Verizon Wireless laid down a significant challenge to its rivals, posting strong fourth quarter results that could be difficult to match.
The carrier said it added 1.653 million direct customer additions during the final three months of 2013, dominated by the carrier’s high-margin postpaid services...
Let’s face it: when it comes to getting something done, most of us choose the path of least resistance, opting for the easiest route to an end goal rather than a more complicated,
It’s the time of year when we reflect and prognosticate. 2013 was a fantastic year for the “Internet of things,” and 2014 will be better. What’s hot and what’s not for IoT in 2014:
African technology brand Altron recently underwent some considerable organizational changes. In addition to its overall corporate makeover, the enterprise also sold its stake in another telecommunications provider.
Resilience Capital Partners recently announced the acquisition of Mill City TEC, a provider of construction and technical services for the wireless sector and other industries.
With mobile data use once again continuing on an upswing, averaging more than 60% annual growth, I predict that we are going to see mobile network operators worldwide looking even deeper
In the past few years the iOS and Android device revolution has firmly and irreversibly shifted consumer online activity to a mobile-first experience. The majority of consumer traffic growth,
The Federal Communications Commission is set this week to begin auctioning off 176, 10-megahertz spectrum licenses in the upper 1.9 GHz band known as the H-Block. The auction is scheduled to start on Jan. 22, with 23 bidders qualified to participate.
Qualified bidders include a...
Mobile Minute:
Sprint could be the next major carrier to offer free calling over Wi-Fi. T-Mobile US has offered Wi-Fi calling for several years on certain phones, and now Android Central is reporting that Sprint is preparing to launch Wi-Fi calling on the Samsung Galaxy...
Connecting us to one another may still be the most important thing that smartphones do, but their reach is steadily extending into other parts of our lives. Smartphones are poised to control the smart home, to pay for goods and services, and to collect...
JDSU's CellAdvisor JD780A Base Station Analyzer series now supports LTE-Advanced with the ability to analyze up to five
component carriers for carrier aggregation, and MIMO with up to four transmitting branches.
JDSU has also added basic PIM detection, so that a tech can tell whether interference is...
The Federal Communications Commission has put the finishing touches on ensuring interoperability across the lower 700 MHz spectrum band, announcing a modification to AT&T’s lower B- and C-Block licenses to require interoperability with the adjacent A-Block. The modification call for the inclusion of AT&T’s...
Update 1/18: Softbank and Deutsche Telekom are reportedly in talks about a potential Sprint takeover of T-Mobile, but a deal is not expected in the immediate future.
Sprint (S) and its aggressive new parent company Softbank appear to be moving forward with plans to try...
Finding a successful niche in the wireless space is no easy task, especially for a company providing wireless services. With four nationwide operators spending billions each year on advertising and serving more than 90% of the nation’s wireless needs, dozens of smaller players are...
Get this: At this moment there is a spectrum auction happening not too far from where you are probably reading this. That is if you are reading this somewhere that is not “too far” from Canada, which is where that auction is happening.
Welcome to our weekly wrap-up of telecom software news. Partnerships abound this week as it seems like everybody's shaking hands with everybody to create some great deals. AT&T was especially busy on this front, furthering its partnership with Amdocs for its connected car program,...
Northern New England telecommunications provider FairPoint Communications, Inc. recently announced the completion of two broadband expansion projects. The initiatives grow the company's service footprint and boost bandwidth availability in five towns.
2013 saw mobile network operators around the world continuing their tentative adjustment to an environment in which over-the-top content defined much of their network deployment, upgrade and
“It’s all about me!” While that expression is often used in jest in casual conversation, it is no joking matter when it comes to mobile consumers who are increasingly demanding personalized content and services
Welcome to our weekly collection of all the top cell tower news stories, where we cover global, national, regional, local and distributed antenna system stories. While hoopla surrounding the "polar vortex" may have subsided, we're still in the dead of winter in many parts...
DragonWave Inc. saw its most recent quarterly revenues plunge year-over-year, to $22.2 million from $38.5 million during the same period last year. Profits improved, however, with a net loss for the quarter of $5.5 million compared to $13.9 million in the previous year's fiscal...
Attempts to unify developer work on software-defined networking and network functions virtualization received a boost this week as the OpenDaylight Project announced that Coriant and ZTE have joined the “community-led and industry-supported open source platform.” The group, which is a project spun out of...
Smartphone prices range from $40 to $4,000, but the cost of building a device usually falls somewhere between those extremes. The bill of materials for a high-end smartphone like the iPhone 5S is much less than the off-contract retail price.
"You might be a...
Telefónica has agreed to provide NII Holdings’ subsidiaries in Brazil and Mexico with nationwide voice and data coverage services using the Telefónica's 3G wireless networks in those markets. NII Holdings operates under the Nextel brand in the two countries, and the agreement with Telefónica aims...
