Analyst Angle

Editor’s Note: Welcome to Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. If only the dream of “build it and they will come” were true, …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. Pardon the pun in the title, but I could not resist. By now — …

Claudia Bacco, RCR Wireless Managing Director, EMEA recently had the opportunity to discuss with Chris Lewis, Managing Director, Chris Lewis Insight, some key topics facing the telco industry in today’s changing technology climate. With new players joining the competition, new …

The great thing about the “Internet of Things” is that, by definition, it is a very big space and covers everything from a connected washing machine to industrial machine-to-machine applications and solutions. The industry obviously loves this approach since many …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. Dark fiber — the dirty word of early-2000s telecom — …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. By now, you will all have read umpteen different stories …

Over the Top (OTT) Services The over-the-top trend started in the telecommunications sphere with free, IP-based telephony services but has now crossed to all other telecom services, gaining momentum by focusing on content and services. Currently, OTT providers are developing …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. Regulatory hurdles have apparently put to rest Softbank’s plans to …

First, the good news: between August 2013 and April 2014, the number of consumers who admitted to reading and replying to e-mails, and watching video

While the markets have reacted to this announcement, both BlackBerry and MobileIron shares have fallen. I think we need look at the cause and effect in both the short and long term to truly understand the overall impact.

Between August 2013 and April 2014, consumer familiarity with both fitness devices and smart watches was unchanged. In fact, the responses to these questions were almost identical.

Slightly tired by the hype around network function virtualization and software-defined networking – and by the fact that everybody has to find some way to add these acronyms to their slide decks –

When T-Mobile US made its announcement, the immediate question was “how much data are they giving away?” Obviously, music streaming services can use a lot of data in a day, depending on how many hours they are streaming.

Small cells remain a bit of an enigma for the wireless space. Predictions for years have opined that the move to small cell deployments were just around the corner as surging demand for mobile data services had traditional wireless networks …

Cyber-attacks continue to become more innovative and sophisticated. Unfortunately, while organizations are developing new security mechanisms, cyber-criminals are cultivating new techniques to circumvent them.

Security is becoming a central focus for mobile services as personal smart devices occupy an increasing position in storing personal and professional data.

Historically, the wireless infrastructure value chain consisting of tower operators, fiber backhaul providers and neutral colocation facility providers has existed as three distinct provider groups.

Hardly a day goes by without an announcement of a new partnership between an operator and an over-the-top provider. OTT partnering has become a key strategic initiative,

In early April, I had the pleasure of participating in the NEDAS Forum event in New York City. The forum had attendees and speakers covering all aspects of the deployment value chain.

Connectivity and bandwidth have become commodities in the data communications market. To differentiate themselves, telecom operators have been bundling

Many Latin American operators have recently started offering free access or access without using data allowance for selected applications, generally to

The FCC appears ready to continue the narrow channelization idea for the upcoming incentive auctions intended to reallocate up to 120 megahertz of broadcast spectrum to wireless broadband.

Informa plc is merging its Ovum and Informa Telecoms and Media units into a single company. Steve Hotham, currently a managing director at Ovum, will become the CEO of the combined company, which will operate under the Ovum name. Both …

During this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Nokia and Mozilla announced new products and plans for the affordable smartphone market.

It’s generally accepted that by the beginning of the next decade the machine-to-machine market, or, if you prefer, the larger-scope “Internet of things,” will have more connected devices