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MVNO DataXoom focuses on mobile data services and support to battle against established carriers in lucrative enterprise market. The enterprise market remains lucrative for telecommunications operators as the segment typically …

SCADA and its use cases. Nearly everywhere you look, there is some type of supervisory control and data acquisition system running behind the scenes, at your local supermarket, refinery, waste …

MVNO set to use O2 and China Unicom network infrastructure. China Unicom Global launched its CUniq mobile virtual network operator service in the U.K., which is offered with its one …

Arrow to market and sell network services tailored for customer applications. Arrow Electronics inked an agreement with Vodafone to market the latter’s “internet of things” services as part of its …

Uber is rapidly acquiring startups as it gears up for a future filled with autonomous ride-hailing vehicles. Yesterday, the company announced the purchase of an artificial intelligence startup Geometric Intelligence …

“5G” antennas are expected to be smaller, more numerous and part of more high-gain systems than those that have served 3G and 4G systems, and they will need more advanced …

Nokia unveiled a “templating system” it said is based on ETSI NFV, TOSCA and OpenStack specs designed to simplify VNF management and orchestration. The exceedingly complicated process of virtual network …

NFV and SDN deployments remain sporadic, though development advances have bolstered platforms with the focus now on making them work better. On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check we speak with …

AT&T encountered some issues during the launch of its DirecTV Now platform this week, while Sprint kicked some sand in the face of 600 MHz spectrum. Hello! And welcome to …

A suburb of Washington, D.C., is growing into a living laboratory for “internet of things” technology projects. Set in Montgomery County, Maryland, Thingstitute is set to be an agricultural testbed …

PwC’s Strategy& division looks at the impact the removal of smartphone subsidies and new era of used devices and trade-ins is having on carriers and OEMs. The domestic cellular market …

Sigfox announced earlier this month it is closing a $160 million (150 million euros) funding round it intends to use on expansion of its low power wide area network. Companies …

Edge Computing Consortium members include Huawei, Intel, ARM and Chinese institutions. Chinese vendors, together with Shenyang Institute of Automation of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Academy of Information and Communications …

Nokia was very busy 1 year ago this week, with the vendor closing on the sale of its Here mapping unit, while shareholders approved its acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent. Nokia closes …

What is machine learning and what can it do? You step into the tennis section of your local sports store looking for a new racket when a notification alerts you …

Fresh food: A growing use case for machine learning. Machine learning can help retailers address the challenges of offering fresh foods, which account for up to 40% of a grocers’ …

U.K. mobile operator EE and Huawei said they reached mobile broadband speeds of 2.1 gigabits per second over an LTE-Advanced network in a recent lab test. “We are committed to …

MQTT and the internet of things. MQ Telemetry Transport, invented in 1999 by Andy Stanford-Clark of IBM and Arlen Nipper of Eurotech, is an open standard messaging protocol created for …

On the road to 5G, the Chinese vendor looks to carry out new trials of massive MIMO technology next year. TOKYO – ZTE is in talks with Japanese mobile operators …

Audi’s Ingolstadt, Germany, factory is its largest and the second largest in Europe, producing 566,646 cars in 2015. It is where the auto manufacturer produces its A3, A4, A5, Q2 …

Cloud security plans require telecom operators and enterprises to think about total protection processes and take into account software platforms. Telecommunication operators are increasingly turning towards virtualized platforms in order …

We sat down with Guillaume Houssay, co-founder and CEO of Qowisio North America, to discuss the company’s view on providing LoRa-based low power wide area network services in a more …

What is CEP? Complex event processing is an emerging network technology commonly used in the “internet of things” that uses distributed message-based systems, databases and applications to derive conclusions from …

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 …

Cloud access security brokers are seen as one way telecom operators can ensure robust protection as they venture into the cloud. With telecom operators increasing their reach into cloud environments, …