Carriers

Presidential candidate Rand Paul blocks Senate reauthorization WASHINGTON – Despite support from both parties, federal collection of phone metadata has lapsed due in large part to efforts of Sen. Rand …

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WebRTC-based white-label voice, video, messaging platform core to Fring Alliance plans ORLANDO, Fla. – One of the biggest challenges facing telecom operators are over-the-top services that compete against what the …

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Carriers must reinvent to keep competitive edge We all focus on the details about growing our business, stomping on our competition and winning going forward. However, we don’t often stop, pull …

Carrier wants feds to limit spectrum auction bidding credit for designated entities WASHINGTON – Carrier AT&T has asked the Federal Communications Commission to impose strict guidelines on the 2016 spectrum …

Sprint is owned by Japanese SoftBank, which has global ambitions The CEO of Sprint on Monday traveled to Japan to meet with higher-ups from parent company SoftBank Corp., which is …

Court ruled against NSA’s data collection program; case singles out Verizon Last week a federal appeals court decided that collection of mobile phone data by the National Security Agency is …

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Angela Hawkins of Chesapeake, Va., has sued Verizon Communications alleging a customer service rep got “aggressive,” causing her to have a heart attack; she wants $2 million in damages, according …

Boingo VP: Carrier Wi-Fi offload important to future network experience U.K.-based research firm Infonetics Research reports that carrier spending on Wi-Fi equipment grew 23% in the second half of 2014 …

Employee suing AT&T and brass for racial discrimination AT&T fired Aaron Slator, former president of content and ad sales, for allegedly sending a racist text message that casts African-Americans in …

NTT DoCoMo looks to Premium 4G offering Japanese mobile telephony operator NTT DoCoMo said it expects to invest a total of $5.3 billion during its fiscal year 2015, ending March 31, …

Reps attend annual meeting for execs and shareholders As some 17,500 unionized employees continue into the second week of work under an expired contract, union reps pressed AT&T higher-ups to …

CCA wants to ensure smaller carriers have access to spectrum resources WASHINGTON – The Competitive Carriers Association this week called on the Federal Communications Commission to go ahead with a …

A closer look at Wi-Fi’s evolving technology and services Once viewed as a threat to mobile operators’ valuable 3G and 4G services, Wi-Fi (family of technologies under the IEEE 802.11 …

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A network failure this week left Vodafone New Zealand customers on both the north and south islands without voice, text and data services for several hours, impacting those trying to …

Sprint rolling out housecalls, selling against AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile US Sprint really wants your business. The carrier is trying to beat out its closest rival T-Mobile US while gaining ground …

Sprint and T-Mobile US could be carrier partners for Google service Google’s plans to enter the mobile network operator space may be taking shape with a leaked app called Tycho …

AT&T looks to gain full Apache Project status for automated policy code AT&T continues to push its software focus, announcing this week that it has released software into an Apache …

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Standard General and Sprint acquire RadioShack in bankruptcy auction General Wireless has received federal court approval to take over 1,743 RadioShack stores after the struggling retailer declared bankruptcy in February. …

New Alcatel-Lucent optical transport platforms for deployment in dense metros In the race to keep up with growing demand for data from enterprises and individuals, Alcatel-Lucent has created new optical …

They say “communications is a close-knit industry” and I think that’s a pretty accurate description after taking the 08.40 FGC train from Plaça d’Espanya to the Fira Gran Via – …