AT&T agreements will be submitted to union wireline workers for a vote; wireless workers still fighting
AT&T and the Communications Workers of America said they have reached a tentative four-year settlement that covers more than 17,000 wireline workers in California and Nevada. CWA said the...
AT&T will deliver state plans later this month
The First Responders Network Authority and AT&T, the contractor for FirstNet's national network, expect to deliver individual state plans for public safety coverage this month.
The targeted date for the plans is June 19, and all of...
The challenge of improving connectivity for the enterprise involves multiple stakeholders: building owners, tenants, equipment suppliers, integrators, infrastructure providers and of course wireless carriers. Successful solutions are those that can deliver a better experience for the end user and a positive ROI for the...
Tentative agreement covers about half of employees involved in recent strike
AT&T has reached a tentative agreement on the terms of a new contract with the Communications Workers of America union. The agreement covers more than 17,000 workers working for AT&T's Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell in...
AT&T to pick up Vyatta assets from Brocade
AT&T is picking up Brocade's Vyatta network operating system and software solutions amid the sale of Brocade to Broadcom, to further its network virtualization efforts as well as its product offerings.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed....
AT&T sees the Title II ruling as very "narrow"
Contrary to most expectations of what the so-called "net neutrality" rules permit Internet service providers to do or not do in terms of prioritizing or blocking content, an AT&T executive said that court intepretations of Title...
Shephard's Beach Resort in Clearwater Beach, Florida has deployed a small cell system that supports all four nationwide operators. Each operator has provisioned its own small cells and the nodes share Ethernet backhaul. The system was designed by ClearSky Technologies, which now hopes to...
The rumor mill is working hard. The question is, will Sprint and T-Mobile U.S. finally get together and merge? No one knows. Not even Sprint and T-Mobile. First, they have to decide yes or no. If yes, then the U.S. government has to approve...
Red Bull has extended its partnership with AT&T and will connect up to 1 million coolers to the AT&T network. Each time a customer opens and closes the door of a connected cooler, an embedded monitor will collect the data, which will be sent...
Red Bull has extended its partnership with AT&T and will connect up to 1 million coolers to the AT&T network. Each time a customer opens and closes the door of a connected cooler, an embedded monitor will collect the data, which will be sent...
Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories!
American Idol sets...
New business models and lower costs per gigabit are goals for wireless carriers as the industry charges toward the next generation of wireless technology. But the carriers don't all see 5G the same way, and they don't all have the same priorities.
As...
Although the U.S. is one of the largest Wi-Fi markets, international Wi-Fi is also an area of importance. According to Accuray Research, the global Wi-Fi hot spot market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of more than 16% in the...
T-Mobile US' new #getoutofthered campaign woos Verizon customers
T-Mobile US launched a new promotion today to keep Verizon on the defensive, offering Verizon customers the option to bring one of seven qualifying devices and have T-Mobile pay off the remaining balance on the device.
The qualifying...
Mobile network operators have been supporting machine-to-machine traffic for years, and as the internet of things grows, the cellular industry wants to play a central role. Verizon Wireless and AT&T have upgraded their networks to support the latest generation of LTE for IoT, and...
Sony’s Altair Semiconductor will supply modem chips for AT&T’s $7.50 Category M1 LTE modules, which the carrier announced late last week. Altair was also AT&T’s modem vendor for its Category 1 LTE modules, which were priced at $14.99.
Sony's Altair Semiconductor will supply modem chips for AT&T's $7.50 Category M1 LTE modules, which the carrier announced late last week. Altair was also an AT&T modem vendor for its Category 1 LTE modules, which were priced at $14.99.
"A&T has been a very strong...
I love it when a plan comes together
Some of us are old enough to remember the actual origins of that phrase, now an ever-popular Internet meme. In one of the most famous lines from the mid-1980’s television show, “The A-Team”, starring “Dancing with the...
Two days after Sprint shared its IoT network plans, AT&T said it has launched its Category M1 LTE network ahead of schedule. The carrier said it was able to deploy the technology throughout its network via software updates. AT&T had previously said it would...
Two days after Sprint shared its IoT network plans, AT&T said it has launched its Category M1 LTE network ahead of schedule. The carrier said it was able to deploy the technology throughout its network via software updates. AT&T had previously said it would...
Update: The strike is now underway.
AT&T is facing a weekend strike of nearly 40,000 employees, with workers threatening to walk off the job at 3 p.m. ET Friday if the company does not "present serious contract proposals," according to the Communications Workers of America.
CWA said...
As the industry gears up for "5G", the expectations continue to be high that the next generation of wireless technology will be able to solve any problem that the industry faces: much more capacity, higher speeds, much less latency, the ability to handle billions...
Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories!
RIP WMF
DENVER—The Wireless...
Sprint said it will launch a Category 1 LTE network within the next three months, and will follow up with Category M1 technology deployed throughout its network by the middle of next year. Category 1 LTE, which is part of 3GPP Release 8, caps...
