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Ahead of a scheduled presentation in front of the Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C., Sprint and Softbank Chairman Masayoshi Son took to U.S. airwaves in claiming his desire to become a more disruptive force in the domestic telecom market, …

Verizon’s stock woes highlight this week’s capital markets round-up.

There’s a lot of buzz these days surrounding the “Internet of things.” Unfortunately the term itself is fuzzy, leading to ambiguity and misunderstanding of what it actually means.

It has been an eventful week in the telecom industry with each change supplementing three broad themes developed in previous columns: a) the critical nature of data value to each wireless segment;

SDN technology has myriad benefits to offer telco service providers.

Wireless trade association 4G Americas said that LTE connections reached 200 million at the end of 2013, with half of those coming from North America. The trade group also said that AT&T Mobility has already deployed LTE-Advanced carrier aggregation in …

AUSTIN, Texas – With mobile advertising projected to hit $18 billion this year, service providers are increasingly eyeing mobile devices as a potential source of “second screen” revenue. Nielsen reports that 85% of Americans watch television with a smartphone or …

A Sprint executive goes in front of Congress in this week’s policy news round-up.

New research from Gartner stated that tablet sales increased by 68 percent last year.

The domestic pricing battle among wireless carriers continues to heat up as just a day after T-Mobile US released adjustments to its plans, AT&T Mobility announced changes of its own. AT&T Mobility said that beginning this weekend, customers will be …

T-Mobile US tightened up the data offerings on its Simple Choice rate plans, offering entry-level and mid-tier users a bit more to play with while charging heavy users a bigger toll. The announcement came late Friday afternoon, a time when …

Broadcom announced a new OpenFlow specification for SDN deployments.

A couple of reports surfaced this week handing out pats-on-the-backs to some wireless operators, and notes of shame to others. Those reports were great in that they named and ranked carriers according to what the surveys founds,

Agilent Technologies released a series of 30-second demos based on engineers’ use of its Advanced Design System 2014 software, which is designed to enable electronic design automation for RF and microwave applications. The company said it listened to ADS user …

Network virtualization is creating a growing buzz across the wireless telecommunications space as carriers look for ways to trim network build out costs as well as grasp for ways to rollout services faster to compete against the rising tide of …