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Internet of Things wars: Did T-Mobile just bet on the wrong horse?

Network operators have two new weapons in the battle to own the Internet of Things (IoT) -- Narrowband IoT and LTE-M…

Operators racing to virtualise networks are pushing to bring the technology to the customer

There have been a series of revolutionary technology changes taking hold in business networking, but the biggest wave of them…

Fixed wireless is likely to be the first of several use cases for 5G technology

The International Telecommunication Union in 2015 outlined three initial use cases for 5G, the next generation of mobile network technology…

Here’s when different countries and companies are expected to launch 5G

5G has been on the horizon for some time but it's getting closer. Early devices supporting the latest generation of…

Telecoms giant Verizon closes its $4.48bn deal with Yahoo

American telecommunications company Verizon closed its $4.48bn purchase of Yahoo's core business on Tuesday. The original purchase price of $4.8bn announced last…

IoT remains a work in progress as one-third of projects fail

One-third of Internet of Things (IoT) projects fail, and those firms that give up do so mainly for cost reasons.…

The race to 5G is accelerating but was Verizon’s $3bn Straight Path acquisition worth it?

Straight Path Communications has been acquired by Verizon for $3.1bn because Straight Path holds millimetre wave spectrum licenses that have been approved…

Cutting the cord: Majority of US households don’t have a landline, but what about the UK?

Have mobile phones replaced landlines? For the first time in history, less than half of US households now have a…

AT&T and Verizon are eying up microwave spectrum licenses that 5G just might finally turn into a gold mine

The latest US spectrum auction wound down in April, raising $19.8bn -- less than half of what the US government…

AT&T won a contract for a US first responder network, but even exclusive 25-year deals still come with risk

AT&T’s bid to build a nationwide, US public safety network – FirstNet – can finally move forward. But the 25…