Opinion

This week, we will examine five of the top 10 developments for the third quarter and determine their short- and long-term effects on the telecommunications industry. These events are in …

There was a time when sports fans brought transistor radios to games to listen to the play-by-play while they watched the game. Even then, fans were finding ways to get …

BlackBerry is introducing its new Android device, the Blackberry Priv, which sounds like a wireless device that focuses on privacy and security. While that has always been the strength of BlackBerry and …

Businesses have realized tremendous efficiency gains with the advent of cloud-based services and mobile computing, driving down operational costs and creating unprecedented growth opportunity. However, these technologies, along with the …

Multiprotocol label switching has been around for 20 years and has served the enterprise well as the go-to method for global connectivity. It’s popular as a response to business needs …

When Forrester Research came out with a report claiming that traditional telcos could become an endangered species, many thought the industry was doomed for a swift decline. With increased changes …

Last week when iOS9 came out I upgraded my Apple iPhone 6. It worked. In fact, things went so well that this morning I upgraded an iPhone 5S and an …

3.5 GHz spectrum rules create opportunities for equipment makers and service providers The explosive growth in mobile broadband traffic and its concomitant strain on limited spectrum resources has required the …

End of summer greetings from Charlotte and Dallas. This week we will cover comments from two wireless CEOs as well as update the latest iPhone 6S Apple ship dates. Apple …

With all the challenges facing mobile network operators around the world – increasing competition, diminishing average revenue per user, network management costs, demanding customers who want more bandwidth – it’s …

Just 10 years ago, enterprise technology was tied to a desktop or workstation, iPhones did not exist. Social collaboration meant instant messaging. Can you imagine a world today without mobile …

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 …

All the press coverage around Apple’s event has included the obvious territory: the specs and sizes of the new products, etc. I’m less interested in covering the same ground. One of …

The CTIA Super Mobility conference last week showed the wireless industry as an incredible growth engine. While that is true, not every company will win going forward. The latest carrier …

Because of upcoming nonstop travel over the next two months, I took a hall pass from this year’s CTIA Super Mobility show. There was plenty of news, however, from Verizon …

In this third of our “5G is coming!” series of articles, we look at the radio access network and its transformation projected in the “5G” era. As outlined in our …

IDC forecasts that the installed base of the “Internet of Things” will be approximately 212 billion “things” globally by the end of 2020, and that these Internet-connected devices will generate …

In today’s world filled with cellphones, tablets and other smart devices, operators are on the hot seat to manage network services quickly in order to avoid a slow and overloaded …

IoT traffic volumes can put mobile networks at risk A digital transformation is now underway, which is impacting the way we live our lives. As the “Internet of Things” becomes …

There are good signs coming from Sprint. According to its most recent quarterly results, customer losses came in at a record low. This is a real sign that Sprint is in …

Earlier this month, my wife and I celebrated a special milestone: we met for the first time exactly 8,000 days ago in London (I was cooking tarragon chicken and, yes, …

Increasingly, enterprises want the rapid provisioning and elasticity, self-service capabilities and on-demand advantages of cloud applications and services. But, they also want enterprise-class security, availability and manageability. Unfortunately, many are …

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 …

Wireless network complexity Wireless networks are becoming more complex. This raises a question: Are we nearing a point where network complexity is moving beyond the capability of humans to manage? …

A lot of journalistic ink was spilled last week as media pundits tried to explain the mood of investors. “Don’t panic” was the most common theme through all of the …