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With the rapid increase in social networking, gaming and commerce traffic coming from mobile devices, there’s suddenly a gaping need for a Web experience designed primarily for access from mobile devices,

If you manage an enterprise IT network, chances are that “high-quality video sessions” are the last words you want to see. As most businesses are still trying to figure out how they’ll deliver voice and

Once you were what you ate. Today, you are your mobile device. Mobile operators have an intricate and involved relationship with their customers. As technology evolves, smartphones are becoming

One of the enduring challenges in matching up a distributed antenna system with a mobile base station has been the need to use RF as the method of interface. Using RF as the interface adds complexity and

Most consumers are now familiar with the concept of the connected home, and some are even utilizing it today through services like Verizon’s Home Monitoring and Control offering.

Today carriers are racing to offer triple-play and quadruple-play service bundles which include TV, voice, high-speed Internet and mobile services to subscribers everywhere in America.

What will be the impact on network planning when the next generation of E-band radios (those that operate in the 80 GHz band) hit the market? Some have predicted they will become the mainstay radios

The vision of small cell and centralized radio access network (C-RAN) has recently generated significant interests among the research community, the device suppliers and the original equipment manufacturers

With 100 million LTE subscribers in 2012 and 381 operators currently investing in LTE in 114 countries (source: GSA), LTE has been growing much faster than predicted, driving increases in volume,

While emphatically stubbing out his umpteenth cigarette of the morning, Don Draper throws the story board on his desk “No one cares about your damn copy, Peggy.” Okay, so maybe this didn’t

The mobile core is changing. Fast. Mobile network operators around the globe are embracing the transition from legacy mobile technologies to next generation infrastructures and the new LTE core

Average revenue per user has long been the benchmark metric in the wireless industry with fortunes gained and lost on even small changes in an operator’s ARPU result. However, ARPU was borne from a wireless

Wireless carriers often receive court orders to assist electronic surveillance by law enforcement agencies. In fact, over the last decade, the number of court orders for electronic surveillance has doubled to some 3,000 per year,

Most communication service providers use data the same way they’ve been using it for years – to drive business processes; enhance network efficiencies; and identify solutions for challenges such as revenue

For marketers, it’s highly important to understand individual customer behaviors to reward them with personalized offers. However, getting to know your customer base is only the first part of the equation.

Every operator knows that customer loyalty and retention are critical to bottom-line performance. But, to implement proactive loyalty and retention initiatives, operators must be able to

I am sure that many of you, like me, were comprehensively bombarded with vendor pre-show announcements in the week before the recent Mobile World Congress event. In addition, every analyst

The introduction of laptops and proprietary mobile devices into the corporate IT ecosystem 10 years ago allowed organizations to extract more value from their employees by extending the office both physically and

Typical microwave links tend to be 25 miles or less in length, but sometimes they need to be longer – much longer. For example, inter-island hops in the Caribbean and elsewhere need longer

According to the research firm Juniper, fear of bill shock drives almost 75% of travelers to avoid using mobile data while abroad. With more than 570 million mobile roamers globally, operators that

Voice control is the future. Just like touch-screen technology revolutionized smartphones, and the ability to use gestures launched new gaming and fitness applications, the possibilities

Carriers are realizing that what was once a problem confined to data centers and enterprise data networks, is now a problem for service providers as well. That problem is “big data.”