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Mike Quigley is stepping down as CEO of Australia's National Broadband Network. Quigley said he will continue to serve as CEO until the Board appoints a successor.  He plans to...

Oceus Networks, a start-up based in Reston, Virginia, demonstrated the deployment of an LTE base station in a high-altitude balloon.  The idea to create an easily deployable emergency network that...

A new IEEE 802.11 study group has been set up to define the scope of a new standard for high-efficiency, high-performance wireless local area networks(WLANs). The new IEEE 802.11 High...

One day after its acquisition by Softbank, Sprint launched an "Unlimited Guarantee" initiative that offers unlimited talk (calls to any wireline or mobile phone), text and data while on the...

EMC agreed to acquire privately-held ScaleIO, which develops server-side storage software. Financial terms were not disclosed. ScaleIO creates a virtual pool of server-based storage by logically combining SSDs, PCIe Flash...

Ofcom is proposing lower prices that Openreach, BT’s network access division, can charge other telecoms providers for some of its main wholesale services. Ofcom regulates these prices because of the...

The European Commission initiated unannounced inspections at the premises of a number of telecommunications companies, saying it has concerns that the companies may have violated EU antitrust rules that prohibit...

Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) has deployed Ciena’s 5410 Packet-Optical Reconfigurable Switch System (RSS) and OneConnect Intelligent Control Plane software across its global network. PLDT is building a global...

Talari Networks appointed Kevin Gavin as Chief Marketing Officer. Gavin joins Talari from ShoreTel, where he was CMO since 2007. Talari Networks' solutions aggregate multiple diverse networks into a virtual...

SoftBank completed its acquisition of Sprint.  SoftBank paid approximately $16.64 billion to purchase shares from existing Sprint shareholders. It has also agreed to invest an additional $5 billion in Sprint's...

T-Mobile unveiled its JUMP! program for enabling customers to upgrade their phones up to twice a year. Basically, the program makes it easier to upgrade to a new device without having to...

Amazon Web Services announced a price reduction of up to 80% on its Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances, which are EC2 instances that run on single-tenant hardware dedicated to a single...

SanDisk introduced its Extreme microSDHC and microSDXC UHS-I memory cards, delivering 64GB of storage for smartphones, tablets and cameras. SanDisk says these microSDXC cards are the fastest on the market1,...