IoT could be biggest opportunity, but not in the near term
Cable and media giant Comcast clearly intends to be a player in the market for wireless services. With tens of millions of Wi-Fi access points, an enterprise internet of things business, a mobile service...
As the smartphone market matures, companies that make mobile device components are looking to the internet of things for growth opportunities. Korea's Wisol, which makes surface acoustic wave filters and duplexers for phones, will now make machine-to-machine connectivity modules based on Sequans' LTE chipsets.
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The NB-IoT network will initially be available in Madrid and Valencia.
Vodafone Group's Spanish subsidiary said its narrowband "internet of things" network is now operational and commercially available in Spain.
Santiago Tenorio, group head of network strategy and architecture at Vodafone Spain,...
The impact of self-driving cars on passenger rail could be comparable to the impact of automobile itself 125 years ago.
Self-driving cars are coming, bringing with them a rather sizable wave of disruption. Traditional automakers must form new alliances as they are being challenged by startups,...
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In our second episode of IoT in Action, we speak with David Bloch of Vodafone New Zealand at Teradata PARTNERS 2016 in Atlanta, Georgia, about how the operator is using big data.
Bloch said the network operator uses Teradata's Aster and Hadoop clusters to capture...
This white paper expands the foundation of 4G Americas’ view of 5G recommendations that was published in the October 2014 white paper titled, 5G Americas’ Recommendations on 5G Requirements and Solutions.
Having recently closed on its acquisition of 700 MHz spectrum assets from Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile US has begun touting the benefits those licenses will provide to consumers.
In a blog post, T-Mobile US CTO Neville Ray said the carrier expects to being taking advantage...
Video now represents almost half of all mobile network traffic, and will soon account for most of the traffic on mobile networks. Mobile video motivates subscribers to buy more data, but it can also overwhelm the network, leading to poor user experiences and churn....
Infrastructure solutions company CommScope (COMM) reported net income of $64 million on sales of $935 million in the first quarter of the year, driven by its wireless offerings and strength in the U.S. market.
CommScope's net income boomed to $64 million, compared to $16 million...
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...
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For many people, a smartphone is the only computer they will ever own or ever want to own - but should smartphones be considered personal computers by the criminal justice system? That's the question the U.S....
The Federal Communications Commission said a Florida man could be fined up to $48,000 for using a cellphone jammer from his automobile that interfered with first-responder communications.
The agency noted that Jason Humphreys of Seffner, Fla., used a jammer for nearly two years while commuting...
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Ericsson’s recent restructuring announcement that will see the world’s largest telecom equipment vendor split its networks unit into two groups has at least one analyst predicting the company is set to become a software company.
In a blog post, Maravedis-Rethink research director Caroline Gabriel noted...
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...
In reaching a relatively stable first quarter, France's leading carrier, Orange, believes that the French telecom price war is finally coming to close.
“This quarter is satisfying for us especially as the margin stabilizes,” Orange finance chief Gervais Pellissier told Businessweek. “Orange’s profitability has been under pressure since 2009, with prices slashed and...
Connectivity and bandwidth have become commodities in the data communications market. To differentiate themselves, telecom operators have been bundling
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Many Latin American operators have recently started offering free access or access without using data allowance for selected applications, generally to
AT&T's new video venture could lead the carrier into partnerships with some of its direct competitors. The company is teaming up with The Chernin Group in deal that could eventually make AT&T an investor in OTT services that rely in part on the networks...
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LTE will take flight next year as AT&T plans to launch 4G LTE service for airplanes. The carrier says it will build an innovative air-to-ground network in the continental United States, based on global 4G LTE...
A new study of more than 400 global business executives has found that companies prioritizing customer experience initiatives "fare substantially better" across business measures, according to Harvard Business Review Analytics Service.
SAS sponsored the research, which found that 71% of business leaders believe that efforts...
Sprint's fight to remain competitive against rivals includes its ongoing deployment of LTE services, which have lagged far behind the reach of its larger rivals and trailed in speed compared with some smaller competitors. In connection with the release of challenging first quarter financial...
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...
