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 automotive industry is on the verge of its biggest transformation in over a century – and it’s all down...
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.
Last week was one of stunning victory and disappointing defeat. For those of you who read this column but do...
Column updated to correct AT&T's service margin.
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 event-filled week outside of third-quarter earnings news, with the Federal...
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.
Mid-October, Samsung’s earnings dropped nearly 60% from the company’s operating profit a year earlier, and nearly 43% from the profits...
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.
In early August, President Barak Obama signed into law a bill known as the “Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition...
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 Nexus 6: the best kept secret (not again!)
Given the collaboration that came through their acquisition, it’s no surprise that...
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 are different ways to implement edge clouds, depending on the access technology. Macro cells vendors embed secured computing 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.
One of my summer projects has been to relearn the economics of broadband connectivity. While this column focuses on 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.
Telecommunication providers are typically our go-to source for the latest smartphones and tablets. Yet, even though selling mobility has become...
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has the potential to bring the same benefits attained in the data center to the network. Today NFV is being incorporated into wireless access infrastructure, from large macro cells to small indoor femtocells. This is unlocking new revenue opportunities for...
End users and software providers are demanding more of the telecommunication industry. While end users request personalized services, better performance, and better user experience, businesses need to get more information about their consumers, easier access to devices and greater flexibility for provisioning new services....
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, we continue our look at events that shaped the quarter and will likely shape performance throughout the rest...
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.
For the first time this year, the two major annual trade shows organized by the Competitive Carriers Association and CTIA...
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.
Corporate and industrial applications — rather than much-publicized consumer applications — will be the initial drivers of the wearable device...
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.
I received several comments on last week’s column indicating that I was being biased toward the “edge providers” meaning AT&T,...
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.
Having spent three days at the recent CTIA event, which was briefly overshadowed by Apple’s iPhone 6 and Watch announcement,...
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.
We need to talk.
Last week Apple released its iPhone 6 (finally!) with support for the latest-and-greatest 802.11ac standard, and it’s...
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.
Seven simple steps to improve data roaming usage
The rate of today’s mobile data usage is truly astounding. According to 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.
Apple’s latest products announcement occurs just as CTIA kicks off. The timing couldn’t be better. Samsung reminded the world at...
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.
In most industries, every now and then, something comes along that has the capacity to rewrite the rules and change...
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.
Over the past 18 months, Iliad has grown from a small fixed-broadband provider to become one of the key players...
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.
Successful monetization of the machine-to-machine market will take more than just connected devices working in harmony. It will require carriers...
Location-based services and companion context-aware services are possible at a scale and a cost that was impossible before.
Employers and retailers can use low-cost small cell 3G coverage systems to provide location-based services in order to improve employee effectiveness and customer service. In normal retail...
Just as they’re finally getting their arms around the changes mobility has produced in the workplace, now CIOs and CTOs must turn their attention to the emergence of the latest trend that is poised to change everything: the “Internet of Things.” The coming interconnectivity...
