Articles - Mobile
Wi-Fi Replaces Ethernet in Enterprise
Given that less than one-third of enterprise employees work in large corporate headquarters any more, most work these days is in branch offices, remotely from the field or at home offices. And of those who do work in headquarter facilities, 48 percent s...
Prepaid Mobile Gains Ground
Mobile broadband arguably represents the single biggest revenue opportunity for U.S. mobile providers, at least in terms of organic growth. The second-biggest opportunity for some providers is buying growth through acquisitions. Market share shift...
All SMEs Use Mobile, 64% Use Mobile Broadband, Half Use Mobile Email
A recent survey of small and mid-sized businesses in Australia confirms what you might have guessed: there is virtually ubiquitous use of mobile voice, at 95 to 97 percent. Mobile email is used by about half of SMEs. Data transfers of one sort or...
Possible Increase in Wireless Substitution on the Way
If survey respondents act the way they say they might, we could see an acceleration of wireline voice substitution during the current recession. Sprint sponsored a survey that found 32 percent of respondents are likely to eliminate their landline service...
U.S. Catches Up with Western Europe in 3G Mobile
One of the salient themes in U.S. communications policy is “the United States is falling behind” or the “the United States is far behind” arguments about service usage and adoption. This refrain has been heard in the broadband ac...
Business FMC Still a No-No?
In general, major mobile service providers remain cautious about fixed-mobile convergence for business customers, mostly because of continuing uncertainty about the business model impact. In fact, many mobile executives continue to believe they st...
Audio Quality Still a Problem for Wireless Providers
Nearly 40 percent of mobile voice calls have end-user-experienced quality low enough as to be highly churn-inducing, according to test data gathered by Ditech Networks. The audit of 630 million live mobile calls showed that 39 percent had mean opinion sco...
Why Fixed Still Matters
If trade shows are a leading indicator of where the industry is headed, then some fundamental changes are underway in telecom. On one hand, the leading mobile shows (Mobile World Congress in Barcelona formerly known as 3GSM and CTIA in Las Vegas) represen...
U.S. Wireless: The Last Shall be First
Perhaps nothing better illustrates the folly of indiscriminate “ranking” of national communications performance than wireless services. Some will not remember it, but there was a time when U.S. consumers were “way behind” users in...
Wireless Convergence or Substitution?
In the coming war between mobile substitution and mobile-fixed integration approaches to unifying communications, it was inevitable that the “green” argument would appear as a weapon. U.K.-based OnRelay argues IP desk phones sold in 2008 alone...
