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On-Device Engagement, Innovation Keys to Carrier Survival

Thu, 10 May 2012 18:15:00 GMT

Major carriers are expecting to max out on data usage starting as early as next year. Are they being pushed out of the business model completely?

Facebook Leads Disruption of Telecom World

Thu, 10 May 2012 15:18:00 GMT

The bottom line from CTIA is that (to no one's surprise) the telecom world is disrupting and carriers need to change with it or at least die trying.

Small Cell: Smart Spectrum Saver Solution

Wed, 09 May 2012 22:52:00 GMT

Across the tiers, carriers are looking at best practices for implementing, acquiring or at the very least, saving spectrum license. What is apparent from a year ago at this time is the realization of new options for execution.

Surviving the LTE Tidal Wave

Wed, 09 May 2012 22:49:00 GMT

Rural carriers across the country are faced with the overwhelming onslaught of LTE — finding themselves awash in eroding access lines and crushing competitive pressure. How does the independent carrier remain afloat?

Love, Sports and Video Communications Over LTE

Wed, 09 May 2012 20:54:00 GMT

Best effort over a wireless broadband network may not be good enough for users. Providers need to be in this game directly because we need to move back toward “Five-9s" in our communications services, not the “Nine-5s" we sometimes joke about for

CTIA: T-Mobile LTE, Exec Roundtable, FCC Lead Strong First Day

Wed, 09 May 2012 17:39:00 GMT

The big buzz was the first day was T-Mobile giving a $4 billion nod to Ericsson and Nokia Siemens Networks to install LTE-ready equipment across 37,000 cell sites across the operator's existing 4G network.

CTIA: Data Traffic, Spectrum and More

Mon, 07 May 2012 23:43:00 GMT

Operators around the world are scrambling to support the onslaught of data traffic from new smart mobile devices hitting the networks that were never designed for data. And carriers won't do just one thing to solve this problem – they'll do

Mobile Provider Cloud Storage Strategy: 6 Keys to Success

Thu, 03 May 2012 15:36:00 GMT

The personal cloud market has truly reached the tipping point and mobile providers must have a solution; otherwise, they could be the last person at the dance without a date.

For Operators, LTE Offers More Than Speed

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:53:00 GMT

Expectations are high for Long Term Evolution, or LTE. But the reality of the customer experience isn’t likely to match the promise of the marketing hype.

Just-in-Time Packaging: Hot New Technology Just in Time for NAB

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:14:00 GMT

“Just-in-time" packaging technology enables video service providers to deliver adaptive bitrate VOD and NDVR services to multiple screens without pre-packaging all their video assets.

Mobile Data vs. Backhaul: The Ultimate Fight ... and We're Losing

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:35:00 GMT

As it stands, the backhaul industry has lost the first round, and we're already on the ropes in the second.

OTT Providers, Operators See Writing on the Wall

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:45:00 GMT

Tellingly, earlier this month Ovum said that 7 percent of total revenue was eroded by OTT services.

Are Operators Starting to Walk the Walk?

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 20:29:00 GMT

The next five years are going to be really exciting, especially as we begin to see all the operators efforts from the past five years come to fruition.

Small Cells Big at MWC

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 20:11:00 GMT

Small-cell APIs will enable a new breed of intelligent, context-aware services for consumers and businesses.

Personalization Key to the Customer Experience

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 19:31:00 GMT

In coming months, look for a mounting push toward individualization and personalization, combining real-time SDM systems, B/OSS and policy control in order to communicate with customers on a highly personalized level.

Cobbler's Wife Syndrome

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 00:35:00 GMT

Mobile World Congress demonstrated that the boundaries of technology are really being pushed forward all the time.

MWC 2012 Pushes Telco Boundaries with M2M, Utility Talk

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 21:15:00 GMT

Regarding M2M, most companies are still learning and looking for solid business models built on top of strong but unrealized industry-wide standards. Second, the risk management/business assurance side is being left behind.

Astounding Traffic Levels

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:27:00 GMT

Very soon an extraordinary level of network traffic will become the norm in every country the world over.

Ericsson and the Network Society

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:39:00 GMT

The pace of innovation, Vestberg predicted, is not going to slow down, but will only grow. By 2016, there will be 5 billion mobile broadband users, three times today's rate, and 50 billion connected devices.

The Pervasiveness of Apps

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:40:00 GMT

While CSPs are very good at providing connectivity and bandwidth, they are offering their users raw data on an outmoded pricing model, and certainly without the granularity needed by consumers to understand which app is consuming "how