IoT-centric, usage-based insurance is finally coming of age and it is turning the traditional car insurance sector upside down.
"Internet of Things" adoption in various vertical markets is set to disrupt traditional industries by introducing new business models. IoT-centric, usage-based insurance, which uses real-time information...
DAS makes sense for the enterprise even if carriers won't pay for it
Distributed antenna systems and in-building small cells have traditionally been used by carriers to keep enterprise customers happy, and now those customers are starting to purchase mobile infrastructure on their own. The...
Iain Gillott parses out Sprint network plans in light of recent comments, noting what’s there today will likely be the same in a year
Market research analysts love change and confusion. And so in the mobile world of 2016, Sprint is like a gift straight...
The First Responders Network Authority is planning to award a contract for a new, nationwide public safety LTE network to a commercial partner by November 1, with caveats that the service will start out as essentially a mobile virtual network operator and eventually shift...
Outdoor use cases for small cells and DAS range from cities to venues to suburbia
Outdoor small cells and distributed antenna systems can be used by mobile network operators to boost capacity in crowded urban areas, to add capacity at high-value venues, to extend coverage...
Jim Patterson tackles the latest Sprint results and lays out 3 ways in which the carrier can regain its standing in the market
There’s a lot to cover with Sprint’s earnings. Most importantly, they eked out 56,000 postpaid net additions (22,000 of which were phones),...
Verizon probably looks pretty good to its former customers now
1. Former Verizon Communications customers who are now served by Frontier Communications are struggling with unreliable service, according to multiple reports. Problems range from the inability to access online banking to a failure to reach...
Sprint's stock price increased after last week’s quarterly report. As we watch the carrier over the last year or two, one thing is becoming quite clear: they are serious about attracting and keeping customers.
Now, the carrier's marketing machine is attempting to one-up itself. They...
On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check, we speak with TM Forum on deployment and operational challenges in connecting NFV islands
Virtualization platforms using network functions virtualization and software-defined networking technologies continue a slow roll out across telecom network operations. The current pace is being impacted...
AT&T chooses Synacor over Yahoo for hosting services
1. AT&T may have seen the writing on the wall. With Verizon Communications emerging as the company most likely to buy Yahoo, AT&T has decided to shift business away from the Internet search engine. AT&T will take...
Results are coming in for the first quarter of the year, and network testing and monitoring companies seem to be facing a relatively weak quarter overall.
NetScout reported that its fiscal fourth quarter resulted in revenues of $285.9 million, about 68% of which was product revenue...
WOTW hands out gut influenced quarterly results grades for AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint, and you might be surprised who the gut favors
Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this...
NFV and SDN deployments continue to challenge legacy deployment and operational models, though carriers are learning from the process
ORLANDO, Florida – Network virtualization is expected to revolutionize how telecom operators control their networks, with technologies like software-defined networking, network functions virtualization and cloud becoming...
DT ended March with 40.6 million mobile customers in Germany
Deutsche Telekom posted a net profit of 3.1 billion euros ($3.54 billion) in the first quarter of 2016, up from 787 million euros in the same period last year. DT said the increase was mainly driven...
On this week’s carrier wrap we speak with Recon Analytics to dissect Q1 financial and operating results from T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T
The domestic market’s three largest mobile carriers recently reported first quarter financial results, all showing various strengths and weaknesses across different sections of...
The government raised $1.81 billion in the multiband spectrum auction
South Korea obtained 2.11 trillion won ($1.81 billion) in a recent multiband spectrum auction, well below the market expectation of 2.5 trillion won. The country’s largest mobile operator SK Telecom picked up both blocks of...
Google and Fiat Chrysler self-driving car partnership to double Google's self-driving car fleet.
Fiat Chrysler Automobile announced it was teaming with Google on self-driving technology. It is the first time Google has worked directly with a car maker to integrate its technology into a passenger vehicle....
Internet of Things VoLTE applications
Voice over LTE, or VoLTE, is in some ways the final frontier for LTE. Most voice calls still use 3G networks, but mobile operators are expected to transition more voice service to LTE in the years ahead. At the same...
LTE-Advanced service available in 976 cities across Japan
Japanese telecom operator NTT DoCoMo’s "Premium 4G" service is currently available in 976 cities across Japan, according to a company presentation. The service, which was launched in March 2015, offers downlink speeds of up to 225 megabits...
Jim Patterson looks at T-Mobile Q1 results in terms of what could slow down the carrier moving forward
T-Mobile US announced earnings last week, and the results were strong across the board. Prepaid was especially strong (807,000 net adds; 3.84% monthly churn), as MetroPCS took...
Michigan, home of the traditional automotive industry, is hoping to take the lead on autonomous driving regulation. In the meantime, Microsoft opens its Azure IoT Gateway SDK to public beta; and IPass launches its developer program, with the promises of scale and shorter time-to-market,...
Verizon strike update
1. Verizon has cancelled medical coverage for the thousands of employees who have been on strike for more than two weeks now. The company told the union last week that the employees' healthcare coverage would stop at the end of April if...
Multi-user multiple input, multiple output, or MU-MIMO, is an advanced features for 802.11ac Wi-Fi, part of Wave 2 features that are in some cases, already on the market and will start being certified for interoperability by Wi-Fi Alliance soon.
The technology enables multiple devices to...
On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check, we look at some of the top news from across the space over the past week and speak with Red Hat on evolving storage needs for cloud infrastructure
Verizon this week claimed it recently completed the industry’s largest known...
