For Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai, restoring an open internet has been a long time coming. Since his days as a dissenting FCC Commissioner during the Obama administration, Pai has remained steadfast in his commitment to replace the recent government regulatory stronghold over broadband...
Based on a study by Akamai in 2014, the United States and Canada — two of the most reliable countries in the world for Internet connection — nearly half of users experienced significant packet loss, resulting in buffer bloat and low-quality connections. Significant packet...
Our desire for privacy is part of what makes us human. None of us likes to have our privacy invaded, whether from someone reading over our shoulder or a data breach. Every day we read stories about foreign government hacks and ads that follow...
Consolidation has been a common theme in 2017, with companies across the advertising, publishing and telecommunications fields coming together to create industry behemoths. While these mergers aim to create new, combined capabilities, they also create a massive volume of resources to sift through and...
Why is it that consumers seem to be much less forgiving with service provider chatbots than with a witty personal assistant like Siri?
According to a recent global research study by analyst firm Forrester, commissioned by Amdocs, a third of service provider customers say they...
Few wireless technologies have experienced such a dramatic rise in telco industry perception as Wi-Fi. Once shunned by mobile operators as a best-effort competitor, they now embrace it as a complement to mobile data and voice services. And in the next generation of wireless,...
Sometimes, when you ask mobile subscribers what they actually think about a given subject, the results can be surprising to say the least.
That’s what happened in a recent survey by independent research agency Censuswide conducted on behalf of Openwave Mobility. More than 2,000 consumers...
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently closed its formal comment period in its effort to reverse Title II utility-style regulation of the internet and restore broadband to its traditional status as an information service – the same status that it enjoyed for nearly 20...
While Apple remains a consumer-focused brand, it's clear that the company is excited to be empowering digital transformation for today’s enterprises by providing leading-edge technology and developer tools. This was evident in the announcements made at the company's recent Worldwide Developers' Conference.
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Realizing the full promise of the internet of things (IoT) means creating an environment where tens of billions of devices can communicate in real-time, transforming industries. It’s been a long time coming, but application developers, enterprises and vertical industries are taking steps to make...
It’s no secret that we live in a world that is thirsty for video. Due to the proliferation of internet-enabled mobile phones and other connected devices, consumer expectations for where, what and how they watch content have changed drastically. Long gone are the days...
With the rapid adoption of new technologies from cloud computing and analytics to the explosion of third-party applications, network managers are constantly playing catch up to meet demands. They need the flexibility and agility to meet the challenge of giving employees the proper tools...
For years, video has caused headaches for telecom carriers, driving costs up faster than revenue and leaving consumers dissatisfied. But as technology improves, and consumer viewing habits change, the future presents increasingly better prospects.
Online video isn’t new. But the large quantity and high quality...
The internet is now the “reason for being” for most wireless and wireline service providers. Indeed, wireless and wireline networks are becoming the internet (homage to Eric Schmidt’s original vision of the network becoming the computer). These broadband networks are increasingly looking and working...
Asking an enterprise customer, say, a sports venue, to blanket their arena with your small cells is like asking your dad to buy you an expensive hot rod: it’s not going to happen unless you sweeten the deal. Instead of taking this one-down position,...
What do 42 grocery stores, a large corporate office and a 350,000 square foot distribution center distribution center have in common? They all make use of artificial intelligence. AI-powered Wi-Fi as-a-service enables our company to focus on our core competency, which is to manage...
Today, Wi-Fi is the lowest-cost, highest-performance internet connection available, and its impact only continues to expand. It is generally accepted that by 2020, more than 25 billion devices will be running on Wi-Fi networks.
However, this growing number of devices still runs on “islands of...
HFC networks are the likely candidate for wireless/wireline convergence, and with continued roll outs of power cabling in fiber networks, they can stay that way.
Editor’s Note: The RCR Wireless News Reality Check section is where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the...
5G technology is set to revolutionize the mobile telecommunications space, though cooperation will be needed to extract the most benefit.
Editor’s Note: The RCR Wireless News Reality Check section is where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique...
The internet and greater use of IoT are set to be significant pieces of technology altering innovation and how people interact with the world.
Editor’s Note: The RCR Wireless News Reality Check section is where C-level executives and advisory firms from across...
This is the second article in a three-part series that looks at how carriers will navigate the complexities of their own digital transformation – and those of their customers.
Editor’s Note: The RCR Wireless News Reality Check section is where C-level executives and advisory...
Today’s enterprise requires more than a connection to the telco network, they want a communications partner that can help differentiate their offerings.
Editor’s Note: The RCR Wireless News Reality Check section is where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique...
Recent attacks show IoT devices are vulnerable, but what role to CSPs play in ensuring customer security?
Editor’s Note: The RCR Wireless News Reality Check section is where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and experiences.
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MWC 2017 was big on 5G hype, but mobile operators are in need of solutions today that can help deal with growing video content.
Editor’s Note: The RCR Wireless News Reality Check section is where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the...
