Global Commentary
It's time for new business models in 2010
I hope all of you are as glad to see 2009 go as I am and also as excited about the possibilities we all have in 2010...
Enter LTE
It looks like Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ, NYSE:VOD) won't have the world's first commercial long-term evolution network. TeliaSonera beat VZW to the punch on Monday...
Crystal Ball 2.0: Crazy ideas for 2010
It's that time of year again. A full economic cycle has unfolded since just last November, when I offered up "Eight Crazy Ideas" re: industry predictions. In hindsight, six of these eight ideas have played out pretty much as foreseen...
USA! We’re Number 1!
For the first time in more than a decade, the U.S. is leading the way in the implementation of a new generation of wireless technology. And that has made the U.S. the focus of every vendor’s 4G efforts globally. ...
A blow to HSPA+?
When Kris Rinne, senior vice president for AT&T, confirmed last week that HSPA+ was off of AT&T’s road map, some minor shock waves reverberated through the industry...
Can NSN turn CDMA customers into LTE customers?
I asked Nokia Siemens Networks head of North America Sue Spradley on Monday whether it would be “weird” to start selling CDMA after being a champion of the GSM family of technology for so long...
Commentary: Building a next-gen work force
Is it possible to have a next-generation network and deliver next-generation services if you don't have next-generation workers?...
Putting the Innovation in Product Innovation
With global markets mired in recession and profit margins sliding, many communications and high-tech companies may be tempted to cut back on product development and merely ride out the storm...
Debunking some digital video myths
Too often in discussing the shift in video watching habits the assumption is made that one choice precludes another...
RCS: The Next Step in Mobile Services Evolution
In 2009, efforts are underway that will change the IMS service landscape...
Capex-capades
What will carrier capex be in 2009?...
Simplifying FMC for businesses
Fixed/mobile convergence (FMC) hasn’t exactly taken off in the enterprise market, which is surprising given how dependent businesses are on wireless technology...
Video or no?
If global businesses aren’t using videoconferencing to replace expensive business travel, it’s not because the tools aren’t available to them...
“The Telecom World Is Not Flat…Yet”
After reading Tom Friedman’s 2007 bestseller The World Is Flat, it is easy to get carried away with the optimism and possibility of a world without barriers...
The Latin American spin on IPTV
Latin America has become fertile ground for IPTV, even though varying regulatory environments make each country its own potential challenge...
Going global...again
Globalization is hardly a new trend in telecom, but it is one with a spotty history. In the 1990s, as the telecom bubble was inflating, multiple megadeals...
Broadband regulatory distress
I have genuine sympathy for telecom regulators in today’s market. Many of them are faced with a true conundrum: how to stimulate investment in broadband networks in a brutal economy....
FTTH in a bad economy
The global economic slowdown will probably slow fiber-to-the-home deployment, which could give regulators time to figure out how best to mediate competition in that arena...
Five Tips for Seamless M2M Connectivity Globally
Until recently, the M2M market was largely regional, with local M2M services providers and local applications providers. As the market has matured, however, enterprises are looking for ways to extend their M2M deployments globally....
Wireless worrying
There is reason for some pessimism about continued wireless expansion in markets such as the U.S., yet the growing move to wireless broadband isn’t expected to abate in 2009...
