Wireless

AT&T is hoping that as baby boomers age they will be able to forego many of the assistive devices that their parents needed. The company is finding new opportunities to …

Alcatel-Lucent wins new router customers Alcatel-Lucent is winning share in the core router market, which has historically been dominated by Cisco, Juniper and Huawei. CenturyLink has chosen Alcatel-Lucent as its …

Printable electronics manufacturing, self-optimizing network products and an end-to-end video processing platform were highlights of a fast-pitch session with wireless carriers at the Telecom Council Carrier Connections conference. Reps from …

Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry is the largest science museum in the Western hemisphere, with more than 35,000 artifacts. It is the only building that remains from the 1893 …

New technology solutions presented during fast-pitch sessions at the recent Telecom Council Carrier Connections conference in Mountain View, Calif., ran the gamut from a voice-activated personal assistant to embedded data …

A new white paper produced by UK-based Juniper Research projects wireless carriers will lose a staggering $14 billion in the next year as consumers give voice and message business to …

Amid a solid third quarter, Yahoo for the first time reported “material” contributions from mobile to its overall business, to the tune of $200 million for the period. Mobile is still a relatively small part of …

Verizon Communications told investors this week that 2015 capital expenditures probably won’t be “materially changed” from this year’s $17 billion. The suggestion that capex will be flat is in line with …

Consolidation in the wireless infrastructure services space continued this week with MasTec’s purchase of WesTower Communications. Florida-based MasTec said it paid $199 million in cash, or about .45-times projected 2014 …

If you’ve used text messages from Facebook or Google to authenticate your account information, you’ve used application-to-person messaging – and a recent survey from Mobilesquared shows that such usage is …

Today’s mobile workers are often more than willing to use personal devices to get work done, and that can mean significant savings for their employers. Not only can IT spending …

The HetNet Expo is the successor to DAS in Action, and the show stays close to its roots by focusing on distributed antenna systems more than on other heterogeneous network …

CHICAGO – AT&T’s Paula Doublin was one of the most memorable speakers at this year’s HetNet Expo. The company’s AVP for antenna solutions, DAS and small cells did not shy …

A new report from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration reflects the fact that Americans have been rapidly adopting mobile broadband use. NTIA’s report “confirms skyrocketing demand for devices that allow users …

It’s Freitag and the weekend is upon us. Each week this column will focus on light hearted musings of the wireless industry and all of the moving parts that make …

CHICAGO – Mobile subscribers usually don’t know whether they’re connected to a macro site, a distributed antenna system or even a Wi-Fi network. They just want to stay connected, everywhere …