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Google just announced the ability to make telephone calls from its Google Home speaker. At first, calling will be limited to outbound calls. Amazon was first to bring outbound and inbound calling capability to its Echo speaker device. The most important outbound call...

The internet of things (IoT) has a last-mile problem. While the cloud infrastructure to gather and analyze data is ready today, a robust wireless infrastructure with the range, low-power and low-cost characteristics to connect large numbers of devices to the internet hasn’t been ready...

The evolution of enterprise IoT services may be in its early days, but it is already clear that business models must be built around technology that can react in real time to quality of experience factors. IoT initiatives will not be successful based...

Researchers at CATT and NYU Wireless have built the world’s first wireless emulator suitable for 5G systems that feature massive bandwidths and hundreds of antenna elements. In this unique patented design, the solution emulates not only the wireless channel, but also the beamformers (or...

Business enterprises across the globe today are looking to embrace digital transformation to help them stay ahead of the curve. Whether you are a startup or a medium sized enterprise or a Fortune 500 company, consumers today seek faster services with growing demands. To...

After dominating the wireless industry’s news cycle for over a year, the FCC 600MHZ spectrum auction came to an end. Now the real work begins. The 976 U.S. stations that sold their spectrum rights to the FCC, which in turn auctioned them to wireless...

The pace of change in connected car technology could quickly render new vehicles obsolete, especially in the age of the internet of things (IoT). With the number of connected “things” expected to reach 20.4 billion by 2020, ensuring that the cars of today are...

Recent years have seen the disturbing convergence of two trends: the explosion in the number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and the ramp up of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. According to the latest stats from BI Intelligence, 34 billion devices will be...

No longer are businesses challenged by the concept of connectivity. The internet of things (IoT) has paved the way for the future of communications, with more and more devices making up the network which links families, friends and work colleagues together. However, one aspect...

Apps have become an indispensable tool for companies in virtually every industry. In the want-it-now, mobile-driven world, apps provide the essential means of extending a brand, building or reinforcing a relationship with customers, and creating the ever-increasing stickiness needed for customer retention. At the...

One of the critical elements for successful migration to the cloud is the ability to ensure high performance for real-time media packet processing in virtual, cloud environments. The OpenStack and OPNFV (Open Platform for Network Functions Virtualization) communities have made great strides in driving...

As an acronym, C-RAN has less name recognition than its more popular cousins, SDN and NFV, though if you are in the wireless business it is equally important as we look at the future of the wireless network and its continued evolution over the next five to 10 years.

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible, but...

Whoever said “bandwidth is free” wasn’t speaking for operators trying to meet exploding user demands for video and multimedia content and communications, all while retaining customers and generating bottom line profits for shareholders.

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers, we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible, but we...

In the face of unprecedented worldwide growth in the use of mobile devices, mobile network operators are severely challenged to deliver the applications and performance users are demanding.

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...

The M-PESA mobile money transfer and payments service took the world by surprise in 2007 when it debuted a successful business based on serving a previously underserved population: the rural poor.

Today’s intense wireless market is no place for the uncertain. Many providers know they aren’t ideally equipped for the current market, even if they’ve had long-term success.

This column outlines the factors to be considered when considering outdoor enclosures (or cabinets) to house wireless electronic equipment. This will review typical environmental conditions

Advanced mobile services such as LTE are forcing mobile operators to re-evaluate macro-focused network architecture. Even 3G service coverage maps are believed to be optimistic in many cases,

Mobile networks up to 3G were designed to deliver excellent coverage to the handset, accommodating small PCM voice channels on the order of eight kilobits to 16 kb, rather than high data speeds. 3G networks are deployed with radii typically around three to eight kilometers in diameter for the macrocell, and backhaul capacity of less than 50 megabits per second for connection to the core network. While most mobile networks today utilize 3G, operators are moving to technologies such as WiMAX 802.16e or even HSPA+ to claim “4G.” In 2011, the Global Mobile Suppliers Association counted 17 commercial LTE deployments, with 180 operators in 70 countries committing to LTE, with another 64 in service by 2012.

In the mobile handset world, there has long been a drive towards smaller more powerful devices. And even though the rise of the smartphone has seen a return to larger screen sizes, today’s handsets are still remarkably compact.