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 wireless carriers Deutsche Telekom, Verizon Wireless, AT&T, BT and Smart heard five-minute presentations from companies...
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 harvesting software and small-cell solutions to boost wireless carrier data capacity.
The normally off-the-record pitch...
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In early August, President Barak Obama signed into law a bill known as the “Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition...
LTE has been quietly growing in the Middle East. The lack of big announcements and headlines does not mean there's been a lack of deployments — at least in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries.
Every single carrier in the GCC, which is made up of...
The European Union appears to be taking a couple of regulatory steps that will please Europe's biggest carriers.
First, EU member states voted this week to deregulate the voice market, according to Reuters. The measure would remove caps on the amount large carriers can charge smaller...
Netflix is making a splash in Europe with red carpet parties and announcements with major carriers in France and Germany. The streaming video service started its European rollout with a party at a Paris night club on Monday followed by a bash in Berlin on Tuesday at...
Competition in the U.K. telecom market is so fierce that prices changed 1,800 times in one week, according to a recent Sparks Market Intelligence report. The study conducted by ForNova found an increase of 25% in the number of unique offers from January to...
Despite significant regulatory and economic challenges in Africa, several carriers are pushing ahead with LTE deployments and finding ways to reach customers eager for the high-speed mobile technology.
In Africa, only 26 operators have commercially launched LTE in just 12 of Africa's 54 countries. The...
All European Union countries should make the coveted 700 MHz band available for mobile broadband use by 2020, plus or minus two years, according to a recent report presented to the European Commission.
The report concerns the "ultra-high frequency" spectrum band between 470 MHz and...
European carriers seem to be emphasizing the “Long” in "Long Term Evolution" technology. While the region is home to some of the world's biggest economies, it continues to trail other developed markets in adopting LTE-based high-speed mobile technology, often referred to as 4G.
In South...
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A silver lining
Telecom layoffs have climbed above 175,000...
Amsterdam-based Vimpelcom reported an 83% drop in profits for its second quarter. The group's recent debt refinancing of its Wind unit in Italy is partly to blame, but CEO Jo Lunder remained optimistic about Vimpelcom's operations in the country, saying that it continued “to outperform competitors in a weak...
EMEA in Perspective is a Monday column focused on the identification of regional trends and outcomes of the prior week’s news. Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and Security. Having experience at an operator, software and...
The Canadian government is looking to maintain a fresh supply of spectrum for that country’s mobile industry as well as attempting to encourage new entrants, announcing this week plans to conduct an auction of licenses in the 1.7/2.1 GHz band next year.
Industry Canada said...
One of the hidden fees that impact the prices paid by wireless carriers to each other, and in turn what they charge consumers, are termination fees, or basically what an operator that has to connect a call to a customer charges the carrier from...
Today end users purchase a wireless solution that has separate categories for voice and data usage. And depending on where you are in the world SMS and MMS packages. Avvasi believes the time has come for a separate video usage package and I think...
In May 2013, an obscure, simple little app called “Flappy Bird” appeared in Apple’s App Store and the Google Play Store. There was no marketing, no fancy advertising
Hardly a day goes by without an announcement of a new partnership between an operator and an over-the-top provider. OTT partnering has become a key strategic initiative,
Over the last several years we’ve seen the world’s largest cellular carriers obtain a “cold war” mentality, investing millions in both network build out and customer support infrastructure
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Police have used data culled from cell towers for a while now to help in solving crimes, and it has largely been ignored by the general...
Customer migrations are a fundamental reality for the telecoms industry. Well executed transitions are seen as non-events, but poorly-executed transitions can trigger
Reacting to recent reports that the Federal Communications Commission was looking at limiting auction participation by larger operators, AT&T threatened to possibly sit out the FCC’s planned 600 MHz incentive auction, which could lead to lower overall auction revenues.
In a filing with the FCC,...
With the help of investment firm Blackstone, Telefónica is launching Axonix, a mobile advertising exchange platform, which it claims is the first owned by a telecom company. The Axonix venture is set to resurrect the technology of the ad exchange MobClix, which went bankrupt last...