An Evolution of Communication This week, WhatsApp, the popular messaging and voice service owned by Facebook, announced that it will offer free video calling. After months in the beta stage, ...

Google Pumps Some Energy into RCS, But Wide Support Is Needed During the past decade, mobile subscribers have been replacing their operators' value-added services with popular third-party apps. Cellular data ...

Paving the Way for Ultra-Broadband Networks I recently attended Huawei's Ultra-Broadband Forum in Frankfurt, which attracted more than 600 delegates. The event was focussed on three areas: broadband network development, ...

Buy an iPhone, Get Service for Free We recently highlighted the unprecedented deals wireless operators were offering subscribers for the iPhone 7. Operators rushed to follow each other with variations ...

Addressing Rising Subscriptions and Content Demands Data traffic continues to grow at a relentless pace, driven by the growing app and service economy. Ericsson cited a rise in traffic of ...

Yahoo Hack Means Verizon Has Some Rethinking to Do We frequently read about hacks in the news, but by any standard, the cyber-attack at Yahoo is a big one. More ...

The Next Generation of Wireless Sparks Frenzy This stage of 5G was inevitable: the market noise phase.Press releases from infrastructure suppliers and mobile operators are filled with best-case scenario throughput ...

Comcast's Wireless Success Will Depend on Price and Performance Yesterday Comcast, a US cable, telephony and broadband provider confirmed that it will begin offering wireless services to subscribers in 2017. ...

Operators Turn to the iPhone 7 to Defend Their Territory At least in this early phase of iPhone 7 sales, there's been a stampede among wireless operators to use the ...

The EU's Hot-Spot Plans Could Pose a Threat to Wireless Operators In the age of over-the-top services, smartphone users have learned how to be agnostic to the underlying network technology. ...