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. Brazil is a vast country, occupying more than 8.5 million square kilometers—and dominating the map of South America. Brazil’s sheer scale and wealth of natural resources have made it one [...]

Three events have impacted the balance of postpaid power thus far in 2013: 1) Walmart’s introduction of the iPhone 5 (3G only) through Tracfone/Verizon Wireless. We have spent some time on the million net add effect on Verizon Wireless’ Q1

About one billion people are employed by small- and medium-sized businesses around the world. At first glance, it seems unlikely these SMBs would have much in common; they cover all sorts of

Distributed antenna systems have been one of the fastest-growing types of cellular infrastructure for the past 15 years. In the late 1990’s, DAS were initially deployed inside

With the rapid increase in social networking, gaming and commerce traffic coming from mobile devices, there’s suddenly a gaping need for a Web experience designed primarily for access from mobile devices,

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

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,

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 [...]

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

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 [...]