The world’s largest maker of smarpthone chips has been having a hard time doing business in the world’s biggest smartphone market. But now Qualcomm is reportedly near a settlement with …
Martha DeGrasse
Martha DeGrasse
Martha DeGrasse is the publisher of Network Builder Reports (nbreports.com). At RCR, Martha authored more than 20 in-depth feature reports and more than 2,400 news articles. She also created the Mobile Minute and the 5 Things to Know Today series. Prior to joining RCR Wireless News, Martha produced business and technology news for CNN and Dow Jones in New York and managed the online editorial group at Hoover’s Online before taking a number of years off to be at home when her children were young. Martha is the board president of Austin's Trinity Center and is a member of the Women's Wireless Leadership Forum.
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Fourteen years after selling its mobile business, BT is back in a big way – the carrier has agreed to purchase EE for $19 billion. BT currently offers wireless service through …
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Shares of wireless infrastructure giant Alcatel-Lucent are trading higher on the heels of the company’s fourth-quarter earnings report. Revenue declined, but net income rose as the company reported fixed cost …
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Sprint is swooping into more than 1,500 stores owned by RadioShack, which filed for bankruptcy this week. The carrier will set up shop in those RadioShack locations and plans to …
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“Roam like home” is the promise that some European operators make to their customers, who cross national borders more frequently than do their North American counterparts. But few of these …
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Intel inside more gateways? Intel wants to be inside more than just your personal computer – the chip giant is buying Germany’s Lantiq, a provider of chips for telecom residential …
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Verizon Communications and Cablevision are neighbors in the Northeast, but their relationship is stormier than the weather this week. Cablevision said yesterday that it’s suing Verizon over its advertising claims about …
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Some football fans who work for Crown Castle, TE Connectivity, Galtronics, AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile US will be watching the Super Bowl carefully this weekend. They’ll be checking out …
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The latest research on mobile device market share shows Android solidifying its dominant position, despite a fourth-quarter flurry of iPhone purchases. Strategy Analytics said that 1 billion Android smartphones shipped …
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Sprint and T-Mobile US helped boost Nokia Networks’ financial results last quarter. Nokia said today that its fourth-quarter North American sales increased 95% over last year. Nokia is an LTE vendor …
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The iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus propelled Apple to a record-breaking performance during the holiday shopping season, as the company sold 74.5 million iPhones in a single quarter. …
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CommScope confirmed today that it has agreed to buy TE Connectivity’s telecom, enterprise and wireless businesses for roughly $3 billion. Together, the two network infrastructure giants had $5.8 billion in …
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Ericsson said today that a slowdown in the North American market weighed on earnings, and the company expects more of the same in the months ahead. CFO Jan Frykhammar said …
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The growth of in-building network deployments is creating exciting new opportunities for women in wireless, and the Women’s Wireless Leadership Forum is ready. The networking group, an affiliate of wireless …
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Mobile phones are the only connection to the Internet that people in many parts of the world will ever have. But a phone is not enough to connect the unconnected; …
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Network security is big business for Cisco, and each year the company provides updates on potential new threats and the evolution of existing security loopholes. Cisco’s annual security report this …
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AT&T late last week filed an 8-K form with the Securities and Exchange Commission stating that it will take a one-time $10 billion charge when it reports earnings on Jan. …
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Xiaomi has made it crystal clear that it’s ready to take on the smartphone establishment. The Chinese devicemaker launched a new smartphone that shares its name with Samsung’s popular Note, …
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The Supreme Court has ruled that municipalities need to provide written explanations in a timely manner when they choose to reject an application to build a new cell tower. The …
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Apple wants to slice the licensing fees it pays each time it sells an iPhone. The company is suing wireless equipment giant Ericsson, which holds many patents for 3G and …
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As mobile networks migrate to IP architectures, media processing is increasingly critical, but it is not a core competency for most equipment vendors. Radisys marketing director Ray Adensamer says that …
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Former Sprint executive joins PCIA to help with workforce training Wireless industry trade association PCIA said that former Sprint executive John Harrison will take on the newly created role of …
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Fiber-to-the-home is part of AT&T and Verizon Communications’ plan to compete with cable, but the cable companies are defending their turf with new standards that are set to speed-up data …
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LAS VEGAS – Service providers that want to boost coverage and capacity indoors often consider DAS, small cells, signal boosters and/or Wi-Fi offload, or a combination of these approaches. Infrastructure providers …
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AT&T has agreed to sell its Muve Music service to Deezer, a French streaming-music service. Muve was owned by Leap Wireless, which marketed wireless service through the Cricket brand and …