Let’s clear up some confusion. There is a battle being fought in the wireless industry over leadership with 5G patents. Some companies say the quality of patents is most important. Others say it’s the number of patents. The truth is, patent quality should not...
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s recent announcement that he supports the merger of Sprint and T-Mobile with their commitments is welcome news. The merger will create a better-resourced combined company with a renewed focus on disrupting wireless with competitive prices and new innovations, and I...
Have you been following the incredible transformation and growth of AT&T in the last several years? It is becoming a giant in the fields of wireless with AT&T Mobility, telecom, Internet, pay TV with DirecTV, DirecTV NOW, Uverse, news and entertainment with WarnerMedia and...
Robocalling, spamming, scamming, and spoofing are scenarios that play out for consumers multiple times a week - if not every day. The FTC received 3.7 million complaints for FY 2018, surprisingly down from 4.5 million complaints in FY 2017, but still the number one consumer complaint.
The...
With populations in the developing world continuing to grow, the need to find new ways to satisfy increased demand for access to food has never been greater. In order to do this, fish farming, or ‘aquaculture’, is quickly becoming a serious contender for the...
Once again, the game of
influencer marketing is changing. In recent years, I have met quite a few very
interesting and successful people called social media influencers. They are
regular people who, over time, have cracked the code and become top
influencers. Following them I have seen how...
The arrival of 5G, with significantly faster speeds, increased capacity and lower latency, will change existing operating environments. However, these benefits will come at the expense of an exponential growth of attack surfaces. The 5G-enabled devices and networks that underpin society will be compromised...
It’s been a busy time for 5G launches. It started with Verizon and AT&T towards the end of 2018 followed by a flurry of recent announcements from Korea, China and more in the US. So, are we there yet? Is the long car ride...
The pressure food producers face to digitally transform is mounting. With a rapidly growing population, farms find themselves at a decisive moment in their ability to continue to produce enough food to meet rising demand.
As with all sectors, technology is going to be...
The demands placed on today’s networks are higher than ever as employees now access an ever-increasing number of cloud-based and IoT applications. In fact, as more traffic travels over the public internet, the requirements of enterprise networks extend beyond 24x7 reliability to networks that...
Why can’t utilities be more like Netflix or Amazon? It’s a question you see posed in a growing number of articles and analyst reports, arguing that utilities should be more customer-centric and quicker to adapt to new technologies.
But I’ve got a different question for...
Companies have begun investing in AI, the next transformative technology. However, many are wasting money focusing on the wrong areas at this early stage. True, in coming years the AI revolution will completely reinvent the way we do business, but we are still just...
Smart cities and 5G are two of the hottest topics in tech today, and maybe the hottest topics in wireless tech (if IoT is considered a subset of one or both of these). But what is a smart city and how does 5G play...
The internet of things (IoT) is a game-changer for enterprises and consumers, making every day operations more efficient for organizations and individuals.
As smart cities evolve, government agencies are prioritizing IoT initiatives, and deploying low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks to collect data, and using advanced...
The gaming industry is on a winning streak. Last year, video games were worth around $165 billion, and by 2022 are set to reach $235 billion. Online gaming in particular packs a punch, with Statista forecasting there to be over 730 million online gamers...
Service providers are in the unenviable position of trying to stay profitable in a highly competitive, capital-intensive market that consistently demands new services, new technologies and lower prices. Business and consumer customers want to pay less for more calls and minutes in their bundles,...
A few years ago, the cable television competitors like Comcast Xfinity Mobile, Charter Spectrum Mobile and Altice Mobile said they would re-enter the wireless space. The question was, would they be successful and disrupt the wireless industry or just be another player? After two...
Did you know that 5G is going to replace Wi-Fi in the near future? That might sound like a fact for regular readers of the more hyperbolic commentary on the so-called 5G vs. Wi-Fi debate. But the truth is always more grounded than the...
That math looks wrong, so perhaps we should explain? To shamelessly co-opt a quip from my Corning colleague Bill Cune, “Small cells and DAS go together like chocolate and peanut butter.” In this article, we’ll discuss the compelling math that really makes the headline...
It's been over 25 years since Neil Papworth of Vodafone sent the first ever text message.
Since then SMS has remained exactly the same. There have been no updates, enhancements or upgrades.
Despite being so outdated and clunky, SMS remains one of the most effective communication...
Last week I gave an interview to Bloomberg about my thoughts on the trouble the T-Mobile, Sprint merger is suddenly having. Plus, we are learning that Sprint is in much worse condition than they originally told us. What that says to me is this:...
With the increasingly global adoption of LTE/4G technology, greater opportunities for private LTE networks are emerging. According to ABI Research, by 2025 those sectors using private LTE will create a market worth $16.3 billion – a CAGR of 45 per cent since 2018.
ABI...
AT&T Ready to Go is a great service idea whose time has finally come. Instead of you going to the store to buy your next smartphone or tablet, what if a service representative came to you? That’s exactly what AT&T Mobility has been doing...
As mobile operators continue to extol the theoretical expectations of new services and revenue streams that 5G is supposed to herald, they’re faced with a much more concrete reality on the network side: How should 5G network architectures be built to deliver upon all...
