FirstNews Briefs: Senet, Verizon, Nokia, AT&T, T-Mobile
LPWAN provider Senet on Monday announced Bruce Chatterley will be taking over as CEO with the retirement of outgoing head George Dannecker. Chatterley has also been elected to Senet’s Board of Directors. The company said Chatterley brings to the table more than 25 years of experience in business leadership, transformation, strategy, and technology and a…
FirstNews Briefs: CRTC, EON Reality and CUNY, IHS, Hand-in-Hand
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has declared “broadband access internet service is now considered a basic telecommunications service for all Canadians.” The Commission set a speed target of 50 Mbps download/10 Mbps upload for fixed broadband internet access services, as well as an unlimited data option for fixed broadband access services. It also…
FirstNews Briefs: Cricket, Radware, Assurant, U.S. Cellular, MulteFire Alliance
Cricket Wireless said it will be the first U.S. carrier to offer a prepaid smartphone with Windows 10 Mobile. Starting May 5, the carrier said it will offer the Microsoft Lumia 650 both online and in stores for $129.99. 6WIND, a networking software company, and Radware, a provider of cyber security and application delivery solutions,…
FirstNews Briefs: TextNow, Ericsson, Perfecto Mobile, CellCrypt
TextNow, a cloud-based mobile service company, announced $20M in revenue, a 75 percent year-over-year growth in 2015 for its wireless connectivity solutions. The company also reported 360 percent growth in its number of wireless subscribers from the end of 2014 to the end of 2015. TextNow said 500 million messages and 81 million calls are…
FirstNews Briefs: Marriott and AT&T, Pure TalkUSA, iPass, Cybera and Verizon and Peel
Marriott International has selected AT&T as a preferred network and advanced services provider, the hotel company announced Tuesday. The three-year, $150 million deal provides network architecture that will facilitate the move of Marriott’s applications to the cloud in the next three to five years. The deal also uses AT&T’s 4G LTE cellular network to provide…
Recap: Top Stories for June 1-5
Report: T-Mobile, Dish in Merger Talks Dish and the Un-Carrier are reportedly in the process of crafting a deal according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. The talks are in a preliminary phase and may not come to fruition. AT&T’s De la Vega: 2-Year Contracts Slowly Going Away Ralph de la Vega, the…
FirstNews Briefs: T-Mobile, Sprint, Shazam, Google, Jumptuit
T-Mobile has returned for its third straight year as the Official Wireless Sponsor of Major League Baseball and today, T-Mobile announced it is once again offering their customers a free subscription to Major League Baseball’s official MLB.com At Bat app. Starting today, T-Mobile customers can get their free download of the At Bat app through…
FirstNews Briefs: Verizon, ZTE, Intuit, Shopify, 5BARz
Verizon said it has an agreement to add more than 200 hours of original content per year produced by AwesomenessTV to be available for customers later this year through over the top video. ZTE Corporation noted that one patent of Vringo Inc. and its subsidiaries was invalidated by the Patent Re-examination Board of the State…
FirstNews Briefs: Kyocera, Broadsoft, TESSCO, GE, Rdio, AXS
Kyocera Corporation, a Japan-based global enterprise, announced the launch of the new TORQUE — a rugged 4G LTE smartphone certified with the United States Military Standard in 11 categories. Marking the company’s entrance in the European mobile phone market, the new model is the latest in Kyocera’s global rugged smartphone series. The new TORQUE will…