2015

Creating your own IoT solutions – from connection, to management and integration – has become plug-and-play easy.  At the core, delivering this simplification sits an enterprise-grade, do-it-yourself Application Enablement Platform …

AT&T has contingency plan if work stoppage materializes A week after contracts for 17,500 unionized AT&T workers expired, contract talks are still ongoing despite an earlier strike threat from labor …

Google starts favoring mobile optimized websites in search algorithms Today Google made a major change in how its proprietary search algorithms rank Web search results; now websites that have been …

Tablets up, smartphones and prepaid down for Verizon Wireless Competition, smartphone saturation and consumer infatuation with tablet devices continues to alter Verizon Wireless’ quarterly results, which showed financial strain tied …

Distributed antenna systems are increasingly common in large public venues, and many locations are already upgrading or replacing their original systems. To control costs, carriers and neutral host DAS providers …

More connected devices equates to more cybersecurity exposure, more risk WASHINGTON – Booz Allen Hamilton, one of the nation’s largest management consulting firms that is well known for its broad …

Small cells, COWs and COLTs saddled up by Verizon as part of Churchill Downs hetnet upgrade In the run-up to the May 2 post, Verizon Communications has beefed up its Churchill …

A secure solution from Ericsson and Intel Security The explosion of connectivity over the last few years has brought value to all sorts of new frontiers in business and society. …

GCI, Ericsson deal said to provide fixed, mobile LTE speeds of 30 Mbps Alaska-based General Communications announced a deal with Ericsson to launch LTE services using both fixed and mobile …

The recent move by the European Commissioner for Competition against Google was, quite frankly, stunning from my viewpoint. The objections the EU centered around the Google shopping system seemed rather …

BRADENTON, FL – Tarpon Towers II, LLC, a wireless communications tower company, today announced it has secured over $100 million of new capital to acquire and build wireless communications towers …

FM chip on smartphone is usually not active but could be valuable in an emergency Remember FM radio? The National Association of Broadcasters certainly does and, because many mobile manufacturers …

OpenCloud touts “the power of open.” Being open is an important concept, but is not necessarily a new topic. Consider the context in which “open” plays a role in this …

Verizon and AT&T tackle video for value creation When I was a manager in the engineering and operations workforce in Sprint’s local division (later to become Embarq, and then CenturyLink), …

A closer look at Wi-Fi’s evolving technology and services Once viewed as a threat to mobile operators’ valuable 3G and 4G services, Wi-Fi (family of technologies under the IEEE 802.11 …

Booz Allen Hamilton recently published its views on the increasing battle for the dashboard in the connected car. I had the opportunity to learn more about the company and its work in this …

ESPN is raising concerns about Verizon’s proposed FiOS TV plans, which allows customers to break up traditional TV bundles. The new Verizon Communications offering is designed to allow customers more variety …

500 MB boost bolsters T-Mobile US-powered Wal-Mart plans in face of increased competition Wal-Mart’s Family Mobile service received a boost over the weekend as the big-box retailer increased the amount …

In a first-of-its-kind move, FDIC will back Google Wallet WASHINGTON – In a landmark announcement, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. will now insure money held in Google Wallet accounts. The …

The company that once dominated the mobile phone industry may be plotting a comeback. Less than a week after Nokia announced plans to buy Alcatel-Lucent, a Re/code report claims that …

Cell tower would be 75-feet tall, disguised as evergreen tree AT&T wants to build a 75-foot-tall cellphone tower adjacent to a Eugene, Ore., church, but local residents and officials are pushing …

Many have been passionately choosing sides on the Apple vs. Android front for years. Two men in Tulsa, Okla., took the argument to a whole new level. Instead of having an …

Infonetics report found 72% of NA-based enterprises plan LAN SDN networks A vast majority of North America-based enterprises plan to deploy live campus local area network software-defined networking products by …

The telecom industry has buzzed about small cell technology for years, but as the race toward 5G and ultra-dense metros speeds up, small cell is just now becoming a viable …

Comcast rolls out Gigabit Pro in California; faster than Google Fiber, AT&T GigaPower In a move to keep up with competitors Google and AT&T, Comcast has rolled out its ultra-high-speed …