Tekelec has been running as fast as it can away from its legacy TDM/signaling business, and Monday that path led it straight into the arms of a private equity buyout led by Siris Capital to the tune of $780 million. A handful of questions remain, however, including: Will the new owners split Tekelec into pieces? And, did the buyout price Tekelec below its value? Read the rest of this entry »
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Verizon to pair 4G Android smartphones with double the data
Verizon Wireless will offer a limited-time “double your data” promotion beginning tomorrow, spokesperson Brenda Raney has confirmed. Read the rest of this entry »
Appcelerate: FT.com HTML5 app reaches 1 million users
San Francisco — When FT.com pulled out of the Apple app store and opted for an HTML5 play earlier this year (CP: FT spurns iPad app for HTML5 alternative — could more devs jump ship?), it stood very much alone — unless you count skeptics, of which there were many. Next week, FT.com will announce a significant milestone: it has reached 1 million users for its HTML5 app, according to Rob Grimshaw, managing director of FT.com. Read the rest of this entry »
Community network advocates defeat Comcast in Longmont, Colo.
Community network advocates scored a win against Comcast this week, when the citizens of Longmont, Colo., voted to allow the city to partner with alternative cable and Internet companies to deliver broadband services over a fiber network constructed by the city in cooperation with a local utility company back in the late 1990s. Read the rest of this entry »
AT&T wonders why Sprint wants T-Mobile to stay free and single
Sprint has made no bones about its objection to AT&T’s proposed acquisition of T-Mobile. Read the rest of this entry »
Congress reportedly close to a Net Neutrality review
Net Neutrality opponents no doubt were happy to learn this week that the Senate may be nearing a vote on a resolution to enable Congress to review Net Neutrality guidelines adopted by the FCC nearly a year ago (CP: FCC adopts Net Neutrality guidelines in opposition to service providers). Read the rest of this entry »
Open Mobile Summit: T-Mobile experimenting with services, trying out ‘new muscles’
San Francisco — It comes as not one bit of a surprise when one finds out that Brad Duea, T-Mobile senior vice president of value-added services, comes from Napster. Duea, who sat on a panel at today’s Open Mobile Summit event here on carrier “innovation,” brings a unique perspective to that topic. Even today, what carriers think of as innovation remains quite painful to developers, content providers, Internet players and the like.
T-Mobile, with Duea’s help and energy, is aiming to change that. Read the rest of this entry »
Motorola security survey finds prosumers aware but indifferent
Motorola polled 1,000 people who use their smartphones for both business and pleasure (also known as “prosumers,” also known as just about everyone) and found, of course, that we’re all still disasters on the security front. Despite years of warning. And not from a lack of awareness. Read the rest of this entry »
Open Mobile Summit: Value in 3G beyond spectrum re-farming, VZW CTO says
San Francisco – A bit of a surprise for a panel on monetizing 4G, but one of the most interesting nuggets this morning at Open Mobile Summit came from Verizon Wireless CTO David Small, who talked about monetizing…3G. According to Small, EV-DO, the network technology underlying Verizon’s 3G network, “will be monetized for a long time,” rather than simply having its underlying spectrum re-farmed to support higher speed 4G services. Read the rest of this entry »
Traffix gets funding more LTE signaling push
We’ve been following the LTE/Diameter routing market a fair bit lately (CP: The LTE signaling challenge) and (CP: Just how big is the LTE Diameter routing market, anyway?), and today one of the early players in the market, Traffix Systems, announced first round funding to fuel its move deeper into this growing opportunity.