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Reader Forum: Mobile financial services – Open for business anytime soon?

The leading mobile operating systems, Google Android and Apple iOS, are increasingly taking on the role of financial services platforms. Android and iOS smartphones and tablets host applications

Reader Forum: A mobile-centric approach to security and fraud prevention

Mobile applications undermine conventional online controls against fraud but open up several much stronger controls – although they are dependent on a deep understanding of mobile and fraud.

Reader Forum: Small cells pose new questions for mobile operators – but can they answer them?

Mobile operators have long been adding closed access small cells (typically femtocells) in homes and businesses to address poor coverage. However, a shift over the last 18 months has witnessed operators

Reader Forum: 5 key trends in mobility for 2013

Openwave Mobility, a software innovator enabling operators to manage and monetize growth in mobile video and web traffic, has predicted what trends it expects for 2013. The “New Consumer Economy” infiltrates mobile John Giere, President & CEO, Openwave Mobility: “We live in a world where...

Reader Forum: Cloud radio access and small cell networks based on RapidIO

The wireless radio access network must evolve significantly to satisfy the end user quality-of-experience re-quirements associated with mobile data and video traffic.

Reader Forum: SIP session management – A viable alternative to costly IMS

For years, IP multimedia subsystem networks have been forced upon wireless service providers who have been struggling to deploy them given they need to follow a rigorous and complex set of standards.

Reader Forum: ‘ET’ phone home

Today’s smartphones and tablets are exponentially more powerful than desktop computers built just a few years ago, and they’re making it possible for consumers to untether, use the Internet, watch streaming videos,

Reader Forum: Connected devices – New business models

A previous RCR Wireless News article highlighted the topic of new machine-to-machine business models with reference to the size and characteristics of this fast growing market opportunity.

Reader Forum: Don’t let the ‘iDevices’ destroy your monthly expenses

If you work in IT or handle mobile devices for your organization, you’ve likely already experienced it: requests to move to the latest, greatest, fastest smartphone on the market (for the time being),

Reader Forum: Make the network smarter

It’s no secret that the proliferation of smartphone and tablet devices – and the accompanying demand for mobile video – is continuing to drive the need for more bandwidth.

Reader Forum: M2M shouldn’t be DIY

It takes the right combination of hardware, software, networks and services to monitor a loved one with Alzheimer’s, track mobile workers, pinpoint an offender’s whereabouts, maintain visibility

Reader Forum: Hetnet deployment considerations – More on the 4Ps

The appetite for wireless services and applications is driving hundreds of billions of dollars of revenue annually for operators. Building an infrastructure that meets the capacity and reliability

Reader Forum: Controlling quality in least cost routing

Interconnect carriers and least cost routing models play an important role in sending voice calls around the globe. It is also commonly accepted that the benefits of LCR are worth the cost

Reader Forum: Exploiting the value of a client for data offload

Explosive growth in wireless traffic – thanks to mainstream adoption of smartphones, notebooks and tablets – has mobile operators scrambling to address data offloading problems and strategies.

Reader Forum: Taking enterprise mobility to the next level

It’s no question that enterprise mobility is becoming ubiquitous. Many of the organizations I work with are moving beyond low-hanging mobility fruits like e-mail and calendar management.

Reader Forum: Rationalizing small cell backhaul

There are a lot of opinions circulating that relate to small cells – how they will be deployed, how they will perform, what will they look like – but what’s become clear is there’s a consensus that small cells

Reader Forum: The return of Sneakernet – How mobile devices and BYOD have revived the 90s

Remember Sneakernet? Those of us who worked on IT security issues in the 90s probably haven’t heard that term in a while. For those too young to remember,

Reader Forum: How can we achieve a truly global LTE smartphone?

The launch of the iPhone 5 last month has highlighted a major issue for all 4G smartphones – that no one handset can cover all of the global LTE frequency bands.

Reader Forum: CEM – Adding the missing key ingredient … the customer

Despite the advances that have been made to customer experience management, such as the improved joining of customer service and real-time analytics, there has not been a vast improvement in customer experience.

Reader Forum: Edge-intelligence in the enterprise – Boldly going where no mobile network has gone before

Since the dawn of mobile, operators have looked to penetrate the enterprise market yet, in spite of their continued travails, success has been limited. For the majority of SMEs, the PBX

Reader Forum: The limits of cloud computing and service provider IT

Cloud computing is becoming increasingly attractive for mobile operators. However, unlike pure IT, not all types of network functionalities are suitable for a cloud architecture.

Reader Forum: LTE and the need for nanosecond-accurate network timing

Because LTE has been introduced in a somewhat staggered fashion and the true “4G” as defined by the International Telecommunications Union is yet to come in the form of LTE-Advanced,

Reader Forum: Top-up, remote payments, mobile banking – not NFC – are the real opportunity for m-commerce

Most conversations today surrounding mobile payment solutions are overly focused on the opportunities promised by near field communications technology and how this functionality will transform

Reader Forum: Bringing order to the chaos in the mobile marketplace

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers, we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible, but we...