing editor for RCR Wireless News, takes a look at the recent Tower and Small...

Expected carrier SDN, NFV investments

IHS predicts robust carrier SDN and NFV investments, though deployment challenges remain The financial implications for telecom operators as they size up their virtualization plans...

Test and Measurement: Tektronix supports 5G backhaul testing

As industry interest and exploration of "5G" deepens, Tektronix announced this week it has a new feature capable of ultra-wide signal analysis for 5G backhaul...

Enterprise IoT and solutions for in-building positioning

We have all become spoiled by the location awareness and services that result from GPS chips marking our position on the planet.  Our smartphones,...

Dish gives up spectrum, Verizon launches Go90 … 5 things to know today

1. Dish Network is giving up some of the spectrum that went to its bidding affiliates during the most recent spectrum auction. Those bidding...

Worst of the Week: Come on Sprint … it’s just money

Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so...

Analyst Angle: The winding road to 5G

The future of Wi-Fi is tied in many ways to the future of "5G." Although there is no clear definition of 5G, one thing...

Amazon won’t sell Apple, Google streaming devices

E-commerce giant Amazon.com, which also provides streaming-video services via its Prime Video service and Fire TV device, plans to stop selling competitive products from...

Cell Tower News: American Tower pays school board $900K in cash

American Tower pays school board $900,000 cash In a deal that seems more appropriate when dealing with Tony Montana than a school board, American Tower entered...

Small carriers weigh in on spectrum, LTE-U

WASHINGTON – The Competitive Carriers Association, which represents the smaller and rural American carriers as well as counts Sprint and T-Mobile US among its...

Huawei sees small cell opportunity in Middle East

The Chinese firm also targets LTE-A projects in the region Chinese vendor Huawei said it's seeing significant growth opportunities in the Middle East region with...

Sprint to cut jobs in effort to save $2.5B

Citing an internal memo circulated this week, The Wall Street Journal reports Sprint, the U.S. carrier owned by Japan's SoftBank, is planning $2.5 billion...
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