Bill Barney, CEO of Reliance Communications, has within his portfolio long haul transport, enterprise, cloud and mobile operations in India. And the emergence of Reliance Jio, which has launched [...]
As often happens, important new technologies and products have a “hype cycle,” where high expectations then encounter fatigue, and only later is the value obvious. So it is not surprising that [...]
5G networks could create up to three million jobs and add approximately $500 billion to U.S. GDP through direct and indirect potential benefits, while anchoring the development of smart cities [...]
At the risk of seemingly downplaying the danger of declining voice and text messaging revenues globally, that is the lesser problem global telcos face. The trend is real. Those trends are also [...]
Some idea of the challenges faced by most mobile service providers is heavy discounting of even the most-important new services, offered over the latest platforms. Consider that, in India, always [...]
As often happens, important new technologies and products have a “hype cycle,” where high expectations then encounter fatigue, and only later is the value obvious. So it is not surprising that [...]
Global spending on internet of things (IoT) is slated to grow at a 15.6 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) between 2015 and 2020, to nearly $1.29 trillion in 2020 from $737 billion in [...]
Uncertainty about “new revenue sources” typically is an issue when a new mobile generation is launched. That was true of 3G and 4G, and already is true for 5G. Service providers are [...]