Sprint continues to pilfer executives from rivals as part of its broader corporate restructuring, with the latest coming from AT&T
Sprint’s ongoing corporate restructuring gained yet another executive from a rival as the carrier announced former AT&T executive Nelly Pitocco joined as VP of enterprise...
Enterprises have seen their IT strategies transform from managing BYOD to overseeing CYOD, which then calls for MDM, MCM, MAM and EMM
For many years, “bring-your-own-device” strategies have been popular in enterprises. This came about because users wanted to bring their own personal mobile devices...
A conversation with Mark Grayson, Distinguished Engineer, Office of Mobility CTO, Cisco about expanding wi-fi to enterprise
Download a transcript of the interview and be the first to receive the report “Voice comes to the fore, again. VoLTE and Wi-Fi Calling redefine voice”
VoLTE and VoWi-Fi will...
IoT security spending is set to increase by nearly 30% this year. Cybersecurity startups to benefit from surge in investment as funding is expected to soar.
"Internet of Things" security spending is currently a relatively small market, but analyst firm Gartner estimates worldwide spending on...
On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check we speak with ONUG on its advocacy for open interoperable hardware and software-defined infrastructure
Enterprises are seen as some of the earliest test cases in terms of the telecommunications industry’s push into virtualization platforms, with many operators working with...
LONDON – When two giants of the industry merge – although in this case the merger was a takeover – it can often take a while for the dust to settle and for the new company to begin to realize the benefits. Sometimes the...
Enterprise devops tools are quickly gaining interest as companies look to streamline their operations and gain efficiency
Enterprises are increasingly turning to development operations models in order to drive further efficiency across their organization. But, to make these devops moves requires having tools and processes...
IoT projects face a number of technical and business challenges. Connectivity and proving ROI are ranked as the biggest challenges by European IT professionals.
Enterprises face a number of technical and business challenges when it comes to planning and deploying "Internet of Things" projects. A survey...
Red Hat’s Mobile Application Platform to power Telefónica’s global enterprise mobile platform
Telefónica Business Solutions is set to use Red Hat’s Mobile Application Platform as a global reference for operators within the Telefónica Group looking to mobilize business processes for customers.
Red Hat said Telefónica has...
DAS makes sense for the enterprise even if carriers won't pay for it
Distributed antenna systems and in-building small cells have traditionally been used by carriers to keep enterprise customers happy, and now those customers are starting to purchase mobile infrastructure on their own. The...
Text messaging remains a significant form of communication between people, but it also looks set to become an ordering platform for businesses
Remember when you could sign up for online email notifications? You could ask your bank to email you an alert if your balance...
Sprint unlocks Global Wireline Business Unit to target enterprise market, though tasked with ‘full profit-and-loss responsibility’
Sprint may be most known as the domestic market’s former No. 3 wireless carrier, but it also has a wireline network that has garnered accolades from industry veterans and...
There’s been a few questions asked recently in RCR Wireless News and Network World about the go-to-market challenges faced by the small cell community, especially in the enterprise space. And of course it is true, there are some questions to be answered.
The pleasing element...
Verizon probably looks pretty good to its former customers now
1. Former Verizon Communications customers who are now served by Frontier Communications are struggling with unreliable service, according to multiple reports. Problems range from the inability to access online banking to a failure to reach...
Within the telecom industry, views differ widely on the scale of the IoT investment opportunity
Asked at a recent conference when the "Internet of Things" will make a material difference to his company’s financial performance, the CEO of one major telecom operator replied: “Not in my tenure.”
That...
Awareness and intent is growing around IIoT manufacturing, but companies have yet to see significant impact
The 2016 edition of the global MESA international and LNS Research survey on "Metrics that Matter in the manufacturing world” shows the industrial "Internet of Things" manufacturing sector’s take on IoT...
CommScope tapped for Sprint small cell deployment
Sprint has chosen CommScope for a significant indoor small cell deployment designed to support LTE and Wi-Fi. The carrier plans to use CommScope's S1000 small cell, one of the assets CommScope acquired when it bought small cell specialist...
Awareness and intent is growing around IIoT manufacturing but companies have yet to see significant impact
The 2016 edition of the global MESA International and LNS Research survey on ”Metrics that Matter in the manufacturing world” shows that the IIoT manufacturing sector’s take on IoT is changing...
Sundar Pichai, Google CEO, emphasizes artificial intelligence, machine learning
Google is investing big in artificial intelligence and machine learning, which will set the stage for a transition from mobile-first to AI-first as devices fade away, Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote in a recent post to...
I just returned from the well-organized and well-attended Wi-Fi Now conference in Washington, D.C. Topics at the three-day conference included enterprise applications, home security, innovations, leadership, carriers, spectrum, LTE-U, the "Uber-ization" of the wireless industry and the disruptive role of Wi-Fi. There was less talk about...
Asset efficiency is important to a manufacturer's bottomline
A recent study on the maturity of asset efficiency practices from Infosys and the Institute for Industrial Management (FIR) at Aachen University revealed that 85% of manufacturing companies globally are aware of asset efficiency, but only 15%...
Increase productivity with enterprise asset management cloud and data analytics tools
Companies of all sorts, particularly those working in physical plant-intensive markets, need to keep up with their equipment to understand maintenance needs, optimize process efficiency and, ideally, get more productivity for less money.
The practice...
Dell’Oro Group looks at challenges facing small cells as they try to garner scale in the consumer and enterprise space
At a high level, small cells have moved from the hype phase to reality. The Dell’Oro Group estimates the nonresidential small cell market approached 300,000...
MaaS360 by IBM provides 6 tips for the decommission of bring-your-own-devices in the enterprise
In the world of bring-your-own-device policies, users may run through multiple devices per year – a departure from the typical 18-month or two-year upgrade for the general population. As BYOD grows,...
