2018

Department of Commerce says the ban on ZTE will last until March 2025 The U.S. Department of Commerce has banned American companies from selling telecommunications equipment to Chinese vendor ZTE …

Cisco announced enhancements to its Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) for Endpoints, new investments in email security and an expanded partnership with ConnectWise. Cisco AMP for Endpoints is a next-generation endpoint …

T-Mobile US will pay a $40 million fine and admit fault in a settlement involving failure to complete rural calls while inserting illegal false rings so that it appeared to …

IBM updates IRP IBM is merging human and machine-based intelligence with updates to its Resilient Incident Response Platform (IRP). The platform now includes intelligent orchestration in order to improve the …

U.S. needs to step up the pace of its 5G spectrum pipeline and regulations, says CTIA report The U.S. trails behind China and South Korea in 5G progress, a potentially …

Vehicle trial leveraged sensors, eMBMS, Nokia MEC platform   Finnish vendor Nokia and Japanese communications firm KDDI said they have successfully demonstrated the use of LTE technology in Japan to …

Initial 5G trials will take place in Toronto and Ottawa, Rogers says Canadian telecom operator Rogers Communications announced a multi-year initiative through which it aims to deploy  5G technology in …

Microsoft has announced a new platform to secure ‘internet of things’ (IoT) devices. Dubbed Azure Sphere, it layers in three levels of enhanced IoT security, in its chip, operating system …

There’s no doubt that mobile video is the megatrend no operator can ignore. Understanding what users are watching, for how long, when and in what format should be elementary for …

Home Wi-Fi is seeing a spree of announcements from the different players announcing new products and customer deployments to solve the home Wi-Fi experience puzzle, that is poor coverage in …

  Artificial Intelligence. The words themselves sound complex, and that may be off-putting to communications service providers (CSPs) struggling to determine how AI might help their business grow. There are …

IoT platform provider Actility has been appointed by Öresundskraft, a regional energy and fibre broadband provider in Sweden, to help it build out an open-access LoRaWAN network, starting in the …

Smart Dublin, a smart-city cooperative combining the four local authorities in the Irish capital, has announced €1.2 million ($1.5m) of new funding for smart city projects. The new projects, split …

Networks are “not as static” as they used to be Fresh off its $455 million purchase of Cobham’s test and measurement business, Viavi Solutions is touting its expanded position in …

Enterprises in the Asia-Pacific region are forecast to deploy 1.67 million of small cell units this year The Asia-Pacific (APAC) region accounted for 58.6% of all non-residential small cells deployments …

Huawei said trial constitutes the third phase of China’s national 5G test plan Huawei said it became the first vendor to pass China’s 5G non-standalone (NSA) core network test, which …

Qualcomm has recently inked an agreement to set up a factory to produce processors for IoT applications in Sao Paulo Qualcomm Technologies and Ericsson announced plans to implement internet of …

Alibaba Cloud and Esri join forces Spatial analytics company Esri and Alibaba Cloud have entered a partnership, which will allow both organizations to deliver technologies to customers who want to …

Finnish operator DNA has debuted an ‘internet of things’ (IoT) platform for enterprises in its home country to launch national and international IoT services of their own. DNA’s new platform …

ZTE singled out as a national security concern in U.K. Chinese telecom infrastructure, smartphone and technology companies Huawei and ZTE are currently the focus of significant federal-level interest in the …

Contracts covering about 14,000 wireline employees at AT&T Midwest and AT&T Legacy T expired over the weekend, with workers remaining on the job as negotiations continue. That figure represents about …

Singtel, SoftBank,Etisalat and Telefónica join forces on cybersecurity Singtel, SoftBank, Etisalat and Telefónica have joined forces in a global telco security alliance. The companies collectively boast over 1.2 billion customers …

Charter is getting ready to enter the world of wireless. They just selected Danny Bowman to lead their wireless efforts in what is expected to be called Spectrum Mobile. Bowman …

Verizon deploys VNS bundles Verizon continues to push virtualization with the launch of its Virtual Network Services (VNS) Solution Bundles. Verizon originally introduced a pricing model for its VNS platform last …

For years, 2G and 3G networks have provided businesses with appropriate connectivity — and ROI — for IoT applications. However, the cellular connectivity landscape is changing, as 2G and 3G …