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Though mobile users have embraced traditional messaging services, today’s converging communication environment offers a wide range of alternatives. In many ways, subscriber loyalty is shifting from the mobile network operator

Due to the rapid adoption of tablets and new bandwidth intensive applications, mobile data traffic doubled in 2011 and user demand is expected to increase 18-times by 2016. This tremendous capacity growth

April 20 marked the one-year anniversary of the so-called “location-gate” controversy in which it was first revealed that Apple (and soon after Google) were tracking subscriber location information and storing that data

Carriers and operators constantly face the challenge of containing costs while responding to rapidly changing business environments, especially when it comes to maintaining high visibility and compliance in their networks.

To many users, password policies are as daunting and ridiculous as the tax code. Nobody enjoys having to remember or type complex and difficult passwords day after day. Even worse is having to change those passwords month-after-month for no reason.

With smartphones and other connected devices powering so much of our daily activity, it becomes a big headache when something isn’t working right. A broken link in the productivity chain

In the last several weeks, two leading mobile operating system vendors moved into the mobile payments space. Apple announced its new mobile wallet Passbook that will debut with iOS 6 this fall.

Look around. Cloud services are hot and everyone is trying their best to cash in. According to Informa, in 2011, 127 telecoms operators spent $13.5 billion in capital investments on carrier cloud infrastructure,

How often do service providers interact with their customers? If they’re providing the agreed upon service at the agreed upon price, chances are the interaction is limited.

DAS is an exciting technology as it allows for greater usage and bandwidth transfer in heavily populated areas. Whether building outdoor DAS or in-building DAS, fiber serves as the building block to a successful DAS implementation.

With mobile phones set to become as indispensable as a wallet for buying goods and services, mobile payment developments are rapidly gathering pace and different service providers are competing for their slice of the pie.

A 2011 McAfee survey entitled “Mobility and Security: Dazzling Opportunities, Profound Challenges” found that 63% of mobile devices accessing corporate networks are also used for personal activities.

In today’s mobile world, the occasional dropped call or slow-loading app are bound to happen, but users are growing less tolerant of such “hiccups” and are more demanding of consistent mobile performance.

Business leaders and CEOs know that a “business as usual” approach often brings only the usual results, especially in a difficult economy. Service providers are also quickly discovering that “business as usual” is the wrong attitude,

Most operators and market analysts agree that cost effective backhaul is the greatest challenge for wide scale small cell network deployments. The high cost, arduous city approval process and

There is a lot of buzz around the term “heterogeneous networks,” but a big reason for the attraction are centered around Wi-Fi and small-cell technologies and their business implication for major stakeholders

A new, potentially disruptive phenomenon called network unaffiliated virtual operators, or NUVOs, has emerged in the North American e-commerce marketplace.

There’s a lot of buzz in the microwave industry about the trend toward all-outdoor radios, but those who haven’t been through LTE deployments may be surprised to learn that based on our experience deploying LTE backhaul

In today’s marketplace, there are three main competitors for mobile phone communications in the corporate world: iPhone, Android and BlackBerry. As of late, iPhone sales have moved

With all the current momentum in the mobile payments space it seems hard for merchants to be able to decide what, if anything, they should utilize now to enhance

Solving operators’ “capacity crunch” has been a primary goal of mobile data offloading to Wi-Fi networks. Even with the expansion of 4G networks such as LTE and WiMAX, the benefits of mobile data offloading to a carrier-class Wi-Fi network are extremely compelling:

Mobile network operators have recently seen a significant increase in network traffic due to subscribers’ addiction to mobile data services, presenting a considerable barrier to sustain MNOs’ bottom line – in fact

Anyone exposed to a teenager has been witness to the hand raise and muttering of the letters “TMI” (a.k.a. too much information). I may not be hip to all of the latest and greatest in texting lingo

Businesses, governments and consumers won’t tolerate even the slightest break in service in this age of cloud computing and mobile access to the Internet.