Sprint again raises the price of its most expensive unlimited plan
Sprint again raised the price of its most expensive unlimited plan with the introduction of its new “Unlimited Premium” pricing plan.
Friday, August 31, 2018
Fitbit fights back at Apple in the smart watch market
The latest smart watch numbers from analyst firm Counterpoint reveal Apple is still the dominant player but Fitbit is giving it a run for its money.
GTT CEO Rick Calder discusses more deals and SD-WAN
With more than 30 deals in hand, GTT Technologies CEO Rick Calder isn't about to push away from the M&A table.
Google faces yet another antitrust probe, this time in the US
US Senator Orrin Hatch has written to the FTC requesting the body investigate whether it is using it dominant position in search and digital advertising to stifle the market place.
Vodafone India and Idea Cellular officially tie the knot
The merger of Vodafone India and Idea Cellular to create India’s largest MNO has finally been completed.
CenturyLink garners AWS MSP Partner status
After a nearly six-month process, CenturyLink has gained Amazon Web Services' stamp of approval by being named as a Managed Service Provider Partner.
Ciena is doing well and is only going to get better – Jefferies
Off the back of its quarterly results, investment bank Jefferies is confident business at Ciena is only going to get better.
Analysts wonder where wireless phone growth is coming from
Growth in wireless raised questions among Wall Street analysts as to exactly where all these new customers are coming from.
Amazon Pay acquires app aggregator platform Tapzo
Amazon has acquired Indian app company Tapzo in a deal to bolster its digital payments offering.
Is Serverless the Future of Open Source and Software Development?
Serverless Inc. CEO Austen Collins said that the open source community has accounted for 90 percent of contributions to the Serverless Framework.
Nutanix Sees ‘Immense’ Networking, Security Opportunities
SDxCentral spoke with Nutanix CEO Dheeraj Pandey immediately after the company’s fourth quarter fiscal 2018 earnings call. Nutanix posted revenue of $303.7 million, up from $252.5 million a year ago.
Huawei appeals to FTC to talk sense into Trump administration
Huawei has written to the FTC asking it to have a quiet word with the FCC and Congress in its bid to gain a foothold in the US telecoms industry.
T-Mobile expands connected car ambitions into prepaid
Following the launch of its own SyncUp Drive product, T-Mobile announced it will essentially extend that offering into its MetroPCS brand.
SDxCentral's Weekly Roundup — August 31, 2018
Vodafone Idea becomes the largest mobile operator in India; CenturyLink and VMware launch an IT partner program; AWS released its relational database service on VMware.
Voice over 5G NR infrastructure market to be worth $13.6B by 2023: report
Voice over New Radio infrastructure is expected to become a $13.6 billion global market by 2023, according to Mind Commerce.
Thursday, August 30, 2018
Vodafone Idea Is Born, Topples Airtel to Become India's #1 Service Provider
India's giant mobile market of more than 1 billion subscribers has a new market leader.
AT&T Picks Indy as 7th Mobile 5G City
City joins AT&T's rollout plans for Dallas, Atlanta, Waco, Charlotte, Oklahoma City and Raleigh.
California Streamin': State Gets Tough on Net Neutrality
In a 59-18 vote, California takes another step toward overturning the FCC's rollback of network neutrality rules.
McBride on Why CenturyLink Delivers 'Home-Brewed' Flavors of NFV & SDN
During his keynote at Light Reading's NFV & Carrier SDN event in Denver next month, CenturyLink's Kevin McBride plans to address real-world challenges for service providers in monetizing and scaling the deployment of SDN/NFV and cloud technologies.
WiCipedia: Power Suits & the Gig Economy Pay-Gap Surprise
This week in our WiC roundup: Diversity vs. inclusion; custom suits raise confidence; female freelances have a pay gap too; and more.
Eurobites: Deutsche Telekom Sets Out Its 5G Stall as Auction Approaches
Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: DT gets into smart-speaker game; Vodafone's Indian merger completes; MTN's Ghanaian IPO falls short.
ZTE loses another billion bucks but expects a profit in Q3
ZTE has, for some reason, decided to report earnings for the nine months ending 30 September 2018 and while they’re not good, they could be worse.
The odds that Sprint, T-Mobile will merge are improving: analysts
According to the Wall Street analysts at Macquarie Research, the odds are improving for a merger between Sprint and T-Mobile.
Marvell Nixes the Programmable Xpliant Chip It Inherited From Cavium
When Marvell acquired Cavium a couple months ago, it “had to make decisions." Marvell decided to focus all our efforts on its Prestera switching chip line.
Carriers, vendors unite for MEF18 blockchain demonstration
Blockchain will be put through its paces during an inter-carrier proof of concept by several vendors and carriers at MEF18 in October.
Colt expands availability of SDN-based services
Colt Technology Services has rolled its On Demand service into Singapore while also launching SD-WAN in Asia Pacific and the United States.
Via MVNOs, Comcast, Charter eye mobile business market
Comcast and Charter said they are currently evaluating whether they should chase business users in addition to mass market consumers.
UK eyes Africa for technology conquests
Millions across the continent are shaking in fear, not in anticipation of a technology-orientated wave of colonialism, but in anticipation of UK Prime Minister Theresa May dancing in celebration.
Apple looks set to get into the augmented reality glasses game
Gadget giant Apple has acquired a startup that makes a glass technology which can display holographic AR images.
T-Mobile US and Sprint finally get some support for merger
Budget MVNO Ting Mobile has come out in support of the proposed T-Mobile US and Sprint merger, standing pretty lonely opposite the waves of opposition.