2017

Black Friday is fast approaching, and mobile holiday shopping is expected to continue its growth as users hunker down with their smartphones and tablets to make holiday purchases in addition …

Gigabit LTE is growing fast, faster than any previous 3GPP release. The ratification of LTE-Advanced Pro took place during March 2016, and it was only eight months after, in January …

Reflecting changing network architectures, InfoVista is focusing on service assurance for centralized Radio Access Network with the recent addition of new service assurance capabilities for fronthaul and backhaul in virtualized …

Marvell makes offer for telecom chip maker Cavium The semiconductor market continues to consolidate, with Marvell Technology Group making a $6 billion bid for chipmaker Cavium. The transaction has been …

Red Hat releases newest version of OpenShift Container Platform Red Hat recently unveiled OpenShift Container Platform 3.7, the latest version of its Kubernetes container application platform, which includes native integrations …

Push-to-Talk is on a rebound. Siyata Mobile is filling an important space in the changing wireless industry where there is a growing demand for PTT services. Some users and companies …

HPE and Rackspace bring pay-as-you-go service to OpenStack Private Cloud Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Rackspace announced they have partnered to provide OpenStack Private Cloud as a pay-as-you-go service. According …

Working with municipal stakeholders cuts costs, increases speed of rural deployments Of the more than 30 million people in the United States without access to the internet, some 6 million …

"The Internet of Things (IoT) is a technology trend that has caught the imagination of technical and business folks alike with the promise of billions of connected devices and trillions …

451 Research report explores various approaches to hybrid IT management Schneider Electric, a global specialist in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, disclosed a newly commissioned 451 Research …

  Internet of Things (IoT) is today’s megatrend in wireless communication industry. Machine to machine wireless connectivity is being adopted in various verticals at increasing pace. Number of IoT devices …

On Friday Sprint announced Günther Ottendorfer, chief operating officer of technology, is leaving the company after a two-year tenure “to join his family in Austria and pursue other opportunities. Günther helped …

  For Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai, restoring an open internet has been a long time coming.  Since his days as a dissenting FCC Commissioner during the Obama …

Ajit Pai’s Federal Communications Commission is hitting its stride in regulatory rollbacks. On the agenda of this week’s meeting: axing a 40-year-old rule on media ownership that prevented a single …

Toptal on-demand DevOps service focuses on aiding cloud migration Toptal, an American company that provides freelance software engineers, designers and finance experts to companies, announced a new DevOps on-demand service. …

The Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) Tuesday released an order and consent decree, terminating an investigation into a manufacturer that marketed Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure (“U-NII”) devices in violation of the …

Cisco and VMware deepen rivalry with acquisitions Cisco and VMware were deemed the leaders in the software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) market in a recent IHS Markit report. According to …

Cartesian report highlights challenges thwarting NFV adoption among service providers Operational challenges and immature virtualized technologies are hindering NFV deployments among communications service providers (CSPs). That is at least the …

Fiber partnership between Vodafone and CityFibre targets 5 million homes and business by 2025 You can’t have wireless without wires–a telecom paradigm illustrated by Vodafone’s partnership with CityFibre to significantly …

Tektronix introduced a low-profile oscilloscope this week aimed at better test performance in a small form factor, while bolstering the capabilities of its existing 5 Series mixed-signal oscilloscopes with new …

Gigabit LTE deployment inclues carrier aggregation, 256 QAM and 4X4 MIMO In a continuing effort to boost capacity, AT&T, building on previous testing, is commercially deploying License Assisted Access (LAA) …

Working with ZTE and China Mobile, Qualcomm marks 5G NR milestone with layer 1 data connection As the 3GPP 5G NR standard coalesces ahead of a mid-2018 release, vendors and …

  At a conference entitled Patents in Telecoms & the Internet of Things, at George Washington University in the District of Columbia last week, I was perturbed to hear a …

Lurie takes on new role after leaving AT&T Mobility Glenn Lurie, who retired as president of AT&T Mobility in September, has been named CEO of telecom software company Synchronoss Technologies. …

VMware, M1 new cloud offering targets digital start-ups and SMEs Singaporean communications company M1 Limited and software and services provider VMware announced a new cloud offering Tuesday made for digital …