Service providers and customers alike have been dreaming of the possibilities of converged fixed and mobile communications for years. As more and more service providers and device manufacturers line up behind Voice over WiFi (VoWiFi) and Voice over LTE (VoLTE) technology, the dream is...
Officials order tower service restored
Indian officials aren’t backing down after the recent terror attacks on their mobile infrastructure.
High-level Indian officials have ordered the Indian Army and CRPF, along with state police, to restore mobile service in the Kashmir Valley in spite of multiple attacks...
As mobile subscribers bring more bandwidth-hungry devices into public venues, offices and schools, makers of Wi-Fi network equipment are helping service providers find new ways to monetize Wi-Fi.
Ruckus Wireless is giving network operators a way to partner with retailers to make location-based offers to...
The 40-member Public Safety Advisory Committee received its first formal update on the status of FirstNet pilot projects around the country in the ongoing effort to lay the groundwork for a national LTE network for public safety broadband.
The PSAC was formed to provide the...
Verizon and AT&T invest in disaster prep initiatives
The six-month Atlantic hurricane season kicked off on June 1 and Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility have made a point to harden wireless infrastructure to ensure disaster-struck areas can maintain connectivity during and after a storm event.
Verizon...
Japanese operator currently counts 400,000 Wi-Fi sites throughout the country
Japanese mobile telephony operator Softbank Mobile has made available its nationwide Wi-Fi network for visitors to Japan. The operator plans a July 1 launch of free Wi-Fi service for visitors dubbed "Free Wi-Fi Passport."
With SoftBank...
Telco equipment spending is posting double-digit gains, driven by purchases of network backbone equipment and data center solutions as the radio access equipment market levels off.
U.S. telecommunications network equipment spending rose 8.9% to $279.3 billion, according to the Telecommunication Industry Association's annual ICT market...
Terrorists are trying to put a stop to mobile networks in India, and they are using deadly force to do it.
Two civilian tower workers were killed and three more were injured in multiple attacks on mobile infrastructure in North Kashmir and Srinagar. As a...
A new 700 MHz network is headed to the Big Apple. T-Mobile US CEO John Legere announced via the live-streaming app, Periscope, that the carrier will launch a Band 12 LTE network in New York City in the near future.
A viewer captured the announcement...
Nokia today announced its entry into the data center market with the launch of the AirFrame solution set, billed as integrating the worlds of IT and telecommunications to create an answer for telco IT, and built for telcos running mobile virtual network functions within...
When Alcatel-Lucent and TE Connectivity forged a partnership for digital distributed antenna systems, TE Connectivity was the world's No. 2 provider of DAS equipment, and Alcatel-Lucent was the world's No. 5 vendor of wireless network gear. Now TE Connectivity's wireless unit is set to...
Sources said Sprint is close to an announcement on the next phase of its network upgrades, and that the carrier will soon name approved contractors for each of roughly 100 markets. Sprint is said to have asked dozens of companies to submit bids, and...
Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg is expected to huddle with the company's top brass next month to talk about how Ericsson will respond to Nokia's impending purchase of Alcatel-Lucent. News of the upcoming executive meeting boosted Juniper's stock price on Wednesday. Speculation that Ericsson will...
AOptix solutions provide ultra-high-capacity wireless communications through the use of laser-radio technology, which the company invented. LRT integrates free space optics with millimeter wave radio frequency technology, allowing for carrier-grade performance with 2Gbps throughput capacity to be supported for up to 10 kilometers.
Initially developed and...
The goal is to let clients monetize Wi-Fi and meet carrier demand for Wi-Fi and cellular offload
To ease the struggle of finding Wi-Fi hot spots to support the always-on lifestyle, Mosaik and BSG Wireless have partnered to provide a comprehensive database of the location...
Partners with Tata Sky to launch new video and OTT content delivery solution
Continuing its push into the television and media vertical, Swedish networking firm Ericsson joined forces with Tata Sky to provide Indian customers with a higher-quality television experience.
Ericsson will supply Tata Sky with...
Consumer demand for mobile data continues to overtake demand for voice capacity, a trend that places greater emphasis on data throughput. Operators must optimize data networks to maximize revenue opportunities and achieve Quality of Service (QoS) and Key Performance Indicator (KPI) benchmarks that will...
A newly published road map from the Public Safety Communications Research group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology looks at the potential rewards and challenges associated with the use of location-based services in the public safety realm. It is the first such roadmap...
Qualcomm is helping two of China's biggest companies meet the demand for LTE. Huawei, China Mobile and Qualcomm said they have completed a commercial verification of LTE-TDD inter-band three-component carrier aggregation. Carrier aggregation refers to the combination of different spectrum bands to form a...
Google's highly anticipated wireless service has generated more interest than it can handle right now. The company is telling would-be customers that they will need to wait up to 30 days just to get an invitation to use Google Fi.
Those who sign up early...
Germany’s telecom regulator, the Bundesnetzagentur, this week began the bidding process for spectrum licenses in the 700 MHz band, becoming the first European country to open up the spectrum band deemed ideal for broad LTE deployments. Also on the block are spectrum licenses in the 900...
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A conversation with Ziemowit Neyman, RAN Assistant Director, and Seppo Hämäläinen, RAN and SON Tools Assistant Director, Ooredoo
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LTE unlicensed is expected to use the 5 GHz spectrum more efficiently than Wi-Fi, but does the...
Wi-Fi Master Key connects users to any China Mobile hot spot
Wi-Fi Master Key, a mobile app developed in China that provides users with usernames and passwords to log into public networks, raised $50 million in a series A funding round.
Fortune reports on the funding,...
The network infrastructure is expected to be operational by the end of 2016
Telekom Malaysia has signed an agreement with Thailand-based Symphony Communication and Cambodian broadband Internet wholesaler Telcotech to form a consortium to establish the Malaysia-Cambodia-Thailand submarine cable system.
The Malaysian operator said the new cable system,...
