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 operator is providing to consumers – sometimes at a cheaper price – and running over...
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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 the camera back and take a longer-term historical perspective on our changing industry. So let’s...
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 auction, limiting the bidding credit for designated entities to $10 million and imposing strict build-out...
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 repositioning itself as a global business.
Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure was hired in September 2013 by...
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 illegal and not covered by provisions of the Patriot Act.
The ruling came after the American...
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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 to the lawsuit.
Hawkins reportedly called Verizon Wireless' customer service on Nov. 19 to request a...
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 to an impressive $336 million globally, when compared to the first half of 2014.
The company...
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 a pejorative light.
The incident prompted a lawsuit against Slator, AT&T and other company brass; employee...
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, 2016.
During fiscal year 2014, the operator had invested a total of $5.56 billion, down 41.4%...
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 finalize bargaining during the carrier’s annual meeting last week in Spokane, Wash.
The workers in questions...
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 planned 2016 incentive auction and allow smaller carriers to participate.
The auction is set to include...
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 protocol) is now seen as a cost-effective way of helping operators meet their customers’ insatiable...
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Ericsson, Nortel slash...
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 use 2G, 3G and LTE networks. Service was ultimately restored but the carrier has...
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 on AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless with novel rate structures and promotional activity.
Just this week, Sprint announced...
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 potentially offering insight into how a possible consumer plan would work.
Blog Android Police found the...
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 Incubator designed to allow network and IT system managers to install policies that automate access...
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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.
The U.S. Bankruptcy Court oversaw the auction that resulted in General Wireless, a subsidiary of Standard...
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 transport platforms that it said are optimized for deployment in dense metro networks.
The products were...
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 – temporary home to the massive Mobile World Congress conference. Fortunately for me, impersonating a...
The consumer obsession with Apple products is hurting American regional carriers, even though Apple is not the best device on the market.
That was a major thrust of discussion at the Competitive Carrier Association’s 2015 Global Expo this week in Atlanta. CCA is an association...
