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What tech trends will be most important in 2025?

AI tops the list of 2025 tech trends in IEEE survey Artificial intelligence is expected to be the most important technology in the coming year—the second time in a row that AI has topped IEEE's annual Impact of Technology survey. And which industry is expected to...

Hot Topics in Telecom with Ken Schmidt of Steel In The Air

In this episode of 5G Talent Talk, Carrie Charles speaks with Ken Schmidt, President of Steel in the Air, Inc. Steel in the Air provides guidance to thousands of clients across the United States on cell tower and cell site leases. Ken’s many years...

IoT spending in APAC to reach $277.5bn this year: IDC

IoT investments in APAC are expected to reach $435 billion in 2027 Internet of Things (IoT) spending in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region is forecasted to reach $277.5 billion in 2023, an increase of 11% compared to the previous year, according to IDC's latest Worldwide...

Telcos have lowest satisfaction with their AI deployments: Survey

Telecommunications providers are more likely than companies in other verticals to use artificial intelligence and they aim to offer sophisticated services using AI, according to a recent survey by Infosys—but at the same time, they are more likely to be dissatisfied with their AI...

Digital Twin Consortium launches working group to target telecoms

The new working group will define and identify digital twin applications for the telecommunications industry The Digital Twin Consortium (DTC) announced a new working group with the aim of addressing the application and adoption of digital twins in the telecommunications market. In a release, DTC noted...

DIG IN & EDGE OUT With Michael Morey of Bluebird Network

Bluebird Network is a fiber services company that focuses on providing services to the commercial and carrier market in Missouri, Illinois, and the nine surrounding states. Heading this Midwestern provider is Michael Morey, once an aspiring volcanologist who found his way to telecommunications. After...

Leading in a Rapidly Changing World with Kelly Brewer of Crown Castle

If you don’t work in the telecom industry, you might not recognize that you’re indirectly interacting with Crown Castle every day. But as one of the largest providers of shared communications infrastructure in the US, Crown Castle’s impact on the shared infrastructure space is...

The Rebirth of ExteNet: Bringing a CEO’s Vision to Life with Rich Coyle

Our world is fast-paced, with everything accessible in a single click. The growth in connectivity is made possible by high-performance network companies like ExteNet. ExteNet is the largest privately held communications infrastructure provider in North America. Their CEO, Richard Coyle, focuses on growing and improving...

The Business of Digital Infrastructure and What Lies Ahead with Jennifer Fritzsche

There are a lot of things happening right now in the business of digital infrastructure. Tune in as Carrie Charles sits down with Jennifer Fritzsche as she breaks down how she foresees telecom and tech will intersect and what lies ahead for the future of the communications...

Is it Time for NICs to get Smarter?

  There has been a lot of talk in the industry in last couple of years around SMART-NICs. In this blog, we share our perspective on this new class of network accelerators and the role they play in future of compute platforms. These are expected...

Beyond the Basic Transformation: How Business and Workforce Evolves

  Workforce Transformation is a theme that is talked about in not only technology-based organizations but in all organizations. Companies that focus on retail, healthcare, insurance, finance etc. are all being forced to transform with technology even though technology is not what they do. Even companies...

Innovation meets communications tax and regulation in 2018 (Reader Forum)

  The tech industry, whether aware of it or not, is likely to see compliance issues arise around much more than just sales taxes in 2018. The line that separates traditional companies, which are accustomed to contending with consumption taxes, from telecom companies, which must...

The role of open source software in telecommunications

The telecom industry is undergoing a major shift with the migration from voice and data services to an encompassing set of networking tools. Accompanying this shift is a need for greater agility and flexibility. Open source software is indispensable to a faster, more malleable...

Reader Forum: 3 critical trends guiding the future of operator strategies

Smartphones — thanks to superior user experiences and affordable pricing models — dominate the market worldwide. In the first quarter of 2016, they represented 78% of total mobile phone sales worldwide. Data consumption has become in many regions the prime use case, enabled by...

Telecom workforce adjustments needed for move to devops model

Telecom workforce adjustments needed for devops Just as workforce adjustments will be needed for telecom’s move to software-defined networks, changes will also need to take place in order for devops to be fully realized. In our article How telecom operators should approach devops we talked...

Telecom workforce adjustments needed for move to devops model

Telecom workforce adjustments needed for devops Just as workforce adjustments will be needed for telecom’s move to software-defined networks, changes will also need to take place in order for devops to be fully realized. In our article How telecom operators should approach devops we talked...

How telecom operators should approach devops

Telecom, the biggest adopter of devops The devops model is being heavily adopted by telecom companies during the industry's ongoing transition to virtualized networks. In a 2014 report by CA Technologies, telecommunications led all other industries in devops adoption, with 88% having already transitioned, or looking...

How telecom operators should approach devops

Telecom, the biggest adopter of devops The devops model is being heavily adopted by telecom companies during the industry's ongoing transition to virtualized networks. In a 2014 report by CA Technologies, telecommunications led all other industries in devops adoption, with 88% having already transitioned, or looking...

How to become a telecommunications engineer

Steps to becoming a telecommunications engineer With "5G" standards in the works and an estimated 20.8 billion connected "internet of things" devices in use by 2020, telecommunications engineers have never been needed more. Now that we know what telecommunications engineering is, it is time to find out how...

How to become a telecommunications engineer

Steps to becoming a telecommunications engineer With 5G standards in the works and an estimated 20.8 billion connected IoT devices in use by 2020, telecommunications engineers have never been needed more. Now that you know what telecommunications engineering is, it is time to find out...

What is telecommunications engineering?

Background The telecommunications industry is the backbone of today's mobile landscape, deploying voice, data, graphics and video at ever increasing speeds and in a growing number of ways. Wireline telephone communication was once the primary service of the industry, now wireless communication and satellite distribution are...

What is telecommunications engineering?

Background The telecommunications industry is the backbone of today's mobile landscape, deploying voice, data, graphics and video at ever-increasing speeds and in a growing number of ways. Wireline telephone communication was once the primary service of the industry, but wireless communication and satellite distribution are becoming increasingly...

Telecom workforce unemployment drops in February

The telecommunications workforce, as tracked by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, saw a small decrease in its unemployment rate coupled with a decline in total number of employees. In February, the telecom unemployment rate declined to 2.9% from 3.1% in January. Since January 2015,...

FCC Chairman wants to open set-top box market to innovation

Set-top box leasing costs U.S. consumer $20 billion annually With an eye on driving competition in cable TV, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler on laid out a proposal to open the set-top box market to end costly leasing agreements and open the largely closed...