Former Sprint CFO Joseph J. Euteneuer has joined Rivada Networks, provider of broadband communications services for public safety and commercial organizations, as its new co-CEO and CFO of the Americas.
Euteneuer will work alongside Executive Chairman and co-CEO Declan Ganley to communicate the company’s vision for an open wireless marketplace while forging key strategic partnerships. In particular, the company is looking to create the country’s first wholesale-only wireless provider. As part of its strategy, Rivada, along with a consortium of industry leaders, is bidding to build out FirstNet’s nationwide public-safety broadband network.
Over the course of his nearly 25-year career in telecom and media, Euteneuer has held CFO and EVP positions at Sprint, Qwest Communications (now CenturyLink), XM Satellite Radio (now Sirius XM Satellite Radio) and Comcast.
Syniverse announced it has signed an agreement to enable Cable & Wireless Seychelles to offer global LTE reach to both inbound and outbound roaming subscribers on the islands.
Syniverse’s IPX Network Solution, along with its Diameter Signaling Service, connects Cable & Wireless Seychelles to the world’s networks to make global LTE possible. The IPX Network Solution provides a carrier-grade connection to the company’s all-IP network, which currently serves more than 2,300 LTE routes and LTE reach to more than 325 operators in nearly 130 countries, including direct and indirect connections.
The agreement marks a critical step in Cable & Wireless Seychelles’ ability to provide LTE service in a tourism-driven roaming market.
Qorvo, a provider of core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and defense applications, announced the availability of a ZigBee 3.0 software development kit (SDK) for Smart Home gateways that incorporates the new GP712 radio communication controller chip from GreenPeak Technologies (now the Low Power Wireless business unit of Qorvo).
The ZigBee 3.0 SDK includes simplified software development models (APIs) that enable quick development of GP712-equipped gateway products as part of complete, end-to-end systems for the Smart Home. The SDK architecture is fully scalable and flexible, enabling integration of upcoming standards such as Thread. When combined with the GP712, the SDK allows gateway manufacturers to remain protocol agnostic and support multiple communication stacks in a single device.
Nokia and Zain KSA announced the deployment of LTE-Advanced three component carrier aggregation technology that will enable Zain to provide data speeds of up to 187.5 Mbps across its network. The implementation of three component carrier aggregation in the FDD-LTE band (FDD-LTE 3CC) concludes an extensive commercial network trial by Nokia and Zain. The network, which aggregates 25 MHz of spectrum on 900 MHz, 1.8 GHz and 2.1 GHz, was launched in the high-profile business and residential districts of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
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