Appian looks at cloud deployment options, noting hybrid cloud makes sense in the near term
It’s a gamble. Cloud adoption is barreling along at breakneck speed, but even as round and round it goes, where it will stop no one knows. Should businesses put all...
Who does T-Mobile US CEO John Legere remind you of? Legere and Donald Trump seem to have been cut from the same cloth. Both are bigger than life. Both attract lots of attention to themselves and their brand with a few choice words. Both...
Iain Gillott dives into the importance of mobile video services to the need for 5G services
Last May, I wrote an article about over-the-top mobile video becoming the next battleground between the major mobile operators. Not wanting to toot our own horn too loudly, but...
Jim Patterson looks at a trio of headlines set to impact Q1 wireless results
This week, we’ll look at three key headlines that will drive first quarter momentum in the wireless world. Next week, we’ll look at the three most important events for the wired...
Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure is traveling around the U.S. on a listening tour, talking with customers trying to get a good understanding of Sprint’s position in the marketplace from their point of view. Let me offer my two cents. Sprint quality, reliability, reach and...
Graphite Software looks at ways to control data access on mobile devices for children
Poor, beleaguered parents these days. Not only do they have to wage daily battles with their kids about too much “screen time” at home, they have to track the security, privacy...
One2Touch notes various NFC technology use cases
There’s no doubt today’s consumers are mobile, a lifestyle that calls for dependable and continuous communication. As we increasingly rely day-to-day on our mobile devices, near field communication is a short-range wireless connectivity technology that supports the mobile...
Austin is a laboratory for IIoT 5G innovation and a microcosm of the global trend towards urbanization
Known to many as home to South by Southwest, barbecue, live music and 6th Street revelry, Austin, Texas, has emerged as a “laboratory for innovation” according to...
WOTW looks at how recent comments from Verizon on unlimited data appear limited in scope
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...
Virtual reality is here ... well, sort of. I have two questions. As a user, is it worth buying products like the Samsung Gear VR today, and, as an investor, is it worth investing in today? Like the early smartphone market, while I believe...
Compass Intelligence breaks down Q4 and 2015 results for mobile carriers
Compass Intelligence just completed the final assessment of fourth quarter and end-of-year metrics with the domestic market’s major wireless carriers. We do this each quarter to understand the subscriber and share changes, as well...
FBI vs. Apple case and the role mobile device management is playing
The issue of privacy and the law – particularly with respect to terrorism and the FBI – is challenging. A number of people have asked me where I sit regarding the...
Giraffic wades into the streaming video content challenges facing the mobile telecom space
It's a great time to be in the streaming media business. Over the course of the past year, we’ve seen tremendous growth in mobile watching – especially with millennials. With services like...
Jim Patterson looks at the current set-top box proceeding from the FCC
Fresh off the one-year anniversary of enacting net neutrality rules, the Federal Communications Commission turned its attention to Section 629 of the Telecom Act of 1996. Yes, the STB has been clinging to...
Voxbone looks at the work being done to formalize SIP standards
Session initiation protocol, the most popular voice over Internet protocol telephony protocol, saw daylight for the first time in 1999. The new signaling standard defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force was written with...
Wipro sees great change and opportunity in network assurance from NFV deployments
Network functions virtualization has brought the capability of the telco networks on commodity hardware and software. Never before was the pace of change so fast and so disruptive. The question being asked today...
Central Texas Angel Network (@CTANAngels), Virgo Capital (@virgocapital) and Angelspan (@AngelSpanInc) join Austin Coding Academy (@AustinCoding) for timely discussion on the tech bubble
Tech bubble forum discussion is hosted by Austin Coding Academy and broadcasted by RCR Wireless News.
Topics include:
Are tech companies overvalued?
Is IPO the new "down round"?
What do...
Worst of the Week is all about 5G progress, but asks that we first make sure we finish what we started with 4G
Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this...
Breaking down the live saving opportunities of V2V
There's a lot of talk these days about autonomous driving. And, likely within the next 10 to 15 years, we will be able to have our cars take us to many locations without our having to touch...
Suddenly we are interested in security. Let me ask you a question: who has the most secure wireless phone? The vast majority would say BlackBerry. However, the current FBI vs. Apple case is changing everything we know about security. As a wireless analyst, I...
Jim Patterson breaks down what’s needed next by Frontier and Cablevision, and asks if wireline is cool again
This week, we will take a look at the last quarterly earnings call from Frontier prior to their acquisition of Verizon Communication’s California, Texas and Florida properties,...
Cambium Networks notes the usefulness of wireless backhaul for areas outside the reach of fiber
In the world of broadband, there is little doubt that the advent of fiber will bring faster, more reliable connections than the traditional copper infrastructure ever could. What we sometimes...
OpenCloud provides an avenue for carriers looking to tackle VoLTE service parity
In a world of contracting margins for core voice services, the transition to voice over LTE and all-IP networking offers a lifeline for operators. By delivering substantial increases in spectrum capacity, VoLTE promises...
WOTW gives full props to Samsung for taking lucky No. 7, but really hopes it draws a snarky response from Apple
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...
