Promising super-fast download speeds, ultra-low latency, and increased connectivity, the imminent rollout of 5G network technology is set to deliver a host of benefits to consumers, businesses, and mobile operators alike. In addition to these advantages, however, the introduction of 5G will bring with...
As the CEO and founder of a medium-sized prepaid wireless business, I’m thrilled about the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint. T-Mobile’s growth over the last six years has been one of the great American success stories. The “Un-Carrier” has taken on AT&T and Verizon,...
For many years, the in-building wireless industry has coveted the mid-sized enterprise or “Middleprise” market opportunity. After all, the vast majority of cellular users are found not in large public venues such as stadiums or airports but, instead, in buildings used for offices, hotels,...
By 2020, large-scale 5G commercial deployments are expected to begin with faster data speeds, increased bandwidth per unit, lower latency, and support for more connected devices. Before these deployments make their way across the U.S. and the world, there must be a standardized approach...
The Wi-Fi landscape is rapidly evolving and its growth continues unabated. A ubiquitous amenity, Wi-Fi is routinely offered across a wide range of locations including carpeted enterprises, school/college/office campuses, stadiums, airports, hotels, MDUs, and transportation hubs. Fast and reliable Wi-Fi connectivity is now considered...
Nearly 80 percent of all 911 calls originate from a wireless device. This is not surprising, given that over half of households in the U.S. have given up landline phones and rely solely on wireless devices. This is a rapid increase from 15 percent...
This October, North American operator Verizon launched the first 5G fixed wireless access service, making it very clear that 5G is closer than you think. 5G is set to promise speed, greater network efficiency, reduced latency and above all, an enhanced user experience. But...
5G has been billed as the magic bullet for many of today’s wireless network challenges. It’s expected to bring greater bandwidth, coverage and capacity for mobile computing. While enterprise users can expect to see performance improvement for real-time apps and during peak usage times...
As revenue per bit falls and demand rises, mobile network operators (MNOs) are looking for ways to increase network capacity and reduce cost. Trends for accomplishing this include densification, e.g., small cells, cloudification for resource “elasticity”, and centralization of the RAN, i.e., C-RAN. A...
For anyone who owns a smartphone, it will come as little surprise that robocalling activity is up 15% year to date. The jump follows an increase in robocall complaints to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from 3.4 million robocalls in 2016 to 4.5 million...
It’s well accepted that quality of service (QoS) is essential in a network environment, allowing network managers to “provide different priority to different applications, users, or data flows, or to guarantee a certain level of performance to a data flow,” according to the Wikipedia...
This month, Verizon flipped the switch on the first commercial 5G network in the world. Verizon’s 5G Home network, now live in parts of Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles and Sacramento, serves as an example of the remarkable progress that can come from collaboration between...
Editor's note: Keith Radousky, president of RadVisory 5G, shares his personal recollection of the first commercial cellular call, in October 1983 at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois.
This past weekend marked the 35th anniversary of the first commercial cellular phone call in America on October 13,...
The future of telecommunications is just as important today as it was when the telephone revolutionized the world. The industry is undergoing a drastic transformation as continued trends toward cloud adoption, mobile communication and big data analytics are driving demand for high-capacity and low-latency...
Industries are turning to chatbots to deal with customer care interaction. It’s no wonder why — they can easily deliver answers and solutions via a simple user interface any time of the day. In this article, Olivier Engel of Sicap, explains how telecom service...
Some of the most significant media disruptions have come from using a physical device to create friendlier and more frictionless access to media. Think of the Tivo, Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Echo and Fire Stick, even the Apple Watch. These innovations OWN the user...
The use of mobile network ‘big data’ can play a key role in tackling infectious disease, disasters and environmental crises, but the privacy of individuals remains paramount, says Mats Granryd, Director General of the GSMA.
The ways in which our personal data is used...
As a new school year begins, internet usage continues to transform K-12 education. The majority of today’s teachers routinely make homework assignments with the expectation that students will go online to complete the work. But students don’t have equal access to high-speed broadband, and it’s...
The time is now for telecommunications, media and entertainment (TME) companies to start preparing for new 5G-enabled business opportunities and competitive threats that will arrive with the new, speedier wireless technology.
For TME marketers, preparedness and changing the way you think about your products and...
The wireless access point (AP) will ultimately do more than simply offer users a Wi-Fi connection. As the age of wireless IoT convergence approaches, the AP can be expected to deliver a wide range of wireless services from Wi-Fi to BLE, Zigbee and more....
Editor’s note: Click here for part 1 and here for part 2 of this three-part series on blockchain technology in the telecom industry. The first six telecom applications of blockchain are covered in part 2.
Blockchain applications in the telecom industry
7. Blockchain in roaming management
These telco services...
Since the first text message was sent in 1992, messaging as a method of communication has exploded in popularity. Free unlimited texting was incorporated into the majority of mobile operator packages in the 2000s, and by 2008 the number of texts being sent in a month passed the number of phone calls in the United States. For many years, messaging represented a steady revenue source for...
Editor's note: Click here for part 1of this three-part series on blockchain technology in the telecom industry.
Blockchain applications in the telecom industry
`1. Blockchain in fraud management
Revenue leakages and frauds are the results of the porosity of the traditional ecosystems, fraud loss was estimated close...
The ideas around Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), each in their own right, have been around in the industry for many years. They have garnered significant interest in the marketplace as methods to break the vertical market stranglehold that vendors have...
