BROWSING: Analyst Angle

Advice from a long-time wireless industry analyst As a long-time industry analyst, my email box has exploded. It seems so many companies worldwide want to get on my radar. Especially in the weeks leading up to a trade show like this week’s Mobile World Congress...

The move to real-time processing and virtualization is widening the opportunities for service and revenue generation, improving QoE by managing mobile traffic more efficiently and optimizing the use of the existing RAN infrastructure. The report assesses how new technologies and solutions are changing the...

Recent announcements from Verizon and AT&T show a strong focus on 5G for U.S. operators We have written extensively on “5G” in the past few months, including our report on how much 5G is likely to cost to implement in the U.S. We have more...

Fifteen years ago, nearly every PowerPoint presentation about wireless had a slide predicting data traffic taking off like a hockey stick. What might have seemed overly optimistic then looks like an underestimation now. That’s one takeaway from Cisco’s latest Visual Networking Index Global Mobile...

Battery life is an essential feature that directly influences a consumer’s purchase decision, brand choice and subsequent usage of a wearable device. A wearable device’s small size and mobile nature limits manufacturers' ability to use bigger or more densely packed battery cells. On the...

A conversation about end-to-end optimization with Adrian Di Meo, CTO, Telefonica Argentina Download a transcript of the interview and be the first to receive the Getting the best QoE report. In our final interview for the “Getting the best QoE” report, we talked to Adrian Di Meo,...

The move to real-time processing and virtualization is widening the opportunities for service and revenue generation, improving QoE by managing mobile traffic more efficiently and optimizing the use of the existing RAN infrastructure. This webinar will assess how new technologies and solutions are changing the...

Flash solid state storage is becoming more viable in mobile devices as price per GB continues to fall Let me ask you a critical question: How much storage do you need in your mobile devices? 64 gigabytes? 128GB? More? How about 1 terabyte?...

A conversation about RAN optimization with Ofer Gottfried, CTO, Flash Networks Download a transcript of the interview and be the first to receive the Getting the best QoE report Policy is a crucial driver for operators to meet QoE targets, to allocate their existing network resources efficiently, and...

It’s almost time for the doors to open on the world’s biggest annual mobile tech event: Mobile World Congress. And this year the Mobile World Live team is ramping up its TV broadcast with some major new program launches. This year we’ve expanded our...

A conversation about network strategy with Mony Kochupillai, Head of Network Perception, Three UK Download a transcript of the interview and be the first to receive the Getting the best QoE report Policy is a crucial driver for operators to meet QoE targets, to allocate their existing...

A conversation about QoE with Neil McKinlay, Director of Product Management, Anritsu Download a transcript of the interview and be the first to receive the Getting the best QoE report Policy is a crucial driver for operators to meet QoE targets, to allocate their existing network resources efficiently,...

Extrapolating $3 trillion in value from the mobile industry “A billion here, a billion there; pretty soon you’re talking real money.” --Attributed to Everett Dirksen, Wikipedia All of us know mobile is big business: just look at what it costs when you get a new smartphone and...

Roger Entner dissects Sprint as a viable carrier, finds hope in need of focus Sprint had a good subscriber quarter with an extremely aggressive pricing plan offering 50% off competitor pricing plans, guaranteeing the low prices until 2018. Sprint is basically buying customers. Nothing wrong...

Iain Gillott from iGR breaks down Sprint network plans and does not like what he sees Much has been written and speculated in the last week about Sprint’s network plans after the publication of a Re/Code article and the plan to significantly cut network expenses....

A conversation about network performance with Danielle Elaine Smith, Marketing Director, Alepo Download a transcript of the interview and receive the Getting the best QoE report Policy is a crucial driver for operators to meet QoE targets, to allocate their existing network resources efficiently, and to support...

Is it three or two? With the acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent now completed at Nokia, we believe that a review of the RAN market share for the combined new company is in order. We will have our updated 2015 radio transceiver (TRx) and base station market...

Wireless 20/20 looks north to see if the pending Shaw acquisition of Wind Mobile is the model for U.S. cablecos Shaw Communications agreed to acquire Wind Mobile in a deal worth approximately C$1.6 billion (around $1.16 billion). Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Shaw competes most directly...

A conversation about QoE with Anil Singh, Director of Product Management, RAN Download a transcript of the interview and be the first to receive the Getting the best QoE report Operators have access to extremely granular data on their networks and their subscribers. To benefit from this data...

A conversation about QoE with Paul Gowans, Wireless & RAN Solutions Marketing Manager, and Ronnie Neil, Customer Experience Assurance Solutions Marketing Manager Download a transcript of the interview and be the first to receive the Getting the best QoE report Measuring QoE is difficult and even more...

The North American International Auto Show, popularly known as the Detroit Auto Show, happens each year the week after CES. As CES steals the thunder from many industry trade shows, it wasn't until this year it became clear they had stolen the auto industry's...

Wireless 20/20 digs into preparations for the upcoming FCC 600 MHz incentive auction proceedings It is time for bidders to start gearing up for the 600 MHz band incentive auction. This could be the last time a large block of valuable low-band spectrum will be...

A conversation about QoE with Tim Brooks, Account Director, Ascom Network Testing Download a transcript of the interview and be the first to receive the Getting the best QoE report The move to all-IP networks and the focus on QoE increases the complexity of testing and monitoring mobile...

How did we end up here? A history lesson In the beginning, there were six global wireless radio access network equipment vendors: Alcatel, Ericsson, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, Nokia and Nortel Networks. Subsequently in the mid-2000s, the emergence of the Chinese vendors to support TD-SCDMA for...