The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday circulated a draft Open Internet Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to its commissioners regarding its future stance on net neutrality enforcement. The move comes after a federal appeals court earlier this year ruled against the FCC in how it...
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FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler is denying claims that his agency's upcoming rule changes will put an end to net neutrality. Those rule changes are to be made public today, and today's Wall Street Journal reported that...
Qualcomm (QCOM), the leading maker of smartphone chipsets, reported lower-than-expected sales for its second quarter as China's emerging LTE market failed to create the demand Qualcomm had hoped for. Sales were $6.37 billion, up 4% year-on-year, and operating income was $1.99 billion, up 6%...
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...
It appears the recent pricing moves by Verizon Wireless were indeed caused by competitive pressures as the carrier announced slowing growth and increased churn.
Verizon Wireless reported that it added 549,000 branded net customer additions during the first quarter, including 539,000 customers to its postpaid...
Apple (AAPL) knocked the cover off the ball with its second financial quarter earnings report, scoring a 7.3% year-on-year profit increase as it sold 43.7 million iPhones. Smartphone sales were of course down compared to the previous quarter (51 million), which included the holiday...
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--T-Mobile US officially bolstered its sub-1...
On the same day the global Net Mundial event began in São Paulo, Brazilian president, Dilma Rousseff, enacted the Marco Civil da Internet bill, which aims to protect online privacy and sets up a form of net neutrality in the country. The senate passed the bill on April 22, which followed the lower house...
The controversy over over-the-air testing standards – or lack thereof – for LTE MIMO, as well as cost and complexity, are some of the major issues in OTA testing today.
A recent panel of experts debated those issues at the recent 2014 LTE Innovation Summit....
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The Federal Communications Commission’s move to free up spectrum in the 3.5 GHz band for small cells and other wireless broadband uses took another step as the agency solidified those efforts in a further notice of proposed rulemaking.
Under the proposal, the FCC is looking...
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There are few companies in the world that appear less in need of financial assitance than Samsung, but that's just what the company may get in its patent fight with Apple. It's getting it from Google,...
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 (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...
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...
TeliaSonera, the dominant carrier in Sweden and Finland, saw its profits slip as mobile sales continued to slow. Sales for the carrier's main mobile unit decreased by 3.5% to $3.64 billion. Net income fell 4% to $600 million in line with analyst estimates.
“Our markets continue...
Although the LTE modem market is still just a fraction of the overall market, it is by far the fastest-growing area, and is the focus of research and development efforts by chip manufacturers.
Qualcomm dominates this market with a 94% share, according to Forward Concepts....
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...
The FCC appears ready to continue the narrow channelization idea for the upcoming incentive auctions intended to reallocate up to 120 megahertz of broadcast spectrum to wireless broadband.
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AT&T set a noteworthy bar for its rivals to meet for first quarter operational results, announcing strong customer growth and growing uptake of its Next device financing program.
AT&T reported that its wireless operations added more than one million net customer additions for the quarter,...
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...
LTE represents the fastest-growing part of the cellular baseband market, but 2G and 3G solutions still dominate the market. Just 13% of the cellular modems sold last year were LTE modems, according to the analysts at Forward Concepts.
"LTE is the fastest...
China Mobile said it added 13.88 million new customers during the first quarter of the year, pushing its world-leading customer base to more than 781 million connections. The carrier’s growth was on the back of next-generation services as its 3G network scored 33.35 million...
