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Reality Check: New year wireless operator insights

This year’s Consumer Electronics Show turned the lens to look at the bandwidth experience from the device into the network. This perspective looks at each device’s unique qualities and matches

Reality Check: The discussion about native, Web or hybrid apps

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. Native, Web or hybrid — discussion over which one should be used for app development — doesn’t seem to have...

Reality Check: Cooperation boosts M2M market growth

Machine-to-machine solutions are changing how we live and work. Smoke alarms do not just sound an alarm; they send an alert to the fire service at the same time.

Reality Check: How to unlock Brazil’s 4G profits

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. There’s no denying it: 4G LTE deployments are underway in Brazil—and across the Caribbean and Latin American region. Brazil's communication...

Reality Check: A case study of M2M deployment for monitoring buses

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. About 65 years ago, the Brazilian company Viação Águia Branca (VAB) began to work in transportation. It remained a pioneer...

Reality Check: BYOD and mobility in emerging markets

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. More than buzzwords, bring your own device (BYOD) and mobility are real technological trends that have been adopted widely by...

Reality Check: Telecom operators should capitalize on expected smart home growth

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. The take-up of smart home services is currently being driven by fundamental market trends, such as the...

Reality Check: Five themes that shaped 2012

As we head into the holiday season, I thought it would be good to look back on five key themes that framed a momentous year. These events are really in no particular order, but we grouped them into themes to keep this week’s column true to its name.

Reality Check: Information security and Brazil’s digital crime bill

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. We all know and care about physical security. Whether we are walking on the street, shopping, paying bills at the...

Reality Check: What is the role of the application function going forward?

We need to update our thinking about the application function, an incredibly powerful yet under-valued element in mobile data networks. The AF could improve the quality of experience for mobile data

Reality Check: Data is the new oil – Building a system of smart pipes that carriers can monetize

Today, there's a land grab for mobile data users and their usage information. Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility have staked their claims, with other carriers to follow. If we unlock the data treasure trove

Reality Check: Our mobile ecosystem – The disruption is just beginning

Mobile innovation has changed our lives – but this is only the beginning. Mobile computing will continue to drive dramatic changes in how we conduct business, communicate with each other, access and share content

Reality Check: Brazil’s new broadband regulations

In the beginning of November, Brazil's telecommunications regulator Anatel — the Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações (National Agency of Telecommunications) — established new regulations for companies that provide broadband connections. The new measures are meant to regulate service quality, with the goal to maintain at...

Reality Check: IT budget planning

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. As 2012 comes to a close, and even with all the projects and final daily activities to be completed, it...

Reality Check: Fulfilling the promise of mobility – Why it’s important and how it’s achieved

According to a recent Accenture survey of customers worldwide from a variety of industries, the greatest source of frustration

Reality Check: How carriers can take advantage of network analytics

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. From existing data, extract new business insights that can be monitored in real time—This is the premise of all business...

Reality Check: It’s a wired, wired world – Q3/12 edition

Recently, we described three trends: --Lower interest rates are allowing wireline companies (both incumbents and challengers) to strengthen their balance sheets.

Reality Check: Few test mobile applications

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. Capgemini and HP recently published their fourth annual World Quality Report that provides a “comprehensive assessment of the current state...

Reality Check: Cloud-based e-health solutions could care for Brazil’s aging population

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. Ah, Brazil! The legendary sun-drenched beaches of Copacabana and Ipanema in Rio de Janeiro are full of young people sunning...

Reality Check: China, cyberwar and your phone company

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.em> How paranoid should we be about Huawei? Recently, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence published a watershed...

Reality Check: The importance of carrier ‘net promoter’ scores

What's in the hearts and minds of AT&T Mobility, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile USA today? Think three letters: NPS – a fast-spreading obsession in the carrier community to foster a brand loyalty index for the industry

Reality Check: Not just small cells, smart cells

In 2002, Billy Beane’s Oakland Athletics set an all-time baseball record winning 20 games in a row. In the process Beane’s “moneyball” concept revolutionized the sport, changing its thinking, its planning and its economics.

Reality Check: A look into arrest of Google’s Brazil CEO

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. Much was said in September this year about the arrest of Fábio Coelho, Google Brazil's CEO. To understand his arrest,...

Reality Check: Questions and priorities facing the next administration

Regulations are commonplace in the telecommunications industry, and the Federal Communications Commission has shaped providers’ roles, both for the Internet and the last-mile