Tammy Parker
Monica Paolini
Peter Jarich
MaravedisSDN: Ericsson, Huawei and others consider virtualizing the mobile network
The concept of software-defined networks (SDN) was all the rage at Mobile World Congress earlier this year in Barcelona, Spain, but efforts to virtualize the mobile network remain in a very nascent stage. Nonetheless, progress is coming fast and furious as customers increasingly push operators to find methods to open bandwidth or deploy applications on the fly.FierceWireless' Spectrum auction guide
FierceWireless developed a primer for the upcoming auctions, including which companies might bid, estimates of how much money each auction could raise and why the airwaves are important.Network equipment vendors rake in service revenues
The evolving mobile landscape, in which communications service providers find themselves wrestling with falling voice and text revenues as they compete with over-the-top competitors on the data services front, is having a direct impact on major network infrastructure vendors as well.
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Arthur D. Little: What can 4G LTE do for business?
By Joseph Place
While a lot has been written about the technical benefits of 4G LTE, and its applications from a B2C perspective, no one has taken a structured look at the impact that LTE could have on businesses.
Editor's Corner
Apple's iOS 7 proves it's a Wi-Fi world
By Tammy Parker
One need only look at features included in the souped-up iOS 7 announced at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference to see that Wi-Fi has truly become the cellular industry's BFF.
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Google contends Project Loon, balloon-powered broadband, is crazy enough to work
Google rumored for at least five years to be eyeballing ways to deliver low-cost Internet access via balloons, confirmed in a blog post that it has launched Project Loon to bring airborne broadband service to rural and remote areas.
Accedian's SkyLight aims to optimize mobile backhaul
Accedian Networks announced SkyLight, which it claims delivers performance assurance on multivendor heterogeneous mobile backhaul networks by leveraging software-defined networking (SDN) and self-organizing/optimizing network (SON) technologies.
GSMA: Every new car will be a 'connected car' in 2025
More than 50 percent of new cars sold during 2015 will offer wireless connectivity either by embedded, tethered or smartphone integration, and that percentage will grow to include all or nearly all new cars sold in 2025, according to a report issued by the GSMA and conducted by research firm SBD.
GM offering LTE in most 2015 vehicles; EU mandates eCall
As U.S. automaker General Motors gears up to make passenger vehicles a chief tech platform, the European Union is simultaneously moving to require all new cars sold there to be fitted with a wireless emergency calling device.
AT&T, Verizon and others refine their wireless backhaul strategies
The top four ILECs-- AT&T, Verizon Communications, CenturyLink and Windstream--are taking different approaches to the wireless backhaul opportunity despite being the natural purveyors of fiber to the tower (FTTT) services for wireless operators offering 3G and LTE services.
Broadcom unleashes entry-level Android processor with HSPA+, 802.11ac and NFC
Broadcom unveiled its newest platform for entry-level smartphones and also announced a milestone-reaching series of multicore processors suited for LTE and LTE-Advanced networks.
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