Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and [...]
While a select group of app developers and early adopters are paying $1,500 for prototypes of Google Glass, a [...]
17 May 2013 by Dan Meyer
Verizon Wireless continued to sweeten its prepaid offerings, announcing this week that it would double the amount of data available to customers selecting its $70 per month and quadruple the data bucket for customers selecting its $60 per month plan. The enhancement will see the $70 plan now include 4 gigabytes of data services to [...]
Posted in Carriers
17 May 2013 by Dan Meyer
Sprint Nextel said it has closed on its $480 million acquisition of a handful of markets from regional carrier U.S. Cellular. The deal included operations in Chicago, St. Louis and a handful of markets in the Midwest and spectrum assets in the 1.9 GHz band. The deal originally was to include approximately 585,000 customers when [...]
Posted in Carriers
17 May 2013 by Martha DeGrasse
Despite those hefty carrier subsidies that keep the iPhone affordable for smartphone buyers, many of those buyers are now choosing to pay full price for the iPhone and other top smartphones. NPD Group says that according to its latest Mobile Phone Track report, the iPhone is making big gains in the prepaid market, increasing its [...]
Posted in Carriers
17 May 2013 by Dan Meyer
MetroPCS’ future appears to be set as new parent company T-Mobile US said it plans to bolster the MetroPCS offering, focusing on urban markets. Speaking this week at the JP Morgan Global Technology, Media and Telecom Conference this week, T-Mobile US executives noted plans to increase the footprint of the MetroPCS offering into a larger [...]
Posted in Carriers
17 May 2013 by Kelly Hill
Worldwide LTE network connections will pass 100 million this week, according to estimates by 4G Americas and Informa Telecoms and Media, with about 57 million of those coming from the United States and Canada. 4G Americas reported that there are now 172 operators in 70 countries with existing LTE networks around the world, in various [...]
15 May 2013 by Jefferson Wang, IBB Consulting
Over-the-top content providers may represent a new revenue stream for carriers, if they start paying for access to subscribers. Last week the Wall Street Journal reported that ESPN has
Posted in Analyst Angle
15 May 2013 by Gina Sanchez, ICT Industry Analyst, Frost & Sullivan
Between April 24 and April 26, the GSMA LA Plenary Meeting No. 39 was held in Bogota, Colombia, with more than 400 attendees from 19 countries including representatives from mobile operators, telecommunications suppliers,
Posted in Analyst Angle, Opinion
15 May 2013 by Fernando Alvarez, VP at Capgemini Mobile Solutions Practice Leader
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. A new trinity is on the rise: Mobility, cloud computing and social media are set to become inextricably linked over the next few years, presenting both threats and considerable opportunities [...]
Posted in Cloud, Opinion, Reality Check
14 May 2013 by Jeff Shamblin, Chief Scientist, Ethertronics
There are few markets as hot, exciting and challenging as machine-to-machine these days. Analyst forecasts are an obvious way to identify a hot market, but another is the number of vendors entering
Posted in Opinion, Reality Check
13 May 2013 by Lucas Pinz , network manager, PromonLogicalis.
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible, but we maintain some editorial control to keep it free of commercials [...]
Posted in Opinion, Reader Forum
Reader Forum: This is what the future of high-quality video looks like by David Tipping, VP and GM, SBC Business at Sonus
Reader Forum: Big data, business intelligence and customer analytics by Monica Ricci, Director of Product Marketing, CSG International
Analyst Angle: U.S. carriers – there is no place like home by Sylvain Maquet, Partner, Greenwich Consulting
Reality Check: The sober reality of small cells by Ronny Haraldsvik, SVP and Chief Marketing Officer, SpiderCloud Wireless
Reader Forum: CPRI and DAS by John Spindler, Director Product Management, TE Connectivity
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