Reality Check

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. As mobile data and voice …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. Much is made of cloud …

Many telecommunication providers reported earnings last week, and their stocks largely flowed with good news. AT&T started the parade, with Sprint Nextel and MetroPCS following.

Many building owners today are dealing with higher utility bills, old equipment systems and disparate controls that have been pieced together. One solution is the use of wireless networks to cost-effectively upgrade and replace antiquated controls.

Historically, the primary focus for business support systems platforms has been the commercial side of delivering services, whereas the focus for operations support systems platforms has been on the technical control of services.

On Thursday, Verizon Communications kicks off the telecommunications earnings season with their release expected before Wall Street opens (Google, another closely followed company, announces after the bell).

One of the great promises of mobile technology is the consumers’ ability to connect to the Internet or mobile Web via any number of different types of mobile devices (e.g., feature phones, smartphones, tablets,

Today’s mobile network operators inhabit a similar atmosphere, faced with daily competition and a scramble to succeed. Theirs is a world of mobile networks, devices and services all evolving at an extremely

Second quarter earnings announcements are just around the corner, and having a closer look at Verizon, AT&T, Comcast and Time Warner Cable should help cement our theses for the telecommunications sector.

We never thought we’d see a parallel between wireless operators and team sports, but today that parallel seems highly appropriate.

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. Around the world, IT resources …

One of the game-changing shifts that communications service providers face as they transform their networks for mobile broadband is an evolution from subscription-based business models to service based ones.

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. The week of June 10 …

Text messaging has long been a cash cow for mobile operators, currently generating about 20% of their revenue. But over-the-top services such as Facebook, Skype, WhatsApp, Twitter and Apple’s iMessage are rapidly siphoning off SMS revenue.

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. In two short years, the …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. There is an intimate connection …

Holiday weekends are usually quiet ones overall for business, and especially in the telecom world. Not this year. Between Leap’s iPhone announcement, Randall Stephenson’s wide-ranging discussion at the Sanford C. Bernstein conference,

Two big IT events happened in Las Vegas last month: Interop and Symantec Vision. Both events made a very good impression on me when I downloaded the apps and found out I could do my check-in,

After studying a multitude of different data findings from our recently released global consumer electronics usage survey of 19 consumer electronic devices, Accenture asked a simple question:

A dozen years ago, practically every presentation at a mobile conference had a slide forecasting wireless data growth taking off like a hockey stick. Today, another chart is making the rounds,

So what kind of smartphone do you have? Is it an Apple iPhone, an Android, or a BlackBerry? As 3G and even 4G networks are deployed across Latin America, smartphone adoption is soaring. And once they experience the power, versatility and sheer fun of smartphones, people can get almost addicted to them.

One of the most wrestled with subjects in the Brazilian ICT industry is network neutrality regulation in the Brazilian Internet Civil Mark, a legislative project which defines principles, guarantees, rights and duties on Internet use in Brazil.

Within a couple of years, the exploitation of various infection techniques will make malware as problematic on mobile devices as it is on PCs – and because mobile operators are also subject to Windows-based