June 2016

Internet access is quickly emerging as the core utility of this generation, enabling everything from startup innovation to providing access to job opportunities to underserved populations. Recognizing this trend, service …

Imagining the “city of the future” is becoming easier to do thanks to recent examples of smart cities innovation. Common urban challenges like traffic, energy and waste reduction are all …

The IoT could make the spectator experience safer, less stressful and more rewarding As the UEFA Euro 2016 soccer tournament kicks off in France this week, European governments and security …

Imagining the ‘city of the future’ is becoming easier to do thanks to recent examples of smart cities innovation. Common urban challenges like traffic, energy and waste reduction are all …

How the internet of things could make the spectating experience safer, less stressful and more rewarding As the UEFA Euro 2016 soccer tournament kicks off in France this week, European …

Stadium DAS has been a big business for years, but now the marquee venues in most “NFL cities” already have a distributed antenna system, and many have already gone through …

The province of North Groningen in the Netherlands has officially launched 5Groningen, a first-of-its-kind 5G testbed in a rural area. Partners include Vodafone, Ericsson and Huawei. The Dutch province of …

The Internet of Things depends on three pillars, the silicon (in the device itself), the software (in the application that uses it) and the communication (providing the connectivity that allows …

Service providers remain averse to deeper NFV and SDN deployments due to risk concerns over carrier class support, according to a recent Strategy Analytics report A new report from Strategy …

A recent TBR report found AT&T and Verizon NFV and SDN development and deployment plans continue to push virtualization progress AT&T was tabbed as being furthest along in network functions …

The Internet of Things depends on three pillars, the silicon (in the device itself), the software (in the application that uses it) and the communication (providing the connectivity that allows …

Successfully leveraging mobile as part of an in-store experience is a challenge for retailers, but a new survey from DMI sheds light on some of the features that shoppers want …

A recent juggling of roles at Cisco has prompted four product executives, all senior vice president-level employees, to resign effective June 17, according to an internal memo from CEO Chuck Robbins …

Mohan Gyani, who served as president at AT&T Wireless Services, joins board at Argyle Data, which focuses on Hadoop-powered big data analytics solutions Another former wireless carrier executive has popped …

Autonomous driving will usher in a new era of road safety as vehicles gain the ability to use “5G” networks to connect to other cars, real-time traffic data, smart infrastructure …

Autonomous driving will usher in a new era of road safety as vehicles gain the ability to use 5G networks to connect to other cars, real-time traffic data, smart infrastructure …

Addition of U.S. Cellular network access to current partners Sprint and T-Mobile give Google Project Fi MVNO access to 3 of nation’s 5 largest networks Google’s Project Fi mobile virtual …

Bringing intelligence closer to the end user: What is mobile edge computing and why is it important? Mobile Edge Computing is a network architecture concept that offers application developers and …

Bringing intelligence closer to the end user, what is mobile edge computing and why is it important? Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is a network architecture concept that offers application developers …

Huawei said smart parking solutions would generate revenue opportunities for municipal governments Chinese vendor Huawei and U.K.-based telecom group Vodafone have completed the first trial on commercial networks for pre-standard Narrow-Band-“internet …

Huawei said smart parking solutions would generate revenue opportunities for municipal governments Chinese vendor Huawei and U.K-based telecoms group Vodafone completed the first trial on commercial networks for pre-standard NB-IoT smart …

50% of smartphone users in China will make mobile payments by 2020 A total of 195.3 million mobile users in China will be making proximity mobile payments this year, an …

Nearly half of IT budgets will be dedicated to IoT development and implementation by 2020 as IoT services adoption continues to grow. IT budgets are in for a significant transformation …

Sprint announced plans to cut up to 1,100 jobs from its business unit, while Verizon and Nextel clashed over public safety interference solutions … 12 years ago this week Editor’s …

Small cells cannot proliferate without baseband processors designed to fit their power and size requirements. In recent years there has been no shortage of vendors eyeing the space. Some have …