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.
More than 200 years ago, Edmund Burke said one of the most over-quoted sentences in history:...
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.
From existing data, extract new business insights that can be monitored in real time—This is the premise of all business...
If you work in IT or handle mobile devices for your organization, you’ve likely already experienced it: requests to move to the latest, greatest, fastest smartphone on the market (for the time being),
It’s no secret that the proliferation of smartphone and tablet devices – and the accompanying demand for mobile video – is continuing to drive the need for more bandwidth.
Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
Spectrum auctions for next generation mobile services have two different strategic implications for our region. First, in developing markets such as Latin America, mobile broadband is a crucial, cost-effective opportunity to increase broadband penetration, fulfill local governments' goals of digital inclusion and bring digital...
Recently, we described three trends: --Lower interest rates are allowing wireline companies (both incumbents and challengers) to strengthen their balance sheets.
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.
Capgemini and HP recently published their fourth annual World Quality Report that provides a “comprehensive assessment of the current state...
It takes the right combination of hardware, software, networks and services to monitor a loved one with Alzheimer’s, track mobile workers, pinpoint an offender’s whereabouts, maintain visibility
The appetite for wireless services and applications is driving hundreds of billions of dollars of revenue annually for operators. Building an infrastructure that meets the capacity and reliability
For one reason or another, I have been a bit off over the past couple of weeks in covering quarterly earnings for domestic wireless operators. This has me in a bit of a fog
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.
Ah, Brazil! The legendary sun-drenched beaches of Copacabana and Ipanema in Rio de Janeiro are full of young people sunning...
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.em>
How paranoid should we be about Huawei?
Recently, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence published a watershed...
Interconnect carriers and least cost routing models play an important role in sending voice calls around the globe. It is also commonly accepted that the benefits of LCR are worth the cost
Explosive growth in wireless traffic – thanks to mainstream adoption of smartphones, notebooks and tablets – has mobile operators scrambling to address data offloading problems and strategies.
Is anything ever easy for Clearwire? Late last week, everyone’s favorite WiMAX provider reported yet another quarter of “things will be better tomorrow … if …” results that have become all too common for Clearwire.
What's in the hearts and minds of AT&T Mobility, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile USA today? Think three letters: NPS – a fast-spreading obsession in the carrier community to foster a brand loyalty index for the industry
In 2002, Billy Beane’s Oakland Athletics set an all-time baseball record winning 20 games in a row. In the process Beane’s “moneyball” concept revolutionized the sport, changing its thinking, its planning and its economics.
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.
Much was said in September this year about the arrest of Fábio Coelho, Google Brazil's CEO. To understand his arrest,...
It’s no question that enterprise mobility is becoming ubiquitous. Many of the organizations I work with are moving beyond low-hanging mobility fruits like e-mail and calendar management.
Apple had historically taken a similar approach to the automotive industry in terms of rolling out new models: introduce a new model every year with enough enhancements to entice, but not revolutionary
Sprint Nextel is the third tier-one carrier set to release its earnings and performance metrics, scheduled for Oct. 25. The company is in the midst of a turnaround cycle.
