Reality Check

This week, on top of earnings news we had a number of announcements across the industry. Comcast announced it would be launching 2-gigabit-per-second service to 200,000 homes in Chattanooga, Tenn. …

Almost 20 months ago the world’s largest radio access network company proclaimed the arrival of the Ericsson small cell, except it was, and is, a distributed antenna system. Since then, …

Large data centers started using software-defined networking principles a few years ago to create interconnect “fabrics” out of many switches, something difficult to do with conventional routers and switches and …

Last week was already overflowing with earnings news (we will cover AT&T and Verizon Communications earnings in great detail next week), when Bloomberg broke the story last Thursday of the …

Verizon and AT&T tackle video for value creation When I was a manager in the engineering and operations workforce in Sprint’s local division (later to become Embarq, and then CenturyLink), …

A closer look at Wi-Fi’s evolving technology and services Once viewed as a threat to mobile operators’ valuable 3G and 4G services, Wi-Fi (family of technologies under the IEEE 802.11 …

Is virtualized VoLTE the answer to fighting OTT challengers? It’s quite clear that mobile telecommunication operators are being redefined by LTE and the transition to all-IP communications. The transition of telephony …

Top 10 events of the first quarter: recap of Pt. 1 We started the first quarter review before the Easter/Passover holidays with five events. 1. Sling TV announced at Consumer …

One of the very first lessons taught to telecommunications students is that radio frequency spectrum is a scarce resource. This limitation forces governments and other market players to seek alternatives …

These next two weeks, we’ll recap the first quarter with a quick spin through the top 10 events that will influence telecom earnings calls throughout the year. Thanks to several …

T-Mobile US’ ‘Un-carrier 9.0’ set to disrupt enterprise market Throughout the course of telecommunications history, the pricing alchemy between business and consumer plans has been convoluted at best, and perverted …

Mobile operators expanding their voice over LTE services in 2015 want to make sure it’s not a replay of the massive LTE data outages that plagued the industry from 2011 …

Remember the dawn of the Internet? Remember all the skeptics who didn’t see its transformational genius? Remember how it became enormous? It’s happening again. What’s happening involves the Internet, of …

The FCC Report and Order that wasn’t On March 12, the Federal Communications Commission released the 400-page Open Internet Report and Order. Think of this as part one of a dramatic …

January’s Consumer Electronics Show and the recently concluded Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain, punctuated a fact fairly obvious to anyone in attendance or following from afar: Connected devices …

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 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 …

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 …

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, …

True to 2015 form, last week was a full news week with Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler taking to Wired’s blog site to outline his recommendation to implement Title …