Tag: mobile

February 12, 2020

Maybe everything you’ve been told by your telcos about 5G isn’t a lie, but most of what they’ve told you about 5G is wrong. If you buy what the telcos are telling you, 5G will bring you gigabit-per-second-speeds and sub-10-millisecond […]

January 30, 2020

2019 was a big year for Verizon in terms of launching its millimeter wave-based mobile 5G service in more than 30 markets and numerous stadiums and arenas. And 2020 will see a further expansion of that 5G footprint as well […]

January 23, 2020

Sohar Aluminum’s smelting plant project started in 2004, representing more than the hopes of a company launching a significant new business. As the first of its kind in Oman, its success (or failure) would have national repercussions. And Sohar Aluminum’s […]

January 17, 2020

One of the critical themes that came up repeatedly from customer and partner conversations at #NRF2020 is how to connect multiple points of data across a customer journey. Although the shift to Ecommerce has grown immensely, we know that the […]

January 6, 2020

The next big wave of Wi-Fi technology, 802.11ax, is going to become more commonplace in enterprise installations over the course of the coming year, just as the marketing teams for the makers of Wi-Fi equivalent will have you believe. Yet […]

January 3, 2020

Bill Gates promised 16 years ago that the spam problem would be “solved” by 2006. As we begin the year 2020, the pandemic of unwanted advertising is not only still a problem on email, but we’re experiencing an epidemic of […]

December 20, 2019

While we don’t know exactly when and how quickly the fifth generation of smartphone technology, or 5G, may spread beyond a handful of large cities, there’s no debate about this: 5G is coming. All four major U.S. mobile operators now […]

December 18, 2019

Networking isn’t what it used to be. A few years ago, the epicenter of networking began to move. It shifted from company-owned datacenters, out to the cloud. For users, the focus of networking moved from computers connected with wires, to […]

November 27, 2019

The night before I was to give a eulogy at my mother’s memorial service, I was smished. As someone who regularly writes about cybersecurity, I’m not usually duped by a cybercriminal’s tricks. But I was in a highly emotional state […]

November 11, 2019

Our need for more and more bandwidth will be the focus in 2020, and there are no indications that this connectivity trend will subside over the next several years. After all, we’ve come to expect that data will be available […]

November 11, 2019

South Korean mobile operator KT expects to end this year with a total of 1.5 million subscribers in the 5G segment, the operator’s CFO Yoon Kyung-keun said during a conference call with investors. According to KT’s latest earnings report, the […]

November 8, 2019

Whoa, 6G? Slow your roll, man. What happened to 5G? Suddenly, everybody is talking about 6G. In fact, there seems to be a competition that has been triggered to talk about 6G, and make claims and predictions about it. But […]

October 25, 2019

When it comes to digital leadership, mobile operators have stood in the shadows of the likes of Google, Amazon and Facebook for far too long. These digital giants have long set the standards, when it comes to driving digital engagement, […]

October 18, 2019

5G has been a major topic of discussion for the past two years. It’s not surprising that people are excited about the next-generation of wireless connectivity: the promise of super-fast, low-power, low-latency connectivity that enables a huge number of devices […]

October 17, 2019

While everyone is focused, and rightly so, on what 5G will mean to the billions of users of smartphones, there is a less visible but equally as important side to 5G that will have profound effects on consumers and enterprises. […]

September 13, 2019

Upcoming 6G wireless, superseding 5G and arriving possibly by 2030, is envisaged to function at hundreds of gigabits per second. Slowly, the technical advances needed are being made. A hole in the tech development thus far has been at the […]

September 6, 2019

5G is the hot ticket item for mobile operators at the moment – we hear about its legendary fast speeds, its ultra-low latency and its ability to handle network congestion in a way we simply haven’t experienced with 4G. However, […]

August 12, 2019

One of the biggest areas of hype these days centers around how 5G will change the wireless world. Carriers are ramping up their rhetoric, which not always matched with actual deployment. End users are being bombarded with 5G news from […]

August 2, 2019

It has been sometime since cable companies Comcast and Charter announced that they will be expanding into the wireless space. The impending 5G technology has more closely tied cable and wireless together than ever before, and put simply, wired networks […]

July 17, 2019

Mobile Threat Defense (MTD), Mobile Threat Management (MTM), Mobile Threat Prevention (MTP)—regardless of the exact terminology, these all lead to the same concern: securing mobile devices. The highly digital world we live in has fundamentally changed the way we work. […]