| Alcatel-Lucent extends a green hand (or touch) to the rest of the industry
19/05/2010
The GreenTouch consortium has a lofty goal: it wants to encourage the communications industry to consume less power, but not by a factor to 2 or even 10. It aims to build future networks that are 1000 times more energy efficient than they are today. More on this Topic Industry News Blogs Briefing Room ... |
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| TM Forum: Orange France reduces congestion, revenue leakage
18/05/2010
More on this Topic Industry News Blogs Briefing Room Orange France said today that it is deploying software from vendor Openet, helping it keep mobile data users on contract while also laying the groundwork for new parental control services. Orange said... |
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| TM Forum: Broadhop delivers policy builder, smartphone hooks
18/05/2010
More on this Topic Industry News Blogs Briefing Room Policy vendor Broadhop this week delivered new tools to help service providers more easily create network and service policies, with an eye on not just managing network congestion – a policy stronghold – but building revenue-producing new... |
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| Analyst: Intellectual property shifts hands with move to 4G
18/05/2010
More on this Topic Industry News Blogs Briefing Room As the industry moved from 3G to 4G, the intellectual property among the major wireless players was supposed to shift with it, redistributing patents across a broad range of companies and institutions and easing what many viewed as... |
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| TM Forum: Telcordia pitches dynamic pricing to optimize the network
17/05/2010
More on this Topic Industry News Blogs Briefing Room Telcordia this week is showcasing new capabilities that enable operators to use pricing to modify subscriber behavior and reduce their impact on network capacity based on time-of-day or location-based parameters. ... |
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| Clearwire`s new 4G handsets may have a VoIP twist
12/05/2010
More on this Topic Industry News Blogs Briefing Room As Clearwire (NASDAQ:CLWR) gears up to offer its first WiMax handsets later this year, it finds itself in unique position among wireless operators. It has no legacy voice service or network to maintain and thus has a clean slate to offer... |
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| T-Mobile signs on 3G customers, but starts losing them in 2G
12/05/2010
More on this Topic Industry News Blogs Briefing Room As T-Mobile USA (NYSE:DT) expands its 3G footprint and smartphone portfolio, its 3G subscriber base is starting to ramp up. The smallest of the Tier I operators reported a 33% increase in 3G handset and data subscribers from the fourth to... |
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| Finding bill shock`s hidden opportunities
11/05/2010
More on this Topic Industry News Blogs Briefing Room Whenever there is a high-profile “bill shock” case that crosses the news, as a residential or enterprise customer gets hit with an unexpectedly high bill, it begs the question of whether service providers lose more in reputation than they... |
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| WeFi: Android starting to lean heavily on Wi-Fi
10/05/2010
More on this Topic Industry News Blogs Briefing Room Using Wi-Fi networks to offload smartphone data traffic has been a big goal of operators, as they see their 3G networks overloaded with application and Internet traffic. According to Wi-Fi crowd-sourcing company WeFi, the impact of Wi-Fi... |
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| FCC study estimates $23.5 billion needed to bring broadband to unserved areas
07/05/2010
More on this Topic Industry News Blogs Briefing Room Approximately 90% of the 7 million U.S. homes that are not able to get broadband connectivity could be most economically served by a fixed wireless solution, according to the results of a study presented yesterday by Federal Communications... |
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