Huawei Offers UMTS Small Data Packet Storm Solution

Huawei introduced a UMTS Small Data Packet Storm solution that can double the number of mobile broadband users with smartphones that can access the network simultaneously. Huawei calculates that 80% of UMTS usage lasts less than 10 seconds and 60% require less than 1kbit. However, the use of smartphones is creating "small data packet storms", which are different than traditional voice services and high data rate downloads. When a smartphone user frequently refreshes pages on a site being browsed, the total amount of consumed traffic is very low....

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Mavenir Enables MetroPCS' Pace Setting VoLTE

Mavenir Systems confirmed that its mOne Convergence Platform is powering MetroPCS' new Voice over LTE (VoLTE) service, which was announced last week. "We are excited to be part of this historic moment by providing a superior solution to MetroPCS that enables a sustainable business model on mobile broadband, both as a vendor partner and systems integrator," said Pardeep Kohli, president & chief executive officer of Mavenir Systems. "The mOne™...

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Dialogic Appoints Kevin Cook as President and CEO

Dialogic has appointed current President and COO Kevin Cook as President and CEO, replacing Nick Jensen who resigned last week but remains as a member of the Dialogic Board and will assume the role of non-executive Vice Chairman. Cook became President and COO of Dialogic in December 2011. In this capacity, he has directed global operations for more than 700 employees in 30 countries. Previously, he served as Executive Vice President of Worldwide...

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Verizon Wireless' 4G LTE Now Covers 90% of Florida’s Population

Verizon Wireless is activating 4G LTE services this month to new communities in Naples, Orlando and throughout Central Florida. This brings the LTE network to all of Florida’s major markets and 90 percent of state residents. In just over 18 months, Verizon Wireless has rolled out LTE to nearly three-fourths of the U.S. population in more than 350 markets. http://www.verizonwireless.com/lte ...

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Fire Strikes France Telecom-Orange's Cable Ship

The crew of France Telecom-Orange's cable-ship, the Chamarel, was forced to abandon ship off the coast of Namibia following a fire. All 56 crew members were safely recovered by a Namibian fishing vessel without injury or incident. The ship had recently completed a repair operation on the Sat3-Safe cable in the Atlantic. http://www.orange.com ...

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China Mobile Shangdong Picks Huawei's GPON for WLAN Backhaul

China Mobile Shangdong has selected Huawei's FTTW (Wi-Fi backhaul) solution for a WLAN mobile backhaul network in 17 cities. The solution uses GPON access technology to backhaul WLAN data streams. The service provides 54 Mbps Internet access for 50,000 WLAN hotspots in schools, offices, transport hubs, hotels, leisure places, downtown areas, and residential areas. http://www.huawei.com ...

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Deutsche Telekom Maintains Free Cash Flows as Revenues, Subscribers and CAPEX Decline

Deutsche Telekom reported a solid growth trend in free cash flow in the second quarter of 2012 and the company confirmed its earnings and dividend guidance for the full year 2012.For Q2, EBITDA remained unchanged year-on-year at EUR 4.7 billion. Revenue declined 0.7 percent to EUR 14.4 billion. Free cash flow in the second quarter came in at EUR 1.7 billion, a year-on-year decrease of around 5.6 percent.For Q2, CAPEX was EUR 1.626 billion, down...

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Ciena Provides Optical Upgrade in the Carolinas for Spirit

Spirit Communications, a CLEC serving business customers in North and South Carolina has selected Ciena's 5430 Packet-Optical Reconfigurable Switching System (RSS) and OneConnect Intelligent Control Plane software to upgrade its transport network. Ciena’s 5430 RSS will link Spirit’s major point-of-presence (POP) locations across the Carolinas. The upgraded network will support an increase in switching capacity at each location to serve existing...

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Huawei Targets LTE Broadcasts -- eMBMS Innovation Center Opens

Huawei has just opened an enhanced Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (eMBMS) innovation center in Shenzhen in order to develop end-to-end eMBMS solutions and LTE applications. eMBMS is a 3GPP R9 standard for mobile video that enables a higher transfer capacity over typical MBMS technologies.Huawei said its new facility aims to foster and eMBMS industry ecosystem of chipsets, devices, and network equipment. The innovation center will also serve...

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Sprint Selects Samsung from its Small Cell Deployments

Samsung Telecommunications America confirmed that it has been selected to help develop Small Cell Network Infrastructure for Sprint’s Network Vision Program. "Our ongoing work with Sprint’s Network Vision demonstrates Samsung’s commitment to developing custom solutions with our leading carrier customers. This new award will allow Sprint to meet increasing demand for coverage and capacity while consolidating multiple legacy networks and spectrum...

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Telstra's CAPEX to Sales Ratio at 14.2%

Telstra's revenue for full fiscal year 2012 increased by 1.1%, or AUS $275 million, to $25,368 million. EBITDA increased by 0.8% or $83 million to $10,234 million. "We have seen two years of significant customer growth as our strategy continues to bear fruit. This has translated into strong financial results despite tough domestic and international economic conditions," Chief Executive Officer David Thodey said today.Some highlights for the full...

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Samsung Releases Verizon FiOS App

Samsung Electronics America released a FiOS TV app on compatible Samsung Smart TVs and Smart Blu-ray players.  The app on the Samsung Smart Hub platform lets Verizon’s FiOS TV and FiOS Internet subscribers watch 26 live FiOS TV channels and more than 20,000 FlexView on-demand movies and TV shows on these TVs and blu-ray players without requiring a set-top box.Channels carried at launch include CNN, MTV, HBO, TBS, TNT, Food Network and HGTV,...

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Motorola Solutions Invests in Fixmo for Security Compliance

Motorola Solutions has made a strategic investment in Fixmo, a start-up offering mobile security, compliance and risk management solutions for the public and private sectors. Financial terms were not disclosed. Fixmo’s flagship products, Fixmo Sentinel and Fixmo SafeZone, help organizations manage their secure mobile devices, maintain system integrity, protect their corporate data and prove policy compliance. Fixmo is based in Sterling, Virginia...

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Sprint Prices $1.5 Billion in Senior Notes

Sprint Nextel has priced an underwritten public offering of $1.5 billion aggregate principal amount of 7.000% notes due 2020. The sale of the notes is expected to close on August 14, 2012. The company said the proceeds would be used for general corporate purposes, which may include, among other things, redemptions or service requirements of outstanding debt, network expansion and modernization and potential funding of Clearwire. http://www....

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