A quick excerpt from a panel session at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, courtesy of José María Álvarez-Pallete, chairman and chief executive at Telefónica, who directly and powerfully addressed the elephant in the elite Alpine conference rooms: that unfettered digital change...
As a counterpoint to the drive towards lights-out industrial automation, and its own role in it as supplier of sundry Industry 4.0 componentry – including, as of last week, private 5G pyrotechnics and an expanded IoT arsenal – Amazon Web Services (AWS) is taking...
The World Economic Forum has zeroed-in on skills and training as it seeks to put the world right in Davos this week. It has launched a programmer, Reskilling Revolution, to provide one billion people with better education, skills and jobs in the face of...
The gig economy is defined as a labor market characterized by a prevalence of short-term contract and free lance work as opposed to permanent jobs.
Of course, there has been a gig economy for as long as people have decided to trade skills for salt!...
Artificial intelligence (AI) will create more jobs than its takes away, as well as bringing new efficiencies and profit making to enterprises. This is the conclusion of new research into the impact of AI on the global workforce, as well as the prevailing opinion...
Artificial intelligence (AI) will boost jobs during the next two decades, except in manufacturing, transport and city administration. New research finds digital factories, intelligent mobility and smart cities will cause massive disruption in the period to 2037 with as many as one in four...
Automation technologies are creating more jobs than they are destroying in Germany, according to a new report by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW).
Recent investments in digital technologies, including standard automation techniques like analytics and artificial intelligence (AI), have seen a one per...
AT&T agreements will be submitted to union wireline workers for a vote; wireless workers still fighting
AT&T and the Communications Workers of America said they have reached a tentative four-year settlement that covers more than 17,000 wireline workers in California and Nevada. CWA said the...
Michael Dell, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Tim Cook and others pen letter to Texas governor weighing in implications of immigration enforcement efforts
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Republican state lawmakers are taking a tough stance on immigration. Earlier this month, Abbott signed a law allowing police...
Wireless and security led Cisco revenues in Q3 2017
Networking vendor Cisco reported its quarterly financial results this week, showing revenue down for the quarter with an outlook of further declines. To help save money, the company will cut 1,100 jobs.
This latest round of cuts...
Cognizant is in the business of helping companies automate their operations, a process which can lead to job cuts and/or create opportunities for new kinds of work. Now Cognizant itself is reportedly cutting jobs as some IT work previously done by humans is performed...
Sprint unveiled its spectrum-infused LTE Plus service in NYC and other markets, while Verizon wireline workers begin strike … 1 year ago this week.
Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate...
T-Mobile US may have to dissolve its employee representative group, T-Voice, after a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled T-Voice violates a 1935 law prohibiting company controlled labor unions.
T-Voice is not the real voice of the T-Mobile US workforce, according to members of T-Mobile...
Vestberg set to head Verizon Network and Technology division, with focus on carrier efforts on Wi-Fi, fiber, 4G and 5G technologies.
Verizon Communications announced an operations restructuring focused on a trio of business segments, with former Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg tapped to head...
Approximately 17,000 CWA members protested last week at AT&T locations across California and Nevada, which resulted in a quick settlement on worker claims.
AT&T last week quickly reached an agreement with approximately 17,000 workers represented by the Communications Workers of Americas...
Nokia set to split Global Services business from its Mobile Networks division and redraw executive responsibilities beginning April 1.
Nokia is set for a major reshuffling of business operations, announcing plans to break its Mobile Networks business into a pair of separate operating...
The telecommunications market is ripe to take advantage of new workforce opportunities provided by the gig economy.
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Intel CEO Brian Krzanich held a press conference in the Oval Office to announce the company's plan to invest $7 billion in its Fab 42 factory in Chandler, Arizona. Krzanich said Fab 42 will employ about 3,000 people in new, high-tech, high-paying jobs, while...
Eight multibillion dollar mergers announced within two years
Automation is expected to bring big productivity gains to the U.S. economy, but it is also likely to eliminate quality jobs as machines take on more of the work done by humans. The industry driving automation is...
Enterprises will be required to adjust operations in order to account for growing use and demand by an increasingly mobile workforce.
Editor’s Note: With 2017 now upon us, RCR Wireless News has gathered predictions from across the mobile telecommunications space on...
Huawei surges; FCC moves on USF and 5G leadership, while scoring open internet victory; and Sprint pockets cash.
Editor’s Note: Before we turn the page on 2016, we thought we would take a look back at the past 12 months by highlighting...
Ericsson said it was on track to slash a portion of total jobs cuts as part of massive reorganization, with associated costs pulled into 2016 results.
Ericsson has moved on eliminating more than half of the 3,000 jobs it said was necessary...
Sprint and T-Mobile both saw their stock prices surge following commitment from Sprint and SoftBank Chairman Son for $50B, 50,000 job investment.
SoftBank Chairman Masayoshi Son, who also holds the same title at subsidiary Sprint, said the Japan-based telecom giant plans to invest $50...
IDC reports India's cloud computing market will grow at a 26% CAGR through 2020.
San Francisco-based cloud computing firm Salesforce.com and its partners are looking to to drive nearly 500,000 jobs in the Indian market by 2020, India press reported.
The reports note that...
