Articles

Small Telcos’ Disconnect with the Connect America Fund

30 Apr, 2013

What is not as newsworthy is that many of the advances in telecommunications infrastructure are made – and always have been made – by smaller telephone companies, many of which are rural areas.

In Their Own Words: The Four Dark Horses for the Third Major Mobile OS Speak, Part II

03 Apr, 2013

This is the second of a two-part virtual roundtable looking at lesser-known candidates vying to become the third major mobile operating system.

In Their Own Words: The Four Dark Horses for the Third Major Mobile OS Speak

26 Mar, 2013

There is little doubt that the two leading mobile operating systems (OS) will continue to be Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS. What still is very much up for grabs, however, is which mobile OS will grab the third spot.

Smartphones Have Split Personalities – And That’s a Good Thing

22 Feb, 2013

One of the most potentially powerful approaches to organizing and protecting a company’s data and applications on an employee’s smartphone is giving the device a split personality.

The 802.11 Family Grows in More Ways than One

29 Jan, 2013

The 802.11 family of wireless specifications has been a resounding success.

NFC: Waiting, Lucratively, for Mobile Payments

28 Nov, 2012

The bottom line is that the future looks good for NFC and all the companies that support its ecosystem. The near term will see use of NFC tags to turn the lights on and off and other prosaic but important tasks.

Progress Continues on the Mobilization of HTML5

08 Oct, 2012

HTML5’s ability to create applications independent of the underlying operating system and for use on all platforms is especially important in the age of bring-your-own-device (BYOD) work arrangements.

Enter VoLTE — and IMS

06 Sep, 2012

IMS and EPC operate deep within the network. The first harbinger of the change that will be visible to subscribers is the deployment of voice services over the LTE networks. All of the information that flows across a network is data, of course. But to this point, LTE networks have not handled the exacting demands of data that comprise voice calls.

2G or Not 2G: That Is the Question

30 Jul, 2012

How a carrier approaches its current 2G customers is a sensitive issue. At the end of the day, supporting 2G will be a good business for Sprint and Nextel, but the focus clearly will shift to 3G and 4G, especially for new M2M subscribers.

Vendors and Carriers Work to Define Software-Defined Networks

27 Jun, 2012

The big initiative to SDNs is OpenFlow, which is a specification being developed by the Open Networking Foundation. Experts say that the evolution of SDNs still is in its early days. Indeed, new benefits still are emerging.