Today Alcatel-Lucent launched the new 9764 Compact Metrocell Outdoor (CMCO). The 9764 CMCO is 50 percent smaller than existing metrocells, providing operators with more options for building HetNets and to improve coverage and capacity, including integrating the device into street furniture, such as the digital advertising signage in bus shelters being developed by partners. The…
FirstNews Briefs: City of Santa Clara, Cablevision, Kyocera, DeLorme
Enhanced cell phone and wireless data services will become available to many businesses, workers, visitors and residents of the City of Santa Clara in early 2016 when a new outdoor distributed antenna system (oDAS) is installed in the city district north of Highway 101. The area, defined by California’s Great America theme park, the Santa…
FirstNews Briefs: Aptilo, Nuage, China Telecom, Nuance, Orange
Aptilo Networks, a provider of systems to manage data services with functions for authentication, policy control and charging, announces Aptilo SMP Wi-Fi Calling, a 3GPP AAA application for the Aptilo Service Management Platform (SMP) to enable Wi-Fi Calling. Nuage Networks, the Alcatel-Lucent start-up venture focused on SDN (software-defined networking) solutions announced that CTCC, the Cloud…
FirstNews Briefs: Sequans, D-Link, Sprint, NetComm, Vodafone, CALLUP
Sequans Communications S.A. is providing its LTE chipset technology to D-Link for the D-Link eMBMS TV Dongle, a consumer LTE broadcast dongle that enables users to receive video content over LTE eMBMS, for display on their TV screens. LTE Broadcast or eMBMS (evolved multimedia broadcast multicast service) is a capability of LTE whereby multimedia content…
FirstNews Briefs: Sling TV, Univision, Cloudberry, Monotype, Airvana
Today, Sling TV and Univision Communications Inc., announced an agreement that includes over-the-top (OTT) multi-stream rights for live and Video-On-Demand content for entertainment, news and sports content from Univision’s portfolio. Cloudberry Mobile, a Small Cell network operator, today announced its hosted small cells solution that allows network operators to address coverage blackspots. Cloudberry’s small cell…
FirstNews Briefs: Sierra Wireless, weBoost, Radisys, AT&T
Sierra Wireless announced the launch its Sierra Wireless AirLink gateways. The AirLink GX450 4G mobile gateway and the AirLink ES450 4G enterprise gateway offer support for an array of LTE frequency bands. The AirLink ES450 4G enterprise gateway provides a way to wirelessly manage business transactions and deploy PCI-compliant systems. weBoost, formerly Wilson Electronics, today…
FirstNews Briefs: AT&T, Snapchat, Vuzix, Thread Group, FiberTower
AT&T is set to launch a scripted entertainment series on Snapchat, an ephemeral social platform. AT&T presents SnapperHero — a scripted Snapchat series where real-time engagement meets a superhero universe. Influencers across Snapchat, Vine and YouTube will engage their fan bases to give them a role in shaping the creative direction of the show. Vuzix…
FirstNews Briefs: ip.access, Amdocs, nTelos, nuPSYS, Cisco, ZTE
ip.access has today announced a global collaboration with Amdocs to accelerate the operator and enterprise roll-out of small cells. The partnership combines ip.access’ portfolio of indoor small cells, access points and range of performance optimization tools with Amdocs’ Radio-Access-Network (RAN), backhaul deployment orchestration tool and Amdocs’ Network Rollout Solution (ANRS). nTelos Wireless today announced that…
FirstNews Briefs: Alltel, AT&T, Elecsys, NTT DATA, Xoom Corporation
Nearly 100,000 former Alltel wireless customers in Georgia are seeing a change as AT&T launches service for them. AT&T acquired Alltel’s wireless operations in September 2013. The transaction included subscribers, spectrum and retail and network assets. Lindsay Corporation, a provider of irrigation systems and infrastructure products, today announced the completion of its acquisition of Elecsys…
FirstNews Briefs: AT&T, Lenovo, SignalShare, Fastback Networks
AT&T today launched AT&T UC Federation. The service allows suppliers, partners and customers to communicate in real time across different networks. AT&T UC Federation can enable internal and external teams to collaborate across supported UC platforms. Sonus has deployed and trialed AT&T UC Federation. The company is in the process of a full service rollout. …