Monthly Archives: June, 2015

DoJ OKs Nokia, Alcatel-Lucent merger

Potential merger still has to pass muster with foreign regulators WASHINGTON – Following months of speculation and a long and complex process, a merger between...

FCC to fine AT&T $100M for misleading customers

Discord among FCC commissioners; Pai sites Kafka while O’Rielly defends AT&T’s actions The Federal Communications Commission today announced plans to fine AT&T Mobility $100 million...

VoLTE gets high marks in initial benchmarking

In one of the first public views of how voice over LTE is performing in live networks, P3 Communications released VoLTE benchmarking results, which reflected...

Microsoft leaks Wi-Fi hot spot strategy

Microsoft Wi-Fi will include 10M hot spots in 130 countries It looks like Microsoft may have accidentally leaked details of a planned worldwide Wi-Fi network...

Keysight to acquire Anite for $606M

Test vendor Keysight Technologies has made a bid to acquire competitor Anite in a transaction valued at about $606 million that could boost Keysight's...

EMEA: Huawei Innovation Days Round One

MUNICH – This week Munich was host to Huawei’s annual Innovation Day event, kicking off two days of packed topics for media, customers and...

Does mobile represent the future of gaming?

Mobile gaming product launches mark E3 2015; revenue set to soar to $40B annually by 2017 WASHINGTON – Internet traffic has increasingly migrated from computers...

More merger reports: Comcast, T-Mobile US, Verizon, Dish

Comcast linked to T-Mobile US; Verizon out on Dish The list of T-Mobile US suitors seems to be growing faster than an episode of “The...

FreedomPop scores $30M in funding, pushes off M&A talk

MVNO looks to hit nearly 1M customers by year end Mobile virtual network operator FreedomPop said it has scored $30 million in financing in a...

Is network security going military-grade?

As high-profile network security breaches continue to make the news, with the most recent breach of the federal Office of Personnel Management, network security firms...

Viavi Webinar: VoLTE – Don’t Risk Short-Circuiting Voice

With over 260 live LTE networks today and another 87 expected to go live this year (GSM Association, 2014), LTE will soon become the...

Feds call for LTE-U input, Wi-Fi vs. LTE lines drawn

Promise of increased spectral efficiency with LTE-U small cell deployments is balanced with potential for Wi-Fi interference WASHINGTON – Earlier this week federal regulators solicited...

Potential Vodafone, Liberty Global deal boosts stocks

Talk of Liberty Global and Vodafone swapping assets has given both companies’ stocks a boost. On June 5, British telecommunications company Vodafone confirmed that it...

Analyst Angle: Survey shows strong demand for managed cloud, mobile services

Small cells in transition to opex-based operations As more people use their mobile devices in the workplace, there is an opportunity for the mobile operators...

Analyst Angle: The business customer digital experience

Today’s customer-experience landscape is fiercely competitive and quite complex, requiring businesses to address the challenges by investing in a digital-experience strategy. Providing a positive...

T-Mobile US workforce policies applauded by CWA

CWA commends T-Mobile US dealings at call centers The Communications Workers of America is claiming victory over T-Mobile US in a recent policy change that...

AT&T jumps on T-Mobile US, calls Legere’s ‘colorful’ argument a ‘magenta herring’

AT&T jumps on T-Mobile US and its argument about spectrum rules T-Mobile US CEO John Legere’s recent video rant against Verizon Wireless and AT&T drew...

LG buys Nokia smartphone patent license

Patent license deal includes 2G, 3G and 4G technologies LG Electronics is the latest of more than 60 companies to reach a patent license agreement...

Reliance Jio Infocomm plans to launch pan-India LTE

IDC estimates 5.8M 4G LTE subscribers in India by year-end 2015 Indian telecom operator Reliance Jio Infocomm expects to launch commercial 4G LTE services across...

The future fallout from the death of GSM

In an effort to reallocate spectrum, many carriers are setting target dates to do away with GSM networks. It appears that 2017 will be the year that...

Comverse bolsters digital messaging platform with Acision purchase

Comverse touts digital messaging platform benefits of $245M deal Comverse announced plans to acquire privately held Acision for approximately $245 million in a move to...

Vodafone: Telstra is a ripoff; Telstra: You’re just jealous

Economic study backed by Vodafone reports Telstra customers paid a $2.4B ‘Telstra tax’ A recent study from the Centre for International Economics commissioned by Vodafone...

Report: AT&T in talks to tap Mexico towers

AT&T is reportedly talking with Telesites to lease Mexico towers AT&T’s push into Mexico is reportedly set to include a tower agreement with rival America...

Deutsche Telekom to take on Amazon, Google on cloud

German company wants to double cloud revenue to more than $2.25B annually by 2018 Deutsche Telekom wants to dominate the cloud-services market in Europe. The...

Reality Check: Top Q2 trends (Part 1) – Hablamos su lengua

Deciphering the top trends of any quarter is difficult, and the second quarter of 2015 is no exception. There’s a lot of “reading between...
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