Yearly Archives: 2015

Feature Report: Tapping RCS, WebRTC, VoLTE and VoWi-Fi to improve service, battle OTTs

Mobile operators are feeling increased pressure from over-the-top players to provide additional features and services that consumers have come to expect from the application...

Competitive Carriers Association CEO on FCC auction

CCA's Steve Berry discusses competition in the wireless market, rules for the upcoming FCC auction and the duopolistiic nature of the space WASHINGTON – The...

GSMA predicts 913M smartphones in China by year-end

According to the study, the Asian nation will reach 1B 4G connections by 2020 SHANGHAI – China is expected to have 913 million smartphones by the...

NFV study shows quick ROI for deployments

A new NFV study from ACG Research shows investment payback in 3 years One of the bigger hurdles facing mobile operators as they look at...

Sponsored: Open source SDN brings ‘build- it’ culture to life

Automating networks to keep pace with the speed of innovation helps increase enterprise efficiency, profit Software-Defined Networking, or SDN, could be the single- biggest opportunity...

CCA Webinar: Addressing Cyber Threats with Best Practices – A Practical Approach

Cyber threats, secret intrusions and very public data breaches are now part of everyday threats, and the types and vectors of threats are bewildering....

Verizon covers its bases at MLB All-Star Game

Verizon Wireless could not control the weather at this year's MLB All-Star Game, but the carrier did try to plan for every contingency related...

Analyst Angle: NFV-S – next-generation security for enterprises, service providers and the cloud

A new security extension for network functions virtualization aligns businesses and carriers at the forefront of cloud computing What is a network? That question was...

SoftBank to carry out 4.5G tests in Tokyo by year-end

Japanese mobile operator plans to use equipment from multiple vendors SHANGHAI – Japanese mobile operator SoftBank expects to carry out a technical trial of "TDD+"...

Sprint prepaid brand Boost Mobile launches hot spot service

Sprint prepaid brand Boost Mobile service linked exclusively to Sprint LTE network Sprint continues to bolster the capabilities of its prepaid brands, which have been...

SK Telecom leverages Accedian’s monitoring, big data analytics for backhaul

As mobile networks get faster and more complex, potential bottlenecks in the backhaul network become increasingly important in quality of experience. Accedian Networks has reported that its...

Huawei unveils new 4.5G solution

The Chinese company expects the solution to be commercially available in 2016 SHANGHAI – Huawei has launched its new TDD+ solution in collaboration with its...

NetScout closes on Danaher deal

NetScout has officially closed on its $2.3 billion acquisition of Danaher's communications business, which includes Tektronix Communications, security firm Arbor Networks and parts of...

Researchers send data over UHF ‘Super’ Wi-Fi

"Due to the popularity of cable, satellite and Internet TV, the UHF spectrum is one of the most underutilized portions of the wireless spectrum...

Sprint CEO making minority employment a priority

Goal is one-third Hispanic, African-American workforce Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure reportedly wants more diversity at his company. At a Hispanic national convention in Kansas City,...

T-Mobile blasts Verizon, AT&T, Sprint with new multiline data buckets

T-Mobile US is set to boost data buckets for multiline accounts, but is doing away with the unlimited data option T-Mobile US announced a new...

Quortus White Paper: LTE – a robust solution for public safety

Critical communications are moving with the times. Having been largely based on systems that support ultra-reliable voice, such as Tetra, they are now shifting...

Wi-Fi Aware connects the (nearby) world

Following years of collaborative development, the Wi-Fi Alliance has released Wi-Fi Aware, a sort of always-on mechanism for device-to-device discovery that doesn't requires a...

EMEA: RadioOpt offers analytics on the move

RadioOpt was founded in 2008 as a spinoff of the Technische Universität Dresden. Initially designed to offer voice analytics via a SIM card applet in...

IBM Watson coming to Africa and the Middle East

Partnership aimed at boosting economy, improving health care The supercomputer that conquered all challengers at "Jeopardy" is now looking to new challenges in the Middle...

Kagan: Former Sprint CEO Dan Hesse on mobile Internet

The mobile Internet presents a new wave of opportunities and challenges to the wireless industry. Dan Hesse, previous CEO of Sprint, shared his thoughts...

Industry: Broadband markets need to Competify

WASHINGTON – In a tongue-in-check effort to highlight a perceived lack of competition in the broadband space, a group of telecom companies and trade...

Millennial Media’s stock climbs as AOL buyout rumors swirl

Reports have circulated that AOL is working on a deal to acquire mobile ad network Millennial Media for an estimated $300 million to $350...

DAS slims down for Great American Ball Park

Four years ago, Cincinnati's Great American Ball Park installed a distributed antenna system to make sure it could keep up with mobile data demand....

Sprint launches MaaS platform for enterprise market

Sprint claims MaaS platform streamlines mobile management Sprint furthered its attempt to lure enterprises with the launch of its “Mobility-as-a-Service” offer that it claims streamlines...
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