Mobile Broadband's Big Bang

By Becky Bracken

Dongle. It's unlikely that such a goofy-sounding thing could spark a revolution. But across Europe, dongles, or USB modems for laptops, are driving an explosion of consumer demand for mobile broadband that is pushing the EU's 3G network capacity to its very limits.

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Billing for Next Gen Mobile Networks

By: Becky Bracken and Jesse Cryderman

At CSPs around the world, money is literally slipping through the cracks, bit by bit. Why? Because mobile data usage has evolved much faster than the models used to charge and bill for it.

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Vendor Spotlight: Razorsight Push Margins to the Max With Big Data Analytics

By Becky Bracken

As the telecom industry rides the latest wave of revolution, it's more important than ever to really get to know your network. Data analytics can tell Service Providers (SPs) everything they need to know to invest wisely, promote services effectively and push profit margins to the max.

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The Small Cell Revolution

By Jesse Cryderman

Several years back, Apple was releasing a new version of the iPod every few months, or so it seemed, and each new version was smaller than the previous. Saturday Night Live produced a skit that lampooned the product announcements by Steve Jobs, starting with the iPod Nano, and ending with the fictional iPod Invisa, which held all the music in the world invisibly. (Ironically, this pre-sages the iCloud.) The comedy in the SNL skit hinged on market confusion surrounding the Nano and the small devices in the product family. But, this article isn't about sexy consumer products, like the diminutive devices from Apple. It’s about the growing confusion around another small device technology that represents the future: small cells.

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Mobile Backhaul Providers: Why Performance Management Isn't Enough When Traffic Grows and Service Guarantees are Table Stakes

By Phil Griston

We’ve all seen the predictions that global IP traffic growth will continue to accelerate as cloud computing demand, mobile devices, video streaming, and machine-to-machine communications keep pumping packets onto the network. Leading the growth is mobile data traffic, accelerating at least three times faster than fixed IP traffic as consumers and businesses expect full connectivity wherever they may be.

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Will the Real 4G Please Stand Up?

By Jesse Cryderman

I hereby submit 4G as a victim of abuse.

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The Evolution of the Smart Phone

By Tim Young

Just a few days ago, it was 12:01am, January 1, 2012. You were ringing in the New Year with loved ones when your mobile phone blinked to life. Calls from close friends and family. Text messages. Facebook messages. “Happy New Year!” “Happy 2012!” “Best Wishes for the year to come!”

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Japan's Keitai Culture: Galapagos Now!

By Don Fujiwara

Yumiko wakes to the alarm on her cell phone. The charm dangling from her keitai is the likeness of Hello Kitty, and it jangles as Yumiko fumbles to disable her phone’s alarm. She strives in vain to stretch away the chill of morning as she begins her day. A day like any other, in which her cell phone, the Japanese term for which is keitai denwa—literally, “hand carry telephone”—will play a large part.

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Newswatch - January 2012

By Don Fujiwara

AT&T No Stranger to mHealth

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Letter from the Editor

By Tim Young

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,

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