More spectrum! is the rallying cry among participants in the global race to be the first country to deploy 5G networks. Generally speaking, deploying more spectrum into a network means faster speeds and more capacity to handle consumer demands. But …
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A Primer on Network Testing
It’s the time of year again. No, not holiday season. It’s the season where wireless network testing results are being released and companies use the often conflicting data to jockey for media and customer attention. To better navigate the basis …
More screens, different screens
By now a three screen strategy is a must for anyone in the business of media consumption. It’s certainly one of the ways broadband providers are participating in the market place. Some see three screens – TV, mobile, digital – …
Scientific Testing: The Most Reliable Way to Test a Network
The FCC is seeking to more closely regulate a key tactic in mobile carrier marketing—their performance and speed claims.
The commission already does this for fixed broadband and has proposed to use crowd data to set the upper limit for …
The Wireless Industry: Revisiting Spectrum, the Essential Engine of US Economic Growth
The wireless industry is making a greater impact on America than ever before. The world is becoming hyper-connected, with smart phones, smart meters, smart houses, smart cities, smart businesses and smart people all relying on the fast connections that the …
The Story behind the Microsoft Headlines
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. If that’s the case, then the Twitter header image for Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella demonstrates that perfectly. Just look at Nadella’s tortured smile then try to make sense of the picture …
Incentive Auctions: What Matters Here and Now
Another hot topic is the upcoming incentive auction. The amount of available spectrum per subscriber tells us how much capacity the carrier has to serve its customers and therefore what the theoretical upper limits of data speeds are. It also …
2014 US Mobile Phone sales fall by 15% and handset replacement cycle lengthens to historic high
In 2014, roughly 143 million mobile phones were sold in the United States, approximately 90% of them smartphones. This is a decline of 25 million phones from 2013 when approximately 168 million phones were sold – and only half of …
Tablets Fuel Growth and Verizon Leads the Pack
Over the last two years, in addition to attracting new customers, most of the wireless industry has focused on better serving its existing consumers with products and services those consumers want. We all watch more mobile video and play mobile …
Out of the Title II News Blizzard
All the while when we were trapped in the Title II News Blizzard that made any other topic seem small and irrelevant, the FCC has been conducting an auction of wireless spectrum. This wasn’t supposed to be the big auction …