DUBLIN – Alcatel-Lucent kicked off its TM Forum Management World 2012 presence by announcing a significant new addition to the CEM solution capabilities that it officially brought to market in February. The new offering, entitled Managed Service Quality and Assurance, essentially offers the capabilities...
As I get ready to make the journey from Austin to Dublin for the TM Forum's Management World 2012 event, I'm scrolling through a few key checklist items in my mind: remember my passport, rationalize the need to pack sweaters as I sit here...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.
The 2012 edition of the International CTIA Wireless show held in New Orleans served as...
On the day that Sprint tooted its horn as being the leading U.S. carrier in terms of customer satisfaction, the wireless operator's service went down covering nearly the entire Austin, Texas metro area. Local station KEYE TV reported that "a marathon repair effort...
During the last decade, Latin America's telecom industry has seen the rise and fall of many challengers to the iDEN "push-to-talk" service. The would-be successors used different technologies
Beside hearing the obligatory merger rumors, and seeing an unbelievably massive amount of cell phone bling on display, last week's CTIA showcased plenty of equipment vendors showing off technologies that can help operators serve up blazing fast mobile broadband connections. Clearly small cells are...
Last week carriers, original equipment manufacturers and wireless ecosystem participants of all shapes and sizes descended on New Orleans for the annual CTIA show. And in a nice quirk of timing
NEW ORLEANS - In a study released by the WiFi Alliance, 90% of participants said that they would stick with their current mobile service provider, while 70% said that they would switch service providers, if necessary, to gain access to such a service. Sounds...
What do mobile operators think about VoLTE? Operators like MetroPCS and Verizon Wireless have announced aggressive VoLTE plans, with MetroPCS planning to launch two to three VoLTE handsets before
NEW ORLEANS - Ericsson and Nokia Siemens Networks both announced radio and professional services deals with T-Mobile USA to modernize the operator's GSM and HSPA+ assets and support its LTE roll-out which is scheduled to begin in 2013. For its part, however, NSN also...
NEW ORLEANS - The GSM Association announced the commercial launch of its OpenAPI gateway, along with its adoption by a consortium of three mobile network operators in Canada - Bell Canada, Rogers and Telus. The gateway offers application developers the ability to connect to...
New Orleans, Louisiana - In advance of CTIA Wireless, 3M released the Slim Lock Closure which provides weatherproof protection for coaxial jumper connections between tower mounted remote radio units and the antenna. The Slim Lock product consists of a hard plastic closure which snaps...
By now I've read most of the "what we expect to see" columns heading into this year's edition of CTIA Wireless. As expected, most of them are pretty bland, some are kinda whiny and a few are insightful.
With that in mind, rather than...
For most folks, news of heightened venture capital activity, especially when centered on a particular hot industry trend, should conjure a very appealing mental image: Jobs.
Today, LifeStreet Media, a mobile advertising platform vendor, announced a $66 million investment from Nautic Partners. In addition...
Amdocs announced that it has won a 7-year BSS transformation and data warehouse modernization contract with Globe in the Philippines. The contract builds upon an existing relationship between Amdocs and Globe in which the operator has already deployed the jNetx Convergent Service Platform, along...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.
A primary challenge for wireless operators in Latin America and the Caribbean during the past three...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.
In January 2012, Anatel opened the LTE-spectrum auction rules for public consideration. The rules included details...
It is well established that mobile data traffic is growing much faster than mobile data service revenues. One thing that really has helped mobile operators handle this traffic is
On consecutive days Nokia Siemens Networks and Ericsson announced deals to supply Softbank Mobile with LTE RAN equipment in support of the operator’s nationwide deployment which is expected to commence during the second half of 2012. In many ways, the consecutive announcements – which...
There seems to be an insatiable thirst for speed when it comes to wireless. Whatever we have today, users always want more than what’s currently available. I remember when the predecessors
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.
More than ten years ago I authored the report “MVNO Opportunities in Latin America,” which recognized that...
Personal identity is an intriguing issue philosophy – I spent countless hours in university debating whether or not you are still yourself if you forget everything about your past, or your brain is moved to another body, or somebody else’s brain is transplanted to your body.
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.
The arrival of Virgin Mobile in Latin America is exciting news. Richard Branson’s famous multi-industry brand will...
Apple’s recent introduction of its newest iPad, simply named the “new iPad,” came with the usual fanfare associated with any new Apple product – a dose of excitement, a frenzy of buyers and a horde of analysis regarding why Apple included or didn’t include certain features and technologies.
