Either cannibalize your own company or a competitor will do it for you and take your market share. This is one of the most important secrets of success. Most people are astounded by ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft, and how rapidly they are...
Industry leaders predict a shift in how carriers approach the internet of things.
The booming "internet of things" will continue to be a major focal point for the entire telecommunications industry in 2017. The body of evidence proving how IoT can bring efficiency and cost savings...
Other potential investors in SoftBank fund include chipmaker Qualcomm and Chinese manufacturer Foxconn.
Apple confirmed plans to invest $1 billion in a tech fund being set up by Japanese telecommunications group SoftBank, The Wall Street Journal reported.
"We believe their new fund will speed...
The common industry thinking around lead management is of a traditional, old-school practice that’s quickly being replaced by next generation digitalization. Lead generation is often the result of extensive data mining during which a wide range of CRM applications validate, grade, distribute, contact and...
New JV, called VodafoneZiggo, unifies communications in Dutch market; combines mobile and fixed telephony with home broadband and video services.
Liberty Global and Vodafone Group announced that Liberty Global Europe Holding and Vodafone International Holdings completed a transaction to combine their Dutch operations.
The...
Huawei CEO says company aims to improve operating efficiency and cash flow generation across business units.
Huawei expects 2016 revenues to reach 520 billion yuan ($74.8 billion), which would represent a 32% increase compared to the previous year, the company’s rotating...
Facing allegations of 'abuse of market dominance,' Qualcomm calls the fine 'unprecedented and insupportable'
In a Dec. 28 announcement, the Korea Fair Trade Commission, charged with overseeing and regulating competition in South Korea, charged U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm with leveraging its dominant position in the chip...
The automotive industry is being shaken up by the next big technology wave of the "internet of things" and connected car. We are always looking for the next, big, hot opportunity for growth, and today there are so many different areas I often feel...
Operators and enterprise customers are increasingly turning to small cells to provide pinpoint coverage and capacity in both indoor and outdoor settings. Specific to outdoor small cell deployments, IHS Markit tallied a 200% year-over-year growth in 2016 revenue associated with outdoor small cells. The...
BT Compute for SAP enterprise solutions to be available for European customers in early 2017.
U.K. telco BT and T-Systems inked a collaboration agreement focused on the delivery of SAP cloud services. The agreement calls for BT to connect its customers to...
China's three largest carriers added approximately 289 million LTE subscribers between January and October.
China's three largest mobile telecom operators ended October with approximately 704.3 million LTE subscribers, according to the latest available figures from carriers China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom. During...
Amazon Web Services also recently launched services in Canada.
Amazon Web Services launched its first data center in the U.K., enabling local cloud storage for its 100,000 U.K.-based customers. AWS said it now manages three data center facilities in Europe, including...
Are you paying attention to the growing unlimited wireless data battle? Regional carrier C Spire Wireless is now joining the major national wireless carriers AT&T Mobility, Sprint and T-Mobile US in offering an unlimited data option. Funny thing, if you recall, this whole unlimited...
The two companies plan to evaluate technical and commercial feasibility of 5G research.
Huawei and U.K. telecommunications provider BT have partnered to carry out joint "5G" research activities. The agreement calls for the companies to evaluate the technical and commercial feasibility of the...
Qualcomm Ventures is part of a $5 million funding round for a startup headed by T-Mobile US Wi-Fi veteran Cole Brodman.
Brodman, whose team at T-Mobile US launched the Starbucks Wi-Fi hot spot network (now operated by Google), will leave his current position at Trilogy...
The Huawei-initiated Open ROADS Community focuses on creating the ultimate customer experience
Telcos need to harness the power of cloud computing, the internet of things, mobile devices and big data, to re-orient their business operations and service delivery methods around all-digital channels. This allows them...
Don’t you just love it when we see a real comeback story. That’s what seems to be happening at Sprint. If things stay on the current track, it looks like 2017 will also be a strong growth year for the carrier.
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The two firms said the joint IoT solutions will be commercially available in 2017.
Nokia and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise announced a strategic collaboration on "internet of things" solutions targeting the enterprise segment.
Under terms of the alliance, both firms will jointly market and...
AT&T is taking television to the next level with the new DirecTV Now. Imagine new thinking and new ideas like streaming channels and mobile TV all for a lower cost. So many customers who left the pay-TV market with its skyrocketing prices should love...
The introduction set out a picture of the wireless world, in which many types of spectrum and networks increasingly work together to create a seamless pool of capacity for service providers, enterprises and consumers to use. That may still be a dream, but important...
Chinese firm plans to launch data centers in Middle East, Europe, Australia and Japan this year.
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, plans to launch four new data centers by the end of 2016. The data centers...
Defining digital transformation.
Digital transformation is a term that has reached just about every company in every industry. It has been debated by analysts, thought leaders and executives. Digital transformation is a broad concept for the fundamental transformation of companies to a more technology reliant...
Last month I met with PayPal at the Money 20/20 conference in Las Vegas. First, let me say this is one impressive company. It started in 1998, simply helping people pay for things and get paid. Since, it has become the leader in the...
A year ago, when the Wireless Broadband Alliance announced its Vision 2020 program, it was moving away from a specific focus on Wi-Fi and towards a far broader platform based around many unlicensed spectrum bands and technologies. This recognized the fundamental and exciting role...
