Opinion

Sorry, Android. Sprint is giving its Virgin Mobile mobile virtual network operator a face-lift: the MVNO will offer only iPhones and seems to be taking a page from Sprint’s recent …

4 reasons IoT on wheels is accelerating and will be bigger than the connected car market With headline-grabbing bells and whistles, the growing cult around connected cars is understandable. The booming …

For years, video has caused headaches for telecom carriers, driving costs up faster than revenue and leaving consumers dissatisfied. But as technology improves, and consumer viewing habits change, the future …

What is influence marketing? As it turns out, I have been an influence marketer for three decades. Who knew? And, one way or another, this affects every business. Let me …

It was a huge deal when wireless carriers started launching 4G/LTE less than a decade ago—not just because of the speeds for consumer downloading and streaming, but for the broader …

One result of the advent of solid-state lighting (SSL) has been the development of connected lighting systems (CLS), which are networked to share the data produced by LED drivers or …

According to the GSMA, worldwide mobile subscriber numbers have hit 5 billion. That’s just actual users — the GSMA says that mobile connections are actually at 7.7 billion. And those …

Something confusing is happening in the wireless industry. Why is Verizon, one of the two biggest wireless growth giants, stuck in the mud? AT&T is the other growth giant, and …

The internet is now the “reason for being” for most wireless and wireline service providers. Indeed, wireless and wireline networks are becoming the internet (homage to Eric Schmidt’s original vision …

Asking an enterprise customer, say, a sports venue, to blanket their arena with your small cells is like asking your dad to buy you an expensive hot rod: it’s not …

Storage performance and capacity within smartphones continued to increase significantly as smartphones have become the go-to devices for consumers globally. As such, mobile manufacturers around the world have nearly doubled …

As digitization transforms how organizations operate, it is changing how the network operates in profound ways as well. As significant as the move from analog to digital, it is a …

It seems like 2017 is the IBM Watson coming out party. You may have noticed their new television ad campaign showing how Watson and AI will impact, transform and improve …

Over the last decade, we have experienced rapid growth of broadband access to both consumers and businesses. This growth of broadband services is being driven by multiple factors, namely: 1. …

All of the major mobile operators are beginning to use network functions virtualization (NFV) to implement fully-virtualized network infrastructures by 2020, but traditional server-based networking models limit performance and increase …

Sprint beat T-Mobile US this week, but I don’t think they’ll be bragging about the circumstances any time soon. Marcelo Claure edged out John Legere as one of the most-hated …

What do 42 grocery stores, a large corporate office and a 350,000 square foot distribution center distribution center have in common? They all make use of artificial intelligence. AI-powered Wi-Fi …

The rumor mill is working hard. The question is, will Sprint and T-Mobile U.S. finally get together and merge? No one knows. Not even Sprint and T-Mobile. First, they have …

Verizon’s mobile “5G” demo at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway must be every driver tester’s dream come true — until they blacked out the windshield. The video is worth checking out. …

T-Mobile’s recent announcement that it is targeting 2020 for a nationwide 5G network is by far the most aggressive 5G announcement to date, and it could be a game changer …

Today, Wi-Fi is the lowest-cost, highest-performance internet connection available, and its impact only continues to expand. It is generally accepted that by 2020, more than 25 billion devices will be …

SMS engagement rates are over 94%, dwarfing those of most other communication channels. The personal, direct nature of SMS makes text messages nearly impossible to ignore. Think about it: when …

I love it when a plan comes together Some of us are old enough to remember the actual origins of that phrase, now an ever-popular Internet meme. In one of …

The cable television industry is re-entering the wireless space. First it was Comcast Xfinity Mobile starting its rollout. Now, Charter Spectrum has announced they will also become a wireless provider …

Another week, another round of the industry grappling with exactly what 5G is, how they’re going to make it work and what they’re going to do with it — oh …