Yearly Archives: 2016

Analyst Angle: Wi-Fi here and now

I just returned from the well-organized and well-attended Wi-Fi Now conference in Washington, D.C. Topics at the three-day conference included enterprise applications, home security, innovations, leadership,...

3 smart city use cases: Amsterdam, Busan and Nice

Smart city use cases highlight role of Internet of Things We've all heard the term smart cities, but it covers a broad swatch of technologies...

AT&T Mobility shows growth, but fails to impress against T-Mobile and Verizon

AT&T’s mobile business showed overall growth on the back of prepaid and connected devices, but lost ground to T-Mobile in higher-valued phone market Prepaid and...

Industrial IoT and its key role in asset efficiency

Asset efficiency is important to a manufacturer's bottomline A recent study on the maturity of asset efficiency practices from Infosys and the Institute for Industrial...

Nokia to buy Withings

Nokia's return to the consumer market will not just be about smartphones. The company said today it plans to buy France's Withings, which makes...

Nokia to buy Withings

Nokia's return to the consumer market will not just be about smartphones. The company said today that it plans to buy France's Withings, which...

LTE-U and Wi-Fi coexistence: debates and testing continue

The hottest seats in the house at the Wi-Fi Now conference last week were those of the panel members debating the impact of LTE...

Report: NFV and SDN standards remain challenge for operator deployments

TBR notes early adopter operators are pushing NFV and SDN deployments despite standards and interoperability concerns A recent Technology Business Research report found some early...

Orange ends Q1 with 8,716 4G sites across France

Orange reaches 8.7 million 4G subs in its home market French mobile operator Orange said it reached 8.7 million LTE subscribers in its domestic market at the...

T-Mobile puts AT&T and Sprint on notice with strong Q1

T-Mobile posted more than 2.2 million Q1 net adds, including strong postpaid and prepaid numbers sure to put AT&T and Sprint on notice T-Mobile US...

Building smart cities: Why fiber is key

High-capacity fiber networks support big data, cloud computing that’s central to smart cities applications Smart cities are taking a number of different forms as urban...

Innovative virtual RAN architecture prepares carriers for 5G (sponsored content)

Add capacity with off-the-shelf hardware to maximize spectrum resources Spectrum is an inherently limiting factor to communications service providers; it’s expensive, there’s a finite amount...

FCC attaches strings to Charter buy of Time Warner Cable

Charter will not impose data caps for seven years following combination with Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks In approving a major merger in the...

Reality Check: Looking for meaning in Verizon Q1 results

Jim Patterson digs into Verizon Q1 results, noting a potential zero-rated Go90 offerings; and questions the FCC moving the goal post on the cable...

Reality Check: Wearable devices underscore need for secure design

Security issues connected with consumer uptake of wearable devices and the ‘Internet of Things’ remains a significant hurdle for the market Wearable computing devices are...

What is devops and why is it important for telecom?

As the telecom space moves towards increased use of virtualization platforms, devops is becoming an important model to smooth the transition Devops is not a...

AT&T partners with Globecomm for industrial IoT services

AT&T has been saying for months that satellites will be part of its "Internet of Things" strategy, and this week the carrier finally shared...

AT&T partners with Globecomm for Industrial IoT services

AT&T has been saying for months that satellites will be part of its "Internet of Things" strategy, and this week the carrier finally shared...

As Verizon strike continues, network sabotage allegations spike

'At least' 24 instances of damage to network infrastructure as Verizon strike continues in Northeast, mid-Atlantic After starting April 13, a Verizon Communications strike involving...

Chinese billionaire calls Apple ‘outdated’ as gov’t kills iTunes

Chinese billionaire Jia Yueting, CEO of LeEco, told CNBC in a recent interview that technology giant Apple is "outdated," amid a government shutdown of Apple's...

T-Mobile lawsuit, iCar update … 5 things to know today

5 things to know today .... 1. A former T-Mobile US customer is trying to bring a class action lawsuit against the "Un-carrier." A man...

T-Mobile intensifies prepaid assault on Sprint, AT&T and Verizon

T-Mobile prepaid brand MetroPCS launches promotion with boosted data bucket for customers porting from Sprint, AT&T and Verizon T-Mobile US’ MetroPCS prepaid brand unveiled a...

Service assurance is necessary for SDN, cloud success (sponsored content)

As data pipes gain intelligence and flexibility, network owners have to provide monitoring to monetize investments The flexibility associated with cloud computing and fully programmable,...

Verizon claims largest NFV OpenStack cloud deployment

Verizon said it recently completed NFV OpenStack cloud deployments across five U.S. data centers, with international and edge network push by year-end Verizon Communications claims...

Reliance Jio to launch commercial LTE in the coming months

The telco currently counts 500,000 subscribers in its LTE trial Indian telecom operator Reliance Jio Infocomm aims to launch commercial LTE services across India in...
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