Move comes on the heels of Altice MVNO agreement and major exec shuffle at Sprint Michel Combes, former CEO of cable company Altice, is set to become the new chief financial officer of Sprint effective Jan. 6, replacing Tarek Robbiati who is set to depart on Jan. 31. Sprint also said Combes will join the U.S.
5G test designed to explore inter-vendor millimeter wave system In a recent field test, T-Mobile US connected a Nokia base station with Intel’s 5G Mobile Trial
Planning standards-based mobile 5G deployment late this year AT&T on Wednesday announced its plans to deliver mobile 5G services based on the forthcoming 3GPP 5G New
T-Mo sees 600 MHz ramp-up in 2018
T-Mobile US said that it expects to launch more than a dozen smartphone models with 600 MHz support this year and that it has already
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Categories Aryaka, Cloud Computing, cloud security, Network Infrastructure, Riverbed Technology, SD-WAN, Software, Zscaler
Aryaka, Zscaler tackle cloud security with joint SD-WAN solution
Aryaka and Zscaler team up on joint SD-WAN solution Global SD-WAN provider Aryaka and cloud-based information security company Zscaler are teaming up to deliver a joint
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White House prioritizes 5G
One of the biggest questions for the U.S. wireless industry in the year ahead is how the Federal Communications Commission will allocate the 3550-3700 GHz
U.S. Cellular is aiming to improve customer experience with a new big data-based network operations approach, partnering with Nokia to utilize an “intelligent operations system”
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Categories China Mobile, Cloud Computing, cloud resource pool, Huawei, Network Infrastructure, OpenStack, SDN, Software
China Mobile adopts Huawei CloudFabric to expand resource pool
China Mobile to bring Huawei CloudFabric to OpenStack project Huawei announced it will use its CloudFabric solution to enable the development of a private cloud resource
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Categories CLEC, MassComm, Network Infrastructure, SDNow, Software, Software-defined networks (SDN), Windstream
Windstream to boost service portfolio from MassComm acquisition
Windstream announces plans to purchase MassComm Regional carrier Windstream has landed a deal to acquire New York-based Mass Communications (MassComm), according to a Federal Communications Commission
The upcoming IEEE 802.11ax High-Efficiency Wireless (HEW) standard promises to deliver four times greater data throughput per user. It relies on multiuser technologies to make
Telecom regulator TRA announced the creation of three working groups to facilitate 5G developments in the Arab country The United Arab Emirates (UAE)’s Telecommunications Regulatory Authority
SoftBank has been on a buying spree since Sprint/T-Mobile US merger talks were scrapped Based on a Friday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission,
As 3GPP ratifies NSA 5G NR specification, Ericsson doubles down on investment With $220 million from the Nordic Investment Bank and $150 million from AB Svensk
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Categories Alibaba Cloud, Alibaba Group, Amazon, Cloud Computing, Google, Microsoft, Network Infrastructure, Software
Alibaba ups cloud competition with India data center
Alibaba Cloud announces Indian data center Alibaba Cloud, a subsidiary of Alibaba Group, announced its first India data center based in the city of Mumbai is
In a New Year’s message, Huawei’s Deputy Chairman and Rotating CEO Ken Hu said that the company saw 15% year-over-year revenue growth in 2017, and