GSMA puts embedded SIM development on hold, pending DOJ inquiry
The Department is Justice is examining whether AT&T and Verizon worked together to use GSMA-facilitated standards to hinder U.S. consumers' ability to take full advantage of embedded SIM technology, which makes it easier for wireless...
In a lofty shared workspace in San Francisco, more than 200 developers and public safety officials recently gathered to work on developing new applications first responders. It was the first official hackathon for FirstNet, which seeks to support a comprehensive ecosystem of relevant applications...
Contracts covering about 14,000 wireline employees at AT&T Midwest and AT&T Legacy T expired over the weekend, with workers remaining on the job as negotiations continue.
That figure represents about five percent of AT&T's workforce, according to the carrier. AT&T Midwest includes workers in Illinois,...
5G trial in Waco will give way to commercial service this year
Ahead of a planned commercial 5G service launch later this year, AT&T is continuing trial activities around the country, including in Waco, Texas, where the carrier has deployed 5G-backed Wi-Fi for Magnolia Market...
Edge computing essential to supporting 5G use cases
For business and consumers, new use cases and applications dependent on low-latency network connectivity are driving computing power to the edge of the network. For AT&T, edge computing is a key part of supporting new technologies, including...
Unlicensed networks, mostly based on LoRa and Sigfox, make up two-thirds of low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks today, according to a study of 100 LPWA networks by IoT research firm ON World. A third of the total network deployments are geared towards smart city applications,...
Linux Foundation launches DANOS project
The Linux Foundation recently introduced the Disaggregated Network Operating System (DANOS) project, with a code release slated for the second half of this year.
DANOS is based upon AT&T’s "dNOS" software framework, which the company first unveiled last year. It was...
Competition for public safety customers continues to heat up, with AT&T launching its network core for the First Responders Network Authority -- and Verizon responding with the general availability of its own public safety network core.
FirstNet said that AT&T has launched the core and...
Six years ago, T-Mobile US was crashing and burning. It was the worst performer in all of wireless. In order to survive, they needed the right kind of new leadership with big ideas. So, they hired John Legere as CEO. He studied the wireless...
Federal attorneys say combined AT&T and Time Warner will hurt competition, consumers
Opening arguments were set to begin this morning after a one-day weather delay in the U.S. Department of Justice's bid to block AT&T's proposed $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner. Attorneys for the...
All four carriers have finished up their earnings calls, and Compass Intelligence just completed the final assessment of Q4 2017 and the entire 2017 analysis. In addition, Compass Intelligence evaluated the comparisons to previous quarters and year ending 2016 to 2017 in terms of...
Wide range of partners collaborated on Wi-Fi deployment for Mobile World Congress
Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is the premiere event for telecom industry professionals. As such, the more than 100,000 people who descend on the Catalan capital each year have relatively high expectations related...
ONF announces new open source Stratum project
The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) announced a new project, dubbed Stratum, with the aim of implementing a reference platform for a software-defined data plane based on white-box switches. To jump-start the project, Google is open sourcing the first...
AT&T moving from testing to deploying OpenROADMs
Having achieved optical interoperability between equipment made by different vendors, AT&T is moving forward with plans to scale Open Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer (ROADM) deployments using multiple vendors and an optical SDN controller integrated into ECOMP.
ROADMs are switches...
ORLANDO, Fla.--The battle over public safety wireless customers has been joined. At this year's International Wireless Communications Expo, Verizon defended its position as the market leader in providing service to first responders, while AT&T and partner FirstNet touted the potential and innovation that they...
AT&T plans to add Band 14 to one-third of its cell sites this year
ORLANDO, Fla.--One year into the public-private partnership between AT&T and the First Responders Network Authority, the focus has significantly shifted from the years-long planning and outreach process gathering support for state...
In a keynote presentation this week at the Deutsche Bank 2018 Media, Telecom and Business Services Conference, AT&T SVP and CFO John Stephens likened the carrier's build out of FirstNet to building a house and leaving room to add 5G.
Stephens said the unanimous opt-in...
Drones in the telecom industry
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, are often characterized as toys or weapons, but they are also seen as maintenance tools among telecom operators. In a global report on the commercial applications of drone technology, PwC estimates the addressable market...
Ronan Dunne highlights experiential side of Verizon 5G fixed wireless offering
Ronan Dunne, Verizon Group EVP and President of Verizon Wireless, has a clear message relative to the carrier's 5G position. "To be really, really clear, I'm not building a PR network. I'm building a...
ORLANDO, Fla.--FirstNet CEO Mike Poth missed last year's International Wireless Communications Expo because the First Responders Network Authority's 25-year contract with AT&T for a national public safety broadband network was in the process of initial execution. This year, he was on-stage giving a keynote...
T-Mo plans 5G deployments, 25K LAA small cells
T-Mobile US laid out plans to start building out 5G and "5G-ready" capabilities in 30 markets this year, pinning its 5G strategy on mobile, smartphone-based 5G services once devices are available in 2019.
T-Mobile US said that it "plans...
Glenn Lurie, the former president of AT&T Mobility, reckons smart cities are the single most promising new market for network operators.
Lurie, now chief executive at US-based software provider Synchronoss Technologies, told Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona that network operators should reverse the decline in...
VP of RAN and Device Design discusses 2018 5G market launches
BARCELONA—“We’ve got 12 cities we’ve committed to this year. My priority in ’18 is to get those 12 markets launched. That is absolutely our number one focus and priority.” That was the message at...
AT&T is looking to integrate Cisco’s Kinetic for Cities platform into a number of its own city-focused solutions, notably its Smart Cities Operations Center (SCOC) proposition, which collects data from multiple departments and services in a centralized dashboard.
Cisco’s Kinetic for Cities is a...
