With the rampant adoption of smartphones and growth in mobile Internet, communications service providers have access to unprecedented amounts of data, including customer profiles, device data, network data, customer usage patterns, location data, apps downloaded, clickstream data and so forth. …
After World War I, the French built a series of entrenched border fortifications called the Maginot Line. They expected the next war to be a defensive one, like the previous one. At the same time, the U.S. focused on building …
Who dares follow the Google MVNO path? Earlier this year there was a great deal of buzz going around that Apple would unveil its own mobile service offering through a mobile virtual network operator approach. The buzz followed the Google …
Over the past few years, the “bring-your-own-device” trend has become increasingly popular – providing opportunities for employees to use their mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets or laptops to solve business problems. In most companies, these devices operate via a …
By selectively optimizing data, mobile network operators can increase revenue. Although it seems like a paradox, the conventional wisdom that subscribers will pay for extra bytes beyond their data plan has proven generally false. As subscribers become accustomed to doing …
The next step in the evolution of mobile broadband is “5G,” and its arrival will be a watershed moment for the entire TV and media industry, delivering the flexibility and high reliability needed to deliver video to billions of users …
If there’s one thing that is constant in the mobile industry, it’s the lofty predictions that come with the emergence of new services. Perhaps no other offerings are stirring more intrigue than those born from the “Internet of Things” and …
Google’s recent acquisition of Jibe Mobile is an exciting move in the evolution of rich communications services and promises to be a real step forward in the battle for mobile network providers to wrestle control of instant messaging from Apple …
There has been a lot of talk about small cell deployments in the past years. These low-powered, wireless radio access nodes are designed to be installed locally in cities’ dense, high-traffic environment to augment macro cells. They promise greater capacity, …
The age of encryption is upon us. Data gathered from mobile operator networks around the world reveal that between 50% and 65% of all mobile data traffic is now encrypted. This is up from a level of only 10-20% in …
The future of “5G” is the talk of the network. Despite its relatively undefined status, this next-generation network technology is one that many other emerging technologies are pinning their hopes on due to the capabilities beyond what the current 4G …
With more than 110 sports and entertainment venues currently being built or proposed for construction worldwide over the next few years, it makes sense to design stadiums with advanced networks that can meet future bandwidth demands for both visitors and venue …
Subscriber data management has gone from being the technology that would be a “nice to have” to an essential tool that operators are looking to adopt. Infonetics Research reported that the worldwide SDM market grew 29% in 2014 over 2013, …
There was a time when sports fans brought transistor radios to games to listen to the play-by-play while they watched the game. Even then, fans were finding ways to get access to information to improve their in-stadium experience. Today, fans …
Businesses have realized tremendous efficiency gains with the advent of cloud-based services and mobile computing, driving down operational costs and creating unprecedented growth opportunity. However, these technologies, along with the arrival of the “app store economy” and the deployment of …
Multiprotocol label switching has been around for 20 years and has served the enterprise well as the go-to method for global connectivity. It’s popular as a response to business needs for reliable and predictable network performance across the wide area …
When Forrester Research came out with a report claiming that traditional telcos could become an endangered species, many thought the industry was doomed for a swift decline. With increased changes in the market and commoditization around the services that telcos …
3.5 GHz spectrum rules create opportunities for equipment makers and service providers The explosive growth in mobile broadband traffic and its concomitant strain on limited spectrum resources has required the Federal Communications Commission to engage in creative frequency allocation. To …
With all the challenges facing mobile network operators around the world – increasing competition, diminishing average revenue per user, network management costs, demanding customers who want more bandwidth – it’s no surprise that mobile virtual network operators are taking flight. …
Just 10 years ago, enterprise technology was tied to a desktop or workstation, iPhones did not exist. Social collaboration meant instant messaging. Can you imagine a world today without mobile connectivity? Without the instantaneous access to information, or the inclusive …
In this third of our “5G is coming!” series of articles, we look at the radio access network and its transformation projected in the “5G” era. As outlined in our first article, 5G is about supporting the Internet of everything …
IDC forecasts that the installed base of the “Internet of Things” will be approximately 212 billion “things” globally by the end of 2020, and that these Internet-connected devices will generate nearly $9 trillion in annual sales. Make no mistake; IoT …
In today’s world filled with cellphones, tablets and other smart devices, operators are on the hot seat to manage network services quickly in order to avoid a slow and overloaded network. Software-defined networking is generating a lot of attention, mainly …
Earlier this month, my wife and I celebrated a special milestone: we met for the first time exactly 8,000 days ago in London (I was cooking tarragon chicken and, yes, the rest is history). Counting the days feels like a …
Increasingly, enterprises want the rapid provisioning and elasticity, self-service capabilities and on-demand advantages of cloud applications and services. But, they also want enterprise-class security, availability and manageability. Unfortunately, many are finding that’s easier said than done. On the one hand, …
