2016

I just returned from the well-organized and well-attended Wi-Fi Now conference in Washington, D.C. Topics at the three-day conference included enterprise applications, home security, innovations, leadership, carriers, spectrum, LTE-U, the “Uber-ization” of …

Smart city use cases highlight role of Internet of Things We’ve all heard the term smart cities, but it covers a broad swatch of technologies and applications. To get a …

AT&T’s mobile business showed overall growth on the back of prepaid and connected devices, but lost ground to T-Mobile in higher-valued phone market Prepaid and connected devices continue to power …

Asset efficiency is important to a manufacturer’s bottomline A recent study on the maturity of asset efficiency practices from Infosys and the Institute for Industrial Management (FIR) at Aachen University …

Nokia’s return to the consumer market will not just be about smartphones. The company said today it plans to buy France’s Withings, which makes connected devices to monitor health and …

Nokia’s return to the consumer market will not just be about smartphones. The company said today that it plans to buy France’s Withings, which makes connected devices to monitor health …

The hottest seats in the house at the Wi-Fi Now conference last week were those of the panel members debating the impact of LTE on Wi-Fi as the cellular system …

TBR notes early adopter operators are pushing NFV and SDN deployments despite standards and interoperability concerns A recent Technology Business Research report found some early adopter telecom operators were moving …

T-Mobile posted more than 2.2 million Q1 net adds, including strong postpaid and prepaid numbers sure to put AT&T and Sprint on notice T-Mobile US continues to be one of …

High-capacity fiber networks support big data, cloud computing that’s central to smart cities applications Smart cities are taking a number of different forms as urban managers scale pilot projects into …

Add capacity with off-the-shelf hardware to maximize spectrum resources Spectrum is an inherently limiting factor to communications service providers; it’s expensive, there’s a finite amount available, and regulation mechanisms can …

Charter will not impose data caps for seven years following combination with Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks In approving a major merger in the cable space, the Federal Communications …

Jim Patterson digs into Verizon Q1 results, noting a potential zero-rated Go90 offerings; and questions the FCC moving the goal post on the cable industry Verizon Communications reported first quarter …

Security issues connected with consumer uptake of wearable devices and the ‘Internet of Things’ remains a significant hurdle for the market Wearable computing devices are changing the way humans interact …

As the telecom space moves towards increased use of virtualization platforms, devops is becoming an important model to smooth the transition Devops is not a new term, but the combination …

AT&T has been saying for months that satellites will be part of its “Internet of Things” strategy, and this week the carrier finally shared details. Globecomm will be AT&T’s IoT …

AT&T has been saying for months that satellites will be part of its “Internet of Things” strategy, and this week the carrier finally shared details. Globecomm will be AT&T’s IoT …

‘At least’ 24 instances of damage to network infrastructure as Verizon strike continues in Northeast, mid-Atlantic After starting April 13, a Verizon Communications strike involving around 36,000 union employees shows …

Chinese billionaire Jia Yueting, CEO of LeEco, told CNBC in a recent interview that technology giant Apple is “outdated,” amid a government shutdown of Apple’s book and movie services. Yeuting also …

5 things to know today …. 1. A former T-Mobile US customer is trying to bring a class action lawsuit against the “Un-carrier.” A man who bought four handsets from …

T-Mobile prepaid brand MetroPCS launches promotion with boosted data bucket for customers porting from Sprint, AT&T and Verizon T-Mobile US’ MetroPCS prepaid brand unveiled a new multiline promotion targeting customers …

As data pipes gain intelligence and flexibility, network owners have to provide monitoring to monetize investments The flexibility associated with cloud computing and fully programmable, software-defined networks is fundamentally changing …

Verizon said it recently completed NFV OpenStack cloud deployments across five U.S. data centers, with international and edge network push by year-end Verizon Communications claims it recently completed the industry’s …

The telco currently counts 500,000 subscribers in its LTE trial Indian telecom operator Reliance Jio Infocomm aims to launch commercial LTE services across India in the coming months, parent firm …