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Reader Forum: Giving your network a voice – the power of analytics

In today’s mobile world, the occasional dropped call or slow-loading app are bound to happen, but users are growing less tolerant of such “hiccups” and are more demanding of consistent mobile performance.

Reader Forum: Business as unusual – the way to get results

Business leaders and CEOs know that a “business as usual” approach often brings only the usual results, especially in a difficult economy. Service providers are also quickly discovering that “business as usual” is the wrong attitude,

Analyst Angle: Nokia’s Asha Touch range is compelling, but will face challenges

Nokia recently launched three new devices – the Asha Touch 311, 306, and 305 – as it continues to execute on its “connecting the next billion” strategy. With larger three-inch displays and a new design, the major selling point of the devices is the...

Worst of the Week: The future is here … and it’s a data world

Verizon Wireless made an interesting decision this week, announcing plans to begin hating kittens, freedom and Justin Beiber beginning June 28.

Reality Check: How mobile operators can beat OTT upstarts at their own game

Text messaging has long been a cash cow for mobile operators, currently generating about 20% of their revenue. But over-the-top services such as Facebook, Skype, WhatsApp, Twitter and Apple’s iMessage are rapidly siphoning off SMS revenue.

Reality check: The World Cup Games are calling. Can Latin American service providers take the call?

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. In two short years, the FIFA World Cup soccer games will descend on Rio de Janeiro, drawing thousands of attendees—tourists...

Reality Check: Pros and cons of BYOD

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. There is an intimate connection between people and their mobile device. It has been coined the "consumerization of IT" and...

1588v2 uptake key to widespread Ethernet mobile backhaul

Not since The Police has Synchronicity been this sexy. The coming together of two seemingly unrelated events such as Ethernet and timing, while not new, is profoundly necessary to make widespread Ethernet mobile backhaul a reality. There are a number of possible solutions...

Venture Capital: A week ranging from the bizarre to the sublime

The VC business can be a strange game sometimes. That was typified for me this week courtesy of two lines in my WSJ reader (see below). While the "Larry the Bird" makeover took top billing on my screen, the two entries surrounded in...

Worst of the Week: Focused on the task at hand

Very few of us – and by us I mean humans – are advanced enough to handle more than one chore at any one time. Sure, some of us (you) are more advanced in that we (not me) can actually walk and chew gum

Reality Check: Where are we headed with smartphones? The semi-annual view

Holiday weekends are usually quiet ones overall for business, and especially in the telecom world. Not this year. Between Leap’s iPhone announcement, Randall Stephenson’s wide-ranging discussion at the Sanford C. Bernstein conference,

Reality Check: BYOD demands mobile security improvements

Two big IT events happened in Las Vegas last month: Interop and Symantec Vision. Both events made a very good impression on me when I downloaded the apps and found out I could do my check-in,

Reality Check: Real emergencies show the need for better 911 location performance

Today, most people think that the 911 system in the United States works well. In an emergency situation, a person can dial 911 on any type of phone, and first responders arrive

Exclusive Analysis: Nokia looks to consolidate on its early lead in MEA

Editor's Note: This analysis was taken from an article that Ovum will be publishing in its subscriber newsletter in June, 2012. Summary Ovum recently attended a Nokia-hosted analyst event in Dubai, where the vendor explained its current business and future prospects in the Middle...

Reader Forum: Selecting the right wireless technology for small cell backhaul

Most operators and market analysts agree that cost effective backhaul is the greatest challenge for wide scale small cell network deployments. The high cost, arduous city approval process and

Reader Forum: Wi-Fi vs. small cell – friends or foes?

There is a lot of buzz around the term “heterogeneous networks,” but a big reason for the attraction are centered around Wi-Fi and small-cell technologies and their business implication for major stakeholders

Worst of the Week: All in

News this week that Leap Wireless would begin offering Apple’s iPhone devices was a significant escalation in the competitive landscapes across the already red-hot smartphone and prepaid markets.

Reality Check: Three prime market opportunities for CE companies

After studying a multitude of different data findings from our recently released global consumer electronics usage survey of 19 consumer electronic devices, Accenture asked a simple question:

Reality Check: How a next-gen OSS turns wireless’ complexity into an opportunity

A dozen years ago, practically every presentation at a mobile conference had a slide forecasting wireless data growth taking off like a hockey stick. Today, another chart is making the rounds,

Reality Check: The BYOD trend hits Latin America

So what kind of smartphone do you have? Is it an Apple iPhone, an Android, or a BlackBerry? As 3G and even 4G networks are deployed across Latin America, smartphone adoption is soaring. And once they experience the power, versatility and sheer fun of smartphones, people can get almost addicted to them.

TM Forum 2012 Wrap-up: Over analyzing the importance of Analytics in CEM?

The benefit of a long plane ride home with no diversions other than sitting through a playlist of hot-poker-to-the-eye "rom-coms" that I already watched traveling to and from the other spring trade shows is that I had plenty of time to stare out the...

Worst of the Week: Black gold from thin air

Just about every conversation I had at the recent CTIA event in New Orleans either involved the words “spectrum crunch” or revolved around that perceived issue. Whether it was carriers, device makers or infrastructure companies,

Reality Check: Network neutrality and the Brazilian Internet Civil Mark

One of the most wrestled with subjects in the Brazilian ICT industry is network neutrality regulation in the Brazilian Internet Civil Mark, a legislative project which defines principles, guarantees, rights and duties on Internet use in Brazil.

Reader Forum: Will NUVO providers disrupt m-commerce?

A new, potentially disruptive phenomenon called network unaffiliated virtual operators, or NUVOs, has emerged in the North American e-commerce marketplace.