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Tag: Carrier Evolution
CCA to Cast a Wider Net with New Mobile Carriers Show
The Competitive Carriers Association has big goals for the new conference to be known as the Mobile Carriers Show that it plans to hold in Nashville in April 2016. “We hope we will be able…
LoRaWAN Wireless Technology Targets M2M, Telecom Providers
IBM hopes telecom service providers will be a key market for a new wireless communications technology designed specifically for machine-to-machine communications, said Thorsten Kramp, master inventor for IBM Research, in an email to Telecompetitor. The…
AT&T Differentiates Connected Car and Home Control Offerings with Linked Service
The ability to control home security and control systems from a “connected car,” announced today, could further differentiate AT&T’s strategy in both the connected car and the home security and control markets. AT&T’s connected car…
AT&T and Microsoft Partner on Cloud-Based Mobile Workplace
BARCELONA – March 2, 2015 – AT&T and Microsoft Corp. are making it easier than ever for small and midsized businesses to collaborate by voice, video and web from virtually any mobile device. The new…
Big Carriers Will Want Small Ones to Support VoLTE Roaming
As the nation’s largest wireless service providers roll out VoLTE, they’re looking for ubiquitous coverage – and that presents both opportunities and challenges for the nation’s smaller rural wireless operators that rely on roaming agreements…
AT&T and SDN: Bandwidth on Demand Launched in Six Cities
The hype about software defined networking (SDN) may have simmered down in recent months – but that doesn’t mean service providers have lost interest, as an announcement from AT&T yesterday illustrates. The company said its…
New Net Neutrality Rules Adopted by FCC, New Broadband Rules Result
The Federal Communications Commission sought to put a human face on Net Neutrality at today’s monthly meeting, where the commission adopted an order re-imposing Net Neutrality rules and reclassifying both mobile and landline broadband as…
With the fring Alliance, Genband Hopes to Empower Carriers to Play in OTT World
Over-the-Top (OTT) services like Skype, Viber, WhatsApp and others have long ridden communications service providers’ (CSPs) networks to reach end consumers with interactive communications applications. In so doing, they have cut into CSPs’ profits by…
Business IoT Connections Forecast to Quadruple by 2020
Social and political factors are coalescing with technological advances to accelerate enterprises making use of “Internet of Things” (IoT) technology. Though usage is low on an absolute basis, the declining costs of IoT components, such…
Some Operators Deploying NFV and VoLTE in Unison
Wireless operators are getting serious about deploying voice over LTE (VoLTE) and network function virtualization (NFV), as a couple of new announcements illustrate. Perhaps not surprisingly, VoLTE looks to be where NFV initially may take…
Minnesota Gains 10-Gigabit Broadband for Schools from Telco Group
Schools throughout a large part of northwestern Minnesota will be getting 10 gigabit broadband as the result of a cooperative effort between a school district consortium and a consortium of 18 small local telecom service…
FairPoint, Unions Reach Tentative Agreement
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — FairPoint Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: FRP); System Council T-9 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (AFL-CIO) Locals 2320, 2326, and 2327; and the Communications Workers of America (AFL-CIO) Local…