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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.” …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

Flash solid state storage is becoming more viable in mobile devices as price per GB continues to fall Let me ask you a critical question: How much storage do you need in your mobile devices? 64 gigabytes? 128GB? More? How …

A conversation about RAN optimization with Ofer Gottfried, CTO, Flash Networks Download a transcript of the interview and be the first to receive the Getting the best QoE report Policy is a crucial driver for operators to meet QoE targets, to allocate …

It’s almost time for the doors to open on the world’s biggest annual mobile tech event: Mobile World Congress. And this year the Mobile World Live team is ramping up its TV broadcast with some major new program launches. This …

A conversation about network strategy with Mony Kochupillai, Head of Network Perception, Three UK Download a transcript of the interview and be the first to receive the Getting the best QoE report Policy is a crucial driver for operators to meet QoE …

A conversation about QoE with Neil McKinlay, Director of Product Management, Anritsu Download a transcript of the interview and be the first to receive the Getting the best QoE report Policy is a crucial driver for operators to meet QoE targets, to …

Extrapolating $3 trillion in value from the mobile industry “A billion here, a billion there; pretty soon you’re talking real money.” –Attributed to Everett Dirksen, Wikipedia All of us know mobile is big business: just look at what it costs …

Roger Entner dissects Sprint as a viable carrier, finds hope in need of focus Sprint had a good subscriber quarter with an extremely aggressive pricing plan offering 50% off competitor pricing plans, guaranteeing the low prices until 2018. Sprint is …

Iain Gillott from iGR breaks down Sprint network plans and does not like what he sees Much has been written and speculated in the last week about Sprint’s network plans after the publication of a Re/Code article and the plan …

A conversation about network performance with Danielle Elaine Smith, Marketing Director, Alepo Download a transcript of the interview and receive the Getting the best QoE report Policy is a crucial driver for operators to meet QoE targets, to allocate their existing …