Monthly Archives: March, 2016
PlumGrid expands OpenStack support with ONS 5.0 platform
PlumGrid claims latest ONS 5.0 platform supports OpenStack Kilo and Liberty releases, leverages SDN overlays for traffic isolation and policy enforcement
PlumGrid unveiled the latest...
China Unicom and ZTE partner on SDN and NFV development work
China Unicom NFV and SDN partnership with ZTE looks to build off template of ‘a decoupled and intensive network architecture’ based on user and...
Sprint teams with Amazon on direct Prime billing at a premium
Sprint customers can now directly bill an $11 monthly charge for Amazon’s Prime service with features already available to most mobile customers
Sprint has teamed...
Smart city pilots help assess scalability
San Diego and Chula Vista leaders talk smart city tech
AUSTIN, Texas – While the 2016 Energy Thought Summit is largely focused on using technology...
Verizon device upgrade programs set for price hike
A report from Phonearena.com suggests Verizon is set to increase upgrade fees nearly across the board, including annual upgrades and full payments
Verizon Wireless is...
Today is the last day of Sprint WiMAX service
Sprint is set to complete the shutdown of its WiMAX network today, as service at sites in 10 states is discontinued.
Sprint had originally planned...
European Commission to analyze Wind-Three merger in Italy
How will proposed merger affect competition, prices?
The European Commission opened an investigation to assess whether the proposed joint venture between the Italian telecommunications businesses...
SK Telecom and Samsung complete mobile 5G test
Carrier tested millimeter waves in the 28 GHz band
Korean telecom operator SK Telecom and compatriot vendor Samsung Electronics claimed to have successfully tested a...
Balancing reliability and innovation on the power grid
Utilities look to a customer-centric business model
AUSTIN, Texas – Like telecom and other industries, the energy sector is moving to a customer-centric business model...
#TBT: Sprint against AT&T purchase of T-Mobile; Clearwire courts … this week in 2011
Sprint came out against AT&T’s planned acquisition of T-Mobile, while Clearwire looked for closer ties to Sprint … 5 years ago this week
Editor’s Note:...
How much will Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and others spend on 600 MHz spectrum?
On this week’s Carrier Wrap we speak with Wireless 20/20 for some last minute insight into Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile bidding plans ahead of...
Case study: Potomac South DAS upgrade
Montgomery County, Maryland, is a scenic, rural area that welcomes tourists and is somewhat less hospitable to cell towers. The county's residents and visitors...
ADLINK White Paper: A New Mobile Edge Computing Architecture for 5G Using Innovative Industrial Cloud Computing Platforms
The Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) initiative can improve user experience and save bandwidth resources, as well as provide endless possibilities for service innovation at...
T-Mobile and Sprint crank promo activity tied to iPhone SE launch
T-Mobile and Sprint have their latest promotions in place tied to this week’s launch of the Apple iPhone SE model
Apple’s latest iPhone SE model...
Telstra network outages probed with vendor Ericsson
In the past two months, customers of Australian mobile carrier Telstra have experienced network outages of varying degrees of severity prompting Telstra and primary...
Analyst Angle: Google Project Fi – the start of wireless network aggregation
Google Project Fi includes T-Mobile US, Sprint and Wi-Fi networks today. This could lead to some amazing new wireless services in the future. Will...
NASA scientist fits Syria, dinosaurs into climate change talk
Tom Wagner: 'We're literally returning to dinosaur times'
AUSTIN, Texas – The long-term impacts of climate change could flood coastal cities, upend agricultural production models...
5G, IoT standardization creates value across telecom ecosystem (sponsored content)
Learn about InterDigital’s support of 5G and the Internet of Things, as well as the company’s role in the standards-setting process
Discourse in the telecommunications...
Pumping profits: Shell saves $1M with IoT
Low oil prices mean petroleum producers need to spend and invest more carefully than ever, and the "Internet of Things" is helping. Last year,...
Google now offers triple-play with Fiber Phone
Building on Google Fiber television and Internet service, meet the Fiber Phone
Building on its growing service provider business lines, Google today announced its Fiber...
AIS launches VoLTE services nationwide in Thailand
Thai operator plans to launch VoLTE-enabled phones with Huawei
Thai mobile operator Advanced Info Service launched commercial voice-over-LTE services across all 77 provinces in the...
FCC 600 MHz incentive auction begins; Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile wait
The FCC 600 MHz incentive auction kicked off with the reverse auction proceedings, with carriers Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile having to wait
The Federal Communications...
Tele2 NFV strategy features virtual EPC
Swedish firm looks to deploy VEPC in the cloud by Q3 2016, as it prepares for 5G
Swedish telecom operator Tele2 announced the launch of...
T-Mobile spectrum war chest boosted by $1B note offer
T-Mobile spectrum plans include participation in 600 MHz incentive auction and continued purchases of 700 MHz A-Block licenses on the open market
T-Mobile US is...
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