Opinion

The safety and security of students and faculty members must always rank as a top concern for educational organizations, but with national school enrollment numbers steadily increasing, security teams are frequently turning towards intelligent technology to best protect both people …

Governments and local authorities all around the world are turning to technology to help navigate the resource and spatial constraints associated with a global population that’s recently surpassed 8 billion, and with urban development steadily rising, today around 56% of …

There have been nearly 300,000 written contributions for 5G UE-related technologies. Three big network vendors (Huawei, Ericsson, and Nokia) have been leading in both the number of contributions and approved contributions for 5G technologies to The 3rd Generation Partnership Project …

Huawei kicked off MWC 2023 with their Green ICT Summit.  It was a series of presentations showing how they and their partner stakeholders are innovating to bring the power of ICT to help enterprise not only improve their own telecommunications …

Many companies, including telecom operators, have been voluntarily producing annualenvironmental, social and governance (ESG) reports based on various standards for some time. The Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB) Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) largely guides ESG reporting, with other metrics and …

Network slicing enables differentiated services Communication service providers (CSPs) know that nothing is predictable with networktraffic. The changing nature of network patterns is a challenge when providing thealways-on services that discerning clients demand. To address these challenges, 5G network slicing combines the coverage …

The convergence of wireless and wireline networks will provide a consistent 5G experience no matter how consumers are connected, delivering on the technology’s many promises – from better and differentiated Quality of Experience (QoE) to advances in the IoT and …

The telecom industry is entering a period of rapid growth and convergence, as technological advancements make it easier for people to communicate with each other on multiple different platforms. As companies like AT&T and Verizon continue to expand their offerings …

Rampant malicious activity in cyberspace hurts individuals, companies, and government agencies, while threatening US national security. The expected release of a new National Cybersecurity Strategy by the Biden Administration is an occasion for us to learn lessons from past efforts …

Will 5G Advanced live up to expectations? Since its launch several years ago, we expected 5G to be the next, big bang in wireless. Like with 3G and 4G we expected it to sweep across the industry, changing our lives. …

We’ve all heard the phrase, “it takes two to tango;” the same can be applied to network-based ecosystems Communication service providers (CSPs) have invested over $100 billion in their 5G networks and are looking for a return on that investment. …

We’re now firmly in the world of 5G. Well before the rapidly growing deployments of 5G Non-Standalone (NSA) networks, the technology’s potential has been hyped up as the key to delivering Industry 4.0 and innovative new services based on edge …

Back in 1868, George Boole’s wife paraphrased his thoughts on the capabilities of machines: Between them they have conclusively proved, by unanswerable logic of facts, that calculation and reasoning, like weaving and plowing, are work, not for human souls, but …

From AI-capable endpoint devices to autonomous systems, IoT developers are building a diverse ecosystem of products and services, only set to grow. The number of IoT connected devices worldwide is projected to reach over 15 billion in 2023. MicKinsey estimates …

For mobile operators, there’s a lot to like about network slicing. For starters, it enables their 5G networks to support a much more comprehensive range of use cases and customer types, which opens the door for more revenue opportunities. These …

Electric vehicle (EV) adoption is outperforming all expectations, and is now expected to represent more than half of U.S. vehicle sales by 2030. The ‘key link’ to mass adoption is now software, not hardware or vehicles. Fortunately, software innovations are …

With practically every social media platform doubling down on video over the past decade, the emergence of apps like TikTok, and the rise of competing movie and TV services, video on demand is the battleground where businesses fight for the …

A thorough environmental, social and corporate governance strategy is no longer a nice-to-have; it’s a must-have. In fact, loans with ESG terms are growing to record levels, with assets set to reach the $41 trillion mark by the end of …

Few technology innovations have been as heralded — or as polarizing — as 5G wireless communications. Over the last several years, mobile providers around the world have been heavily promoting it as the ideal infrastructure to support an expected wave of …

The second best thing to making a full-circle pivot to zero emission is to reduce your current footprint – with miles that are not driven, flights that are not taken, and energy that is not consumed. Indeed, while we transition …

It sometimes seems like we’ve been talking about 5G forever; yet ask Communications Service Providers (CSPs), vendors and other industry stakeholders, and you’ll hear the same refrain: we’re only at the beginning of this journey. With 5G coverage now blanketing …

As the telecommunications industry enters 2023, economic times are uncertain and capital and operational costs are under increased pressure. Customers need to be better understood and served. Communications Service Providers (CSPs) need to understand and manage their environment better. New …

Be honest. As we begin 2023, is 5G where you expected it to be? Even though 5G investments are already paying off for some leading communications service providers through areas like increased video/gaming usage on 5G (vs. 4G) and customized …

Massive IoT – or massive machine-type communications (mMTC) – is all around us. We live in a vast connected ecosystem of data-gathering applications that draw on comparatively low levels of data at source but which, when aggregated by application vendor …

2023 is shaping up to be a year of uncertainty for communications service providers (CSPs). Between inflation, rising energy costs and continued pressure to cut costs while launching new services, speed and cost savings remain the name of the game. …