September 24, 2020
Via: Telecom RamblingsAkamai and AT&T have renewed their business relationship again. The two have been working together since 2012, bringing Akamai’s CDN and security technology to AT&T’s customers. The combination enables both companies to focus on their own strengths while meeting the […]
September 11, 2020
Via: Telecom RamblingsIn the last roundup of the week, here are three contract wins in three different sectors, plus a bit of cloud connectivity. FirstLight has picked up a contract up in New Hampshire this week. A.J. Letizio Sales & Marketing has […]
August 14, 2020
Via: Telecom RamblingsCoreSite has a new dark fiber provider out in the Bay Area. BandwidthIG has expanded its infrastructure into the company’s Santa Clara data center campus. BandwidthIG’s metro dark fiber infrastructure in the area stretches from Mountain View through Santa Clara, […]
August 10, 2020
Via: RCR Wireless NewsGreetings again from Charlotte/ Lake Norman. Pictured is a double rainbow from July to celebrate a week of consistent market highs as well as a pretty darn good first earnings report from T-Mobile. We will analyze four key parts of […]
April 10, 2020
Via: No JitterWe start this week with a roundup of COVID-19-related offerings, and then catch up with the latest in the Zoom ecosystem, session border controller (SBC) enhancements, a revamped partner program, and SD-WAN solution updates. COVID-19 Offerings Continue to Surface As […]
April 4, 2018
Via: Fierce Telecom NewsVerizon may not have any new expansive Fios expansion plans, but where it has rolled out FTTH, Fios broadband penetration is above 40%. Matt Ellis, EVP and CFO of Verizon, told investors during the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference […]
April 3, 2018
Via: Phys.orgA federal appeals court rolled back rules intended to deter irritating telemarketing robocalls, saying they were too broad. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said that 2015 regulations from the Federal Communications Commission could wrongly classify […]
April 3, 2018
Via: RCR Wireless NewsThe number four wireless carrier, Sprint, has selected Synchronoss Technologies to lead them in their digital transformation to help prepare for growth going forward. This is the kind of thinking every company needs to have now as going digital becomes […]
April 2, 2018
Via: RCR Wireless NewsDrones in the telecom industry Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, are often characterized as toys or weapons, but they are also seen as maintenance tools among telecom operators. In a global report on the commercial applications of drone technology, […]
March 30, 2018
Via: RCR Wireless NewsFor the test industry, this year’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) came down to two major themes: 5G and the internet of things, with a little virtualization thrown in just to keep things lively. So who was doing 5G test demos […]
March 30, 2018
Via: Fierce Telecom NewsWindstream may still be a bit early in the SD-WAN and unified communications as a service (UCaaS) games, but the service provider is finding that its bets are gaining momentum with more customers migrating to these newer solutions. Bob Gunderman, […]
March 29, 2018
Via: Cell Tower and Wireless Telecommunications BlogI find it fascinating how non-technical reporters (for example An Investor’s Primer: 5G, the Internet of Things, and Augmented/Virtual Reality and 5G Wireless Will Redraw the Wireless Industry Map: Who Stands to Lose?) try to simplify 5G and explain it in […]
February 27, 2018
Via: Phys.orgThe race to bring super-fast 5G wireless services to market is heating up with the first commercial deployments of the much-anticipated technology expected at the end of the year. Talk about 5G’s potential to pave the way to a world […]
February 23, 2018
Via: Wireless EstimatorAccording to Wireless Estimator’s hiring trend data, infrastructure hiring has bounced back to ambitious and overwhelming 2013 LTE buildout levels when Verizon was racing away with its LTE expansion and AT&T was ramping up for its own 4G LTE Roll-out […]
February 12, 2018
Via: Fierce Telecom NewsFrontier admits that while it trails its larger telco counterparts CenturyLink and Verizon on the SD-WAN front, that will enable it to learn from past issues others have faced in rolling it out to businesses. What will perhaps make Frontier’s […]
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February 8, 2018
Via: Fierce Telecom NewsGoogle Fiber has named former Time Warner Cable Dinesh Jain to be the CEO of the company’s broadband-focused “Access” division, marking another rotation in its leadership revolving door. Prior to coming to Google Fiber, Dinesh served as the COO of […]
February 6, 2018
Via: Fierce Telecom NewsThe FCC determined in its 2018 Broadband Deployment Report that the overturning of the 2015 Title II order for net neutrality will help to enable large telcos and cable operators to make capital investments to enhance broadband availability, but overall, […]
February 1, 2018
Via: Fierce Telecom NewsAT&T aggressive fiber expansion effort to businesses continues to bear fruit as the service provider now reaches nearly 400,000 business buildings with its own lit fiber facilities. Because of AT&T’s aggressive build out, the service provider now covers over 1.8 […]
January 24, 2018
Via: RCR Wireless NewsThe rapid adoption of gigabit LTE on the path to 5G is one of several mega-trends shaping the way carriers plan, deploy, monitor and manage networks. The telecom industry is undergoing major transitions including the move from physical to hybrid […]
January 17, 2018
Via: Phys.orgAll across the U.S., rural communities’ residents are being left out of modern society and the 21st century economy. I’ve traveled to Kansas, Maine, Texas and other states studying internet access and use – and I hear all the time […]