Opportunities abound for telcos, including IoT, cloud, carrier-grade Wi-Fi, 5G and content integration
Just about everything the telecom industry is doing today is completely different than what it was up to 10 years ago. Landlines are nearing extinction; long-distance service is a thing of the...
LTE and Wi-Fi may appear to be competing for the same market, but superior latency provides the latter with a better user experience
At Aptilo we have never understood the fight between LTE and Wi-Fi. As our deployments with more than 100 service providers have...
Last week I attended the AT&T Industry Analyst Summit. Wireless is going to play an increasingly large and important role at the company going forward, but the story is much bigger than that. The analyst community was filled in on everything AT&T at this...
The internet of things is set for explosive growth, but are you prepared? Here are 4 tips from Fortegra that might help in preparing for IoT.
As smart homes and wearable technology grow in popularity, and more items become “connected,” the “internet of things” will...
Voice over Wi-Fi has captured a lot of attention lately. A&T Mobility recently announced that it is handling 4 million VoWi-Fi calls per day, upon which T-Mobile US countered that it boasts some 22 million calls per day using the technology. Now, many enterprises...
Sure, the future is going to be awesome, but what’s the rush in getting autonomous vehicles and connected cars on the street?
Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry,...
Recently, Ericsson has made two major announcements regarding workforce reductions. One was related to the closing down of manufacturing in Sweden for wireless telecom equipment, which would result in lost jobs for 3,000 people. The latest is just an overall restructuring with another 900...
Mobile edge computing looks set to be part of 5G and IoT, with the recent MEC Congress showing considerable progress in the technology
I recently attended the Mobile Edge Computing Congress in Munich, Germany. (I actually chaired the first day of the event.) For those...
The recent Samsung Note 7 battery and the SpaceX explosions show things go wrong in spite of our best planning
It was shocking to see the recent photos and videos of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exploding during a routine preflight test as well as...
New and evolving digital video models are set to change the market and require a new mindset to succeed
Remember in recent years when technology disruption upended the music and publishing industries?
A slightly different – yet potentially more seismic – upheaval is happening now...
Spectrum sharing and small cell strategies need to adjust with the times in order to benefit carriers and consumers
Hope is not a strategy, said someone wiser than me. Yet mobile network operators across the world appear to be adrift in an asteroid field of...
Advanced SDN and NFV platforms are central to mobile operator migration plans, offering lower costs and better performance
The increasing commoditization of network bandwidth along with competitive pressure from over-the-top providers is causing leading communication service providers to question and recognize the immediate need to...
France-based telecom operator Orange is pushing into the mobile banking space, highlighting new opportunities for operators
The new voice in the telecom industry may not be a voice at all. It may just be “bank.”
Orange Telecom, which has around 28 million mobile clients in France...
The term smart cities is popping up more frequently. So what does smart city actually mean? It’s a relatively new term, but it will be huge going forward. I am invited to attend more smart city conferences here in the U.S. and worldwide to...
Connected to the Yahoo hack, can users protect themselves from future attacks and will it affect the sale to Verizon/AOL?
I think you’d have to have been living in a cave if you didn’t see any online news stories or live TV news broadcasts about...
The FCC has proposed spectrum sharing programs designed to boost capacity for 5G and IoT that could prove advantageous for all involved
By now it’s clear that wireless connections are the bulwark of our connected society. At some point in the day, most Americans use...
So, it’s official. Comcast is going to make their second attempt at wireless according to their CEO Brian Roberts. So what does re-entering wireless mean for Comcast's future? The way the industry is heading, they need to be a player in wireless to remain...
Over the last couple of years, there has been much attention to and change in the mobile payment space. PayPal was the leader for decades when Apple Pay, Google Pay and countless others entered the space in the last couple of years. The assumption was...
LitePoint Design Test Solutions looks at radio frequency design tradeoffs in IoT wireless designs
As “internet of things” devices become essential in our lives and in industry, so too will their quality and reliability. From door locks to industrial sensors to medical equipment, a wireless...
Evolving network opportunities available through advances in software require an adjustment in how we view the network
It’s interesting how casually we accept exponential-growth concepts like mobile, social and ultimately the “internet of things.” The impending differentials in size of the device universe – from...
Software again reigns supreme as Apple iWork real-time collaboration is the start of something very important for the enterprise
There certainly was a lot of interesting news from the recent Apple product launch. While the hardware seems to always get the headlines, it’s most often...
Only 9% of 55 companies are “digital high performers,” according to data from Accenture, with Apple, Citrix, Huawei, Microsoft and Salesforce.com noted
The high-tech industry should be a leader in understanding the needs for, and deriving benefits from, a complete digital transformation. But new evidence...
Sprint is on a comeback. But what exactly does that mean? I have followed them over the last few decades as a wireless analyst and I would say Sprint is better and faster than ever before. I also sense there is more to come....
As the telecommunications space evolves to serve new segments like IoT and use new technologies like NFV and SDN, security remains a critical challenge
This is a time of great opportunity for communications service providers. Demand for all sorts of cloud-based services is on the...
