A newly released federal report could increase the likelihood that regulators endorse a potential merger between Sprint and T-Mobile. The Federal Communications Commission this week released its 20th annual Mobile Wireless Competition Report, which included a finding that the nation’s wireless market featured “effective competition” for the first time since 2009. The agency cited decreases […]
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T-Mobile Expanding its Midwest Footprint with Iowa Wireless Acquisition
T-Mobile plans to gain ground in the Midwest as it buys up the remaining interest of Iowa Wireless from Aureon. Deal terms were not disclosed, but T-Mobile will have full ownership of the regional wireless provider, which does business as iWireless. iWireless serves about 75,000 customers in Iowa, western Illinois, and eastern Nebraska, with 103 […]
Sprint, T-Mobile Reportedly Closing in on Deal Terms
Sprint and T-Mobile may have reached a major breakthrough, as the wireless carriers hammer out merger talks. Sources told Reuters that the operators are close to agreeing on tentative terms of a deal that would hand T-Mobile parent Deutsche Telecom a majority stake in the combined company, leaving Sprint parent Softbank with a 40 to […]
Analyst: What Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Could Mean for Tower Sector
With chatter about a potential T-Mobile and Sprint merger ramping up, questions about what it might mean for the tower sector have popped up. Wells Fargo Senior Analyst Jennifer M. Fritzsche thinks it may not be all bad for companies like American Tower and Crown Castle International, as the overall macro environment, such as spectrum […]
Makers get kickstart in getting products to market with community website
For the growing entrepreneur community, there is good news and continuing challenges. The good news is that designers say they are finding it much easier today to identify the right technologies for their ideas and use those technologies to develop and test prototypes. On the flip side, they are finding it more difficult to identify […]
T-Mobile, Sprint Merger Reports Continue to Surface
Once again it appears a T-Mobile and Sprint deal is on the table. Sources told CNBC both carriers and their parents, Deutsche Telekom and Softbank, are in active talks about a stock-for-stock merger, with T-Mobile parent Deutsche Telekom emerging as the majority owner. Back in May, Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son indicated T-Mobile was his top […]
UW researchers’ backscatter system consumes 9.25 µW, transmits data at distances up to 2.8 km
Forecasters may shock and awe with estimates of 20.4 billion connected devices by 2020, but wireless technologies today have still not met the long-range, inexpensive, ultra-ultra low power (read “almost no power”) requirements that will ultimately support those fantastic numbers. Enter the University of Washington (UW) researchers and their development of a wide-area backscatter device […]
EEMBC benchmark verifies energy cost of integrated microcontroller peripherals
The industry-consortium setting the standard for valuable and practical embedded system benchmarks, EEMBC, announced the availability of EEMBC ULPMark™-PeripheralProfile (ULPMark™-PP), a tool to measure the energy efficiency of microcontrollers (MCUs) and their commonly-used, programmable peripherals. The ULPMark-PP reveals how efficiently each MCU vendor has designed and implemented its integrated peripherals. Simultaneously, EEMBC is publishing the first […]
New JEDEC committee to set standards for wide bandgap power semiconductors
JEDEC Solid State Technology Association, the global leader in standards development for the microelectronics industry, today announced the formation of a new JEDEC committee: JC-70 Wide Bandgap Power Electronic Conversion Semiconductors. Led by interim chairs from Infineon, Texas Instruments, and Wolfspeed, a Cree Company, the new JC-70 committee will initially have two subcommittees: Gallium Nitride […]
R-Car SoC and automotive MCU adopted by Nissan for automated-parking system
Renesas Electronics Corporation announced that its R-Car system-on-chip (SoC) for car infotainment and advanced driving assistant systems (ADAS), as well as its RH850 automotive control microcontroller (MCU), have been adopted by Nissan for the ProPILOT Park, a full-fledged automated-parking system, of its new LEAF, Nissan’s new 100 percent electric vehicle which debuted on September 6, 2017. […]