Within six years, the number of connected devices that are NOT smartphones, tablets or PCs will skyrocket to 26 billion, according to Gartner. The means that the Internet of Things …
Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless Samsung’s slide is starting to look like a trend. For the third straight quarter, the Korean giant is predicting lower …
Bay Area launches free Hotspot 2.0 Wi-Fi Silicon Valley residents and visitors are taking advantage of free public Wi-Fi thanks to a partnership created by Ruckus Wireless, the City and …
As data becomes increasingly important to service assurance, Anritsu is looking to take a more active role in providing data that can help the network to operate. The company elaborated …
Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless The Transportation Safety Board says it will not allow uncharged cell phones or other uncharged portable electronics to board U.S.-bound …
There may be a light at the end of the tunnel for contractors who have been forced to cut workers due to AT&T’s infrastructure spending slow down. Analysts and contractors …
As an acronym, C-RAN has less name recognition than its more popular cousins, SDN and NFV, though if you are in the wireless business it is equally important as we look at the future of the wireless network and its continued evolution over the next five to 10 years.
Qualcomm has bought Wilocity, an Israeli developer of 60 GHz Wi-Fi chipsets that has worked with Qualcomm for some time. Wilocity chipsets are based on the IEEE 802.11ad (WiGig) standard, …
Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless Microsoft has clearly decided that it needs to make hardware if it wants to be relevant in mobile, and now …
Nokia Networks announces two acquisitions Nokia Networks said today that it will buy Nice Systems’ 3D geolocation business to enhance the planning and optimization of mobile networks. “The evolution of …
Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless The app arms race may be set for a slowdown, with new data from Nielsen suggesting that Americans are approaching …
Verizon Wireless and Ericsson both issued responses Tuesday to an earlier report that claimed Ericsson was in talks with the two largest U.S. carriers about managing their network infrastructure. The …
Numericable Group to buy Virgin Mobile in France French cable company Numericable has agreed to buy Virgin Mobile in France for roughly $450 million. Numericable, which has a significant fiber …
Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. AT&T has a price and a buyer for its 8.2% equity stake in América Móvil. Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, majority …
Each time we use our mobile devices we can generate multiple signaling events within the mobile core. As a result, signaling traffic has risen at a faster clip than traditional …
Wi-Fi at the World Cup Wi-Fi offload is a big part of the game plan for Brazil’s mobile operators during the World Cup. TIM Brasil and OI SA are both …
Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. More than 64,000 engineers are suing some of the biggest employers in mobile for conspiring to keep them in their …
What goes up must come down … and may go back up again. That’s the message AT&T wants its contractors to hear as some of them struggle with a sudden …
Another AT&T contractor has been forced to lay off workers, as the carrier takes a break from some of its wireless infrastructure projects. Velocitel, which does tower site work for …
Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. It’s been 15 years since Google launched the search algorithm that would turn its company name into a verb. Now, …
CEM Observer is a a handset-based solution that enables users to test their wireless service on a particular handset, perhaps without even knowing it. CEM Observer passively monitors a customer’s …
The quest for scale and intellectual property appear to be motivating chip companies to consolidate, with three transactions announced this week. Qualcomm buys RF specialist Qualcomm has purchased Austin’s Black …
SBA Communications (SBAC) said today that it is acquiring 1,641 more wireless sites in Brazil from Oi. Oi will lease space on the towers from SBA after the transaction closes, …
Aereo, the New York startup that uses tiny antennas to deliver broadcast TV to mobile devices, may be forced out of business by today’s Supreme Court ruling. The Justices voted …
The following interview was conducted at TM Forum Live. Jeff Edlund, CTO of HP’s Communications and Media Group, explains how his company reconciles the need to be agile in NFV …
