Monthly Archives: March, 2016

Verizon study details worst phone owners in America

We've all been there. The agonizing moment as you fumble your phone and it lands squarely in the pool or a pitcher of margaritas....

TrueMove secures funds to pay for LTE license

TrueMove said China’s ICBC will provide a guarantee worth $1 billion Thai telecom operator TrueMove confirmed it has secured financial funding to pay for spectrum in...

Global smartphone shipments grew 5.7% in 2015

China to account for 24% of smartphone shipments Total smartphone shipments are expected to reach 1.5 billion units this year, representing a 5.7% compared to...

Reader Forum: Simplifying SIP

Voxbone looks at the work being done to formalize SIP standards Session initiation protocol, the most popular voice over Internet protocol telephony protocol, saw daylight...

Reader Forum: NFV and its implications on network assurance

Wipro sees great change and opportunity in network assurance from NFV deployments Network functions virtualization has brought the capability of the telco networks on commodity...

Livestream: Is there a tech bubble?

Central Texas Angel Network (@CTANAngels), Virgo Capital (@virgocapital) and Angelspan (@AngelSpanInc) join Austin Coding Academy (@AustinCoding) for timely discussion on the tech bubble Tech bubble forum discussion...

5G and IoT will shape telecom discussion in 2016

On this episode of HetNet Happenings, RCR Wireless News Managing Editor Sean Kinney takes you inside Mobile World Congress 2016 to dissect the big...

Test and Measurement: 4 major trends impacting software testing

TechNavio said the growing use of mobile applications is one of four major trends impacting the software testing market, with the other three being...

Tower stocks under pressure, AT&T supports Apple

AT&T supports Apple, tower stocks under pressure ... 5 things to know today 1. Analysts are starting to downgrade some of the biggest names in...

AT&T, Telcel to pay millions for AWS spectrum in Mexico

Operators will have 30 days to pay for the spectrum Mexico telecoms regulator IFT confirmed that as part of a recently completed spectrum auction, local...

Cell Tower News: Ex-offenders offered second chance as tower climbers

Chicago initiative offers ex-offenders job opportunities The cell tower industry has become a place of second chances and renewed hope for gainful employment. Thanks to a...

Vivendi increases ownership in Telecom Italia

Vivendi media group now controls 24% of the Italian telco French media group Vivendi increased its stake in Telecom Italia by one percentage point to 24%,...

Chinese firm claims world’s first LTE-LAA small cell

Baicells, using Radisys software, is testing LTE-LAA small cell with China Mobile Chinese tech company Baicells has been making moves in the small cells space...

DDoS attack security for NFV- and SDN-powered networks

On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check, we look at some top news items from across the space as well as speak with A10 about...

Ericsson, Quanta, AWS talk hyperscale datacenter

Open Compute Project becoming ‘de facto’ data center standard Ericsson is partnering with data center players Quanta and Amazon Web Services to extend the reach...

Former Sprint exec Donahue joins LightSquared reincarnate

Former Sprint chairman Tim Donahue joins Ligado board Ligado Networks, which prior to last month was known as LightSquared, added former Sprint Nextel executive Tim...

Worst of the Week: 5G sounds great, but can we fix 4G first?

Worst of the Week is all about 5G progress, but asks that we first make sure we finish what we started with 4G Hello! And...

Cisco, Ericsson strategy chiefs update partnership

Ericsson CEO: Goal is to drive growth, innovation, speed Nearly four months into a hyped partnership, Ericsson and Cisco executives report a “huge amount of...

OpenDaylight scores Hitachi as new member, bolsters advisory group

Hitachi joined the OpenDaylight Project as a ‘silver’ member, boosting the organization’s presence in Japan The OpenDaylight Project welcomed Hitachi as a “silver” member and...

OPNFV releases Brahmaputra NFV platform

OPNFV unveiled its second NFV platform, promising greater interoperability and testing The Linux Foundation’s Open Platform Network Function Virtualization Project launched its second platform release...

NFV moving to deployment phase, virtualization leaders say

Affirmed Networks, Procera, ACG Research, Vasona weigh-in on NFV Network functions virtualization has come a long way in the last year, according to experts, who...

IBM begins mass firing; reports say one-third of US workforce targeted

IBMer: 'It's bad, it's really bad. It is a sad day for IBM.' Reports began hitting the Internet this morning that IBM began a wave...

Verizon sweeps network quality survey, launches new video venture

Verizon Wireless ranked first with consumers in all six of J.D. Power's most recent regional surveys. The study queried more than 41,000 wireless subscribers...

IoT taking shape; 5G to enable next-gen use cases

AT&T, Telit, ARM, F-Secure talk IoT during Mobile World Congress The "Internet of Things" promises to change the way we all live and work, according...

T-Mobile: most of our calls are on VoLTE

T-Mobile US says it's the nation's leader in voice-over-LTE calls on its mobile network. This week at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom...
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