November 2015

T-Mobile US sells $2B in senior notes, assigning proceeds to potential spectrum deals T-Mobile US boosted its cash pile ahead of what could be some strategic spectrum purchases for the …

HKT, Huawei claim demo reached peak download speed of 1.2 Gbps HONG KONG – Hong Kong Telecom and Chinese vendor Huawei said they successfully demonstrated the world’s first 1 gigabit-per-second …

Huawei sees huge opportunities in the IoT market HONG KONG – Chinese ICT vendor Huawei unveiled its MBB 2020 Strategy during the opening day of the 2015 Global Mobile Broadband …

FreedomPop said undisclosed Intel investment to help expand smartphone lineup Mobile virtual network operator FreedomPop said it scored an undisclosed amount of funding from Intel Capital that it plans to …

In a complex, multivendor network environment that is taking initial steps toward virtualization, the ability to have real-time insight into network conditions is becoming increasingly important. “There’s a split coming between …

A study compiled by the Small Cell Forum from three independent research bodies found that the enterprise small cell deployment market is entering a new phase in its evolution. The report, called …

T-Mobile US claims Dish’s abuse of bidding process deserves punishment You can officially count T-Mobile US as a fan of Dish Network not being allowed to participate in the planned re-auction …

Part evangelist and part market strategist, product managers are on the front lines bringing customers the products they need. In this edition of “Gigs,” Raj Radjassamy, GE Energy Management’s senior product …

Forward-looking telecom providers are undertaking cloud mitigation as the next major evolution in networks and services. For good reason: being untethered from purpose-built hardware offers the tantalizing prospect of more …

Sprint posts solid customer growth at a cost dinged by investors Sprint posted positive customer-growth results during its latest fiscal quarter, though the financial ramifications of those results left a …

Radio equipment at conventional cell sites is located at the base of the tower, transmitting RF signals via coax to antennas at the top of the tower. However, these coax-based …

Don’t buy spectrum, share the 3.5 GHz band DALLAS, Texas – Google’s principal wireless architect, Preston Marshall, on Monday laid out the benefits of sharing, not buying, access to the …

A conversation with Kashif Hussain, Solutions Marketing Manager, Viavi Solutions Download a transcript of the interview and be the first to receive the smart RAN report In our conversation with Kashif …

Business ecosystems – everyone talks about them. But sometimes, the talk can sound like techno-babble, the language of companies unsure what their real product is, or how they’ll make money …

T-Mobile’s enlarged territory T-Mobile US announced earnings on Tuesday morning (full details here) and held a lengthy earnings call that covered all aspects of their operation. The bottom line is …

Small cells that can support more than one mobile operator have the potential to change the wireless landscape, particularly indoors. With more than one carrier tenant paying rent, small cells …

Sprint claims it’s the first U.S. carrier with a direct roaming agreement in Cuba Sprint furthered its incursion into Cuba, announcing it signed a wireless roaming agreement with the country’s …

WASHINGTON – The Russian-made YotaPhone, which that country’s president, Vladimir Putin, has called his nation’s answer to the Apple iPhone, has stalled in its sales, but the company behind it is hopping …

Vodafone UK claims attack gained limited customer data from 1,827 customers Vodafone Group reported its United Kingdom operations late last week were hit by a cyberattack that gained access to …

AT&T’s government contract, Verizon’s small cell progress 1. AT&T signed a five-year contract with the U.S. Census Bureau, which will use the carrier’s LTE network and “Internet of Things” services …

U.S. Cellular showed financial upside; mixed customer growth boosted by improved churn U.S. Cellular’s aggressiveness in the mobile space against much larger rivals looks to have paid off during the …

Project Loon uses balloons to provide LTE Internet access; Indonesian trials set for 2016 Google Project Loon, in partnership with service providers Indosat, Telkomsel and XL Axiata, plans to begin …

CellSpot 4G LTE device provides on-demand coverage for T-Mobile US customers In the latest of its Un-carrier amped marketing events, T-Mobile US today announced the 4G LTE CellSpot, which the company …

A conversation with Philip Sorrells, Vice President of Strategic Marketing, CommScope Download a transcript of the interview and be the first to receive the smart RAN report In this conversation on …

You’ve got to love it when an entrepreneur runs a public company. When Marcelo Claure became CEO at Sprint last year, he may not have understood all the work ahead …