AT&T's Alltel Acquisition Comes in at $1,322 per Subscriber

AT&T completed its previously announced acquisition of Atlantic Tele-Network's U.S. retail wireless assets, which operated under the Alltel brand, for $780 million. The deal includes wireless properties in six states, including spectrum licenses, network assets, retail stores and approximately 590,000 subscribers.  The former Alltel network covers approximately 4.5 million people in mainly rural areas in Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, North...

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AT&T Saw Record Smartphone Sales in Q3

Although the quarter is not yet over and official numbers are not yet out, AT&T reported record smartphone sales for Q3.  The company cited strong customer response to new marketing programs, new devices and the expansion of its 4G LTE network, which now covers 240 million people. AT&T said third quarter smartphone upgrades should be higher year over year, similar to second quarter 2013, and the company expects to grow its smartphone...

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RSA Issues Security Alert Following NSA Disclosure

RSA issued a security advisory to its BSAFE and Data Protection Manager customers recommending they choose one of the different cryptographic Pseudo-Random Number Generators (PRNG) built into the RSA BSAFE toolkit.  The alert follows disclosures from Edward Snowden that subsequently led the National Institute of Standards (NIST) to strongly recommend against the use of the community developed encryption standard known as the Dual Elliptic Curve...

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SFR Deploys LTE in Paris with NSN

SFR has deployed NSN's Liquid Radio technology for its commercial LTE launch in Paris. Specifically, NSN has provided its Single RAN Flexi Multiradio 10 Base Stations, which can be made LTE-Advanced capable with a simple software upgrade. NSN has also supplied its NetAct network management system to ensure consolidated configuration, monitoring, management and optimization for SFR’s network. “This project is an important landmark in our long-term...

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Orange Switzerland Selects Ericsson for BSS

Ericsson will supply core components of the new hardware and software architecture supporting Orange Switzerland’s business support systems (BSS). In addition, Ericsson will integrate the platforms into the Orange network and operate it over a five-year period under a managed services agreement. This cooperation expands the scope of the existing managed services agreement that was entered into early in 2013 and covers the operation and field service...

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New 8,000 m2 Data Centre Planned for London

GVA Connect announced plans to build a new Gateway Data Centre in London’s West Thurrock, close to the M25 London Orbital motorway and the A13 road – giving easy access to London Docklands. The new facility will have 8,000 square metres (86,000 sq ft) of data halls split over two floors and a gross internal floor area of 19,500 square metres (210,000 sq ft). Up to 47MVA of diverse power is available meaning the Gateway Data Centre is ideally suited...

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