A conversation with Terry McCabe, CTO, Mobile Division, Mitel
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With VoLTE and Wi-Fi Calling, the role and reach of voice is changing...
Text messaging remains a significant form of communication between people, but it also looks set to become an ordering platform for businesses
Remember when you could sign up for online email notifications? You could ask your bank to email you an alert if your balance...
Iain Gillott parses out Sprint network plans in light of recent comments, noting what’s there today will likely be the same in a year
Market research analysts love change and confusion. And so in the mobile world of 2016, Sprint is like a gift straight...
A conversation about voice testing with Robert Bichefsky, Senior Manager, and Jagdish Vadalia, Senior Manager, GL Communications
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In this conversation, we talked...
A conversation with Shyamal Ramachandran, Director of Product Management, Qualcomm Technologies about VoLTE and Wi-Fi Calling
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In this conversation with Shyamal Ramachandran,...
Wi-Fi is a decades-old technology, but it remains as relevant as ever because it continues to evolve in ways that benefit vendors, service providers and their customers. The Wi-Fi Alliance’s 2015 annual report is a convenient opportunity to look back and forward at some of the...
Mobile Experts sees the move to 5G as a change in business models, not just a move for higher speeds
Each generation of technology adds something new to the picture: 1G gave us a phone in the car; 2G put the phone in your pocket;...
Development should focus on building mobile apps first and then build out the backend infrastructure for the web and cloud
It wasn’t too long ago (less than five years) when the strategy for application development was entirely focused on the desktop, which could be a...
A conversation about expanding voice and video with Gordon Mansfield, VP Radio Access Network and Device Design, AT&T
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Gordon Mansfield, VP Radio...
A conversation with Michael Campbell, Director of Service Assurance, EXFO
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Ensuring a good voice quality experience with VoLTE requires a robust...
Gerry Purdy looks at the complex world of web search and finds there are actually places outside the reach of Google and Bing
You can search the contents of your PC or Mac, but not easily search the contents of your mobile device. You can...
I just returned from the well-organized and well-attended Wi-Fi Now conference in Washington, D.C. Topics at the three-day conference included enterprise applications, home security, innovations, leadership, carriers, spectrum, LTE-U, the "Uber-ization" of the wireless industry and the disruptive role of Wi-Fi. There was less talk about...
Summary
Traditionally, average revenue per user (ARPU) has been one of the key metrics used to measure service providers’ (SP) financial performance. Increased competition has been putting downward pressure on ARPU, resulting in declining earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA). In parallel, the...
Dell’Oro Group looks at challenges facing small cells as they try to garner scale in the consumer and enterprise space
At a high level, small cells have moved from the hype phase to reality. The Dell’Oro Group estimates the nonresidential small cell market approached 300,000...
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...
Unlicensed spectrum is hugely valuable, and mobile operators are increasingly eager to leverage that spectrum. They started with Wi-Fi offload, and are now moving to LTE-Unlicensed and new ways to integrate Wi-Fi in their networks (carrier Wi-Fi, LWA). The Senza Fili report, “LTE unlicensed and...
This report on smart RAN will provide an overview and assessment of new technologies and solutions that optimize mobile traffic management to deliver a better performance and QoE, by improving network resource utilization. The report will discuss how real-time traffic management and virtualization will...
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...
