Verizon Cites Wireless Profitability as Overall Revenue Shrinks

Verizon reported total Q3 operating revenues of $30.9 billion, a 6.7 percent decrease compared with third-quarter 2015. The company said that, excluding third-quarter 2015 revenues from since-divested local landline businesses, total operating revenues on a comparable basis (non-GAAP) would have declined 2.9 percent year over year. The company reported third-quarter 2016 EPS of 89 cents, compared with 99 cents per share in third-quarter 2015.  “Verizon...

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NTT Com to Offer Mirantis Managed OpenStack

Mirantis and NTT Communications will partner to offer fully managed Private OpenStack as a service in NTT Com Enterprise Cloud and its data center services across the globe. Specifically, NTT Com will offer Mirantis Managed OpenStack on NTT Com Enterprise Cloud’s Metal-as-a-Service. NTT Com is Mirantis’ first data center services partner. “OpenStack is an essential component of tomorrow’s private cloud architectures, and Mirantis has industry-leading...

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China Mobile Now Serves 844 Million Customers

China Mobile reported revenue of RMB542.7 billion (US$80.30 billion) for the first nine months of 2016, up by 4.3% over the same period last year; of which, revenue from telecommunications services was RMB481.2 billion, up by 5.4% over the same period last year. There was a profit of RMB88.1 billion, up by 3.1% over the same period last year. Some highlights: As of 30 September 2016, the number of mobile customers was 844 million, representing...

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Momentum Builds for Citizens' Band LTE (3.5 GHz)

The Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) Alliance, which was formed in February 2016 with the goal of making LTE-based solutions in the 3.5 GHz CBRS band widely available, announced the addition of Accelleran, Airspan Networks, American Tower Corp., AT&T, Baicells, CableLabs, Ericsson, ExteNet Systems, Nsight, Ranzure Networks, Rise Broadband, and ZTE as members. Founding members of the alliance include Access Technologies (Alphabet), Federated...

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Orange Business Services Launches Datavenue for IoT

Orange Business Services announced the international launch of its Datavenue service for helping enterprises implement IoT. Datavenue includes four modules: Select relevant objects and sources of data. Orange offers a full range of certified and tested connected objects, such as sensors, cameras or modules to connect existing assets. Datavenue has a catalog of data that includes population movement analytics using anonymized data from mobile networks. Connect...

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Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Now Runs on Amazon EC2

AWS announced the ability to run Windows Server 2016 on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) in all AWS regions globally.  The lastest version of Windows Server is supported in four distinct forms: Windows Server 2016 Datacenter with Desktop Experience – The mainstream version of Windows Server with support for both traditional and cloud-native applications.  Windows Server 2016 Nano Server -A cloud-native, minimal install that takes up...

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Telia Carrier Delivers Backhaul to OJUS Sea Cable for LATAM Connectivity

Telia Carrier has established a new network Point-of-Presence at the OJUS Cable Landing Station in Hollywood, Florida, ensuring a resilient network option for customers wishing diverse connectivity to the Nap of the Americas in Miami and Equinix MI3 in Boca Raton as well as Telia Carrier's global IP backbone, AS1299. The cable landing station located in Hollywood provides Telia Carrier customers access to important subsea cable systems including...

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