AT&T calmly and steadily growing, as it awaits LTE and T-Mobile approval
AT&T's Q2 results were solid, if tame. With its spotlight off the iPhone, the carrier seems be treading in anticipation of exciting waves: its LTE rollout and the approval of its proposed T-Mobile acquisition....
Taqua acquires Tatara Systems to ride IP wave into femto, wireless
Deal and technology focused on offloading signaling from both current generation and 4G wireless networks via IP and SIP. The goal: to help mobile operators maximize those networks while building a service bridge between the two worlds....
Adtran access momentum illustrates multi-service trend
The vendor shares deployment details for its access platform. Most interesting – and driving those carrier deployments – is the need to support multiple revenue-generating services from a single box and across a mix of physical plant...
T-Mobile Value plans offer savings for customers and their carrier
T-Mobile's unique new Value plan lets customers sign up with their old phone. It saves customers some cash--and T-Mobile from footing the subsidy ...
Are energy/smart grid providers ready for telecom-style billing?
The move to smart grids isn’t only a network challenge – energy providers need to reinvent how they create services and bill customers, including shifting meter reading from once-per-month to once-every-fifteen-minutes, says billing vendor Orga Systems...
GSMA Report: Mobile money deployments set to double
Opportunities are particularly huge for reaching the ‘unbanked’ – users in emerging markets who don’t have access to traditional financial institutions. Notable: mobile phone accounts (3 billion) today outnumber bank accounts (1 billion) by three to one....
Wyoming Department of Transportation uses Ethernet over copper to support traffic control system
Equipment from Actelis supports real-time multipoint communications, offers diagnostic capabilities...
Sprint, Amex involved in still another mobile payment option
Select Sprint Android users will soon been able to make payments via Amex's Serve app-- which is at least the second mobile payment venture for each ...
Cloud-based call center provider is key to rural Tennessee workers
Broadband connectivity and new training program are critical to creating LiveOps jobs in depressed area...
Analysis: Data roaming 'walls' are coming down -- but not everyone is happy
The current mobile data roaming paradigm is an artificial construct at best -- and terribly costly for mobile users. Governments are tearing it down, but the industry should do it first – it’s in their best interest, whether they believe it or not. ...
Cisco layoff numbers high, but not as high as rumored
Reports last week had job cuts reaching as high as 10,000; Cisco today confirms 6500 plus another 5000 from set-top plant sell-off...
Analysis: Sorting out the LightSquared GPS interference mess
Both LightSquared and the GPS industry are hunkering down and honing their arguments for and against LTE in the satellite bands. In this definitive look at the issue, we address the central question: Who's right? ...
Analysis: M2M -- huge, diverse and complex. But where is the money?
The 'Internet of things' may feature billions of connections -- but finding the real business opportunities may be a challenge....
FCC considers new 9-1-1 requirements for VoIP providers
Requirements could require the cooperation of traditional communications service providers, may have synergies with new mandates involving wireless E-9-1-1 accuracy...
Infonetics: Policy knits together billing, OSS
In the process, successful policy management can also turn network problems into opportunities...
Patent ruling against HTC may be a blow to entire Android ecosystem
HTC, along with all Android smartphone makers, may need to pay Apple royalties for patents--a situation that could have wide repercussions...
CenturyLink to conduct 'cloud' business under Savvis name
Service provider closes deal, expects to generate more than half its revenue from business customers ...
Internet 2 and Berkeley Lab to build 100 Gb/s network for the Department of Energy
Stimulus-funded project will support advanced research on green energy and new energy sources, as well as climate modeling...
Tablet sales flat; can operators help with better data sharing plans or subsidies?
WiFi-only tablets are seeing far brisker sales than their 3G/4G counterparts. Are shared data plans, higher tablet subsidies — or both — necessary for increasing sales?...
Q&A: Subex offers insights into the battle against mobile money fraud
Mobile money offers a huge target for criminals--3 billion phones accessing 1 billion bank accounts. What's a mobile operator to do? ...
< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 424 425 426 427 428 429 430 431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 439 440 441 442 443 444 445 446 447 448 449 450 451 452 453 454 455 456 457 458 459 460 461 462 463 464 465 466 467 468 469 470 471 472 473 474 475 476 477 478 479 480 481 482 483 484 485 486 487 488 >
