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Kagan: Charter Spectrum Mobile preparing to launch

Charter is getting ready to enter the world of wireless. They just selected Danny Bowman to lead their wireless efforts in what is expected to be called Spectrum Mobile. Bowman has wireless background with Sprint. Let’s take a look at how the wireless and...

Analyst Angle: Clash of the Titans — who will lead in virtualized application networks?

Virtualization of mobile networks must first occur in operators' IT Networks and support processes before it can be made widely available to customers as either a reformulation of current service offerings or new horizontal and vertical market offerings. Gating factors include the availability of...

Analyst Angle: Assessing the MDU opportunity

According to the US Census Bureau, out of 127 million households, were close to 35 million households living in MDUs (multi-dwelling unit) of more than two units in 2016. Those numbers translate into over 17 million units spread over a little more than 800,000...

Analyst Angle: Why the standardization of IoT security cannot come soon enough

  IoT device manufacturers are governed by a keen consumer demand for desirable features and intuitive functionality. Security concerns, in stark contrast, have been given relatively little thought — especially among lower-end consumer IoT products. However, striking a more equitable balance between ease of use...

Analyst Angle: Trending at MWC 2018

As expected, MWC 2018 was a lot about buzzwords 5G, AI, VR, digital transformation, digital identity, smart cities, connected cars, IoT and everything in between. With 5G non-standalone standards now in place, the conversation is moving away from proof of concept to more ambitious projects,...

Analyst Angle: Apple iOS has two search problems — email and messenger

Apple needs to improve Email search and add search to Messenger. Quick and effective Search in Email and Messenger will enable users to be more productive when using these apps. Apple's iOS operating system for mobile devices like the iPhone and iPad is certainly easy...

Analyst Angle: The Data Imperative — maximizing analytics to gain an edge

  Digital-first companies, such as Amazon, Netflix, Google, and Facebook, have, in some ways, perfected the art of data and analytics — using data to drive business decisions. It is increasingly hard to compete against these providers without integrating analytics into critical business practices. The...

Analyst Angle: Fetch-It—Taking on personal information management

This new iOS mobile app enables you to store and then easily retrieve all of your personal information including frequent flier accounts, bank accounts, credit card accounts, online accounts and most any other important personal information.  Were you ever in a situation where you needed...

Analyst Angle: Robotics at CES — not there yet

The year kicked off, as usual, with the big CES show in Las Vegas. Some of the hot trends on display this year were AI, IoT, and Robotics. And while overall, the progress shown at CES is quite impressive, it seems like most of...

Analyst Angle: How Microsoft can speed up search in Outlook

  Outlook search presently reviews all the email in the designated mailbox or folder(s). It would search much faster if they just looked at a few desired occurrences first before going off and searching through entire folders. When folders get big, searching can take substantial...

Analyst Angle: Wi-Fi evolves 5G-type capabilities

  While 5G will support unlicensed and shared spectrum, Wi-Fi has been moving in the other direction, taking on many characteristics of cellular technologies such as enhanced quality of service, security, and other features. As the lines between licensed and unlicensed spectrum blur, Wi-Fi will...

Analyst Angle: Why aren’t the MNOs supportive of shared infrastructure?

Major MNOs are in a very challenging position as mobile data demand continues to expand at breakneck pace. As smartphone usage becomes an inherent part of everyday life, MNOs are challenged to keep up with ever increasing demand for perfect coverage and adequate capacity....

Analyst Angle: How to provide Gigabit LTE cheaply when you don’t have the spectrum?

  Deploy LAA. Consumers are only beginning to use LTE in unlicensed spectrum. So far chatter has mostly been about operator trials, commercial chipsets and sales of devices to seed the market before anyone is to be able to use the new service feature. Nevertheless, the...

Analyst Angle: 10 2018 mobile and wireless forecasts and trends

  5G, IoT, Services (vs. Apps), Over the Top (OTT), Smartphones, App Layer vs. OS Layer, Augmented Reality (AR), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Virtual Reality (VR) are hot mobile topics for 2018. There’s a number of new breakthrough developments that will make 2018 our best...

Analyst Angle: What spectrum bands will US operators use for Mobile 5G?

  Although much of the dialogue on 5G spectrum in the US has focused on millimeter (mmWave) spectrum, it is not clear whether the mmWave spectrum is suitable for mobile network deployment in the near to mid-term future. This is exactly why Verizon is concentrating on...

Analyst Angle: Q3 2017 and End of Year Assessment of the “Top 4 Mobile Carriers”

  Compass Intelligence just completed the final assessment of Q3 2017 and also compared this quarter’s results to Q3 2017. We do this each quarter to understand the subscriber and share changes, as well as evaluate the key trends taking place in the wireless industry...

Analyst Angle: Innovation in the 5G communications platform and the IoT

  At a conference entitled Patents in Telecoms & the Internet of Things, at George Washington University in the District of Columbia last week, I was perturbed to hear a speaker mischaracterizing the communications standards as platforms of preexisting technologies upon which IoT innovation will...

Analyst Angle: Providing 21st century broadband with fixed wireless gigabit

  In a recently published white paper, Maravedis discusses the advantages of using millimeter wave (mmWave) technologies, to deploy fiber-like, Fixed Wireless Access (FWA). 5G FWA can provide gigabit broadband service using both licensed and unlicensed mmWave spectrum, making it an ideal option for both...

Analyst Angle Video Interview: Intel’s Dr. Geng Wu on 5G Network Slicing

Analyst Angle Video Interview: Strategy Analytics’ Susan Welsh de Grimaldo Talks with Intel’s Dr. Geng Wu End-to-end network slicing holds promise as the key to unlocking new business opportunities with 5G to drive revenue growth. So exactly how will service providers benefit from slicing? And...

Analyst Angle: 3 game-changing telecom industry predictions for the next 5 years

Having been actively involved in the telecom industry for upwards of a decade, I’ve watched our infrastructure shrink in size and expand in capabilities. The telecom foundation now supports more users and boasts highly advanced features in a much smaller package, allowing for increased...

Analyst Angle: 3GPP fun facts Part 1

Who attends 3GPP meetings and why do they attend? The men and women who attend 3GPP meetings come from companies around the world and across the entire wireless ecosystem. The member companies include mobile operators, handset manufacturers, infrastructure suppliers, test equipment companies, and modem chipset...

Analyst Angle: The role of Wi-Fi and unlicensed technologies in 5G

  Although it is still being defined, 5G is becoming a priority for telecom operators and it comes with the promise of unseen services and a broad range of new use cases and business models ranging from enabling autonomous vehicles to smart agriculture and factories....

Analyst Angle: Wireless connectivity is more than an amenity in public transportation

A conversation about connectivity in public transportation with Jim Allison, Manager of Planning, CCJPA The below is only a summary. Download a transcript of the complete interview and receive the complete report "Wireless in the Enterprise: A deeper reach, a more active role for venue...

Analyst Angle: Learning to share

The benefits of coordinated shared spectrum Mobile network operators (MNOs) continually strive to quench their customers’ seemingly inexhaustible thirst for data, and their response to this relentless growth in mobile data traffic is to improve network capacity and performance. This can be done in any...