Opinion

2019 saw the introduction of Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 6 products, the long-awaited launch of 5G devices and services, the initial commercial rollout of shared spectrum, as well as increased global interest …

  Itai Dadon, director of smart cities and IoT, Itron: 1. The finance industry takes an interest “Cities continue to grow at a fast pace; at the same time, they …

Every year, Global Wireless Solutions (GWS) conducts consumer experience tests on the major mobile networks in over 500 markets, representing 94% of the U.S. population. In addition, GWS annually surveys …

As we enter a new year, we find ourselves on the verge of a connectivity paradigm shift with 5G trials and networks seemingly lighting up every day. Indeed, 5G will …

Organizations will move IoT projects from proof-of-concept to proof-of-value Ramya Ravichandar, vice president of product management, FogHorn: “During proof-of-concept deployments in the last few years, many organizations have confirmed the …

  Cloudification of IoT accelerates Philippe Guillemette, chief technology officer, Sierra Wireless:  “The complexities that companies experience building out and maintaining IoT infrastructure has hindered growth of the sector, leading to the …

  Ajay Rane, vice president for global business development, Sigfox: The IoT, and the networks that devices run on, are poised for growth and maturity in 2020. Key to this …

Steve Szabo, head of global products and solutions for IoT, Verizon Business: “Digital transformation is a hot topic, but it is not a new topic. And it is, itself, transforming. …

Donna Moore, chief executive and chairwoman, LoRa Alliance: “Industrial IoT (IIoT) has advanced by leaps and bounds this year as companies have realized the amount of insight they could gain …

Most would agree that while the wireless sector started 2019 off strong, it did not maintain its momentum for the whole year. Although 2019 wasn’t necessarily bad, it certainly wasn’t …

Network monitoring and security issues are nothing new for Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), but the game has changed; new threats, risks and opportunities are emerging now, re-focusing mobile operators on …

While we don’t know exactly when and how quickly the fifth generation of smartphone technology, or 5G, may spread beyond a handful of large cities, there’s no debate about this: …

While 2019 was the year the telecom industry and regulators increased their actions to address illegal robocalls with default call blocking and the launch of STIR/SHAKEN, 2020 will be the …

Analyst house ABI Research has pulled together its big guns in each vertical sector to consider how technologywill change things in 2020 – or, rather, how it won’t. Some seasonal …

Kiva Allgood, head of IoT, Ericsson: 1. The edge is closer than ever “As enterprises become ‘digitized’ and enable more connected machines, sensors and solutions, computing in the cloud won’t …

Karl Bream, head of strategy and portfolio, Nokia Enterprise “The market is ripe as all sectors of the global economy are embracing digitalization and are beginning to tap into Industry …

Mobile connectivity will soon become frictionless and omnipresent, according to Cisco According to Bob Everson, global director of mobility and 5G at Cisco, the debate about whether 5G is truly …

The economic value created by Wi-Fi in the U.S. is projected to double by 2023, reaching nearly $1 trillion After what FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has referred to as “two …

Joseph Biron, chief technology officer for IoT, PTC: “At the turn of the decade, Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter and PTC president and chief executuve Jim Heppelmann laid out …

Michael Kanellos, IoT analyst, OSIsoft: 1. IoT declares victory “IoT projects are often portrayed as the quickest way to get yourself fired with, allegedly, ‘close to three fourths’ of IoT …

Phil Skipper, global head of IoT business development, Vodafone: “The key question is what will rise and fall in 2020, in terms of digital transformation for industry. At the end …

Peder Rand, product manager for cellular IoT, Nordic Semiconductor: “At the start of 2019 the only thing operating on cellular networks around the globe were mobile phones, plus a few …

Sven Hamann, Senior Vice President, Bosch Connected Industry: “Only the floor, the walls, and the ceiling are fixed; everything else is flexible and mobile, and adapts to customers’ orders in …

Alejandro Cadenas, IoT strategy manager, Telefónica: “Deployment of private networks is giving way to a radical change in industries, especially suited for campus-type industrial deployments like mines, ports, airports or …

$3 million. That staggering figure is how much a teenager recently won at the Fortnite World Cup. Astoundingly, that’s almost as much as this year’s Wimbledon champion won in prize …