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...
An AT&T customer in California got an unexpected reply to an email he sent to AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson about how to improve the company's services.
El Sereno, Calif., resident Alfred Valrie, an AT&T quadruple-play customer, reached out to Stephenson to suggest the company get...
WASHINGTON – The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a massive free trade agreement among the U.S. and 11 other Pacific Rim nations, including Australia, Japan and Singapore. If ratified, the TPP could create the largest free trade zone in the world. However, concerns ranging from farm subsidies...
ARCEP said the auction process will start Nov. 16
France telecom regulator ARCEP confirmed the process to award 30 megahertz of spectrum in the 700 MHz band to support LTE services will kick off Nov. 16.
The regulator previously confirmed the firms submitting applications for the spectrum auction...
Research from an investment bank says Apple iPhone 6s sales have been “disappointing” thus far. Pacific Crest Securities expects sales to reach 67 million units, which is well below many analyst expectations of 76 million units through the fourth quarter of 2015.
Apple refutes the claim,...
Dell is a major HP competitor in the enterprise market; HP is approaching a split that will spin-off HP Enterprise as standalone company
Dell has agreed to buy EMC in what could be the biggest tech takeover in history. The size of the buyout will...
Apparently expanding beyond its core business function of, you know, making and distributing sodas, Pepsi told Techradar it will release a line of mobile phones and accessories targeting the Chinese market.
Why, you ask? As a Pepsi representative told Techradar, "Pepsi has always moved at the speed...
Wi-Fi Alliance sets up task force to study how LTE-U and Wi-Fi can share same spectrum
WASHINGTON – The war may not have a clear winner, but the hostility between Wi-Fi and LTE-Unlicensed may soon be abating. The Wi-Fi Alliance announced it intends to hold...
1. Dell has agreed to buy EMC in what could be the biggest tech takeover in history. The size of the buyout will depend on the value of EMC's interest in VMWare, but Dell and EMC estimate that the deal will be worth $67...
Sprint has some inroads into retail, logistics; T-Mobile US biding its time
WASHINGTON – The "Internet of Things" is quickly popping up on the radar of enterprises across verticals, and all four of America’s major carriers – AT&T Mobility, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile US and Sprint...
Google this week announced a new open source initiative, the Accelerated Mobile Pages Project, to facilitate instantaneous loading of mobile web pages, even those including rich content like videos and animations.
The project is built on the open AMP HTML framework and will go forward with...
New advertising program set to begin in November
Verizon Communications closed on its $4.4 billion purchase of AOL in June with an eye on boosting its content portfolio, and, based on an Oct. 8 privacy notification, better target consumer advertising via sharing personal data across...
