Category Archives: Wireless Carriers
The Power of Branding and Market Positioning in Wireless
Why does the USA say “texting” and other places, particularly Europe, say “SMS”? How many people know what SMS (Short Messaging Service) means? Much more recently, why do all of the tier-one wireless carriers in the USA refer to their … Continue reading
Cellular Mobile Network Infrastructure
The first generation (1G) analog cellular systems supported voice communication with limited roaming. The second generation (2G) digital systems promised higher capacity and better voice quality than did their analog counterparts. The two widely deployed second-generation (2G) cellular systems are … Continue reading
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Carrier WiFi, Small Cells, and Advertising
Carrier WiFi and small cells offers the potential for new business models including advertising. For example, Ericsson’s City Site small cell allows add-on modules for video ad screens, clocks, touchscreen real-time information displays and more. Ericsson’s small cell, called City … Continue reading
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RCS and the Enterprise Corporate Dashboard
Rich Communications Services (RCS) provides the ability for a corporate entity to allow their employees to customize their own mobile experience via the RCS interface while at the same time providing an enterprise interface or so called, Enterprise Corporate Dashboard, which is … Continue reading
China Mobile and TD-LTE Deployment
As spectrum becomes available around the world, operators are looking at 4G/LTE (Long Term Evolution) as the next major network upgrade to add capacity and lower operating costs. LTE can be deployed in existing 2G or 3G bands, and in … Continue reading
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LTE in Industry Verticals Value Chain
Considering the market for vertical industries, the industry will follow a complex value chain, commencing from infrastructure vendors/integrators and ending at either the traditional enterprises or specialist organizations in the vertical segments. For vertical segments in particular, Mind Commerce expects … Continue reading
Posted in Broadband Wireless, Devices, LTE, Wireless Carriers
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LTE in Industry Verticals
Given its economic feasibility and the growing demand for data applications within the vertical market segments such as public safety, oil, gas and energy production, defense and others, vendors are increasingly pitching LTE as a well suited solution for fulfilling … Continue reading
Posted in Broadband Wireless, LTE, Wireless Carriers
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Strategic Alliances in M2M
A thoughtful, well-planned strategy is prerequisite to success for any business. Strategy is not just about internal functioning of a company but also encompasses customer relations, stake-holder management and partnerships. Likewise, companies that are part of M2M value chain also … Continue reading
Small Cells as a Service (SCaaS)
Small Cells as a Service (SCaaS) will involve SCaaS providers (notably fixed line Carriers) taking responsibility for some of the most complex aspects of a small cell deployment for the mobile Carriers – negotiating and acquiring thousands of sites, building … Continue reading
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