Yearly Archives: 2016

Rio Olympics: Cybersecurity a high priority

Security is one of the major concerns surrounding the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and not only physical security. Information and communications technology providers interviewed...

Telefónica quarterly revenue down 7.7%

Telefónica ended June with 50M LTE subscribers Telefónica reported 12.7 billion euro ($14.07 billion) in revenue for the second quarter of 2016, down 7.7% compared to...

SK Telecom ends June with 20M LTE subscribers in Korea

SK Telecom reports $3.8B in revenue for Q2 Korean operator SK Telecom said it ended the second quarter of 2016 with 20 million subscribers in...

Rural farms connect to harness precision agriculture

"Connecting" rural farming to accommodate a booming global population Connected and precision agriculture, which heavily revolves around providing low-income rural farming areas with mobile networks...

OnFarm teams with ThingWorx to optimize precision agriculture

There are a number of variables that can impact a farmer’s yield, from variations in temperature to soil composition. IoT deployments allow all of...

AT&T tops T-Mobile, Verizon and Sprint in satisfaction survey

AT&T supplanted T-Mobile as the best performing full-service carrier in the latest J.D. Power customer care survey, Consumer Cellular tops for no-contract service AT&T Mobility...

Nestlé and Samsung team up on new IoT health platform

Samsung and Nestlé announced the two companies are to collaborate on a new IoT health platform designed to advance digital health. As the market for...

AT&T taps Amdocs as ECOMP integrator, global marketer

Amdocs to work with telecom operators and cloud developers looking to integrate the AT&T ECOMP platform AT&T signed a deal with Amdocs to be the...

Oracle to buy NetSuite for $9.3B

Oracle said today that it will spend more than $9 billion to buy "the very first cloud company." NetSuite, led by a former Oracle...

L-com picked up by private equity-backed Infinite RF

Radio frequency components and cabling company L-com is set to merge with Infinite RF, which is a portfolio company of RF component brands backed...

AT&T will lead robocalling task force

AT&T chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson will lead a national task force to fight robocalling. The nation's largest provider of telecom services said Federal...

Which countries are leading in the internet of things?

See which countries are leveraging the internet of things to drive business transformation A lot of vendors throw around the projection that by 2020 there...

Sprint, T-Mobile CEOs skeptical of Verizon's Yahoo buy

T-Mobile and Sprint CEOs are skeptical of telcos getting into the content business Earlier this week Verizon Communications announced its intention to acquire Yahoo's internet-related...

Vodafone, Huawei trial 4.5G with LTE TDD

The new technology combines MIMO with multiuser beamforming U.K. telecommunications operator Vodafone and Chinese vendor Huawei are conducting technical trials of "4.5G" (TDD+) with LTE...

Orange ends Q2 with more fixed and mobile subs

Orange LTE coverage in France reaches 82% of the population French mobile operator Orange reached 9.4 million LTE subscribers at the end of June, posting 1.4 million...

Digital Greenwich to host 5G smart city incubator with 5GIC

The University of Surrey’s 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC) and Digital Greenwich have partnered to co-create and trial new 5G smart city technology. The University of...

How industrial IoT is revolutionizing waste management

In 2013, Americans generated about 254 million tons of trash, or 4.6 pounds per person per day, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency....

IIoT cuts food waste with refrigerated container monitoring

Industrial internet of things (IIoT) a partial solution to a serious food problem Around 30% of the food the world produces is lost each year,...

#TBT: Sprint lull continues; Dish targeting T-Mobile? … this week in 2013

Sprint continued to see operations impacted by ownership uncertainty, while Dish looked to be eyeing a T-Mobile acquisition … 3 years ago this week Editor’s...

Internet of things shake up well underway

A significant minority of companies now claim to run their entire business on the internet of things Some of the enterprise pioneers of the internet...

Sprint grabs share of network management, to absorb some Ericsson employees

In announcing plans to renew a portion of its network management agreement with Ericsson, Sprint said it will take on some employees from the...

Greenlee Webinar: Overcoming the challenges in delivering seamless Wi-Fi throughout the home

Delivering a Gigabit service to the front door only frustrates the consumer even more when all they get inside the home is a couple...

Verizon, Sprint and AT&T results dissected

Carrier Wrap speaks with Recon Analytics to take a stab at dissecting the latest quarterly results from Verizon, Sprint and AT&T In a somewhat rare...

Apple iPhone sales slide as CEO talks augmented reality, AI

Apple beat third-quarter earnings estimates despite a continued decline in iPhone sales. In his commentary, CEO Tim Cook looked to future projects around augmented...

Has Sprint turned the corner?

Analysts react to Sprint's improving performance; not all are convinced Sprint made a big impression on Wall Street this week, convincing some of its critics...
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