Opinion

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 …

Title II and net neutrality In my capacity as a correspondent for RCR Wireless News and a resident of the Washington, D.C., area, I often write about wireless telecom policy. …

Unless you have been staring at your TV/PC screen waiting for “House of Cards” to load since Friday and watched or read nothing else, you have no doubt heard about …

This has been a week filled with news – Mobile World Congress, analyst conferences and the normal course of business – and regulatory conjecture. I have decided to stop trying to …

How to optimize UX development and increase return on mobile app investment In an increasingly interconnected world, it’s not difficult to see why the user experience – all facets of …

As today’s sports and music fans post data-hungry tweets, selfies and text messages from live events, stadium and large venue facility managers are struggling to manage wireless data capacity to …

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 …

It is shaping up to be a very interesting 2015 in the world of wireless infrastructure. As operators and investors evaluate how to play their cards this year and beyond, there are …

As expected, last week was full of rhetoric with respect to the Federal Communications Commission’s pending Open Internet Order. Pictured below is Verizon Communications’ response typed in Morse Code – …

Heterogeneous networks have been brewing for a few years now, but 2015 will be the year they become mainstream as several core components reach maturity. The starting point came with …

Sensors are vital to smartphones today We use the sensors embedded in our smartphones every day, often without even realizing it. The screen flips as you hold your phone in …

In most cases, the management structures of mobile network operators have yet to grasp the value proposition of the “Internet of Things” as they have been historically hyper-focused on competing …

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 …

Next week is the GSMA’s Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain, the mobile Internet and cellular telephone industry’s largest global conference. The MWC 2015 show is expected to feature conference …

Most smartphones these days come standard with some kind of off-the-shelf fitness application. My iPhone, for instance, tracks my steps and tells me how far I walk each day. If …

It’s easier than ever for consumers to regularly have the latest and greatest mobile device, thanks to continued price decreases and special carrier programs. This leads to happy consumers, carriers, …

Over 50% of the world’s LTE subscribers today are in the U.S. With its aggressive 4G deployments aided by the thriving application ecosystem, the U.S. was able to wrestle back the leadership …

Verizon spectrum auction results conference call: Densify, baby, densify Verizon Communications’ Tony Melone, EVP network, and CFO Fran Shammo held a short, but extremely informative, conference call helping the analyst and …

For years we have been hearing about how virtualization has revolutionized the enterprise data center, providing a wide range of benefits from both a business and technology standpoint. With the …

There are going to be more mobile phones than people on the Earth by end of this year. Can you imagine? The planet will have over 7 billion smartphones! We …

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 …

In my Generation Wireless columns I generally share the viewpoint of the post-Internet generation, colloquially called “millennials,” on the emerging trends and the ebbs and flows of wireless technology. Sometimes I …

AT&T, Verizon will give us the answer One hot area for automotive technology these days is the “connected car,” a vehicle sold with a built-in cellular radio modem that connects …

Many of you have called/written me about the general chatter regarding regulatory changes proposed by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler. The telecom industry needs to take Aaron Rodgers’ advice …

Some of the recent competitive promotions from wireless service providers are concerning for the industry as a whole. Telecoms can learn from the overall value destruction experienced in other industries, …