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Reality Check (Special Edition): The Kin kill

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.Most of my blogs are chock full of numbers, trends, analyses. I like it that way. However,...

Reality Check: Earnings spotlight on consumer data and enterprise growth

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.We are quickly approaching the end of the second quarter, and the industry isn’t without some headlines (by...

Reality Check: Searching for the Android Disneyland

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.I have spent a week with my new Sprint Evo. Admittedly, outside of the small screen size,...

Reality Check: Rethinking telecom – your strategic planning primer

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.For those of you who casually follow the industry, we are entering (or in some cases, have...

Reality Check (Special Edition): Why AT&T changed their data pricing

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.I am taking a brief respite from my start-up focus to weigh in on the AT&T announcement...

Reality Check: Where Facebook went wrong on privacy

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 topic of privacy and Facebook has been a hot one. Many individuals, including myself, are very...

Reality Check: Prepaid-a-Palooza – is it for real this time?

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 have been a host of stories in the past week on prepaid services, and we touched...

Reality Check: Three discoveries from first quarter earnings

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.Greetings to the Reality Check faithful. This week many pieces of the earnings puzzle were filled in,...

Reality Check: Listen to what he says

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.This industry provides plenty of topics, and I was torn this week whether to focus on earnings...

Reality Check: What to make of Verizon and AT&T earnings

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's a lot to cover this week and a short amount of reading time, so...

Reality Check: What to make of Verizon and AT&T earnings

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's a lot to cover this week and a short amount of reading time, so...

Reality Check: Three headlines no telecom CEO wants to read

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’s going to be a lot to talk about earnings in the next few days, and, despite...

Reality Check: The “Julius Jolt” – It's not Comcastic

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.That earthquake you felt last week – no, not the “Baja Bumper” (7.2 Richter scale) that hit...

Reality Check: Wireless earnings and Neapolitan ice cream

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.It’s hard to believe we are six days into April. But we are, and, as most of...

Reality Check: CTIA – Any new news?

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 spring CTIA has a very tough role – trying to be new and different on the...

Reality Check: Where we’ve come in the past six months

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.March marks the six month anniversary of my Reality Check column. We are now reaching thousands each...

Reality Check: When capital calls

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.Each of us who works in the telecom industry is a manager of assets – whether networks,...

Reality Check: Mystery solved! The money-making middle mile

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.After a column a few weeks back where I took the industry to task on its poor...

Reality Check: Three dinosaurs

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.Greetings from the ice-crusted prairie where we celebrate mid-30 degree temperatures. The mercury wasn't the only thing...

Reality Check: 4G is the wireless NASDAQ

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.With the Mobile World Congress behind us, it’s time to start re-frame the new-new broadband debate. We...

Reality Check: “A” is for access

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.How do you “make it big” or “get the “big break?” You need access. Assuming you have...

Reality Check: Why Verizon did it

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.On Friday, Verizon announced a new phone strategy, largely misreported as their volley in an escalating price...

Reality Check: The purpose-driven device

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.Whether you cringe at the thought of attending CES or look forward to it as much as...

Reality Check: What will we learn from CES?

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.Many of us, including me, will converge on Las Vegas to ingest the latest trends in telecommunications...