Struggling Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) showed signs that its “Shift Plan” is well underway as it posted mixed fourth quarter and full year results for 2013, and announced the sale of its enterprise unit to China Huaxin for $362 million.
The Paris-based telecom equipment maker posted flat revenues...
Leading network and subscriber intelligence provider Astellia recently unveiled a new look for the brand, including a previously unseen logo and overall company identity.
It is with a heavy heart we bring you this week's cell tower news. It was a devastating weekend, with two tower tragedies in different parts of the country that claimed a total of four lives.
The first was in Clarksburg, W.Va., where two towers...
The OpenDaylight Project, an open community focused on software defined networking and virtualization solutions, recently announced the availability of its first open source software called Hydrogen.
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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...
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...
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,...
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.
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...
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...
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.
Ericsson (ERIC) CEO Hans Vestberg says he has no plans to leave the company, dispelling rumors that he was on the short list of candidates to replace Steve Ballmer at Microsoft. That news along with the company's guidance regarding stronger growth in Europe helped...
Unified communication (UC) is increasingly important to enterprises as employees bring a widening array of mobile devices into the workplace. “Businesses have been implementing more mobility into their UC architectures over the past year and now are looking toward videoconferencing to help drive further...
Welcome to our weekly collection of all the top cell tower news stories, where we cover global, national, regional, local and distributed antenna system news.
Super Bowl Sunday is less than a week away, so it's hard for sports fans to think of anything else,...
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AT&T and data center company Equinix announced an alliance that seeks to expand adoption of cloud services by offering secure cloud access via AT&T's virtual private networks (VPNs), instead of the public Internet.
AT&T's NetBond offering will be embedded in select Equinix data centers in...
Welcome to our weekly wrap-up of telecom software news. It's been a week of big deals and big reports in the telecom space. Verizon Communications acquired Intel Media, VMware bought AirWatch, Subex landed $10 million worth of contracts and Redknee signed a $5...
Looking back, 2013 was a year of transformation in which several major transactions enabled the carriers to reshape and reinforce themselves for a “Final Four” competition for leadership in the U.S. market.
When Instagram added video 7 months ago it was a wake-up call for many service providers, who immediately found their networks faced with exploding demand for mobile video. Now operators face the threat of much larger video downloads, as millions of Netflix customers migrate...
The wide range of benefits that could result from implementing SDN solutions should not be underestimated. As network resources become increasingly strained, organizational leaders will likely need this technology to alleviate disruptive bottlenecks.
Network functions virtualization has begun to receive a lot of attention as wireless carriers look for ways to rein in spending as they roll out next-generation networks and services. A recent blog post from Ciena notes that in 2014 the move to NFV will...
Mobile technology, social media, and the cloud have fundamentally transformed communications and profoundly impacted the telecommunications industry. Traditional telecom operators are
