LightSquared’s future remains unsettled as the investment firm that had tentatively agreed to purchase LightSquared’s assets out of bankruptcy has backed out of the deal. According to The Wall Street …
2013
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Weekend reports that Sprint was looking at acquiring T-Mobile US stirred the pot, though most observers found the taste not quite to their liking. Following a report from The Wall …
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Sprint and Dish Network will experiment with fixed wireless broadband in Texas starting in the middle of next year. Today the two companies said that they will develop and deploy …
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AT&T announced plans to shed wireline assets in the Northeast as it focuses future growth opportunities on its wireless operations. The telecom giant said it has agreed to sell its …
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As carriers undertake increasingly complex network deployments, software and automation are becoming more and more important. “Operators are looking at situations where they’re talking about tens of thousands of small …
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“5G” is a term that means different things to different people, but wireless veteran Yossi Cohen hopes it will be defined by a new wave modulation technique that may exponentially …
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Yota Devices is making the mobile world look twice at the smartphone concept. The Moscow-based start up, which was spun off from the Russian mobile broadband provider Yota in 2011, …
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Reality Check: Four barriers to overcome to better listen to your customers
by Dan Meyerby Dan MeyerIf only 5% of customers formally complain, where do the rest go to vent their frustrations? Many may take to posting #epicfail on Twitter, through a status on Facebook or lamenting to friends at the local pub.
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Enterprise mobility is changing the way business is done while also introducing new challenges for development, quality assurance and information technology teams. Businesses are adopting
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Nokia Solutions and Networks has been chosen as a supplier for the roll-out of LTE by Taiwanese operator Chunghwa Telecom. Chunghwa is the largest telcom operator in Taiwan, with more …
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AT&T has upgraded its wireless infrastructure at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, N.C., home of the Carolina Panthers NFL team. The venue, which seats more than 74,000 people, has …
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Just weeks after prodding the industry for action, the Federal Communications Commission garnered an agreement with wireless trade association CTIA and five of its largest carrier members
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Intel is buying the wireless assets of small cell expert Mindspeed, which agreed last month to be acquired by MACOM. Mindspeed said at that time that it would find a …
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Voice over LTE was developed as a standardized way for operators to transmit voice over new data-oriented LTE networks, meaning that voice services can use the higher speeds and quality
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Rumors over the weekend began to sizzle that Sprint and T-Mobile US were looking into a possible partnership that would provide a more formidable foe against the nation’s two largest …
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Avago Technologies is buying LSI Corporation for $6.6 billion in a deal that will move the chipmaker into more parts of the wireless ecosystem, and expand its markets outside wireless …
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The wireless network capacity challenge facing operators today is only set to compound as 4G/LTE infrastructure and associated promises of ever more data-rich services are made to subscribers.
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Building on a reputation in banking security and capitalizing on concerns over the U.S. spying scandal, several Swiss firms are seeing a growing interest in ultra-secure data centers. Some are …
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BlackBerry (BBRY) said today that an investor group led by Fairfax Financial will have another month to purchase an additional $250 million of convertible debentures. If the option is exercised, …
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Qualcomm (QCOM) said today that Steve Mollenkopf, its president and chief operating officer, will become CEO on March 4. Current CEO Paul Jacobs, son of Qualcomm founder Irwin Jacobs, will …
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With projections of a 35% compound annual growth rate in tablet PCs through 2016 and consumer demand for bandwidth at an all-time high, one would think that manufacturers would be …
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René Obermann may be in his last days as the CEO of Deutsche Telekom, but he is not leaving quietly. The 49-year-old exec has been making some bold statements in …
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Welcome to our weekly wrap-up of everything in the world of telecom software. With winter in the air and the year winding down, it seems like everybody’s either wrapping up …
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Despite a recent negative antitrust ruling, Vivo, the Brazilian unit of Spanish Telefónica, views 2013 as a good year. The carrier focused on increasing its postpaid base and encouraging data …
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Test & Measurement: Spirent chosen by SGS to expand VoLTE/IMS and LTE testing
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillSpirent Communications’ 8100 Mobile Device Test System has been chosen by test lab SGS to expand its Voice over LTE/IMS and TDD-LTE testing. “We view the goal to successfully rollout …