Not since The Police has Synchronicity been this sexy. The coming together of two seemingly unrelated events such as Ethernet and timing, while not new, is profoundly necessary to make widespread Ethernet mobile backhaul a reality.
There are a number of possible solutions...
The VC business can be a strange game sometimes. That was typified for me this week courtesy of two lines in my WSJ reader (see below). While the "Larry the Bird" makeover took top billing on my screen, the two entries surrounded in...
Very few of us – and by us I mean humans – are advanced enough to handle more than one chore at any one time. Sure, some of us (you) are more advanced in that we (not me) can actually walk and chew gum
Holiday weekends are usually quiet ones overall for business, and especially in the telecom world. Not this year. Between Leap’s iPhone announcement, Randall Stephenson’s wide-ranging discussion at the Sanford C. Bernstein conference,
Two big IT events happened in Las Vegas last month: Interop and Symantec Vision. Both events made a very good impression on me when I downloaded the apps and found out I could do my check-in,
Today, most people think that the 911 system in the United States works well. In an emergency situation, a person can dial 911 on any type of phone, and first responders arrive
Editor's Note: This analysis was taken from an article that Ovum will be publishing in its subscriber newsletter in June, 2012.
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Ovum recently attended a Nokia-hosted analyst event in Dubai, where the vendor explained its current business and future prospects in the Middle...
Most operators and market analysts agree that cost effective backhaul is the greatest challenge for wide scale small cell network deployments. The high cost, arduous city approval process and
There is a lot of buzz around the term “heterogeneous networks,” but a big reason for the attraction are centered around Wi-Fi and small-cell technologies and their business implication for major stakeholders
News this week that Leap Wireless would begin offering Apple’s iPhone devices was a significant escalation in the competitive landscapes across the already red-hot smartphone and prepaid markets.
After studying a multitude of different data findings from our recently released global consumer electronics usage survey of 19 consumer electronic devices, Accenture asked a simple question:
A dozen years ago, practically every presentation at a mobile conference had a slide forecasting wireless data growth taking off like a hockey stick. Today, another chart is making the rounds,
So what kind of smartphone do you have? Is it an Apple iPhone, an Android, or a BlackBerry? As 3G and even 4G networks are deployed across Latin America, smartphone adoption is soaring. And once they experience the power, versatility and sheer fun of smartphones, people can get almost addicted to them.
The benefit of a long plane ride home with no diversions other than sitting through a playlist of hot-poker-to-the-eye "rom-coms" that I already watched traveling to and from the other spring trade shows is that I had plenty of time to stare out the...
Just about every conversation I had at the recent CTIA event in New Orleans either involved the words “spectrum crunch” or revolved around that perceived issue. Whether it was carriers, device makers or infrastructure companies,
One of the most wrestled with subjects in the Brazilian ICT industry is network neutrality regulation in the Brazilian Internet Civil Mark, a legislative project which defines principles, guarantees, rights and duties on Internet use in Brazil.
A new, potentially disruptive phenomenon called network unaffiliated virtual operators, or NUVOs, has emerged in the North American e-commerce marketplace.
DUBLIN – Alcatel-Lucent kicked off its TM Forum Management World 2012 presence by announcing a significant new addition to the CEM solution capabilities that it officially brought to market in February. The new offering, entitled Managed Service Quality and Assurance, essentially offers the capabilities...
News this week that Verizon Wireless may or may not begin forcing customers currently on unlimited data plans for their smartphones to bucket plans sent many in the blog-o-sphere into a tizzy.
On the day that Sprint tooted its horn as being the leading U.S. carrier in terms of customer satisfaction, the wireless operator's service went down covering nearly the entire Austin, Texas metro area. Local station KEYE TV reported that "a marathon repair effort...
Within a couple of years, the exploitation of various infection techniques will make malware as problematic on mobile devices as it is on PCs – and because mobile operators are also subject to Windows-based
It’s a delicate (some might say indelicate) question to ask – What is your mobile strategy? But I’ve learned not to make assumptions when companies come to us looking for help with their mobility issues.
Last week carriers, original equipment manufacturers and wireless ecosystem participants of all shapes and sizes descended on New Orleans for the annual CTIA show. And in a nice quirk of timing
There’s a lot of buzz in the microwave industry about the trend toward all-outdoor radios, but those who haven’t been through LTE deployments may be surprised to learn that based on our experience deploying LTE backhaul
