NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile operator, is building a fleet of truck-based LTE base stations that can be deployed during natural disasters or to support large crowds. The company said the trucks will provide mobile coverage that ...
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The prelude to 2013's 4G battle has intensified as mobile operator Three UK has announced that it has gained almost a million customers in the past year. In its annual financial report, Three said that it had added 900,000 new customers ...
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Fujitsu has paid $1.2 billion into its pension funds for current and former U.K. employees, and renegotiated cuts to ongoing pension contributions, freeing up cash to grow other areas of its U.K. business, the company said Monday. The ...
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The merger between T-Mobile USA and MetroPCS moved one step closer to completion on Tuesday as the FCC approved the deal without conditions In what may be a hopeful sign for backers of the deal, the agency's review didn't even rise to ...
Some of the smallest mobile operators in the U.S. have lined up behind a deal that would dramatically expand the country's fourth-largest carrier, a twist that has everything to do with the national dominance of AT&T and Verizon Wireless. ...
Tags: Computer Products, software, IT service
There has to be a sea change in how mobile operators build their networks and implement new services, and virtualization will make it possible, carriers and equipment vendors say. Executives from established companies on both sides of the ...
Cisco Systems' acquisition of network optimization vendor Intucell closed just three days before the start of this week's Mobile World Congress, great timing for a deal that is likely to play a big role in Cisco's mobile future. Intucell ...
Tags: Cisco Systems, acquisition, mobile
Telecom carriers continue to complain about taxes, regulation and over-the-top competition, but Mozilla's Firefox operating system provides a glimmer of hope to some executives speaking at the opening of Mobile World Congress. Mobile ...
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Mobile phone operators will make more revenue from data use than voice calls by 2018, according to a new report from mobile operator body GSMA. The report comes as Mobile World Congress (MWC), The GSMA's annual mobile device convention, ...
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Ericsson and SAP have signed an agreement to jointly market and sell cloud-based M2M solutions and services to enterprises via operators around the globe, Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg announced at Mobile World Congress today. The solutions ...
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NTT Communications, the IT arm of Japan's main telecommunications operator, is aggressively expanding its data center operations outside the country as part of a push to offer its cloud-hosting services worldwide. The company has opened ...
Communications regulator Ofcom has raised 2.34bn Euro in the much delayed 4G spectrum auction, more than £1bn less than the Office for Budget for Responsibility (OBR) had forecast. EE already holds 4G spectrum and is currently the ...
EE, the UK's first mobile network to launch 4G, has revealed that it has made a loss before tax of £249m in 2012. The loss is more than double the £113m it lost in 2011, while its annual revenue also reduced by 1.9 per cent ...
Tags: mobile network, Telecom, EE 4G
EE, the UK's most advanced digital communications company, today announced that 4G will be switched on in a further 27 towns across the country by June 2013, expanding superfast coverage to more than 65 UK towns and cities in total. The ...
Tags: EE, digital communications, 4G
The administrators of reseller and integrator 2e2, which looks sure to enter liquidation, have sold off its managed services business to O2 in a move that will see 107 employees move over to the mobile operator. O2, which worked with 2e2 ...
Tags: liquidation, 2e2, mobile operator