Monthly Archives: August, 2016

600 MHz spectrum licenses set for per-round price bump, auction tops $18.5B

The FCC’s ongoing 600 MHz incentive auction surged past $18.5B in total 'winning' bids through round 18, with larger markets still oversubscribed Having recently passed...

Google's fiber friction, Apple's social agenda … 5 things to know today

1. Google parent Alphabet is reportedly losing patience with Google Fiber, or Access as the business unit is known inside the company. A report...

RFID: A fading technology finds new life in IIoT

RFID, a technology brought down by hype Radio-frequency information (RFID) was once the poster child of the industrial internet of things (IIoT), before new companies,...

Test and Measurement: Viavi launches interference hunter; responds to Sandell

Viavi Solutions and activist shareholder group Sandell Asset Management have been trading open letters about Viavi's future. During the former JDS Uniphase's split into Viavi and Lumentum,...

Sprint undercuts T-Mobile unlimited HD streaming option

Sprint rolled out a new premium option for its unlimited plans providing access to HD streaming $5 less expensive than T-Mobile Binge On option Sprint’s...

In carrier aggregation test, Sprint achieves 275 Mbps speed

As it continues to test three-channel carrier aggregation, Sprint this week reports that a recent trial using the LG G5 smartphone achieved peak data...

Report: Ericsson investors now want to oust chairman

In July, former Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg stepped down after seven years at the helm of the Swedish telecom infrastructure vendor. EVP and CFO...

Huawei unveils OpenLab in Singapore

The Chinese company also inked a deal with NCS and Tyco to create smart city solutions Chinese telecommunications services provider Huawei has officially opened its...

Fog computing rolls over critical IoT data as cloud steps aside

When a cloud can't move fast enough The success of the industrial IoT is going to rely heavily on both the gathering of unthinkably large amounts...

Sigfox adds Colombia to its global IoT network

Following the launch of its global IoT network in Columbia, Sigfox claims to cover 57 percent of Latin America’s territory. Sigfox’s international expansion shows no...

Verizon again stomps Sprint, AT&T and T-Mobile in network performance rank

Latest J.D. Power survey found Verizon easily outpacing Sprint, AT&T and T-Mobile in nationwide network performance; only tripped up by U.S. Cellular Score it as...

SP NFV deployments take off in 2016, set to surge in 2017

A new report from IHS Markit showed NFV deployments beginning this year, with 81% of service providers surveyed on track for next year A vast...

AT&T chairs OPNFV advisory group to provide tech guidance to NFV community

OPNFV End User Advisory Group targets NFV guidance, includes wide range of members, including AT&T, China Mobile, DT, Sprint and Vodafone The Linux Foundation’s Open...

Sprint settles Illinois lawsuit for $2.3M

Sprint will pay $2.3 million to the state of Illinois to help as many as 32,000 former customers secure unclaimed rebates. The carrier used...

Solutions to creating indoor positioning systems

What are indoor positioning systems? Indoor positioning systems (IPS) are the indoor equivalent of what GPS offers outdoors: visibility. They are able to locate people and...

FCC 600 MHz incentive auction passes ‘first component’ milestone

Total 'winning' bids in the ongoing FCC 600 MHz incentive auction surpassed a milestone, though most don’t expect first-stage success As expected, the Federal Communications...

Finnish operator Elisa claims gigabit LTE milestone with Huawei

While "5G" promises to bring multigigabit speeds to mobile, there's still a long runway for the development of innovative new LTE-based services like gigabit...

As it considers wireless option, Google Fiber goes live in Salt Lake City

Google Fiber is now available in the City Center area of Salt Lake City, making the high-speed internet and TV service from the Alphabet...

Smart city game plan: sensors and software are cutting costs

San Diego's Petco Park expects to cut operating expenses by 25% over the next five years, thanks to real-time monitoring of its energy and...

ZTE operating revenue up 4% year-over-year

Chinese market accounted for more than 58% of ZTE total revenue in the period Chinese vendor ZTE recorded operating revenue of 47.76 billion yuan ($7.17 billion)...

Vodafone Australia to carry out 5G lab tests this year

Ericsson and Huawei partnering with Vodafone on 5G testing Australian mobile telephony operator Vodafone announced plans to carry out lab trials of 5G technologies on...

China goes up a gear

China’s carriers compete vigorously to meet strong demand for the IoT China and the internet of things (IoT) may be a match made in heaven. This...

Viavi introduces InterferenceAdvisor, a fully automated, low-cost interference hunting solution

Efficient interference handling will be essential to optimizing customer experience as network connections grow exponentially Viavi Solutions announced the availability of InterferenceAdvisorâ„¢, an automated interference...

Nutonomy beats Uber to launch world’s first self-driving taxis

Nutonomy has launched the world’s first public trial of self-driving taxis in Singapore, beating Uber to it. Self-driving taxis powered by Nutonomy hit the streets...

#TBT: T-Mobile taps music, camera; Verizon Wireless labor strife … this week in 2003

T-Mobile assembles concerts to push greater camera use, while Verizon Wireless hit a snag in labor talks … 13 years ago this week Editor’s Note:...
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