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Liberty Global, Vodafone form mobile and fixed broadband joint venture

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 keeps rolling with 32% year-over-year revenue growth in 2016

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...

Korea Fair Trade Commission fines Qualcomm $865 million

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...

Kagan: Connected car is the next big growth opportunity

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...

Outdoor small cell backhaul market set for major growth

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 working with T-Systems to deliver SAP enterprise cloud services

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...

Chinese carriers pass 700 million LTE subscribers

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 launches first data center in the U.K.

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...

Kagan: Unlimited wireless data plans grow

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...

Huawei, BT partner on 5G research

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 invests in startup led by T-Mobile Wi-Fi guru

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...

An open approach better enables ICT transformation

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...

Kagan: Sprint 2016 comeback story

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. This has happened...

Nokia, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise target enterprise with joint IoT solutions

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...

Kagan: AT&T DirecTV Now reinvents TV

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...

Analyst Angle: Business models enhanced by heterogeneity

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...

Alibaba Cloud targets multiple geographies with four new data centers

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...

What is digital transformation?

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...

Kagan: PayPal predictions for the 2016 holiday shopping season

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...

Analyst Angle: The road to network convergence

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...

Amid decline, Ericsson expands scope of agreement with Cisco

Building on existing partnership, Ericsson and Cisco will further collaborate on IoT, security, Wi-Fi and data center switching Ericsson and Cisco have expanded the scope of a strategic agreement to now include new areas of business such as data center switching, Wi-Fi, security and the...

Kagan: Will AI save the Samsung master brand?

The Samsung master brand seems to be exploding or imploding or something. What’s going on over there? We have all seen and admired the amazing growth story of the Samsung brand in many different industries. This has been a company firing on all cylinders. However,...

Free product trials, case studies drive enterprise IT sales: IDG report

Growing adoption of cloud services, the "internet of things" and mobility solutions are changing the landscape of enterprise IT. In an increasingly crowded vendor market, it's difficult to understand how enterprise IT decision makers develop and execute spending plans. To shine light on this...

Cisco details RF planning for enterprise wireless networks

Seamless, always-on connectivity is a hallmark of increasingly mobile workforces around the world. But, the complexity of deploying and managing in-building enterprise wireless networks is a challenging task for IT managers faced with acute need and cost pressures coupled with risk averse spending plans. Despite the...