Category: Regulations

January 15, 2019

In a rare press conference with international journalists, Ren Zhengfei, Huawei’s founder and CEO, said that his company does not spy for the Chinese government and that it would not respond to improper government requests for information, according to published […]

January 7, 2019

Telecommunications carriers amend terms of services from time to time. They provide change notices to customers via postal mail, printed on an invoice, or as an electronic alert in a billing portal. Reading and understanding each terms of service change […]

January 4, 2019

In its first blog posting of the year, the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) detailed the results of its fifth SDN proof of concept trial. The proof of concept (POC) trial was hosted by Telefónica in Munich, Germany, this past November. […]

December 26, 2018

The deployment of the new 5G network presents a unique challenge to our regulatory system. Far from the 100-foot lattice towers and monopoles of 3G and 4G past, 5G capability will largely be the task of small cell deployments in […]

December 12, 2018

The Federal Communications Commission today adopted new rules to establish a reassigned numbers database that will reduce the number of unwanted phone calls Americans receive. Millions of phone numbers are reassigned each year. When a consumer gets a new phone […]

December 7, 2018

In late November, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) issued draft guidelines to help — at least a bit — entities outside the EU define their responsibilities and obligations under the EU’s General Data Protection Rule (GDPR). Since GDPR took […]

December 5, 2018

A customer’s main point of contact with an organization is often through a contact center interaction. This means that your agents are the frontline of the company — acting as the face and voice of the organization, interacting with more […]

November 16, 2018

After five rounds of bidding, the Federal Communications Commission’s auction of millimeter wave spectrum for 5G service has raised more than $62.2 million. Two more rounds of bidding are scheduled for today, after bidding in Auction 101 was temporarily suspended […]

November 14, 2018

In a previous article, ABI Research presented the complex nature of the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), a collaborative effort that brings together key stakeholders from all around the globe and several Standard Setting Organizations (SSOs), to set mobile standards […]

November 13, 2018

WASHINGTON, D.C.–There has been a great deal of debate over which country is winning, or will win, the global race to 5G. But does it matter who is first in 5G? That was one of the questions tackled during discussions […]