May 2016

Verizon strike update 1. Verizon has cancelled medical coverage for the thousands of employees who have been on strike for more than two weeks now. The company told the union …

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich, in a post to the company’s web site, laid out an internal transformation from a PC company to a cloud company poised to support the Internet …

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich, in a post to the company’s web site, laid out an internal transformation from a PC company to a cloud company poised to support the Internet …

Indoor coverage remains a major issue and Small Cell Forum reports that as many as 61% of enterprises have noticeably poor indoor coverage (I’m sure many of us can relate …

Sundar Pichai, Google CEO, emphasizes artificial intelligence, machine learning Google is investing big in artificial intelligence and machine learning, which will set the stage for a transition from mobile-first to …

The impact of platooning on the global economy will be far-reaching and profound The Netherlands was treated to a fleeting glimpse of the future in April. The successful trial of …

A conversation with Michael Campbell, Director of Service Assurance, EXFO Download a transcript of the interview and be the first to receive the report “Voice comes to the fore, again. VoLTE …

The impact of platooning on the global economy will be far-reaching and profound The Netherlands was treated to a fleeting glimpse of the future in April. The successful trial of …

Broadband is changing. It runs at ultra-fast Gigabit speeds and is getting faster and stronger as more companies jump into the new space. Today the leader by far is AT&T …

The telco revenues grow 5% year-over-year in the quarter Norwegian telecommunications group Telenor ended the first quarter of 2016 with 208 million subscribers in the 12 European and Asian markets …

Norwegian telecom operator Telenor threatened to exit India if the company fails to obtain spectrum at reasonable rates. “Long term presence in India is dependent on our ability to secure …

Should telecoms be OK with losing $90B per year on waste? Over 50% of a telecom’s annual capital expenditure is invested in acquiring expensive network assets that are the foundation …

Hewlett Packard Enterprise lays out reasons why the telco cloud is set to provide new opportunities for CSPs For years, the largest communications service providers have relied on wireless service …

Wi-Fi standards are focusing not only on faster and more efficient Wi-Fi (although that continues to be part of the standard’s evolution), but in expanding Wi-Fi’s use in different spectra …

Multi-user multiple input, multiple output, or MU-MIMO, is an advanced features for 802.11ac Wi-Fi, part of Wave 2 features that are in some cases, already on the market and will …