This week OpenSignal released their latest ‘Global State of Mobile Networks Report’ and the results are clear: Consumers in the top 46 countries spend more than 50% of their time on Wi-Fi with their smartphones. The company says it collected 12.3 billion measurements from more than 800,000 users over 84 days. Among the remarkable results of this […]

Guest Blog: ‘5G’ is the Donald Trump of telecom by David Theodore 5G is the hottest topic in wireless circles, so I spent some time researching it. I chased articles everywhere, reading the best available information and insights. And while I can never get those hours back, I can save you the trouble, because contrary to scores of […]

Wi-Fi continues to be the telco growth story of the decade: IDC reports 8.6% year-on-year enterprise WLAN growth while MarketsandMarkets forecast the Wi-Fi (public) hotspot market to reach a whopping $3.3 billion by 2020 – a CAGR of 17%. Here are our top 10 reasons why this is happening: 1 – ‘It’s the economy, stupid’: The […]

I get this comment a lot of the time. True, some conferences offer free attendance (but still require an even more scarce resource: your time!) My experience with those is that generally, they’re not worth it. In that sense you always get what you pay for. But more to the point – this is post about why I […]

Facebook wants gigabit wireless everywhere. And they’ve hatched a plan to make it happen. Menlo Park, California: For the time being the copious stream of advertising dollars that built Facebook’s vast campus continues to flow to Menlo Park. In the longer term, Facebook’s web dominance will depend on more users getting access at higher speeds. That’s why the company’s Connectivity Lab is sinking serious resources […]