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Foxconn on the move

The Chinese manufacturing giant that makes most of the world's iPhones is looking for new opportunities in other parts of the mobile ecosystem. Foxconn is reportedly teaming up with HP to make servers to support cloud data applications for service providers. The move is the...

Impact 2014: Carriers need to understand enterprise mobility strategies

LAS VEGAS – The increased adoption of corporate mobile solutions impacts the telecommunications industry as they typically require more bandwidth and network performance improvements. Therefore, communications service providers need to understand what companies are doing (or planning to deploy) in order to anticipate traffic...

Nokia names new CEO, reports earnings

Nokia (NOK) named Rajeev Suri as its new CEO, elevating the leader of Nokia Solutions and Networks now that it has completed the sale of its device business to Microsoft. Suri replaces Stephen Elop, a former Microsoft executive who oversaw Nokia's move into Windows-based...

Verizon reportedly wins payment deal from Netflix

Netflix will reportedly pay to play on Verizon Communications' FiOS network, after claiming for months that its video service was being throttled by Verizon. Netflix is calling the deal a "paid interconnect agreement" and saying that it hopes the arrangement will improve service for...

CEO: Range Networks moves from pilot to production

Range Networks is moving from the lab and pilot-project stage into more significant deployments of its open-source cellular systems and seeking to become a platform for innovation, according to the company's new chief executive officer, Ed Kozel. "We're taking Range out of the lab phase...

WhatsApp prepaid SIM challenges carriers

Facebook is set to offer more voice and data services once it completes its planned purchase of mobile messaging service WhatsApp. WhatsApp is now selling prepaid SIM cards in Europe. Voice calls on WhatsApp were first announced at Mobile World Congress, but at that...

HetNet News: Wi-Fi maximizes small cell investment, says ABI

ABI Research is arguing that operators should deploy carrier-grade Wi-Fi at the same time that they are rolling out cellular-technology small cells, looking for an integrated solution in order to maximize the investment return from small cells. The analyst firm noted that China Mobile and AT&T...

PCTel sees seasonal weakness, posts net loss

Antenna and site solution company PCTel saw its revenues drop 6% year-over-year to $23.7 million, and recorded a loss for the quarter of $146,000. Marty Singer, PCTEL's chairman and CEO, said that core antenna sales "were soft for seasonal reasons but we expect a strong...

Infrastructure news: Ericsson restructures, NSN flies solo, stadiums add DAS

Ericsson restructures networks unit The world's largest maker of telecom equipment is splitting its networks unit into two groups. One group will concentrate on radio technologies while the other will focus on IP and cloud initiatives. Johan Wibergh, head of Ericsson's networks business unit, will...

The future of SDN: Predictions and emerging approaches

Does SDN technology have staying power, or is it simply a passing fad?

Cell Tower News: Copper Thieves Strike Again; State Laws Impact Towers

Welcome to this week’s edition of cell tower industry news, created by Jarad Matula and brought to you by Towercrews.net. The plague of copper thefts continues for tower companies. This time a thief in the Chattanooga, TN area stole $300 worth of copper from a local...

Nuage Networks sees SDN coming to fruition

Nuage Networks says it has conducted 30 successful trials of network virtualization around the world in the past year, and that its initial focus on the data center environment is bringing validation to the much-hyped prospects of software-defined networking. The Alcatel-Lucent venture was launched one...

TE Connectivity posts strong quarter

Wireless connectivity and distributed antenna provider TE Connectivity reported a strong second quarter performance, with net sales up 6% year-over-year to $3.43 billion. The company's orders and sales were up in all regions, according to Chairman and CEO Tom Lynch, and across most of the...

Ericsson sales slip as North American builds slow

Ericsson (ERIC) saw sales slide 9% during the first quarter as the pace of mobile network buildouts slowed for two of its major North American customers. Although the company did not name those customers, AT&T and Verizon Wireless are both Ericsson customers who got...

CTIA names Baker to replace Largent

Wireless trade association CTIA announced that industry veteran and former Federal Communications Commission commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker will take the reins of the trade group effective June 2. Baker will replace current CTIA President and CEO Steve Largent, who announced his retirement plans last...

Mobile patents: Samsung dominates in U.S. and Europe

Chetan Sharma Consulting has analyzed more than 7 million patents to create an in-depth look at the mobile patent landscape. The firm analyzed patent filings and granted patents in the U.S. and Europe for the years 1991 - 2014, and looked specifically at mobile...

Verizon report: 9 patterns of data breach attacks

Verizon's annual examination of data breaches around the world found that most of the 100,000 security incidents over the past 10 years fall into one of nine patterns -- and that governmental or corporate espionage is increasingly driving attacks, with financial-based attacks on the decrease. This...

Reality Check: ‘5G’ – moving beyond the hype

Today “5G” is not yet a newborn; and we, as its parents, are still trying to define its genetic makeup. As it is impossible to predict all the use cases of the future, we need to ensure that the DNA of 5G is as flexible as

Google expands Project Loon LTE testing to Nevada

Google recently expanded its LTE testing to include areas of the Nevada desert.

Amdocs study: Data accounts for 98% of network traffic

Amdocs has released its latest State of the Radio Access Network survey, and the numbers show that data absolutely dominates mobile networks, accounting for 98% of traffic -- and that stress on networks from the data tsunami is leading to compromised quality of experience. The...

Nokia set to close sale of device unit

Nokia, the world's leading maker of mobile phones until two years ago, is set to close on the sale of its device unit to Microsoft on April 25. The company first aligned itself with Microsoft in 2011, abandoning its Symbian smartphone operating system for...

HetNet News: Time Warner launches HotSpot 2.0 nationally

This week in small cell, distributed antenna system and Wi-Fi news: -- Time Warner Cable has added HotSpot 2.0 technology on most of the Wi-Fi access points in its national network, and says that it is "the largest Passpoint-enabled network in the country." The company is...

Reader Forum: Next-generation service provider security – dynamic multi-layered defense

The concept of service provider security is undergoing a significant shift due to changes in several key areas: business, technology and the profile of the attacker.

Mobile drives need for better security, says Wedge Networks

Wedge Networks has a new software-based security solution that it says delivers on the promises of software-defined networking (SDN): cheaper infrastructure costs, easy scalability, and performance similar to hardware-based offerings. Wedge recently participated in an network function virtualization(NFV) testing demonstration with Spirent at Interop that...