Qualcomm has confirmed reports that it is eliminating roughly 600 jobs. The chip giant says that some of those impacted will be offered new opportunities elsewhere at the company. Fewer than half the employees affected are based in the United States.
"Less than 300 will...
AUSTIN, Texas – As connected cars fuel the next evolution in the "Internet of Things," what was once a simple means of transportation is now ready to connect like never before.
In 2015, General Motors and AT&T are teaming up to provide this connection by...
AUSTIN, Texas – Speaking at this week's IEEE GlobeCom expo in Austin, AT&T Chief Security Officer Edward Amoroso proposed that enterprise cloud security could potentially be based on the same network architecture used by an infamous piece of malware.
Amoroso gave a keynote speech envisioning...
AUSTIN, TEXAS – The "Internet of Things" is rapidly changing everything from computing models to economic activity, Cisco EVP and CDO Pankaj Patel told attendees at the IEEE GlobeCom show in Austin, Texas on Dec. 10.
“I hope you’re ready,” Patel said, “because the journey has...
AUSTIN, Texas – Industry panelists at the IEEE GlobeCom show pointed to 100G data capacity speeds in dense metro areas as a quickly emerging HetNet trend.
Buddy Shaw of Windstream Communications said carriers are working hard to keep up with the data capacity demanded by...
AUSTIN, TEXAS – National Instruments co-founder James Truchard today highlighted his company’s recently updated LabView Communications System Design Suite, which integrates software-defined radio hardware with comprehensive software for 5G prototyping.
Truchard, speaking from the IEEE GlobeCom show in Austin, Texas, said the redesigned LabView can support...
The telecom workforce grew by 2,300 jobs in November 2014, according to a new U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics report, and is up some 20,500 jobs since the beginning of the year.
The BLS released its most recent Current Employment Statistics Highlights on Dec. 5....
Carrier aggregation helps Nokia Networks, Ooredoo Qatar, China Mobile achieve 4.1 Gbps speed
China Mobile and Nokia Networks, along with Ooredoo Qatar have announced a new LTE-A speed record with carrier aggregation. The three companies said they reached 4.1 Gbps per second over the hybrid TD-FDD LTE...
The International Telecommunication Union has finalized approval of G.fast, the broadband standard designed to deliver 1 Gigabit per second broadband speeds over existing copper wires. G.fast is meant to be an alternative to fiber-to-the-home for service providers that want to deliver "triple play" services...
UPC Business, a major Irish network services provider, announced the acquisition of operator Bitbuzz, which provides Wi-Fi hot spots to hotels, airports, pubs and other locations.
Terms of the Dec. 4 deal have not been made public.
Bitbuzz Managing Director Shane Deasy said the acquisition “will...
Angel Merkel was the keynote speaker at Vodafone’s Digitising Europe conference last week and shared her vision for net neutrality.
Some services in the digital economy require different levels of service and should be treated differently than other data, she said. As a result, her vision...
China Mobile 4G Subscribers To Reach 150M
China Mobile is predicting that by the end of next year the company will have 150 million 4G mobile subscribers. The company expects to reach 300 million 4G subscribers by the end of 2016. In October, China Mobile...
Fiber infrastructure expansions from Zayo and Southern Telecom are poised to bring better connectivity options to three American markets.
On Dec. 4, Zayo Group Holdings, a publicly traded bandwidth infrastructure provider based in Boulder, Colo., announced an acquisition of IdeaTek Systems.
IdeaTek is a fiber operator...
Google Fiber is now in Austin, Texas. Austinites can now experience Gigabit Internet speed. In conjunction with the rollout of Fiber, Google opened a multimedia community meeting place they call "Fiber Space" in downtown Austin.
Head of Google Fiber in Austin Mark Strama and his...
It’s been a busy week for Amdocs with announcements related to carrier-grade Wi-Fi and quad-play acceleration.
Starting with the carrier-grade Wi-Fi announcement (covered by RCR Wireless in yesterday’s news edition), the focus was on an independent research report looking at the potential to transition from...
China’s three mobile carriers have created a new company, China Tower, which will take over ownership of the three firms’ telecom infrastructure while ambitiously planning to build 1 million new towers in the next two years.
Instead of the three companies individually building towers, the...
Carriers have lagged behind cable operators in Wi-Fi deployments, but now it looks like mobile operators are ready to catch up. Carrier-grade Wi-Fi hotspots are expected to grow from 14% of overall Wi-Fi hotspots today to 72% by 2018, according to research from Real...
An analysis of consumer reviews shows that only one of the top U.S. carriers made last week's list of the most popular places to buy a smartphone. Verizon Wireless made the top five for the last week in November, according to data from Argus Insights,...
As consumer demand for in-build wireless data capacity continues to grow, owners of properties like arenas and convention centers are working to deploy solutions that include distributed antenna systems.
For fans of the Arizona Coyotes National Hockey League team, ownership of the Gila River Arena...
Telenor and TeliaSonera team up to take on Denmark
Telenor and TeliaSonera announced plans to merge their operations in Denmark. If the merger proceeds, both companies will hold a 50% stake in the venture. The deal would result in the combined operations controlling 40% market share.
Last...
Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA for RCR Wireless News, has spent her entire career the telecom, IT and security. Having experience at an operator, software and hardware vendors and as a well-known industry analyst, she has many opinions on the market. She’ll be...
SK Telecom raided
State prosecutors and the government descended on SK Telecom headquarters Tuesday. Agents raided the company's headquarters in Seoul, seizing computer hard drives and documents related to the health care division of the company. The investigation is into whether SK Telecom illegally collected its...
Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA for RCR Wireless News, has spent her entire career in the telecom, IT and security industries. Having experience as an operator, software and hardware vendor and a well-known industry analyst, she has many opinions on the market. She’ll...
An Arizona-based company is working with major wireless infrastructure player Crown Castle to strengthen three Southern California towers using an innovative new product.
QuakeWrap Inc. founder Mo Ehsani, professor emeritus of civil engineering at the University of Arizona, told RCR Wireless News that one of...
