Tower climber fatalities, lack of standards, LTE technology and need for formalized apprenticeships are driving material changes in tower climber training and certification programs
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Tower climber training programs were the focus of this week's episode of "Inside Telecom Careers". JP Jones, Vice President...
HetNet deployments will drive job growth and potential costs associated with union construction crews certified to work in utility right-of-ways and on pole tops
According to Don Bach, vice president of operations and engineering for Nokia-owned SAC Wireless, 30% to 40% of future mobile operator capital...
Apple is being surprisingly generous with its new iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan. The operating systems have not even been released yet, but you can see them in action if you know where to look.
On July 9, Apple made an uncommon move, releasing...
Verizon CEO lowest paid
It has been a good year to be the top man at the No. 3 carrier in the U.S. In fewer than eight months on the job, Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure made $22 million, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
Claure...
Talk of Liberty Global and Vodafone swapping assets has given both companies’ stocks a boost.
On June 5, British telecommunications company Vodafone confirmed that it is in early-stage talks to trade assets with Liberty Global, the European cable and wireless operator.
Market speculation about a possible...
In typical fashion, T-Mobile US CEO John Legere is taking on the establishment with a brash attitude and strong words. This time he’s directing his pointed tongue at the issue of next year’s 600 MHz spectrum auction.
He proclaims “If you’re not pissed off, you’re...
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Ben Wood - Chief of Research at CCS Insight the UK based consulting and analysis team explores the type of companies now interested in IoT (among other areas), some of the current and future most interesting technology trends and also he shows off some...
As merger fever continues to heat up in the telecom industry, there are now reports that Deutsche Telekom is looking to get into the game by acquiring British Telecom.
According to a report by British newspaper The Telegraph, the potential merger between T-Mobile US, which...
In this episode of Coders I dig into the tools and techniques used to bring video app Pheebo to life. Pheebo is a video aggregation app for iOS that provides a slick user interface to quickly find and watch video content across the disparate...
T-Mobile US, Dish Network management structure part of discussion
T-Mobile US and Dish Network appear to be following the current consolidation trend in the media and communication industry.
The Wall Street Journal reported that merger talks between the two companies are in the “formative stage” and...
LTE Direct being trialed by Qualcomm; allows smartphones to directly communicate
An emerging technology being trialed by Qualcomm and carrier partners could ultimately undercut the need for new cell towers by enabling smartphones to directly communicate with other smartphones.
The issue was front and center last...
Shares of Alcatel-Lucent have continued to decline in response to recent weakness in shares of proposed merger partner Nokia.
But overall, analysts remain bullish on the companies' future with several upgrading their stock ratings in recent weeks.
On April 15, the companies announced they had signed...
ORLANDO, Fla. – In his keynote at Sapphire Now 2015, SAP CEO Bill McDermott, called SAP S/4 HANA "a once-in-a-generation platform."
Designed to help companies become more data driven while simplifying and making the process of analytics more seamless, the technology is the talk of...
T-Mobile US DAS comments from PCIA Wireless Infrastructure Show 2015 Hetnet panel
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – Alan Tantillo, national director for development and siting policy at T-Mobile US, participated in a heterogeneous networks panel discussion during PCIA's Wireless Infrastructure Show. Outlined below are a few of Tantillo's...
This week on Coders I speak with Brian Mueller, the developer behind the Carrot line of apps for iPhone and Apple Watch. His line of apps are named Carrot from "carrot and stick," and the humorous content in the fitness, to-do and weather apps...
Vodafone and MTN, two of the largest mobile money providers in Africa, announced plans to interconnect their services in seven East African countries. The partnership will allow M-Pesa and MTN Mobile Money customers to transfer money to each other using their mobile devices in Kenya,...
A secure solution from Ericsson and Intel Security
The explosion of connectivity over the last few years has brought value to all sorts of new frontiers in business and society. But with all that growth comes increased difficulty to keep information on the networks safe...
Bloomberg network stops trading, stays billion-dollar deals
Financial giant Bloomberg on Friday morning was hit by a network failure that crippled the global trading terminal network, which is used by more than 300,000 traders worldwide.
The outage, which lasted for about three hours, started just after 3...
There is a great deal of speculation about how companies can best capitalize on the increasing abundance of collected data. Newer technologies like Hadoop get all the attention when it comes to the future of data management, but no one knows for sure just how...
Will the Apple Watch wow Wall Street? Analysts are not in agreement, with some expecting the watch to give the stock an iPhone-like boost and others worrying that investors will dump the stock if big watch sales don't materialize in a timely manner.
William Power...
T-Mobile US CEO John Legere is not one to back down from a feud. Neither is Donald Trump. The two businessmen are currently wrapped in a heated war of words after Donald Trump called T-Mobile US "terrible." The two are now taking shots at...
Telkomsel, Indonesia’s largest mobile operator, selected Cloudera, which it claims is the first unified big data platform powered by Hadoop, to help them become a higher-value broadband service provider.
Up until now, Telkomsel has been largely a voice and text message-based business, but is hoping this partnership...
Social media moves AT&T to the top of the Elite Eight
The 2015 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Final Four is almost here. With that Sysomos, a social intelligence engine, has named its Elite Eight sponsors of the tournament so far, with AT&T topping the list...
Cisco plans acquisition to speed up, expand services
Data centers are constantly looking for ways to simplify application deployments and grow in the cloud. In an attempt to drive virtualization and automation, Cisco has announced its intent to acquire Embrane, a lifecycle management platform for...
