In 2010, in partnership with its subsidiary Clearwire and the nonprofit organizations Mobile Citizen and Mobile Beacon, Sprint began providing affordable broadband service to 429 schools, 61 libraries and 1,820 nonprofit organizations ultimately providing Internet access to 300,000 Americans. Sprint plans to upgrade the entire...
I would like to thank the Wireless Technology Forum for inviting me to speak at their upcoming Annual Analyst event in Atlanta. The theme of this meeting is “Wireless in 2016 and Beyond.” We had a conference call a few days ago to discuss...
Internet providers Verizon Communications, Time Warner Cable and Cablevision are under investigation by the New York attorney general’s office for not delivering the broadband speeds they advertise.
Letters were reportedly sent to the three Internet providers requesting they disclose how they come up with the Internet...
India and Southeast Asia led in terms of revenue growth
Swedish telecom equipment vendor Ericsson recorded net income of 3.1 billion kronor ($365 million) in the third quarter of the year, climbing 19% year-on-year, the company said in its earnings statement.
Net revenue for the period totaled...
Precision agriculture will be necessary to support demand for food
WASHINGTON – According to data provided by Beecham Research, the world population is estimated to hit 9.6 billion people, the majority of whom will be living in cities, by 2050; to support a population of...
Verizon released Q3 results inline with expectations and Sprint altered unlimited data plans
Verizon Communications this week kicked off third quarter earnings season reporting relative financial stability and continued customer growth challenges.
The carrier said it added 1.2 million direct net connections during the latest quarter,...
Inside Dell World - HetNet Happenings: Episode 36
On this episode of HetNet Happenings, host Sean Kinney takes you inside the Dell World exhibition, which concluded this week in Austin, Texas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTauTdx4toU&feature=youtu.be
In the first clip, Dell founder Michael Dell discusses the company's just announced acquisition of...
Panel discussion at Dell World focuses on the transformative power of the 'Internet of Things' in both consumer and industrial applications
AUSTIN, Texas – The Dell World exhibition closed on Thursday with an insightful panel on how "Internet of Things" technology promises to shape the...
1. AT&T appears ready to ramp up investment in its networks now that it has completed its purchases of DirecTV, Iusacell and Nextel Mexico. The carrier said it is still forecasting total 2015 capital expenditures in the $21 billion range, although it only spent...
The telco’s 4G infrastructure reaches 77% of the population
French mobile operator Orange ended the third quarter of 2015 with 6.6 million LTE subscribers, posting 1 million net additions during the period, the company said in its earnings statement.
The company’s LTE network reached 77% of...
Western Digital, which sells digital storage solutions among other products, announced it will buy SanDisk for $19 billion. The boards of directors of both companies have voted to approve the deal.
In materials provided to investors, Western Digital said the acquisition is part of a...
AUSTIN, Texas – Focused on enabling business transformation and enterprise agility, Dell and Microsoft announced an integrated hybrid cloud solution during Dell World.
More specifically, modular Dell infrastructure will include Microsoft Cloud Platform System software and Azure services. The hybrid cloud configuration allows an enterprise...
AUSTIN, Texas – This year’s Dell World opened with the buzz of Dell’s proposed $67 billion merger with IT giant EMC still ringing in everyone’s ears. The acquisition makes it clear the Austin, Texas-based company is all in on IT.
At the opening press conference,...
UK telco targets 14 million LTE subs by the end of 2015
U.K. mobile operator EE said it ended the third quarter of 2015 with 12.6 million LTE subscribers, posting 1.7 million net additions for the quarter. Over the past year, the carrier said it...
Early indications show Apple's iPhone 6s and 6s Plus are not selling as well as its predecessors in India. Retailers in key cities such as New Delhi, Kolkata, Bengaluru and Chennai are reporting lukewarm response for the new iPhones compared to last year.
"I was...
1. Nokia appears to have cleared the last major hurdle in its $17.6 billion purchase of Alcatel-Lucent. Today, China's Ministry of Commerce gave conditional approval to the merger, which has already been approved in the U.S. and Europe. China gave Nokia a to-do list...
Ultra Mobile brings the world to stores nationwide connecting millions of people around the globe. Ultra’s cost-effective plans and industry leading customer service puts them at the forefront of the pre-paid telecom space.
With $118.2 million in total revenue for 2014, Ultra‘s three-year growth was...
Verizon, AT&T and others argue FCC is too old fashioned
The Federal Communications Commission is investigating AT&T, Verizon Communications, CenturyLink and Frontier Communications for alleged unfair business practices. The FCC's Wireline Competition Bureau is looking into whether the companies’ used strict contracts to hinder competition,...
T-Mobile US announced it will be moving from the New York Stock Exchange to the Nasdaq Global Select Market effective Oct. 26 after market close.
“As America's Un-carrier, we’re all about unleashing wireless for all Americans,” J. Braxton Carter, CFO for T-Mobile US, said. “Our...
As Sprint prepares to undertake a massive network improvement strategy amid losing ground to rival T-Mobile US, the company's chief of corporate strategy and development has put in his resignation.
Michael Schwartz became Sprint's SVP of corporate strategy and development on Jan. 2, 2013.
His resignation...
NEW ORLEANS – Fresh off a series of acquisitions, NetScout Systems was on hand at the Cable-Tec Expo to emphasize the importance of service assurance in the highly competitive cable and telecom markets.
In July, NetScout completed a $2.3 billion acquisition of Danaher's communications business. NetScout...
NEW ORLEANS – Discussion at the 2015 Cable-Tec Expo centered around releases of the latest DOCSIS 3.1, as well as keeping user experience at the forefront as cable and telecom companies become more closely related from both a business and technological perspective.
Entertainment and communications...
Following its $48.5 billion acquisition of DirecTV, telecom giant AT&T is now telling federal regulators a pending combination of Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks and Charter Communications will serve to decrease competition in the lucrative industry.
In an Oct. 13 letter to Federal Communications...
WASHINGTON – Facebook has been busy of late. In addition to steadily gaining users and announcing plans to provided free Internet to Africa via satellite, the social media company is getting ready for a renewed push against Google-owned YouTube to stake its claim on...
