T-Mobile US touted the expansion of a call center, while the CWA asks for action
T-Mobile US continues to court controversy with its labor practices as the mobile operator announced the expansion of a call center in Alabama while at the same time the Communications...
Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
DT CEO said it’s a company ‘duty’ to seek partner for T-Mobile US
T-Mobile US parent company Deutsche Telekom continues to look for outside investors in the U.S. carrier, with DT CEO Tim Hoettges stating that despite improved performance it is open to partnerships though...
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Vodafone, the world's second-largest carrier, reported revenue gains on May 18 for the fourth quarter of its fiscal year ending March 31, 2015 – the first such growth in almost three years.
The Britian-based multinational telecom group posted quarterly service revenue of $14.87 billion up...
LTE Direct being trialed by Qualcomm; allows smartphones to directly communicate
An emerging technology being trialed by Qualcomm and carrier partners could ultimately undercut the need for new cell towers by enabling smartphones to directly communicate with other smartphones.
The issue was front and center last...
Deutsche Telekom, Europe's largest carrier by revenue, saw increasing profits in the first quarter of 2015, exceeding expectations. Revenue rose 13.1% to $18.84 billion, and adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization increased 11% to $5.16 billion, beating the $4.98 billion predicted in a...
Last week London was host to M2M World Congress. The presenters were an interesting mix of network operators, hardware and software vendors and industry analysts approaching this space from many different angles. There was smart home, smart city, connected car and retail applications in the...
U.K. operator EE, whose brand is built around LTE, announced soaring user numbers for the technology. With the release of first-quarter results for 2015, EE said that it added 1.7 million LTE connections during the quarter, with 9.3 million users now on its LTE network. The...
Ericsson, Duetsche Telekom, China Mobile and others eye the future
As carriers continue the research and development that will inform the next generation of 5G mobile networks, Deutsche Telekom recently announced its new innovation lab, the “5G haus.”
Germany-based DT has partnered with the Stanford University's...
Deutsche Telekom saw its revenue climb and losses narrow in the fourth quarter, thanks mainly to customer growth at its T-Mobile US business and mobile service revenue growth in Germany.
The German carrier’s net loss for the final three months of last year fell to €110...
Deutsche Telekom said it is planning to invest more than $6.68 billion in network expansion across Europe over the next three years. DT, Europe's largest phone company, announced that it has connected the first three of 10 countries in its planned European network: Croatia, Hungary and Slovakia....
Agreements tap into growing NFV, SDN services
Cisco Systems touted a number of telecom carrier wins connected with its virtualization and cloud services, including deals with Deutsche Telekom and Telecom Italia.
Cisco reported that DT had launched its first cloud virtual private network service targeting small...
Jibe Mobile announced the expansion of its global interconnection showcase for next week's Mobile World Congress event being held in Barcelona, Spain. Although this announcement is focused on a demonstration, the functionality behind the demonstration is the more interesting part.
Deutsche Telekom, Sprint, Vodafone and KPN...
Developing: Telenor close to buying stake in Tata Teleservices
CNBC has reported that Telenor is close to acquiring a majority stake in Tata Teleservices. Sources told CNBC that Telenor may be looking to merge its Indian subsidiary with Tata.
The sources report that Telenor CEO Fredrik Baksass...
Reports indicate pair of moves by German telecom giant
Germany's largest phone company, Deutsche Telekom, is looking to sell the country's most popular Internet portal, T-Online, according to newspaper reports. Company sources told Wirtschafts Woche that the giant telco is in talks to sell T-Online to the...
After looking into buying Telefonica's O2, BT announced it has entered into exclusive talks to buy mobile operator EE for $19.6 billion. If successful, the deal would combine the U.K.'s largest fixed-line provider with its largest mobile network operator.
Part of the proposed purchase includes shares in BT, so EE's...
MVNO service to target enterprise customers; launch late 2015
Story updated with small cell plans
International mobile telecommunications provider Vodafone Group announced plans to re-enter the U.S. space through its Vodafone Americas subsidiary operating as a mobile virtual network operator running across T-Mobile US’ network. The...
In the ongoing battle against cyber attacks and espionage, Deutsche Telekom's business customer unit, T-Systems, is joining with the Silicon Valley firm FireEye to offer security-as-a-service to European organizations.
According to a FireEye study, many European firms are not able to quickly respond to breaches ― the median response...
British Telecommunications in preliminary talks to buy EE
Deutsche Telekom and Orange may be considering selling consumer network EE to BT. EE is the largest mobile operator in the United Kingdom. Orange and Deutsche Telekom have previously considered whether they should list EE on the stock...
Following the BT Group's announcement that it was interested in buying Telefónica's O2, the company is now also in talks with Deutsche Telekom and Orange about acquiring their jointly owned mobile operator EE. Deutsche Telekom and Orange confirmed on Nov. 26 that they were holding discussions with BT about a...
Some of Europe's biggest carriers, including Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica, Orange and Telecom Italia, reported quarterly earnings that beat expectations, leading to renewed optimism about a market recovery in Europe.
“You have further weight to the theme that European wireless is recovering,” Guy Peddy, an analyst with Macquarie...
Even as LTE becomes more prevalent in the U.S. and Asia, LTE is far from the mainstream in the Middle East, Africa and Europe. Observers often cite cost as one of the primary reasons for its slow growth — both the cost of the...
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-- Anite announced this week that it has signed a multiyear deal with Deutsche...
