The Internet of Things has delivered on its promises perhaps faster than any buzzword in recent memory: by 2014, we hit a milestone of more connected devices than people in the world, and we’ve shown no sign of slowing down. By 2020, we’re likely...
Google and parent company Alphabet continue to earn the ire of European Union regulators, who are contemplated a second record fine for the company after recently smacking down the company for favoring results from its own shopping service over others.
This week came the news...
I spoke with Marc Seelenfreund, CEO of Siyata Mobile Inc., a push-to-talk player. Think of them like Nextel on steroids. You remember Nextel. They were the PTT company that flourished in the business marketplace, then suddenly disappeared. Since that time, carriers like AT&T Mobility,...
With the rapid adoption of new technologies from cloud computing and analytics to the explosion of third-party applications, network managers are constantly playing catch up to meet demands. They need the flexibility and agility to meet the challenge of giving employees the proper tools...
Why are smartphone product designers getting it so wrong? Maybe they are using their own personal preferences. Maybe they got some bad data. It doesn’t matter. They are wrong. The entire wireless marketplace does not want huge screens and giant smartphones. A slice of...
When working with innovative companies, my rule of thumb is “find it, fix it, fund it.” The new administration can apply a similar methodology to spectrum, especially when it comes to realizing a future of new mobile-based opportunities and next-generation networks. One of America’s...
It’s expected that by 2019, the capital markets applications for blockchain will reach $400 million, growing at a 52% compound annual growth rate. In addition, through 2020, one in five IoT deployments will utilize basic blockchain services. Using blockchain for IoT transactions and data...
Sorry, Android. Sprint is giving its Virgin Mobile mobile virtual network operator a face-lift: the MVNO will offer only iPhones and seems to be taking a page from Sprint's recent offer for a year of free service -- Virgin Mobile customers who buy an...
4 reasons IoT on wheels is accelerating and will be bigger than the connected car market
With headline-grabbing bells and whistles, the growing cult around connected cars is understandable. The booming market for connected services is expected to hit $250 billion—it’s undeniably hot.
Wearables, the connected...
For years, video has caused headaches for telecom carriers, driving costs up faster than revenue and leaving consumers dissatisfied. But as technology improves, and consumer viewing habits change, the future presents increasingly better prospects.
Online video isn’t new. But the large quantity and high quality...
What is influence marketing? As it turns out, I have been an influence marketer for three decades. Who knew? And, one way or another, this affects every business. Let me share some important thoughts with you as one of these influencers. Companies use influencers...
It was a huge deal when wireless carriers started launching 4G/LTE less than a decade ago—not just because of the speeds for consumer downloading and streaming, but for the broader implications of those speeds. LTE was the promise of telemedicine, enhanced technology for first...
One result of the advent of solid-state lighting (SSL) has been the development of connected lighting systems (CLS), which are networked to share the data produced by LED drivers or collected from sensors. SSL technology, which is based on LEDs or organic LEDs (OLEDs),...
According to the GSMA, worldwide mobile subscriber numbers have hit 5 billion. That's just actual users -- the GSMA says that mobile connections are actually at 7.7 billion. And those figures don't include machine-to-machine connections like all those connected cows.
https://twitter.com/GSMAi/status/874942141688156162
As Mike Quindazzi, managing director...
Something confusing is happening in the wireless industry. Why is Verizon, one of the two biggest wireless growth giants, stuck in the mud? AT&T is the other growth giant, and they have been on a rapid transformation and growth wave. Other competitors like Sprint,...
The internet is now the “reason for being” for most wireless and wireline service providers. Indeed, wireless and wireline networks are becoming the internet (homage to Eric Schmidt’s original vision of the network becoming the computer). These broadband networks are increasingly looking and working...
Asking an enterprise customer, say, a sports venue, to blanket their arena with your small cells is like asking your dad to buy you an expensive hot rod: it’s not going to happen unless you sweeten the deal. Instead of taking this one-down position,...
Storage performance and capacity within smartphones continued to increase significantly as smartphones have become the go-to devices for consumers globally. As such, mobile manufacturers around the world have nearly doubled device storage capacity on an annual basis as high-end smartphones now offer more capacity...
As digitization transforms how organizations operate, it is changing how the network operates in profound ways as well. As significant as the move from analog to digital, it is a shift away from hardware to virtual functionality. The speed of this change should not...
It seems like 2017 is the IBM Watson coming out party. You may have noticed their new television ad campaign showing how Watson and AI will impact, transform and improve company after company in industry after industry. Are you ready for artificial intelligence? Well,...
Over the last decade, we have experienced rapid growth of broadband access to both consumers and businesses. This growth of broadband services is being driven by multiple factors, namely:
1. The fast deployment of public and private Cloud systems increasing number of over-the-top (OTT) service providers...
All of the major mobile operators are beginning to use network functions virtualization (NFV) to implement fully-virtualized network infrastructures by 2020, but traditional server-based networking models limit performance and increase costs. NFV applications are I/O-intensive, and mobile operators can overspend on servers to deliver...
Sprint beat T-Mobile US this week, but I don't think they'll be bragging about the circumstances any time soon. Marcelo Claure edged out John Legere as one of the most-hated CEOs in America, according to analysis done by crowdsourced analytics company Owler.
The two wireless...
What do 42 grocery stores, a large corporate office and a 350,000 square foot distribution center distribution center have in common? They all make use of artificial intelligence. AI-powered Wi-Fi as-a-service enables our company to focus on our core competency, which is to manage...
