WhatsApp has been all over the news after signing a $19 billion deal with Facebook. It has a lot of people speculating what it means for the telecom industry.
The fun and flurry of retail discounts during the high-volume holiday shopping season were marred last year by the much-publicized breach of customer data at popular retailer Target.
Following on the heels of increasingly common, albeit still fairly new “freemium” service offerings, AT&T’s recently announced sponsored data service launch has been unusually controversial.
In many respects, 2013 was the year big data truly came of age. The term itself evolved from industry jargon and into the vernacular of the American consumer, as corporations and government
When it comes to keeping customers, user experience is the most important consideration for carriers today. However, it is often the case that speeds and bandwidth are not equally shared among customers.
Research from Ovum tells us that in 2013, mobile operators forfeit $32.5 billion dollars in messaging revenues to free applications like WhatsApp and Viber. There is an old Stoic proverb describing
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Display technologies are evolving at an unprecedented rate. They have evolved so much that we can now see the minutest picture details on our devices – be it television sets, tablets or smart phones.
Virtualization is only the first step towards introducing network functions virtualization into a service provider’s network. More critical will be the “operationalization” of NFV that will make it successful.
For true real-time decision-making, it is necessary to continuously collect, store and analyze network information. In order to fully understand what is happening,
In its simplest form, big data analytics can be broken down into two parts that differentiate it from business intelligence or data warehousing and mining:
Cooperation with a competitor – even going so far as to share network resources – is not a scenario that typically would be used to describe the hotly competitive mobile network operator world.
A recent study found that the average person shifts his attention between his smartphone, tablet and laptop an overwhelming 21 times in a single hour. As such, the importance of a
Squeezing the maximum battery life out of a mobile phone is a complex challenge, and most of the technical efforts to date have centered on the hardware and operation of the handsets themselves.
Transformation is a regular, on-going activity in any telecom's life. And by the way, when I say “transformation” I’m not just talking about those "big bang" transformations that impact
Mobile cell sites are transitioning from simple base stations for voice and low-speed mobile data access to multi-functional hubs for delivery of new services, multimedia-rich content and
About a decade ago, just over 200 million Americans used cell phones. The iPhone, LTE service and the mobile app as we know it were still years away. Fast forward to present time:
While software-defined networking is not a new concept, in its current form it has gained significant momentum in 2013 to the point of becoming a frequent part of IT conversations everywhere.
As 2014 approaches, conversations around “4G” almost seem antiquated. That’s not to say 4G is old news, but the buzz and excitement around the promise of 4G isn’t as prominent as years past.
Voice over LTE was developed as a standardized way for operators to transmit voice over new data-oriented LTE networks, meaning that voice services can use the higher speeds and quality
The wireless network capacity challenge facing operators today is only set to compound as 4G/LTE infrastructure and associated promises of ever more data-rich services are made to subscribers.
BlackBerry (previously called Research In Motion), created the smartphone market segment. Early BlackBerry devices had no phones, cameras, multimedia capabilities, or real apps, they just did email and later contacts and calendar, all over a dedicated data network. Arguably, before the BlackBerry, carriers had...
