A strategic road map to smart grid success
Creating a smarter grid is the “checkered flag” our industry has been eyeing for years — long before the term “smart grid” was coined. ...
Telecom vendor M&A heats up
Vendors of all stripes and sizes aim to fill product holes and expand ambitions with acquisitions....
MWC post game: Taking back apps
Every year at Mobile World Congress I’m queried as to what I see as the big news or trends at the show. ...
Mobile’s future is in the cloud
As adoption and usage of mobile applications has soared — thanks to the direct and indirect impact of Apple’s App Store — there has been renewed interest in how a wealth of rich media applications can be delivered to, and run on, mass-market handsets. ...
MWC: Smartphones highlight mobile’s biggest trends
It is not surprising that Mobile World Congress, the year’s biggest wireless show, is also the most popular global stage to unveil the latest and greatest in smartphones. ...
Small telcos face uncertain future in post-PSTN world
The FCC’s suggestion to possibly phase out the PSTN in favor of an IP-based broadband network, followed by an endorsement from AT&T, has made some small telcos question whether there will be a role for them in tomorrow’s telecom market. ...
Rebuffering nightmares
A recent study by TubeMogul highlights a significant and growing problem associated with streaming Internet video....
3D TV: Is it closer than you think?
As you’ve heard, 3D TV was the star of the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show last month. Dozens of manufacturers showed products across the value chain, from video capture and production to transmission and display. ...
Smart grid or green grid?
Today, there is a lot of discussion as to exactly what a “smart grid” is. ...
Five reasons SMS Wins
This week, we see yet the latest social media “thingy” threatening to change the communications service landscape. ...
Nexus One shows online isn’t best sales tool
Google’s Nexus One didn’t have the most stellar first month in sales, although no one was really surprised. ...
Symbian’s road to open source complete, but journey’s just begun
The Symbian Foundation completed its move to fully open yesterday, marking what it says is the largest-scale conversion of a closed operating system to open source in history. ...
2010: The rise of location services aggregation -- no, really!
Yes, we know. … For the past five years or so, each new year has been crowned (cue drum roll, please): The Year of Location-Based Services. ...
Metro and Leap: Why won’t these kids just elope?
Analysts and industry observers have long touted the merits of a merger between Leap Wireless and MetroPCS. They share the same wireless technology, CDMA, but with the exception of a few major markets their footprints don’t overlap....
Mobile Web: Pushing aside the big brands
Looking at the top of Ground Truth's newly-published top mobile sites, one finds some major surprises...
Qwest shops its LD network again (with local attached)
“We’re agnostic about being a buyer or a seller,” said Ed Mueller, CEO of Qwest Communications, at an investor conference yesterday, though he sounded much more like a seller as he continued. ...
Smart grid: Definition, road map and breadth of this grand challenge
A smarter electric power grid promises greater efficiency, reliability and security leading to greater use of renewable energy sources that positively impact our environment. ...
How secure is your smartphone?
As mobile security experts pointed out to me this week, the more you can do with your mobile phone, the more susceptible it is to hackers....
Retailers: Worthy challengers to carriers
Retailers like Best Buy have a unique advantage over carriers in that, in addition to choice of handset, they offer consumers a choice of carrier. In the case of Wal-Mart, its advantage is owning the cheapest wireless plan on the market. ...
CTIA IT wrap-up: The wireless evolution
CTIA IT was interesting and informative and actually the same size — 15,000 attendees — as last year’s conference. They may be small victories, but this year’s show was a good indication of where the industry is headed: to an industry focused on the end user, data, applications and perhaps more enterprise than entertainment. ...
How turnkey can open community fiber become?
The open community fiber network is transforming from an experimental ad-hoc endeavor to a more commercialized market, thanks in part to the promise of broadband stimulus funds....
Measuring broadband shouldn’t be this hard
Despite the best efforts of bureaucrats and broadband advocates, we don’t really have solid data about broadband deployment and speeds that can be used to make national or international comparisons. ...
Mobile TV and the elusive fourth screen
Two mantras that I have heard repeated at telecom industry trade shows are that consumers won’t pay for the same content on more than one screen and a device that does only one function is rarely as valuable as a multi-purpose device. ...
Why metered broadband won’t last
When Verizon’s chief technology officer, Dick Lynch, recently predicted an end to flat-rate broadband, many in the industry saw it as a late entry into the general consensus. ...
Verizon and Google’s new friendship
Two years ago, Verizon Wireless and Google would have been the most unlikely companies to team up to design the open-access phones of the future. The two companies’ Internet philosophies were not only diametrically opposed, they were also battling it out in Washington ...
