Yearly Archives: 2015

Colorado voters overwhelmingly support municipal broadband

Broadband could be bond-financed, run by nonprofits, result from public-private partnerships or compel big ISPs to offer better services in rural areas WASHINGTON – On...

Cox data breach results in FCC fine

FCC fines Cox for 2014 data breach orchestrated by ‘Lizard Squad’ hacker group Cox Communications agreed to pay a $595,000 fine to the Federal Communications...

Sprint throws free year of Amazon Prime at Samsung devices

Sprint offers 1 year of Prime, lease deals on select Samsung devices ahead of holiday rush In a move to goose interest ahead of the...

How to become a customer quality engineer

Resolving customer issues is a key focus of any successful company. Many dedicate groups of engineers to the task of identifying customer issues and...

Test and Measurement: Keysight announces new business structure

As Keysight Technologies' first year as an independent company comes to a close, it has announced a new organizational structure that divides the company...

Worst of the Week: Get onboard the Sprint ‘love train’

Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so...

How do signal boosters fit into the hetnet ecosystem?

Nextivity talks signal boosters – HetNet Happenings: Episode 38 Bringing cellular connectivity inside is a challenge. Solutions range from small cells to Wi-Fi to distributed antenna...

Reliance Jio angers competitors with 700 MHz auction push

Reliance Jio Infocomm is shaking things up in India ahead of the launch of its 4G network late this year or early next year....

Comcast expanding data cap policy

Consumer watchdog group calls out Comcast for engaging in monopolistic business After trying out capping customer data use at 300 gigabytes per month, Comcast is expanding the...

Sprint, Verizon, AT&T job cuts: Who is hiring? A day in the life of a product manager

Sprint, Verizon, AT&T job cuts were front and center on this week's Telecom Careers Insider, sponsored by Nexius and TelecomCareers. For insight on who is...

Analysts talk small cells market outlook

DALLAS – The demand for small cells is pressing, and carriers, venue owners and other stakeholders are racing to deploy. But scalability remains a...

Benefits of SDN implementation for mobile networks

Coriant discusses benefits of SDN implementation for mobile networks, and we look at news of the week NFV and SDN continue to garner increased interest...

Virtualization is key to scale small cell deployments

Small Cell Forum Chairman Alan Law discusses deployment strategies and more during Small Cells Americas event DALLAS – Small cells broke out in 2015, Small...

Huawei CEO: Developing markets need quality smartphones

The Chinese vendor calls for joint efforts to narrow the connectivity gap in developing countries HONG KONG – Rotating Huawei CEO Ken Hu told journalists...

Sprint WiMAX shutdown put on hold

Court rules Sprint must maintain WiMAX network in support of nonprofits for 90 days A Massachusetts court ruled Sprint must maintain its WiMAX network for...

Cell Tower News: AT&T wants tower-fall lawsuit thrown out

AT&T claims tower-fall case lacks jurisdiction in request for dismissal AT&T this week asked a Pennsylvania court to throw out a lawsuit filed by a tower technician who...

Orange aims to invest $16.3 billion in networks

Orange has started to deploy an 'Internet of Things' national network in France HONG KONG – French telecom operator Orange expects to invest 15 billion...

Wi-Fi/LTE-U tests lack LTE equipment

The Wi-Fi Alliance this week held a workshop to discuss the coexistence of Wi-Fi and LTE-Unlicensed technologies. LTE-U, or LTE in unlicensed spectrum, has...

Sprint results; T-Mobile LTE femtocell; WRC-15

Topics for this week's Carrier Wrap include Sprint results, T-Mobile's LTE femtocell and the upcoming WRC-15 event On this week's Carrier Wrap, we discuss Sprint's...

How to make cell towers more energy efficient

As data demands increase, so does energy consumption from high-density data and communications equipment on cell towers. This leads to the need for increased efficiency...

3 Hong Kong, Huawei demonstrate ‘4.5G’ network

Demo achieved download speeds of 1 Gbps HONG KONG – Mobile operator 3 Hong Kong, the mobile communications division of Hutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong Holdings,...

Huawei: Telcos need to compete with challenges from OTT players

Vendor said operators need to focus on user experience to compete with OTT players HONG KONG – In a keynote speech at Huawei’s Global Mobile...

CenturyLink mulling sale of data centers, colocation business operations

Analysts note CenturyLink move could be start of additional spin offs Regional telecommunications provider CenturyLink said it was looking at strategic alternatives for its...

FCC takes on hotels over Wi-Fi hot spots

WASHINGTON – In today’s world, it is almost impossible to conduct any kind of business without an Internet connection. This reality has turned Wi-Fi...

GSMA, Huawei report on the use of C-Band spectrum

GSMA estimates the industry will need up to 800 megahertz of additional spectrum by 2020 The use of additional "C-band" spectrum in the 3.4 GHz...
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