2016

104 entities on lists to participate in 600 MHz auction; Verizon, AT&T, Comcast and T-Mobile headline Verizon Communications, AT&T, Comcast, T-Mobile US and NTT DoCoMo headline a list of companies …

Claure says carrier customers ‘expect to be disappointed in one way or another’ Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure has been on a “listening tour” for a few weeks, which most recently …

Remember Ricky Gervais? You know, that guy from The Office? No, not The Office with Jim and Pam, the one that aired 15 years ago on BBC. Well, Verizon Wireless …

Smith Micro breaks down challenges and offers potential solutions to industrial Internet of Things deployments Over the last few years, no other emerging technology trend has captured our imagination and …

Kontron’s Symkloud converged infrastructure platform future-proofs data centers with modular design and integrated compute, storage, and switching for wireless, video and IoT/data analytic workloads Communications service providers know it’s imperative …

The deal includes 2G/3G deployments across portions of Thailand Ericsson signed a three-year contract with Thai telecommunications services provider True Move to deploy LTE-Advanced carrier aggregation and 2G/3G networks across …

Network resources set to be shared by several government agencies The Dubai government’s security network provider, Nedaa Professional Communication, selected Nokia Networks to deploy a smart city solution based on …

Appian looks at cloud deployment options, noting hybrid cloud makes sense in the near term It’s a gamble. Cloud adoption is barreling along at breakneck speed, but even as round …

Who does T-Mobile US CEO John Legere remind you of? Legere and Donald Trump seem to have been cut from the same cloth. Both are bigger than life. Both attract …

Ahead of next week’s IWCE conference in Las Vegas, Anite and Bittium announced a collaboration around public safety drive testing capabilities. Bittium’s Band 14-capable, ruggedized ToughMobile smartphone has been integrated with …

American Tower reports strong growth, SBA minimal In the excitement leading up to and during the recent NATE UNITE 2016 event, it seems the tower industry’s financial update escaped us …

In a partnership with Arris, the French-based Altice Group is rolling out gigabit Internet services to SFR customers in France, with Suddenlink in the U.S. and Orange-Tricom subscribers in the …

Look inside AT&T’s Austin Spectrum Lab with RCRtv AUSTIN, Texas – In an unassuming building in Austin, Texas, AT&T engineers can recreate virtually any network condition in the high-tech Austin Spectrum …

Much broader questions about security and privacy at stake, Apple argues; Woz weighs in Apple and the FBI, engaged in an increasingly heated legal exchange over an alleged terrorist’s iPhone …

On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check, we look at some top news items from across the space as well as speak with Accedian Networks about network QoS related to SDN, …

ONOS-based transport SDN super controller from Huawei wowed judges SANTA CLARA, California – Huawei walked away with the SDN Idol 2016 award at this week’s Open Networking Summit. The Linux …

Swisscom expects initial phase to be ready by year-end Swisscom said it’s currently deploying a nationwide network designed to support the “Internet of Things,” with the initial roll out scheduled …

China Mobile targets 500 million LTE customers China Mobile expects to support 1.4 million LTE base stations by the end of 2016, according to the company’s latest financial report. China …

The T-Mobile Binge On video platform now allows for more content provider control, gains Google YouTube and Play Movie options T-Mobile US updated its popular, but controversial, Binge On service, …

Network virtualization technologies using SDN and NFV platforms have slowly begun to creep across networks. This report garners insight from telecom operators, industry analysts and vendors to look at where …

Apple and Google manage competing ecosystems in the smartphone world, but when it comes to storing and processing all that smartphone data the two companies appear to be partners. Apple …

Sequans is first to market with LTE Cat M Monarch chipset The massive scale of the Industrial Internet of Things—billions of connected devices and sensors seamlessly communicating—is enabled only by …

Qualcomm, a major proponent of deploying cellular in unlicensed spectrum using the LTE Unlicensed technology, is developing LTE-U small cells with partners Samsung and SpiderCloud Wireless. LTE-U is seen as …

The telecommunications workforce, as tracked by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, saw a small decrease in its unemployment rate coupled with a decline in total number of employees. In …

Using the DOCSIS 3.1 standard, Comcast plans to begin offering consumers gigabit-speed Internet over copper in the Atlanta area with plans to expand the service to other markets later in …