Monthly Archives: May, 2015

EMEA: Sprint M2M’s Internet of everything

Sprint announced in late April its Command Center 2.0 for machine-to-machine solutions. The original Command Center has been around for four years, but the new...

HP bolsters NFV platforms targeting communication providers

NFV platform updates look to support commercial deployments Hewlett-Packard bolstered its network functions virtualization platforms with the launch of numerous updates designed to ease the...

Sprint staves off T-Mobile US for No. 3 position, at a cost

Prepaid, tablets and resale helped Sprint maintain its No. 3 position in the market Thanks to strong prepaid, postpaid tablets and its resale business, Sprint...

New phone case uses Wi-Fi, LTE for wireless charging

Cases convert RF into usable power; Kickstarter funding campaign coming soon Research and development firm Nikola Labs is set to launch a crowd-funding campaign to...

FCC reform bills follow party lines in Congress

Push for transparency or punishment for net neutrality? WASHINGTON – Congressional Democrats and Republicans rolled out separate bills pushing reform of the Federal Communications Commission...

Verizon pushes smart cities and smart farms

Carrier plans an 8-city IoT education tour WASHINGTON – Verizon Enterprise Solutions announced it will expand its foray into smart city and smart agriculture technology as...

Taiwan to reach near full LTE coverage by year-end

LTE-A, VoLTE likely to hit Taiwan in 2016 Taiwan's main mobile telephony operators launched LTE services in May 2014, and by the end of the...

Reality Check: NFV is coming, but are your enterprise customers ready?

After a steady stream of significant investments in both labor and dollars as well as a series of successful trials, network function virtualization has...

Reality Check: T-Mobile US, Time Warner Cable Q1 earnings insights

This week, on top of earnings news we had a number of announcements across the industry. Comcast announced it would be launching 2-gigabit-per-second service...

Reality Check: DAS (as we knew it) is D.E.A.D.

Almost 20 months ago the world’s largest radio access network company proclaimed the arrival of the Ericsson small cell, except it was, and is,...

Overture, partners release NFV performance test numbers

NFV performance testing showed zero packet-loss throughput in real-world environment Looking to tackle performance questions surrounding the deployment of network function virtualization platforms, Overture released...

T-Mobile US may borrow against device payments

As carriers turn from subsidies to financing to sell mobile devices, T-Mobile US hopes lenders will see value in that steady stream of customer payments....

Ericsson service helps São Paulo take a bite out of crime

Tapping telecom to tackle crime, public safety In São Paulo, Brazil, telecom infrastructure giant Ericsson is helping emergency responders shave off precious seconds of response...

Ciena boosts SDN, NFV platform with $400M Cyan acquisition

Proposed deal to add Cyan’s SDN, NFV experience to Ciena’s network platform The telecom market's march toward virtualization continues to reshape the vendor space as...

Fiber wars move to Atlanta, Research Triangle

Comcast, AT&T and Google all deploying fiber-to-the-home networks North Carolina’s Research Triangle is among the latest battlegrounds as network operators compete to offer ultra-high-speed, fiber-based...

The future of Wi-Fi could be tiered service

Balancing act of consumer needs and return on network investment Marc Patterson, VP of product for Boingo Wireless, told RCR Wireless News that public Wi-Fi...

EMEA: Is M2M finally ready for prime time?

Last week London was host to M2M World Congress. The presenters were an interesting mix of network operators, hardware and software vendors and industry analysts...

Safety officials want Mexico to reband 800 MHz spectrum

WASHINGTON – Numerous U.S. public safety organizations, including the Association of Public Safety Communication Officials-International, the International Association of Police Chiefs and the National...

Reader Forum: LAN, MAN and WAN – what’s the difference?

According to data from Cisco, global IP traffic will hit the zettabyte-per-year mark by 2016, and increase another 60% by 2018. What's more, the...

Reader Forum: Preparing for 5G trends in the real world

  Current state of 5G trends What is "5G?" Many organizations and entities with a stake in the outcome are attempting to answer that question. A...

T-Mobile US DAS commentary: ‘I will hold my nose’

T-Mobile US DAS comments from PCIA Wireless Infrastructure Show 2015 Hetnet panel HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – Alan Tantillo, national director for development and siting policy at T-Mobile...

Mosaik, BSG partner on Wi-Fi coverage, asset database

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 hotspots...

Verizon Wireless offers prepaid extra data for auto pay

Verizon Wireless prepaid customers can snag 1 GB of extra data Verizon Wireless is looking to attract prepaid customers to its automatic payment program by...

NFV/SDN Reality Check – Episode 11: The shifting service orchestration landscape

On this week's NFV/SDN Reality Check we spoke with Frank Yue, senior technical marketing manager at F5, to garner insight into the importance and...

Coders: Episode 8 — Apple Watch development, Microsoft Build roundup

This week on Coders I speak with Brian Mueller, the developer behind the Carrot line of apps for iPhone and Apple Watch. His line...
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