This month marks the 20th anniversary of the first SMS text message, and while the mobile industry has been commemorating this game-changing technology, it’s just as important to note the significant role
North American operators are expected to purchase $260 million filter and tower-mounted amplifier products this year, as LTE deployments spur strong sales during the next five years, according to a new report from Mobile Experts L.L.C."The overall market size will continue to grow, despite...
SBA Communications Corp. (SBAC) and Health Care REIT Inc. (HCN) announced an agreement to make available wireless site leasing of new, prime rooftop locations in more than 15 states.Health Care REIT, Inc., an S&P 500 company with headquarters in Toledo, Ohio, is a real...
Comcast Corp.'s (CMCSK) Business Services grew a whopping 41.7% year over year to $435 million, driven by its metro Ethernet business and mobile cellular backhaul business. The cable company is planning to add 20 major markets to its metro Ethernet business in the future,...
The rhetoric continues to heat up between proponents of releasing more spectrum for mobile broadband and the concerns of the National Association of Broadcasters, which fear its members will be forced to give up that spectrum.Mobile Future, which advocates releasing more spectrum for wireless...
Google has snapped up 1000 patents from IBM ranging from those touching on web based querying to design and production of memory and microprocessing chips, and even some relating to routers and servers.The search and software giant has been trying to pick up patents...
The LTE equipment market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 81% during the next five years, according to a new study by Dell'Oro Group. The market for LTE equipment could reach $8 billion by 2015, and Dell'Oro expects picocell...
Exalt Communications announced that Will County 911 in Illinois has deployed the company's microwave backhaul systems to connect its new dispatch center, also known as public safety answering point (PSAP), in Bolingbrook, Ill. with a regional switching center approximately 13 miles away.
Two published reports claim that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is investigating communications between Twitter and Ubermedia, a company that develops applications to help users commiserate and follow each other using the online messaging service. The question at hand is whether or not...
Nokia Corp. (NOK) continues to shed business interests as it shifts its strategy on many fronts. The latest to go is the company’s operator-branded messaging business, which gave carriers in North America the opportunity to sell white label email and instant messaging services to...
PHILADELPHIA – Timing, scale and the long-term sustainability of a business and business model are key factors to betting right in the mobile broadband business, panelists agreed at RCR Wireless News' Global Mobile Broadband Tour and Conference Philadelphia. And it's good to own spectrum...
Editor's Note: The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation approved the Spectrum Act this morning, a key step in getting more spectrum into the hands of first responders. The text of the bill, including amendments, was not available at press time. Once the...
The telecommunications sector saw a 3,400 bump in jobs from April to May, but was still down 33,400 positions from a year ago, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In the wireless industry subsector, which lags a month behind in statistics, 400 more...
Tellabs Inc. (TLAB) said ChinaComm chose its SmartCore 9100 platform for its packet core network services in nine Chinese provinces, underscoring what Tellabs calls a trend in choosing an independent packet core vendor rather than an end-to-end radio access network solution.ChinaComm is deploying broadband...
DUBLIN - After more than 10 years of research, Dublin's Intune Networks is finally releasing its commercial line of products, Verisma, described by the company as “the world's first carrier-class converged switch and transport solution based on optical burst switching.”The Verisma line of products...
DUBLIN – On the heels of TM Forum, Minister for Research and Innovation, Sean Sherlock TD announced government funding to the tune of $28 million (€19.5 million) for the Centre for Telecommunications Research CTVR at Trinity College Dublin on May 26th. Minister Sherlock described...
BROOMFIELD, Colo.—The cloud is changing IT inside out as traditional thinking no longer works in a cloud environment, Paul Goth of Cloudscaping told yesterday's audience at the Glue Conference here.In the old IT environment, IT people performed immediate actions that were triggerered by performance...
TEMPE, Ariz. – Native American tribes are spread across the state of Arizona, and Mark Goldstein, president of the International Research Center in Tempe, Ariz., consults with some of the independent nations to make their lives more accessible with technology.The Hopi Nation's borders rest...
DUBLIN – An auditorium full of executives and mobile entrepreneurs came to hear Deutsche Telekom's secret to “Becoming an Agile Service Provider” in a keynote Monday at the TM Forum. As the digital economy grows exponentially, the question of exactly how communications service providers...
Dallas-based Mavenir Systems sees its future in LTE and is poised to make a product offering that it says is unique to its competitors in Voice over LTE (VoLTE) by partnering with top companies. “We build our solutions by packaging our software on industry-standard...
DALLAS – “Telecom is buzzing again,” said Windstream Communications President and CEO Jeff Gardner and Genband President and CEO Charlie Vogt during a keynote address today at the Telecommunications Industry Association's annual show, TIA2011: Inside the Network.Windstream, which was spun off from Alltel Communications...
DALLAS—The proper regulatory and tax policies need to be in place to drive the next five years of chaos in the wireless sector, AT&T Inc. CEO Randall Stephenson told the TIA 2011: Inside the Network audience this morning during a keynote speech at the...
Taqua LLC, supplier of wireline and wireless switching and backhaul solutions, introduced a new high-capacity IP peering application. The new IP peering application provides low-cost, secure, high-capacity IP peering of voice, video, and data traffic utilizing its flagship Taqua T7000 Intelligent Switching System (T7000)...
