Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and experiences.
The market for mobile navigation and contextual search is switching gears due to new demands stemming from connected cars, wearable...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and experiences.
The Consumer Electronics Show officially begins Tuesday, and 160,000 of us (including yours truly) will descend on Las Vegas to...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and experiences.
You have probably been hearing quite a bit in recent months about the “Internet of Things” coalescing into a major...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and experiences.
Sixty-eight readers sent “top ten” nominations that form the basis for this week’s column. These events (in chronological order) were...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and experiences.
If over-the-top service providers are cannibals, somebody forgot to tell Atlantic Broadband, Grande Communications, RCN Telecom Services and Suddenlink. They’re...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and experiences.
The telecom industry is experiencing exponential growth and showing no signs of slowing down. Strategic growth, however, can only take...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and experiences.
Key issues of today's mobile app development
Today over 90% of Americans own a smartphone, and close to half own a...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and experiences.
Our current 911 system was designed in the 1950s and early 60s for landline phones. Today, 40% of households are...
The industrial “Internet of Things” is one of today’s biggest business opportunities in the electronics and high-tech industry.
Accenture defines IIoT as the convergence of intelligent industrial products, processes and services that communicate with each other, and with people, over global networks. Conservative estimates suggest...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and experiences.
Every day, it seems there is another high-profile security breach in the news. These stories have only served to highlight...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and experiences.
Since 2012, carriers have seen a steady decline in revenue and traffic from traditional telecom offerings given the popularity and...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and experiences.
This has been an unusually active December for the telecom industry. We’ll begin this week’s column with an assessment of...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and experiences.
The regulatory and market dynamics affecting mobile services in the Asia-Pacific region make voice over LTE and other advanced technology...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and experiences.
This week’s column continues the regulatory discussion started in late November focusing on the touchy issue of paid prioritization. To...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and experiences.
Today’s wireless networks – AT&T Mobility, Sprint, T-Mobile US, Verizon Wireless and other regional operators – are designed and maintained...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and experiences.
Text messaging this week reached the ripe old age of 22. Over the course of its lifetime it has had...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and experiences.
As the wireless industry moves toward a different economic model of no-contract plans, companies are exploring the use of financial...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and experiences.
Being a small business does not mean one can afford to be less responsive to customers. Mobile and cloud technologies...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and experiences.
With Black Friday and Cyber Monday right around the corner, people are about to get more mobile. From new wearables...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and experiences.
DARPA, NSF and the commercialization of the Internet
With the president’s support for increased regulation now publicly known (see the corresponding...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and experiences.
Telecommunication operators are faced with a daunting revenue challenge that seems to get worse with each passing day. Even the...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and experiences.
Sprint: down, but are they out?
Sprint reported dismal earnings last week. As a result, the stock dropped 24% over the...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and experiences.
There will be two particularly important business opportunities unfolding next year in the electronics and high-tech industry.
The first is the...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and experiences.
Facebook’s latest acquisition hints at the future of app-based data plans
At the beginning of June, Facebook purchased Finnish startup Pryte,...
