Opinion

It was bound to happen, and bound to happen at the hands of Sprint.

Digital signal processing is the key technology that enables connection from humans (and machines) to the Internet, whether by wire or wireless. Furthermore, there is no digital multimedia without DSP technology.

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and experiences. Fueled by the availability of …

Faster device launches, reduced device install times and cross-platform compatibility are a few of the benefits mobile operators and device manufacturers can experience when incorporating the mobile broadband interface model

Despite predictions from some industry analysts that mobile devices are reaching saturation in developed markets, it seems that every fall we get a fresh reminder

What a week for spectrum news. For those of you not amazed by talk of billions of dollars worth of charged air currently running through your body, you may want to click on one of the other interesting stories we pump out each day

Mobile enterprise value-added services are on the radar of information and communication technology companies as one of the most promising revenue streams over the next several years.

This past week, many in the telecommunications community began to take T-Mobile US seriously. For the second quarter in a row, the Bellevue-based wireless carrier posted net additions of over

Real estate is said to be about three things: location, location and location. The same is true of radio access networks. Spectrum and heterogeneous networks are all about location.

The rise of over-the-top messaging services has been hugely disruptive for the mobile industry. Free OTT messaging apps with text, VoIP and even video features have made the traditional operator revenue model of

Well, few could argue that it’s been a long week (month, year, years) for BlackBerry. This one-time proud (and oddly-named) non-polar bear or hockey monument

Spectrum is the foundational element of the wireless industry. For those who have tracked the industry for a while, carriers are constantly on the hunt for more spectrum to fill in order to

What if, when you walked in to Walmart – the world’s largest retailer – and inquired about refrigerators, their “greeter” directed you across the street to Sears? What if

This past week we had had earnings releases from Comcast, Time Warner Cable, U.S. Cellular and Sprint (as well as Facebook, Apple and Amazon). On top of this, we had the “what can happen” announcement of Sprint Spark,

Rural wireless subscribers are high value customers. Those of us working within the competitive carrier ecosystem already know this, but a recent survey commissioned by the Competitive Carriers Association shows it …

Of course … Spark! What else would Sprint name its plan to roll out high-speed wireless broadband services to customers using the deep spectrum pool

At the peak of the mobile virtual network operator fervor we witnessed in the 2005 to 2007 timeframe, common wisdom held that a successful MVNO must have killer content, a highly targeted

This past Wednesday afternoon, AT&T announced third quarter earnings. Generally they were well received, although some analysts searching for an “AT&T loses to T-Mobile US” story have been quick to point out that postpaid phone net additions were negative for the quarter