AI, Quantum and Satellite will transform smartphone, wireless industry
Think of how AI, Quantum and satellite will transform the wireless industry, for network providers, for smartphones and for apps.
That means networks like AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless. That also means resellers like Xfinity Mobile,...
2025 is turning into a very important year in progression of the wireless and tech worlds. Thanks to new technologies like AI, quantum, IoT and more, this year looks to be full of new ideas, new thinking, new growth, new products and new services....
There is little question that network APIs will be a big topic in 2025. As we approached the end of 2024, the telco tech echo chamber was already reverberating with the sound of network APIs. Vendors continue to expand and evolve their narratives as...
Americans love the internet, accessing it from home and on the road. Until 2007, Americans essentially had two choices when it came to home internet: cable internet or DSL. To the cable industries great credit, they were the first to provide high speed internet...
Please allow me to thank the nations wireless and satellite communications providers, their leaders and all their workers for jumping into the middle of the Los Angeles California wildfires. They are helping Americans stay connected and saving lives. That means all the wireless carriers...
Why does Softbank sees US as a leader in Artificial Intelligence?
Softbank is one of the world’s largest, most important and powerful investment companies which plays in many spaces including wireless, Internet, AI, IoT and more. As a young man, Masayoshi Son started Softbank and...
January greetings from Missouri and Iowa, where one of the two states received a foot of snow (and the other, their northern neighbor, received a small amount yet participated in a string of freezing temperatures). This week’s Midwest’s weather incidents pale in comparison to...
Softbank released test results from their experiment to demonstrate high-performance integration of GPUs and RAN over the past month. I appreciate their transparency, making the data public. Here are my initial observations:
The performance of their cluster is impressive. They crowded 20 4T4R radios into a...
One of the most often asked questions I get these days is how to punch your way through all the noise and chaos, and be seen and heard? This is asked for trade shows like the upcoming CES 2025, MWC 25 and in fact,...
December greetings from Fraser, Colorado (picured), Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Kansas City, Missouri. We hope the Holidays have been restful and enjoyable for each of you, and that 2025 brings professional and personal growth.
For the first time in a long time (11 consecutive years...
Wi-Fi has been with us for decades. It remains one of the most important and valuable technologies in the wireless world. Most technologies have a limited life span. (You remember the fax machine and iPod, right?) But Wi-Fi never seems to go away. In...
December greetings from Cedar Rapids and Kansas City. The opening picture is of the Christmas tree perched atop the Quaker Oats plant in Cedar Rapids. Not only was this a pleasing sight this week, but they were manufacturing a version of Cap’n Crunch that made the...
Wireless is evolving with AI, 5G, private wireless, wireless broadband
At upcoming events like CES 2025 and MWC 25, we will see some of the new directions the wireless industry is heading. Since its beginning in the 1970s, wireless has grown and changed many times....
During the spring of 2020, many telecom stores closed temporarily amid the spread of the coronavirus. Wave7 Research in late March 2020 reported that “an estimated 55% of national carrier stores have been closed, including 75% of Sprint stores and 80-90% of T-Mobile stores....
In the private 5G market, many applications are waiting for IoT devices to be ready. RedCap devices are very slow in coming to market…despite standards frozen more than two years ago. Some applications are starting to move ahead with the early devices…but any...
What is happening to the world of cable television?
Once upon a time, way back in the 1990s, Comcast was one of many tiny cable television providers, run by Ralph Roberts. Back then, the original AT&T acquired Telecommunications Inc. TCI was the largest cable TV...
Only exclusive licensing of additional mid-band spectrum for full-power use can provide sufficient radio propagation and received-signal strength to deliver the increased cellular data capacity required across entire national networks. Alternatives, including low-power unlicensed, medium-power shared and millimeter wave spectrum that require extensive network...
Private wireless, particularly private 5G, is becoming a hot, new growth opportunity in telecommunications for a variety of reasons. Some of these are long-term while others are short-term. Let’s take a closer look at this sector, who the leaders are today and what we...
November greetings from Cedar Rapids and Kansas City. The picture will be a familiar sight for those in the fiber industry. Yes, we are getting a second fiber to the home (FTTH) provider for our 28-home community. The market is getting crowded in some places (the...
In the 1990’s I was a member of an advisory committee to U.S. Congressman and Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. That was back in the President Clinton era. Over several years, as I got to know him better, I learned much about Washington...
ABI Research explores how AI and 5G are transforming telco security operations
Over the last few years, telco operators have been undergoing a slow but sure metamorphosis from simple connectivity providers to digital technology enablers. In part fueled by 5G network rollouts and the growing...
November greetings Cedar Rapids, Kansas City, and Iowa City. The opening picture was taken from Kinnick Stadium after the first quarter (note the “Hi Kids” sign on the scoreboard – more on the Hawkeye Wave tradition here), where the University of Iowa Hawkeyes thumped the...
Recently, I had an interesting conversation with Mikko Uusitalo who leads the private networks Europe division of Boldyn Networks, a shared networks infrastructure provider. Still learning more about them. So, let's take a closer look at what they are doing right and what new...
Recently I was talking with a friend about the need for the mobile industry to pivot. If we can successfully pivot from the consumer to the enterprise, then the industry can grow for the next 20 or 30 years.
But as we talked, I realized...
