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Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure is traveling around the U.S. on a listening tour, talking with customers trying to get a good understanding of Sprint’s position in the marketplace from their …

South by Southwest panel gathers urban broadband advocates to discuss bridging the digital divide AUSTIN, Texas – Broadband deployments serve to open up opportunities to largely underserved groups while stimulating …

Obama talks tech, globalization and tacos on Texas trip AUSTIN–President Barack Obama kicked off the South by Southwest Interactive on March 11 with a keynote talk calling on technology leaders …

Register for CableLabs’ Inform[ED] Wireless Conference today The cable industry has been playing an increasing role in advancing wireless technologies as fixed and mobile networks are converging. Today the cable industry …

Smith Micro Software is buying out its primary competitor in intelligent Wi-Fi offload. The California company is purchasing Birdstep’s software development and marketing arm for an undisclosed amount. Both Smith …

Initiatives like Germany’s Industrie 4.0 and Made in China 2025 seed regional IoT economy The “Internet of Things” promises to connect 20 billion previously unconnected objects by 2020. As the …

Ericsson CEO: Goal is to drive growth, innovation, speed Nearly four months into a hyped partnership, Ericsson and Cisco executives report a “huge amount of progress in a very short …

Fintur operates in Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Moldova Turkcell is looking to acquire the near 59% stake TeliaSonera currently holds in Fintur Holdings, which would give Turkcell full control of …

Ooredoo ended 2015 with 117 million customers Qatar-based telecom group Ooredoo posted QAR 7.97 billion ($2.18 billion) in fourth quarter revenues, down from QAR 8.37 billion in the same quarter last …

Indian telecom operators look to complete the operation by September Indian mobile operators Reliance Communications and Aircel agreed to merge their operations, according to The Economic Times. The report claims …

Public-private partnership model for fiber networks gaining traction The growing trend of municipalities moving to control their own high-speed broadband destiny is exemplified in what’s happening in Huntsville, Alabama. Local …

Net loss of 1.83 billion euro in Q4 due to extraordinary factors Spanish telecom giant Telefónica recorded 11.88 billion euro ($12.98 billion) in fourth quarter 2015 revenue, flat compared to …

Huawei and partners show use cases of digital transformation to demonstrate importance of agile, elastic operations BARCELONA, Spain – With a focus on enabling a customer-centric business model, Huawei representatives and …

BARCELONA, Spain – Claiming everybody should have access to the Internet, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg discussed projects his company is working on designed to provider greater access to the Web. “Facebook’s …

Seattle, WA and Vienna, Austria — Kapsch CarrierCom and Opanga Networks are pleased to announce today the formation of a new strategic partnership to bring the next generation of network …

NGENA aims to launch services in early 2017; comprises Deutsche Telekom, Reliance Jio, SK Telecom and more BARCELONA, Spain – CenturyLink, Deutsche Telekom, Reliance Jio Infocomm and SK Telecom announced …

RCR Wireless News recognizes inaugural list of leaders fueling the Fourth Industrial Revolution RCR Wireless News, a leading source of wireless, telecom and mobile technology news and actionable intelligence since …

Xiaomi, Huawei and Apple led in market share  A total of 117.3 million smartphones were shipped to China in the last quarter of 2015, an 8% year-over-year increase according to …

Deal will join Liberty Global, Vodafone operations in Netherlands U.K-based telecom group Vodafone and U.S. company Liberty Global reached an agreement to merge their operations in the Netherlands. Vodafone will …

1. Google will not be a bidder in the Federal Communications Commission’s upcoming 600 MHz spectrum auction. The deadline to file applications to bid was last Wednesday, and late last …

Verizon Wireless is the lone hold out Customers are happy as three of the top four wireless carriers are offering unlimited data services once again. AT&T Mobility, Sprint and T-Mobile …

Working to gain ground against its competitors, Sprint on Thursday announced a new promotional plan including unlimited data that the No. 4 carrier says offers the “best price.” Specifically, starting …