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...
IGR explains the reasoning for putting out today forecasts for 5G connectivity and bandwidth needs up to a decade down the road
We recently published a report with a model of the global “5G” connections for 2021 to 2026, combined with the bandwidth these connections...
Compass Intelligence notes chat and messaging platforms are set to explode across the enterprise space
The worldwide enterprise chat and messaging market will reach $1.9 billion by 2019, driven mainly by a changing structure of today’s workforce and the need to communicate effectively and immediately,...
IGR provides a refresher on the benefits and challenges of using 600 MHz spectrum, noting great coverage at the expense of greater capacity
As the Federal Communications Commission’s 600 MHz auction gets underway, I thought it would be a good time to review some of...
Mobile Experts digs into the use of 5G technology, small cells and different transmission methods at a Silicon Valley zoo
The San Jose Municipal Zoo recently announced plans to equip its large mammals with sensors for better tracking. In some ways this is yet another...
Google Project Fi includes T-Mobile US, Sprint and Wi-Fi networks today. This could lead to some amazing new wireless services in the future. Will Apple follow suit?
When my phone drops a call and I have to call back the person to whom...
Enterprises and businesses are at the cusp of a major transformation, a new wave of industrialization based on IoT
IoT will involve the intersection of powerful supply and demand factors that will cause a tremendous amount of change and value creation. Beyond the economic benefits of business use-cases...
Samsung’s Galaxy S7 and Apple’s iPhone 6 highlight the near convergence in camera technology with DSLR cameras
Smartphone cameras today are as good as most point-and-shoot cameras. They can also capture video in 4K – four times the resolution a high-definition TV can display. The...
The current first quarter 2016 outlook for the wireless base station original equipment manufacturer market is weak according to the latest report from EJL Wireless Research titled “Vector Analysis of Wireless Infrastructure Industry Q4 2015 Review and Q1 2016 Outlook.” The analysis covers the...
On the face of it, voice is a disappearing species. According to the Ericsson Mobility Report, in 2010 voice traffic was 50% of data. By 2015, it had dropped to less than 5%. Voice still holds court in many ways, but its role has evolved...
Iain Gillott dives into the importance of mobile video services to the need for 5G services
Last May, I wrote an article about over-the-top mobile video becoming the next battleground between the major mobile operators. Not wanting to toot our own horn too loudly, but...
Standards work on "5G" technology began in late 2015, and the first commercial networks probably won’t launch until 2020 at the earliest. But it’s not too early to begin pondering what 5G could mean for verticals such as health care, manufacturing, smart cities and...
Compass Intelligence breaks down Q4 and 2015 results for mobile carriers
Compass Intelligence just completed the final assessment of fourth quarter and end-of-year metrics with the domestic market’s major wireless carriers. We do this each quarter to understand the subscriber and share changes, as well...
FBI vs. Apple case and the role mobile device management is playing
The issue of privacy and the law – particularly with respect to terrorism and the FBI – is challenging. A number of people have asked me where I sit regarding the...
Breaking down the live saving opportunities of V2V
There's a lot of talk these days about autonomous driving. And, likely within the next 10 to 15 years, we will be able to have our cars take us to many locations without our having to touch...
Comcast plans to participate in the upcoming FCC auction and exercised option to resell Verizon Wireless services
Consider this interesting scenario, which seems likely to happen within the next year:
You’re moving into a new place so you give Comcast a call to arrange to...
Qualcomm to remain the dominant supplier of LTE baseband chips
As mobile operators increasingly accommodate new applications and use cases – 360-degree video, virtual reality, augmented reality, immersive graphics, computer vision, machine learning,and natural language processing – as well as increase the capabilities of cloud...
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...
