To recap a couple of themes that we have discussed since the beginning of the year, first quarter earnings are going to highlight a) the disruptor role of T-Mobile US in the wireless marketplace
U.S. wireless carriers have spent billions of dollars on the design, construction and operation of their legacy networks and with the ongoing development and implementation of LTE,
Verizon Wireless continued to dabble in rate plan alterations, this week announcing plans to allow customers to bring their own smartphone to the carrier’s More Everything rate plans at a reduced per-line rate.
The carrier said that beginning April 17, customers could bring their own...
As fourth-generation wireless technology has been rolled out, lessons learned during previous deployments have been invaluable.
Lou LaMedica, former director of Verizon Wireless' device evaluation lab in New Jersey, told attendees at last week's LTE Innovation Summit that customers are primarily concerned about performance, despite...
--Comcast said its Xfinity Wi-Fi network now contains one million hotspots around the country, including its outdoor hotspots, hotspots for patrons at enterprises that Comcast includes for free with its business Internet service, and neighborhood hotspots where Comcast enables residential customers to have a second...
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T-Mobile US taps tablets, capped data plans, overage challenges in latest marketing push
T-Mobile US’ most compelling announcement was a further push into the tablet market that allows customers to add a tablet device to a current postpaid voice plan for free. ... Read...
T-Mobile US’ latest attempts to “shake up” the wireless industry continued into early this week as the carrier unveiled the third initiative as part of its continuing “Un-carrier” marketing strategy. The moves come as the mobile space has seen a flurry of new marketing...
Sprint is reportedly preparing to offer its customers music from Spotify. Pending approval from the music labels that license to Spotify, the deal is expected to be announced later this month. Sprint subscribers would get free trials of the music streaming service, and might...
The other week I was skiing at Vail with three of my best mates, and we were using smart badges from the resort to track our runs. We’re all very competitive people, and we were all trying to go faster, longer, higher and catch more lifts.
This could be a big weekend for carrier smartphone sales, with both the Samsung Galaxy S5 and the HTC One (M8) now in stores. These are the two highest-end Android phones on the market now, and they are very similar in many respects. The...
The ability to test network and device features and functions is an important piece of technology development and deployment. RCR Wireless looks weekly at the test and measurement space to see what's afoot.
--Anite says it is the first test vendor to offer 4x4...
Network equipment vendors Cisco and Juniper are sharing information about their vulnerability to Heartbleed, the software security flaw that could enable hackers to steal passwords and other encrypted data from many of the servers on the Internet.
Cisco says that many of its products...
Wireless industry professionals may often feel they're swimming in an alphabet soup of acronyms: NFV (network functions virtualization) and SDN (software defined networking) are enabling PCRFs (policy and charging rules functions) to run on COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) hardware in order to reduce TOC (total...
After closing on a $150 million round of financing from Bain Capital last year, SevOne is putting some of its cash to use. The company said today that it has bought log analytics software specialist RapidEngines for an undisclosed amount. SevOne's customers, which include...
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Facebook is following up on its decision to pay $19 billion for WhatsApp with a plan to sunset its own messaging feature. The social media giant is telling users that soon when they try to send a message through Facebook they will be...
ZTE is signaling a shift in strategy that could be good news for its competitors. The Chinese maker of network infrastructure and smartphones said today that it has boosted profits by turning down low-margin contracts. ZTE was referring to infrastructure projects outside China.
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