Demand for uncapped broadband providers reaches a fever pitch
2018 can feel a lot like 1998 when your broadband provider is making you suffer with 200 GB data caps. And while originally designed to block a small group of BitTorrent bandwidth hogs, data caps are...
The networking and communications industry service providers — mobile, IoT, Internet, cable, and telecom technologies — are combining into a “converged network” because of the common infrastructures being implemented.
Things are changing dramatically in the world of these converged networks.
Not long ago, the cloud was...
If you were planning to look for Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai at the Consumer Electronics Show, you'd be out of luck. Pai, who has been a regular attendee of the CES show for the past few years, cancelled his scheduled appearance less...
Judging by what feels like the 25th Star Wars sequel (or is it prequel?) that debuted in theatres this holiday season, it appears that battles in the galaxy are never quite settled. For those keeping track of the dispute in Washington over net neutrality,...
Cellular technology innovation has been instrumental in creating wealth in recent years and has contributed significantly to global economic growth, either directly or indirectly. Each mobile network generation, including 2G, 3G, and 4G, has transformed consumers’ lifestyles and has enabled businesses to deploy new...
Internet of Things (IoT) has become a rallying cry for the world of connecting (mostly small devices) together and to the Cloud. This could be one of the largest new markets to develop in decades. You get meters able to read and forward information...
As we talk to people around the world about the benefits of fiber-fast wireless broadband, we hear a lot of crazy rumors about fixed wireless, from the outdated to the outlandish.
Here we tackle them head on to debunk just a few:
“Fixed wireless only works...
The wireless industry was full of expansion, growth, activity, excitement and some disappointment in 2017. So, what can we expect in 2018? Wireless will continue to be the center of the universe. Other industries will partner with and use wireless to expand and grow....
Carriers are late to the mobile advertising game, and they’re not pleased with the score. Not only do Google and Facebook own the field today, but they’ve also leveraged the carriers’ huge investments in wireless infrastructure to increase their advantage. The two companies represent...
It used to be that providing access to content was valuable. Now, the value is in creating original content and making it easy to consume on (primarily) mobile devices. Just look at AT&T buying Time Warner or Disney buying most of Fox as well...
Is the pace of digital transformation going to increase in 2018? Which businesses or industries will be at the forefront of this change?
Digital transformation will not only increase in 2018 but at a much more rapid pace than before. This is due to businesses...
Communications technology has undergone a phase of rapid innovation, completely transforming the way businesses and consumers relay and consume information. Now that our once-wired world has been almost entirely replaced by a landscape of wireless technologies, the ripple effects within the telecom space are...
You love the idea of buying an AI and IoT device like Google Home or Amazon Echo for the holiday season. You want to speak and have it deliver a song or weather report or sports score. You’ve seen it. You’ve used it. Sounds...
The biggest mobile tech news on Twitter this week as the buzz that 5G New Radio is officially here, with the non-standalone specification being ratified by 3GPP this week in Lisbon, Portugal.
https://twitter.com/SylviaLuUk/status/943785590092451841
It was no surprise -- the technical work was complete back in late...
When I was 13, I wanted a phone in my room, so I could talk to friends in my own space instead of sitting on the basement stairs or pacing back and forth in the kitchen and ultimately knotting the curly cord like a...
The tech industry, whether aware of it or not, is likely to see compliance issues arise around much more than just sales taxes in 2018. The line that separates traditional companies, which are accustomed to contending with consumption taxes, from telecom companies, which must...
Based on the hands-on involvement of the Xona Partners team in the design and rollout of smart cities, we found a clear lag in the deployment of technologies and services versus what technologies enable. We call this the cascading technology trap: technologies are evolving...
India is known to have the second largest population in the world at 1.3 billion, but it also has the second largest number of mobile subscriptions in the world. However, despite much progress in the last few years, when it comes to broadband, India...
I remember a number of years ago when Apple announced that iTunes would allow users to buy TV shows and movies. This seemed a bit strange: using iTunes which was created to manage music to deal with and manage other types of media like...
Unified communications is the name for a cloud-based service that lets companies use a growing and integrated variety of enterprise communications services. There are a growing number of providers in this space which is rapidly expanding. Let’s take a look at some of services...
The mobile telecommunications landscape has been changing over the past few years, particularly in the world’s developing economies. With customers demanding expanded rural network rollout and cost competition putting pressure on capital expenditure (CAPEX) and operating expenses (OPEX), mobile network operators (MNOs) have been...
The 802.1X standard for authenticating access to wired and wireless networks has met with a good deal of scrutiny in recent years. While 802.1X was considered a success when initially implemented on wired networks, with the shift to wireless networks, the growth of the...
In Federal Communications Commissioner Mignon Clyburn's dissent from the lifting of Title II regulation on internet service providers, she called her statement a "eulogy."
Twitter users alternately cheered and mourned the end of net neutrality, which was put in place under the Obama administration and...
A phoned-in bomb threat delayed but didn't derail a 3-2 party-line vote of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to undo Obama-era regulations governing net neutrality. After security officials swept the room with bomb-sniffing dogs, Republican FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, a former legal rep for...
