Having attempted to steer clear of the Softbank/Sprint Nextel/Dish/Clearwire soap opera for at least a week, I find myself back in the stands at this ongoing circus trying to again
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Worst of the Week: The never-ending circus >
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Analyst Angle: M2M success for Latin America service providers >
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Analyst Angle section. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Analyst Angle: LTE interest high in Latin America; spectrum, business case challenges remain >
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Analyst Angle section. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Reader Forum: VoLTE – The next-generation tool for maximizing voice revenue >by Dan Meyerby Dan Meyer
In today’s data-centric world, LTE is typically associated with evolving high-speed data services, but its voice applications are rapidly gaining traction. As global LTE network deployments rapidly accelerate,
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Reader Forum: Adjusting to the age of the ‘digital lifestyle’ >by Dan Meyerby Dan Meyer
Many operators around the world are cognizant of the fact that there has been a seismic shift in their business world over the last few years, while others are just waking up to the reality.
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Worst of the Week: Wait, there was a trade show? >by Dan Meyerby Dan Meyer
This week witnessed the first half of wireless trade association CTIA’s on-going dual-trade show format, with the “spring” event held in Las Vegas. Thankfully, this process of holding both a
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Reality Check: Bringing benefits of cloud-based BSS to Brazilian service providers >
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. Brazil is a vast country, …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Reality Check: Below the surface, why wireless carriers are worrying >by Dan Meyerby Dan Meyer
Three events have impacted the balance of postpaid power thus far in 2013: 1) Walmart’s introduction of the iPhone 5 (3G only) through Tracfone/Verizon Wireless. We have spent some time on the million net add effect on Verizon Wireless’ Q1
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Reality Check: The future of telecom revenue – SMBs and the cloud >by Dan Meyerby Dan Meyer
About one billion people are employed by small- and medium-sized businesses around the world. At first glance, it seems unlikely these SMBs would have much in common; they cover all sorts of
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Reader Forum: Uplink DAS performance – then and now >by Dan Meyerby Dan Meyer
Distributed antenna systems have been one of the fastest-growing types of cellular infrastructure for the past 15 years. In the late 1990’s, DAS were initially deployed inside
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Reader Forum: The rise of the contextual and customizable mobile Web >by Reader Forumby Reader Forum
With the rapid increase in social networking, gaming and commerce traffic coming from mobile devices, there’s suddenly a gaping need for a Web experience designed primarily for access from mobile devices,
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Worst of the Week: The sweet smell of desperation >by Dan Meyerby Dan Meyer
There is nothing like desperation to make someone sweat. And there is nothing like the smell of sweat to tell when someone is desperate. Some may call it sweet, but I prefer to refer
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Analyst Angle: The mobile industry plays a fundamental role in developing Latin American economies >by Gina Sanchezby Gina Sanchez
Between April 24 and April 26, the GSMA LA Plenary Meeting No. 39 was held in Bogota, Colombia, with more than 400 attendees from 19 countries including representatives from mobile operators, telecommunications suppliers,
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Reality Check: Opportunities and challenges of mobility, cloud computing and social media >
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. A new trinity is on …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Reality Check: In M2M, active antenna systems are critical to success >by Dan Meyerby Dan Meyer
There are few markets as hot, exciting and challenging as machine-to-machine these days. Analyst forecasts are an obvious way to identify a hot market, but another is the number of vendors entering
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Reader Forum: SDN and its benefits >
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Reader Forum: This is what the future of high-quality video looks like >by Dan Meyerby Dan Meyer
If you manage an enterprise IT network, chances are that “high-quality video sessions” are the last words you want to see. As most businesses are still trying to figure out how they’ll deliver voice and
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Reader Forum: Big data, business intelligence and customer analytics >by Dan Meyerby Dan Meyer
Once you were what you ate. Today, you are your mobile device. Mobile operators have an intricate and involved relationship with their customers. As technology evolves, smartphones are becoming
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Worst of the Week: This battle will be televised! >by Dan Meyerby Dan Meyer
I know there is more going on in the wireless space than this battle of billionaires over Sprint Nextel, but I can’t for the life of me get enough of it.
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Analyst Angle: U.S. carriers – there is no place like home >by Dan Meyerby Dan Meyer
President Obama’s visit to Myanmar a few months ago was considered as a major sign of U.S. interest in this part of the world. For the telecommunication industry, this is certainly the
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Reality Check: The sober reality of small cells >
Mobile operators and vendors alike are awakening to the sober reality of the complexity involved in deploying 10s and 100s of hundreds of small cells in a very dense indoor and outdoor area.
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Reader Forum: CPRI and DAS >by Dan Meyerby Dan Meyer
One of the enduring challenges in matching up a distributed antenna system with a mobile base station has been the need to use RF as the method of interface. Using RF as the interface adds complexity and
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Reader Forum: Beyond the ‘connected home’ to ‘connected lives’ >by Dan Meyerby Dan Meyer
Most consumers are now familiar with the concept of the connected home, and some are even utilizing it today through services like Verizon’s Home Monitoring and Control offering.
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Worst of the Week: A billion laughs >by Dan Meyerby Dan Meyer
Who knew billionaires were so petty, sensitive and funny? And, more importantly, how awesome is it that billionaires are so petty, sensitive and funny?
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Reality Check: Get ready, mobile cloud putting telecom companies to the test >by Dan Meyerby Dan Meyer
As diverse mobile devices continue to invade the workplace and employees demand more sophisticated mobile applications to get their work done, enterprises are increasingly combining mobile applications