Carl Weinschenk

Enterprise Mobility Management Myth Busters: Users vs. IT Reality If there is one surprise about 5G – and, indeed, there are many – it is how fast it seems to be coming. A while ago, the common wisdom was that it would move into the mainstream in 2020. We are not even halfway through 2016 […]

Unified communications (UC) is one of the most interesting categories in enterprise communications because its definition more or less tracks with the very evolution of general telecom tools that steadily emerge. More simply – by way of example – video is an emerging UC tool. However, just about everyone uses Skype or a similar service. […]

5 Defining Tech Trends that Will Shape Business Zero rating — various approaches that provide subscribers with access to data or content without it counting against their usage charges — continues to be controversial. On one hand, proponents say that it is a marketplace structure that is good for business and that produces no real […]

This week, the acquisition of Time Warner Cable by Charter Communications closed and the new owner said that it is going to do away with the old firm’s name. The closing of the $55.1 billion deal occurred about a year after it was first announced. The Time Warner Cable name, which is described as toxic […]

10 Myths About Virtual Mobile Infrastructure The developer’s world is a strange and complex one. But, of course, what these folks come up with – and how it is later implemented by phone manufacturers and network operators – is very important. Google used its I/O 2016 developers’ conference at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, […]

Small markets that take off often do so dramatically. The infusion of a large number of users, combined with the low usage at the beginning, results in meteoric percentage increases in take-up rates and other metrics. That period, the “hockey stick” part of the curve, is here for wearables. Datamation reports on IDC’s latest wearables […]

2016 Business Communications: Changing the Way We Work Many years ago, at what was arguably the dawn of the modern telecommunications era, cable companies negotiated with local officials for franchises. Those franchises represented, more or less, a license to print money. The municipalities knew this, and often extracted significant concessions from the cable company. The […]

This week, Datamation offered an overview of the Silicon Valley Virtual Reality (SVVR) conference. The overall theme was upbeat. A key question with which industry insiders must deal is the relationship between virtual reality and augmented reality (VR and AR). It’s a bit difficult because the two overlap but are distinctly different in terms of […]

Enterprise Mobility Management Myth Busters: Users vs. IT Reality AT&T and Sprint this week announced enhancements to business services. At the same time, it is becoming apparent that the strike Verizon is experiencing is creating problems for its business customers. AT&T said that it is increasing speeds of its Business Fiber service in four markets. […]

Embracing the Mobile Development Trends of 2016 The opening of relations with Cuba was thought likely to provide a shot in the arm for American telecom companies. After all, the island lies about 90 miles away and the populations of the two nations have deeply shared roots. It will, but things rarely roll out simply. […]

5 Ways Network Function Virtualization (NFV) Lowers CapEx and OpEx The goal is to move telecom providers and enterprises from legacy networks and service delivery models to software-defined networks and network functions virtualization (SDN and NFV). And that is just as complex as it sounds. Thus, a lot of money is devoted to making it […]

A group of senators – from both parties, which is a bit of an oddity these days – have sent a letter to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) asking it to upgrade the broadband speed requirement in its Community Connect grant program to 10 Megabits per second (Mbps). Community Connect provides subsidies to […]