Yearly Archives: 2015

Huawei bets big on Indian device market

Huawei plans to grab a portion of India's smartphone market through retail partnerships Chinese devicemaker Huawei is launching more affordable smartphones to capitalize on the emerging Indian...

Helio makes a comeback

New Helio offers ‘unlimited’ service, but stuck with 2G speeds Perhaps showing that at least names never go out of style, the Helio brand is...

MVNO pioneer Peter Adderton heads 360fly, takes on GoPro in action-camera market

Boost Mobile, Amp’d founder now heads action-camera startup The domestic market’s infatuation with mobile virtual network operators looks to be on an upswing as mobile...

Life pro tip: How to get free airplane Wi-Fi

Let’s face it: airplane Wi-Fi is a total bummer. Entire jets full of people share a miniscule level of throughput that’s generally not even...

Singapore to slash spectrum price to entice new carrier

Singapore regulators are poised to do what the Federal Communications Commission is reluctant to do in the U.S. In order to entice a fourth...

Apple loses $450M antitrust appeal

WASHINGTON – In a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit in Manhattan has ruled that the $450 million antitrust suit against technology...

T-Mobile US bests Sprint; Verizon, AT&T market ‘defenders’

A new market research report finds that T-Mobile US has overtaken Sprint in terms of total subscribers, thereby claiming the No. 3 domestic carrier...

Q&A with LitePoint: Small cells, 5G, IoT and more

Adam Smith is a 15-year veteran of working with radio frequency aspects of wireless testing and has been with test company LitePoint since 2012. He...

Republic Wireless expands cellular data refund

MVNO Republic Wireless credits cash for unused cellular data Following up on a trial earlier this year, mobile virtual network operator Republic Wireless expanded the...

Nokia uses drones for network planning

United Arab Emirates carrier Du partners with Nokia to analyze network components using telco drones Carrier Du, along with partner Nokia Networks, has used drones...

EMEA: Steering smarter in the connected car

Hoffmann-Krippner is working with Guttersberg Consulting to bring its SensoFoil sensing technology to the connected car market. The technology is designed to allow the...

T-Mobile US wiretap requests surge in 2014; voice, text, voicemail info included

T-Mobile US said majority of the requests came from law enforcement and included phone conversations, text messages and voicemails T-Mobile US said last year it...

Wireless workforce: Wi-Fi certification opens doors for RF engineers

As cellular and wireless networks become more integrated indoors, network architects are designing systems that can work together, and recruiters are looking for engineers...

AT&T SDN, NFV, cloud push tackles enterprise storage challenges

AT&T working on PoC for software-defined storage using SDN, NFV and cloud AT&T is looking to take advantage of its push into network virtualization using...

Opinion: Kagan – Will T-Mobile US antics backfire?

I have a question for you: Are the accusations and colorful language from T-Mobile US CEO John Legere ultimately helping or hurting his company...

Adult video consumption set to explode thanks to 4G, LTE

New report from Juniper Research predicts 55% increase in adult video consumption by 2020 Adult video content is set to explode across the mobile space,...

Far EasTone discussing $2.3B deal for Taiwan’s largest cable co.

Taiwanese telco Far EasTone and Morgan Stanley are reportedly close to striking a $2.3 billion deal with MBK Partners to acquire Taiwan’s largest cable...

LG Uplus, Samsung partner on 5G R&D

Although the telecom industry is still a few years away from establishing a standard for 5G mobile networks, research and development is happening in...

FCC slaps TracFone for device-unlocking violations

FCC found TracFone violated device-unlocking rules for Lifeline customers TracFone Wireless ran afoul of the Federal Communications Commission’s device unlocking requirements tied to its Lifeline...

Fiber Wars: Massachusetts towns funding rollout

WiredWest trying to fund $79M build-out that would bring fiber to 32 towns As entrenched cable companies, as well as disruptive new entrants, work to...

MasterCard looks to selfies as PIN of the future

Swapping biometric data for traditional security measures presents challenges and opportunities WASHINGTON – Global financial services company MasterCard is reportedly testing the possibility of adding...

Bharti Airtel sells African towers for $1.3B

The company aims to sell additional towers in six African markets in the coming months Indian telecommunications group Bharti Airtel has obtained nearly $1.3 billion...

Du and Huawei work on advanced mobile networks for the UAE

The United Arab Emirates’ second-largest operator Du has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Chinese ICT solutions provider Huawei to develop an advanced mobile...

Reader Forum: The mobile Internet of Things

As the “Internet of Things” grows, mobile phones are becoming personal controllers that connect consumers through Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, ZigBee and other personal area networks...

Reader Forum: 5G is coming! Wireless telecom is dead, long live wireless IT

While presenting on the topic of “5G” recently, I was asked: “Why are we making everything so complicated?” In that moment, as I surveyed...
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