Weekly Newswire | Industry News | August 5, 2016

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NEWSWIRE August.05.2016 To have your company's news considered for inclusion in Pipeline's News Center, send your press releases to pressreleases@pipelinepub.com or email sales@pipelinepub.com for more information about our Premium Newswire Service with reporting.   NEWS HEADLINES Frontier Attempts To Kickstart Broadband Adoption With Grants, Free Laptops To help spur broadband adoption in low-income California households Frontier Communications today announced it is awarding $3 million in grants to community organizations and donating 50 thousand laptops.   Click here for the full story T-Mobile Turns On Extended LTE In San Francisco T-Mobile today announced it is now offering Extended Range LTE service in the San Francisco area enabling its signal to carry twice as far from its towers and provide four times better in-building coverage.   Click here for the full story Exploding VoIP, UC Usage Leading To Growing Cyberattack Threat Context Information Security today warned that IT security teams are struggling to keep up with the rapidly growing threat of VoIP and unified communications (UC) attacks such as botnets malware distribution vishing and DoS.   Click here for the full story Hong Kong Broadband Launching MVNO Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited (HKBN) today announced it is launching a new mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) service in September in collaboration with China Mobile Hong Kong and SmarTone.   Click here for the full story WiGig Chipset Poised To Go Big Next Year ABI Research today released a new study that predicts the new 80211ad (WiGig) chipset market will increase significantly next year as device manufacturers look to it for enhanced Wi-Fi throughput and improved efficiency.   Click here for the full story AT&T Mobility and Communications Workers Reach Tentative Benefits Agreement AT&T Mobility and the Communications Workers of America (CWA) both announced today that they have reached a tentative national agreement regarding healthcare and other benefits for 42000 workers.   Click here for the full story AT&T Launches New Tool To Quickly Qualify Ethernet-Based Services AT&T today announced the launch of a new tool that gives service providers the ability to check the availability and speed of select Ethernet-based services by address in near real time.   Click here for the full story Rural Senators Want FCC To Use Most Current Data To Evaluate Broadband Needs A group of nine senators from rural states are urging the FCC to use all the available data including the data submitted earlier this year by the major cable operators to accurately measure competitive markets and ensure that regulations for noncompetitive markets are based on the real cost to provide broadband service.   Click here for the full story SIGFOX, UnaBiz Create Global IoT Testbed In Taiwan SIGFOX and UnaBiz its network operator in Singapore and Taiwan joined French and Taiwanese officials today in announcing the creation of a global Internet of Things testbed in Taiwan providing global IoT connectivity to Taiwans huge electronics manufacturing industry and demonstrating multiple applications and use cases.   Click here for the full story Nokia To Provide Managed Services For Telefonica Germany Nokia and Telefonica Germany today announced that Nokia will simplify and centralize Telefonica Germany's mobile access core and fixed network operations as well as back office tasks including network monitoring and preventative maintenance.   Click here for the full story Verizon Purchasing Fleet And Mobile Workforce Management Company Verizon today announced it has agreed to buy Fleetmatics Group PLC accelerating Verizon's position as a leading provider of fleet and mobile workforce management solutions.   Click here for the full story TP-Link To Pay Up In Wi-Fi Router Settlement With FCC The FCC today announced that it has reached a Wi-Fi router investigation settlement with TP-Link in which the company will pay 200000 dollars and work with the open-source community and Wi-Fi chipset manufacturers to enable third party firmware on Wi-Fi routers.   Click here for the full story Smart Phones Continue To Be A Slow Grow For 2nd Quarter A new IDC report released today reveals that global smart phone sales are flat for the second quarter in a row.   Click here for the full story DIRECTV Broadcasting Select Olympic Events in 4K UHD AT&T has announced that select Olympic events will be available in 4K UHD for DIRECTV customers from Aug 5-21 including footage from the Opening and Closing ceremonies as well as various sporting events.   Click here for the full story Bell, Nokia Test Run 5G Mobile 6X Faster Than 4G Bell and Nokia today announced completion of the first Canadian trial of 5G mobile technology clocking speeds six times faster than top 4G mobile speeds in Canada.   Click here for the full story

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