Rumors of Sprint’s interest in acquiring smaller rival T-Mobile US seem to be hitting a regulatory wall as reports indicate little support for such action from government officials.
Reuters reported that current Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler has “expressed expressed his skepticism about...
AT&T Mobility has reportedly stopped offering to pay current T-Mobile US customers up to $450 to switch their mobile service, an offering the carrier began making just last month.
According to The Wall Street Journal, an AT&T spokesman said the offer ended Jan. 31, noting...
Ericsson executive vice president Johan Wibergh became head of the company's networks business in 2008, just before the global recession and the emergence of low-cost Asian competitors delivered something of a one-two punch to the largest part of Ericsson's business. But the company's networks...
Telecommunications infrastructure giant Ericsson announced plans to launch a new lab in support of the OpenDaylight Project community, which is looking to propel the development, testing and verification of software defined networking services. The Ericsson lab, which will be run in conjunction with the...
A new research study has found that fraudulent transactions via mobile devices result in $2.83 of fraud costs for every dollar of actual fraud losses. That figure is actually better than the $3.10 spent per dollar of fraud for the on-line channel, in part...
The Federal Communications Commission’s auction of the H-Block spectrum kicked off the week at a more heated clip that resulted in an additional $100 million in potential winning bids.
The auction of 10 megahertz of spectrum in the upper 1.9 GHz band surpassed $1.1 billion...
In-flight Wi-Fi provider Gogo Inc. has selected packet microwave supplier DragonWave Inc. to support its ongoing expansion. The two companies have been working together for several years and are expanding their relationship.
Gogo's technology is available on more than 2,000 commercial aircraft and more than 6,500...
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AT&T Mobility throws more gas on price war
AT&T Mobility over the weekend unveiled new family plan pricing increasing the heat burning through the mobile space. ... Read More
Foxconn reportedly moves into chip design
The acquisition may be a sign that the manufacturer wants...
India reduced the minimum price for airwave access in an attempt to sell mobile wireless service spectrum in a recent auction. This is the second time airwave access has been put up for auction in India, as the first sale in 2012 saw few takers.
Updated with comment from Verizon Wireless
Verizon Wireless used this weekend’s Super Bowl as the test bed for its LTE Multicast service that is based on the LTE Broadcast standard for one-way streaming of video content. The test was part of the carrier’s Power House...
Hon Hai Precision Industry, more commonly known as Foxconn, is reportedly buying a Taiwanese chipmaker that specializes in ARM-based SoCs, the applications processors most commonly used in smartphones and tablets. Socle Technology Corporation licenses the ARM Cortex MPCore processors, ARM Mali (GPUs), ARM11MP-S, ARM1176-S,...
The domestic pricing wars continue to heat up as AT&T Mobility is the latest to stoke the fires of a battle rippling across nearly all of the country’s mobile operators.
The carrier over the weekend unveiled a new family plan that provides for unlimited talk,...
Questions abound regarding NSA data collection, the FCC looks to overhaul landline networks and telecoms lobby hard in this week's policy news round up.
Nokia Solutions and Networks recently completed a series of test cases for Voice over LTE on China Mobile's TD-LTE network, including the world's first live video call over this kind of network.
A recent study found that the average person shifts his attention between his smartphone, tablet and laptop an overwhelming 21 times in a single hour. As such, the importance of a
In an industry that is constantly and rapidly evolving, the bar to earn the title of “transformative moment” is high. And yet, we are at just such a moment.
The total bids in the Federal Communications Commission's auction of H-block spectrum reached $1 billion on Friday, with about $560 million left before the reserve price is met.
There are currently five rounds of bidding per day in Auction 96, and when round 32 closed...
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FCC to start carrier trials of IP-only voice service
The Federal Communications Commission has invited carriers to start testing the process of migrating customers away from ... Read More
Auction 96: Bids for NYC license surpass $215 million
The New York economic area license...
Mobile games are thought to generate more revenue than all other apps combined, and mobile devices are expected to be the top platform choice of gamers within the next few years. Service providers have seen network traffic spike when a new game hits an...
Agilent Technologies has opened up a 5-meter semi-anechoic chamber at its facility in Santa Rosa, Calif., expanding its on-site electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) capability testing capacity for making sure that products conform to emerging standards for electromagnetic emissions and interference (EMI).
The 1,300-square foot semi-anechoic chamber...
JDSU (JDSU) announced strong quarterly results and the continuing execution of its acquisition strategy. The company said it recently closed on two new deals: the acquisition of the assets of real-time network intelligence software company Trendium, as well as the purchase of Time-Bandwidth Products,...
Enterprise network demands have exploded in recent years as more organizations adopt cloud computing and bring-your-own-device plans. In addition, companies remain on the lookout for any opportunity to improve their internal communications - most notably, through videoconferencing tools. The cumulative effect of these investments...
The New York economic area license continues to be the crown jewel of the Federal Communications Commission's auction 96, and drew even further away from the rest of the pack on Thursday to end with a high bid of nearly $217 million.
Total bidding in...
By staying on top of current and emerging trends, businesses can avoid getting blindsided by an unforeseen change in the market. Here's what's happening in mobile chip development news this week.
