Mobile

One way of understanding why the Internet of Things (and 5G) is important is to view it as the next generation of computing, the long-predicted “era of pervasive computing.” The other insight is [...]

Global spending on internet of things (IoT) is forecast by IDC to grow 16.7 percent year over year in 2017, reaching just over $800 billion in revenue. By 2021, global IoT spending is expected to [...]

A reasonable person could argue that consolidation was necessary in the Indian mobile market, which has been among the most-competitive in the world, in terms of the number of suppliers. In most [...]

It might seem odd to hear Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam say “I can’t tell you 10 years from now what at top line revenue is going to look like for Verizon,” that is a practical observation [...]

AT&T believes that, with a move to pervasive computing (which is one way to describe what “internet of things” is about), there is an inherent ability to embed higher-value operations into [...]

Artificial intelligence might prove to be a very-important driver of incremental revenue growth for mobile operators in the 5G era, for reasons partly enabled by the advent of 5G. So here’s [...]

Oddly enough, in an industry where the direction of technology development has been towards more and more capacity (“broadband”), the next wave of development includes a key focus on “narrowband” [...]

5G is among the hottest “buzz words” in the global telecom business for good reasons: it might be transformative in several ways, driving big industry revenue changes; changing the value of [...]

One of the “problems” with being early to commercialize any important product  is that one reaches the maturity phase of the product sooner than others. That arguably is the case for mobile [...]

Even if most of the attention in popular media is about “cord cutting” related to linear video subscriptions, internet access  cord cutting arguably is an equally-big potential issue. According [...]

The global mobile business, like its predecessor fixed line networks business, was built on scarcity. Monopoly regulation created scarcity by policy decision, allowing only one firm to lawfully [...]

As always seems to be the case, no single “indoor” mobile access approach is “perfect.” In large part, that is because venues vary so much in size. So, as is always the case for any access or [...]

How much of tomorrow’s 5G business will be based on use of unlicensed spectrum in a direct sense? And how much activity will be be produced by traditional mobile operators, compared to new [...]

As part of my recent chairing of the broadband conference  at CommunicAsia for the Pacific Telecommunications Council, I made a couple of short presentations on why I believe internet of things [...]

When observers say the “cost” of supplying telecom services is “too high,” and must be made more affordable, the obvious and direct implication is that somewhere in the supply ecosystem, some [...]