by Phillip Redman | December 2, 2011 | Comments Off
Today we have something from one of my colleagues, Sylvain Fabre, who has recently put together a collection of research on cellular 4G. Sylvain Fabre is a research director in the Carrier Network Infrastructure group of Gartner. 4G: The Next Frontier for Celluar Networks Recently, a committee of UK members of parliament criticized mobile operators for [...]
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Category: 4G Networks Strategic Planning Technology Uncategorized cellular Tags: 4G, cellular, wireless
by Phillip Redman | November 14, 2011 | Comments Off
Alright I’ve waited long enough. All this talk about cloud was making me hungry. No really, being a telecom analyst and watching all these computing geeks talk about cloud computing while the fixed and mobile network providers basically invented the cloud, has been tough. Haven’t network providers been using the “cloud” diagram for years? And how do [...]
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Category: Applications Cloud Mobile Device Management cellular mobility management Tags: DC-Summit-NA
by Phillip Redman | November 11, 2011 | 1 Comment
I just got back from Dallas where the annual LTE North America conference was held this week. This is a conflation of telecom industry people that contribute hardware, software and services to the wireless industry–from CEOs to lowly analysts. Attendance was up from last year, when LTE networks weren’t even born yet. So the industry [...]
Category: AT&T Networks Sprint Nextel cellular wireless carriers Tags: LTE, mobile broadband
by Phillip Redman | October 13, 2011 | Comments Off
It wasn’t quite a yawn, but there was far less outcry this week than there would have been two years ago since BlackBerry service was out for three days. As you probably know by now, a core switch failure led to intermittent delays and message delivery failures in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Backlog [...]
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by Phillip Redman | May 13, 2011 | Comments Off
This is another post about the ubiquity of the mobile phone, because that’s all what people are talking about. The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January called it the “Smartphone Era” (finally picking up on what the rest of us have known for some time), meaning the end of the “PC Era.” It seems [...]
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Category: AT&T Networks Sprint Nextel cellular wireless carriers Tags: cellular, DAS, LTE, mobile
by Phillip Redman | April 13, 2011 | Comments Off
I wish carriers put as much time in planning their future, launching new services and creating new business models as they do in rejiggering current service plans and forming bundles. T-Mobile USA, perhaps a carrier with a very short future due to the proposed AT&T acquisition is the latest to go down this route. T-Mobile [...]
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Category: AT&T Networks Sprint Nextel cellular wireless carriers Tags: carrier, pricing, strategy, wireless
by Phillip Redman | December 5, 2010 | 1 Comment
Today, Verizon launched the beginnings of its next-generation network, based on LTE technology. It will initially cover 110 million POPs in 38 markets, 60 airports. It is a great initial launch, though it only covers about a third of the total population, though it says it will match its 3G network coverage by next year. [...]
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by Phillip Redman | November 9, 2010 | 2 Comments
Back in 1995, one of my first big wireless research projects was on pricing elasticity. At that time, a wireless voice minute cost about $2.25 and only about 13% of the population had phones. These were mostly business people who could get reimbursed for their use. In the industry, the widely held belief was that [...]
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by Phillip Redman | November 5, 2010 | 5 Comments
We are now fully in the era of the smartphone. At no other time have we had such numerous choices of quality devices from companies like Samsung, Apple, Nokia, Apple, HTC, Motorola and RIM, to name just a few. Adoption of smartphones by both consumers and enterprises is big. This year, more than 70% of [...]
Category: Android Apple Applications HTC Motorola Nokia RIM Samsung cellular iPhone Tags: apps, Smartphone
by Phillip Redman | September 28, 2010 | Comments Off
I get asked a lot about taxes. Though I am not a CPA, and I don’t play one at work, many IT managers were worried and asked me about the tax implications of personal cell phone usage on a business-paid phone (see my blog entry last year from June 18, 2009). Leglislation to remove this [...]
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Category: Enterprise IT Regulation cellular mobile phones Tags:
