April 2016

Small cells are meant to boost mobile network coverage and capacity, but they can actually hurt network performance if they cause interference. Test equipment makers say that small cells make …

Jerry Gallegos joins Sprint amid major cost-cutting, network improvement plans As part of ongoing decentralization, Sprint has hired longtime former Cox Communications sales executive Jerry Gallegos as the new president …

Enterprise mobility management is starting to include “Internet of Things” deployments as well as traditional mobile devices, according to MOBI, as companies get to a point where they want assistance in …

Verizon announced plans to buy a digital media company, but not the one many people were expecting. Verizon said on Monday that it is buying a company called Complex Media, …

Equipment provisioning, network maintenance, CVM and more covered by managed services agreement Swedish vendor Ericsson and Oman mobile operator Omantel have signed a four-year managed services contract in which Ericsson …

Nokia Bell Labs said IoT connected devices will reach between 20 and 46 billion by 2020 Mobile operators will need to accelerate investments in areas such as 5G and cloud …

Ovum research highlights IoT growth The Internet of Things, or IoT, is and has been making major waves in both consumer and industrial applications, and the IoT is only expected …

ABI Research also forecasts 8.5 million small cells by 2020 Mobile broadband operators will reach revenues of $247 million in the 5G segment in 2025, according to a recent study …

The smart city project aims to transform Kowloon East district into a new business area Swedish vendor Ericsson has teamed with U.S.-based professional services company Arup to carry out a …

The government will reserve a spectrum license for new entrants The Pakistani government expects to hold an auction for 850 MHz spectrum before a separate auction for spectrum in the …

The Internet of Things, or IoT, is a hot topic in telecom. The connectivity needs range, on the low end, to sending just a few Kilobytes at fixed intervals, to …

The 142nd running of the Kentucky Derby, set for May 7 at the hallowed Churchill Downs in Louisville, is expected to bring more than 300,000 fans together for what’s widely …

Municipal services, business climate targeted by smart city projects in Jeddah Saudi mobile telephony operator Zain KSA and Finish vendor Nokia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate …

America needs to ‘up its game,’ Bill Gates writes in op-ed piece In an opinion piece published April 18 by Reuters, Microsoft Co-founder and all around tech luminary Bill Gates …

‘Internet of Things’ Applications use XpressWorkX Application Server as the SIP to GSM MAP Gateway for Voice Calls April 19, 2016 – ROCHESTER, NY, and TORONTO – IMSWorkX, Inc., a …

Enterprise mobility management is starting to include “Internet of Things” deployments as well as traditional mobile devices, according to MOBI, as companies get to a point where they want assistance in …

Vodafone Americas lays out some tips for companies looking to manage flexible working conditions in a high-tech environment We’re living – and working – in a world at odds. On …

Alion Science and Technology lays out an argument for how the wireless industry and federal government can work together to solve the spectrum crunch The demand for spectrum has never …

With the revolution of the network, enabled by new technologies like Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN) firmly underway, how and where application awareness is deployed in …

Industrial Internet Consortium member organizations Real-Time Innovations (RTI), National Instruments and Cisco are currently working on a communications and control testbed for microgrid applications. These three companies are working with …

A number of companies including Bosch Rexroth, Cisco, Intel, KUKA, National Instruments, Schneider Electric and TTTech have announced last month, plans to develop what it claims to be the world’s …

The culmination of mass urbanization coupled with the near- and long-term implications of climate change is straining global water resources from the highly developed metropolitan areas of Southern California to …

Microgrid movement, behavioral data are changing generation/distribution paradigm As data generated by Industrial IoT appliances creates a clear picture of how consumer behavior impacts the power grid, the energy sector …

Ericsson Maritime ICT Cloud deployed by shipping giants Maersk, U-Ming From healthcare to energy, the Industrial IoT is having a major impact on diverse industries worldwide as global companies look …

Precision agriculture enabled through Industrial IoT sensor, analytics networks Just like nearly any business, in agriculture farmers are concerned with maximizing profit by finding efficiencies wherever possible that save time …