During the pre-LTE days, the importance of Wi-Fi infrastructure was on the rise and that created opportunities for aggregators such as Devicescape and iPass to offer the broadest platforms to customers – from enterprises to cellular offloaders to Wi-Fi-first mobile virtual network operators. There...
As new smartphone customers become harder to find in the U.S. mobile market, carriers are shifting their operational focus from growth in average revenue per user growth to churn management, according to recent research from Parks Associates.
In this mode the carrier must adjust its...
Devicescape, iPass partner on 50M Wi-Fi hot spot network
Wi-Fi service providers iPass and Devicescape joined Wi-Fi networks to create a global network of some 50 million hot spots, which the companies and industry watchers are calling the world’s largest Wi-Fi network.
Wi-Fi evangelist and telecom industry...
Like all mobile operators, regional carriers face a potential loss in revenue each time a user moves off the cellular network and onto Wi-Fi. But that is just part of the Wi-Fi picture, and a number of smaller carriers are learning to leverage unlicensed...
For mobile operators, Wi-Fi represents both a challenge and an opportunity. Traditionally seen by many as competitive to cellular, Wi-Fi is now recognized as a way to maintain a more consistent user experience by offloading traffic when cellular networks become congested. The challenge for...
