Who doesn’t love a good metaphor inspired by the world of athletics? We often describe our endeavors in terms of climbing mountains, hitting home runs, scoring goals and so on. It may sound a lot more exciting than much of what we really do on a day-by-day basis: writing emails, sitting through conference calls, calling […]
iPhone users have long-enjoyed iMessage, an iOS-only alternative to SMS that has far more features than basic messaging. WhatsApp offers a similar approach, adding features and abilities in a cross-platform app. Today the four major wireless carriers announced the Cross-Carrier Messaging Initiative (CCMI), aimed at delivering iMessage or WhatsApp-like messaging to customers and businesses alike.
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CNBC is reporting that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has voted to approve the merger between T-Mobile and Sprint. While the deal had earlier received approval from the Department of Justice (DOJ), the FCC’s approval is one of the final steps needed before the merger is finalized. The FCC’s commissioners voted along party lines to
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Image copyright AFP Image caption India’s rural internet density is poor India has more than 630 million internet subscribers. But for every Indian who has access to the internet, there is at least one who does not and that person is most likely living in a rural area. Smriti Parsheera writes on the country’s growing
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Enlarge / Federal Communication Commission Republican members (L-R) Brendan Carr, Michael O’Rielly, and Chairman Ajit Pai participate in a discussion during the Conservative Political Action Conference on February 23, 2018 in National Harbor, Maryland. The Federal Communications Commission has voted 3-2 to approve T-Mobile’s acquisition of Sprint, an FCC spokesperson confirmed to Ars today. Republican
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CONTEXT Your Sprint is over. Your increment is “done”, you have coded cleanly, your unit tests and integration tests are bright green, you are proud of your work. The Sprint Review is running smoothly. The Sprint Retrospective allows the team to find 1 or 2 axes of improvement without revolutionizing the world. Well done !
5G is on the rise in the US, so just like with the 4G LTE rollout of years past, we are seeing a similar trickle out of 5G cities from US carriers. Whether they feature 5G mmW or sub-6 5G tech, there is a good chance 5G is close to your neck of the woods.
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Every marketer knows about the allure of the “hotfix.” Something on the site needs to be changed, but the dev team can’t do it until the next release, which is two weeks away. Enter the hotfix option. Originally, engineering reserved a hotfix for critical functionality. Not for making quick updates that are important to marketers.
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FILE PHOTO: Pedestrians walk past a T-Mobile store in New York, U.S., April 27, 2018. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo WASHINGTON (Reuters) – T-Mobile US retail employees and technicians delivered a letter late Tuesday for Deutsche Telekom CEO Tim Hoettges, seeking assurances that their jobs and paychecks will be safe if the wireless carrier is allowed to
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‘There are a lot of SEO experts and social media management gurus out there to help mom-and-pop business owners.’ If there’s one thing I hear all the time while I’m out in the field talking to business owners, it’s this: “I don’t know how to improve my online presence, appear higher in Google or handle
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