Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...The Federal Communications Commission rejected an effort by China Mobile to offer telecommunications services in the US in 2019, citing national security concerns....
...“Because Bluetooth is a mature communications technology, related semiconductors can be fully designed using RISC-V,” said Hideki Maeno of IHS Markit....
...Nick Read, chief executive of telecoms group Vodafone, imagines a world where a customer would not just subscribe to traditional communications services like mobile, TV and broadband today, but would also...
...“NFC payments are failing here in the US,” said Tom Noyes, managing partner of Starpoint LLC, a mobile payments company, and former Citigroup executive....
...John Karidis, analyst at Oriel Securities, said: “I doubt Verizon is willing to pay what Verizon Wireless is worth to Vodafone.”...
...Following the deal, Vodafone will own around one-third of Verizon Communications, the parent of the US wireless arm. The UK mobile operator is expected to spin off this holding to investors....
...security concerns....
...The US wireless industry is poised for more consolidation. Last week Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile USA announced a reverse takeover of MetroPCS, the country’s fifth largest mobile provider....
...The AT&T and T-Mobile USA combination would have offered an interim solution to this spectrum shortage. In the absence of such steps, customers will be harmed and needed investment will be stifled.”...
...Those customers would in turn offer services to consumers in direct competition with telecoms companies including Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobile....
...LTE technology, based on the same communications protocols as the internet, offers a partial solution to this conundrum because it uses scarce spectrum much more efficiently than older 2G and 3G technologies...
...Andy Geisse, a 32-year company veteran, was named senior executive vice-president in charge of AT&T Business and Home Solutions....
...AT&T, the US telecommunications group that walked away from its $39bn bid for T-Mobile USA last month, had “no regrets” about pursuing the deal, John Stankey, chief executive of AT&T’s business solutions...
...Take for example, Cable & Wireless … or we mean, Cable & Wireless Communications plc… no, that’s not it, it’s Cable & Wireless Worldwide PLC … no, still not right, it’s Cable & Wireless International Fin...
...that we can reach a solution”....
...Four nationwide US mobile network operators – Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile USA – together account for more than 90 per cent of the mobile wireless connections in America....
...Randall Stephenson, AT&T’s chief executive, is providing Mr Obermann with a solution to Deutsche Telekom’s biggest strategic headache by proposing to buy T-Mobile USA, the German telecoms group’s troubled...
...The US Defence, Transportation and Homeland Security departments want the Federal Communications Commission to defer action on LightSquared’s request to modify its satellite licence to build a nationwide...
...We believe Verizon is likely to use excess free cash flow to continue to pay down debt in Verizon Wireless through 2011,” said Michael Nelson, an analyst with Mizuho Securities....
...mobile unit, which lack the spectrum to build their own high-speed mobile broadband LTE networks....
...Wireless accounts for more than half of all the handsets Motorola sells....
...Last week, Verizon Communications, the largest US coms group, warned it might oppose the sale to Avaya, citing public safety and security concerns....
...Oriel Securities said it was a bad number and markedly against the improving trend of the fund....
...Dick Lynch, chief technology officer at Verizon Communications, the majority shareholder in Verizon Wireless, said the company was planning a nationwide roll-out of its LTE network by 2015....
...is becoming increasingly frantic as its looks for overseas solutions to its domestic woes....
International Edition