Wireless Week Magazine
From the Magazine: Time for Carriers to Swing for the Fences
May 15, 2013 12:00 am | by Andrew Berg | Articles | CommentsIt's baseball season, and Charlie Ergen has just proven he can throw a knuckleball as well as R.A. Dickey. Where's the cold beer and peanuts? It's looking like this battle for Sprint is headed into extra innings. The industry has talked a lot about the need for a third mobile platform...
From the Magazine: Sharing Proves Key to Successful Public Safety Network
May 15, 2013 12:00 am | by Andrew M. Seybold | Articles | CommentsIn 2012, Congress passed the Tax Relief Bill that included, under Title 6, allocating the 700-MHz D Block to the existing Public Safety broadband spectrum giving Public Safety a nationwide license for 20 MHz (10X10 MHz), setting up an independent board to build and manage the network (FirstNet)...
Mini Review: A Pure Case for Cases
December 17, 2012 4:08 pm | by Andrew Berg | Articles | CommentsIf you do decide to pick up a pricey $600+ LTE-capable iPad, you might be looking for all the protection you can get for your new gadget. In that case (pun intended), LifeProof has you covered. LifeProof is pitching some heavy duty protection from the elements with its line of iPhone and iPad cases.
Mini Review: LifeProof-ing Your New Slate
December 17, 2012 3:59 pm | by Andrew Berg | Articles | CommentsIf you do decide to pick up a pricey $600+ LTE-capable iPad, you might be looking for all the protection you can get for your new gadget. In that case (pun intended), LifeProof has you covered. LifeProof is pitching some heavy duty protection from the elements...
The Super Storm and Wireless
December 17, 2012 3:30 pm | by Andrew Seybold | Articles | CommentsAccording to the FCC, fully 25 percent of the cell sites in the affected area were out of operation because of the super storm that hit the East Coast. People are asking why those who use only wireless phones were unable to call for assistance or talk to their families in the affected areas, and why it took such a long time to get most of the sites back on the air.
Tablets Come Bearing LTE This Holiday Season
December 17, 2012 3:25 pm | by Andrew Berg | Articles | CommentsTablets are yet again set to be big items this holiday season, and shoppers will have the best selection they’ve ever seen. But this year, those cellular equipped models won’t be shipping in just 3G; LTE is the flavor of choice for those seeking anytime, anywhere connectivity
Broad Coverage and Disparate Access with Mission Critical Availability for First Responders
December 17, 2012 3:25 pm | by Keith Mallinson | Articles | CommentsToday’s public safety wireless networks reflect much of what is wrong with historic airwave allocations. Different user groups are served in fragmentation by numerous incompatible systems. This feudal system using relatively old technologies makes for inefficient use of prime spectrum resources. It is all overdue for a major overhaul.
Superstorm Sandy Reveals Wireless Network Vulnerabilities
December 17, 2012 3:15 pm | by Elliott Drucker | Articles | CommentsFor better or worse, a natural disaster has once again demonstrated just how vulnerable today’s wireless networks are to the effects of natural and man-made disasters, particularly widespread and long-lasting power outages. One way or another—social pressure, government regulation, or simple competition—operators may be forced to deal with the problem.
Predictions for 2013
December 17, 2012 2:16 pm | by Wireless Week Staff | Articles | CommentsLet's just say the Mayans were wrong and we make it to 2013. If that's the case, you're going to want to peruse this issue of Wireless Week. The following pages are chock full of insight from top industry executives on what to expect in the coming year.
SAP Talks Apps for the Enterprise
October 15, 2012 9:34 am | by Maisie Ramsay | Articles | CommentsSAP executive Sanjay Poonen discusses the software giant’s push into enterprise mobility.
Challenge and Potential Behind the HTML5 Hype
October 15, 2012 9:27 am | by Andrew Berg | Articles | CommentsHTML5 has been pitched as the panacea for fragmentation, but does Mark Zuckerberg’s recent bashing of the technology reveal the reality of Web-based applications?
M2M in the Enterprise: the Complexity Conundrum
October 15, 2012 9:22 am | by Maisie Ramsay | Articles | CommentsThe enterprise segment is increasingly turning to M2M to improve efficiency, increase productivity and create new products. Addressing the technology’s complexities is the first step.
Enterprise and M2M: The Network Angle
October 15, 2012 9:18 am | by Elliot Drucker | Articles | CommentsFor operators, the possibilities inherent in the booming M2M segment are as varied as the challenges associated with deploying and managing them.
LTE: The Global Standard for Wireless?
October 15, 2012 9:13 am | by Andrew M. Seybold | Articles | CommentsThe quick conversion of 2G and 3G networks could be key to LTE’s success as the carrier’s chosen technology of the future.
BYOD Accelerates Rise of Smartphone and Tablet Leaders
October 15, 2012 9:09 am | by Keith Mallinson | Articles | CommentsThe trend towards BYOD is disrupting the device market in a very big way.
VZW LTE Markets to Hit 417 Next Week
October 10, 2012 5:43 am | by Maisie Ramsay | News | CommentsVerizon Wireless will light up its LTE network in 21 cities next week, making the service available in 417 markets.
MobileCON Show Daily: Oct. 9, 10, 11
October 9, 2012 9:21 am | by Check out Wireless Week's complete coverage of CTIA's MobileCON 2012 in San Diego. | Articles | CommentsCheck out Wireless Week's complete coverage of CTIA's MobileCON 2012 in San Diego.
Turner: Time to Address Systemic App Security Issues
October 9, 2012 5:37 am | by Maisie Ramsay | News | CommentsThe applications industry needs to do a better job of policing itself, because in its current state, it's putting both consumers and businesses at risk.
WPC Charges Forward with Qi Standard
August 1, 2012 10:25 am | by Andrew Berg | Articles | CommentsWireless Week spoke with the Wireless Power Consortium's Chairman Menno Treffers for a progress report on the Qi wireless charging standard.
Internet Protocol Makes Life Easier
July 31, 2012 11:53 am | by Andrew M. Seybold | Articles | CommentsSwitches are being replaced by routers en masse, but is the deployment and management of IP-based wireless networks really easier?
Are HetNets the Answer?
July 31, 2012 11:49 am | by Elliot Drucker | Articles | CommentsIntegration of small cells into the “macro” network could be more effective than even Wi-Fi offload in solving the problem of data traffic outstripping increases in available spectrum.
Increasing Spectrum Piecemeal with LTE
July 31, 2012 11:42 am | by Keith Mallinson | Articles | CommentsCellular roaming was a relatively straightforward proposition for quite some time, but LTE and the myriad bands upon which it is being deployed have made the next-generation of roaming a much more complicated proposition.
Cash Isn’t King in the Mobile Wallet
July 31, 2012 11:32 am | by Maisie Ramsay | Articles | CommentsCash might not be the reigning monarch in the mobile wallet, but it’s not clear who is as operators fight to create the winning solution.
Reimagining Data and Content in an All-IP World
July 31, 2012 11:23 am | by Andrew Berg | Articles | CommentsThe move to an all-IP world is changing the way everyone, from carriers to consumers to content providers, thinks about data.
Verizon's AWS Trump Card
July 31, 2012 11:13 am | by Maisie Ramsay | Articles | CommentsAs the clock winds down on the FCC's review, here's an overview of what's happened so far with Verizon's industry-changing acquisition of AWS spectrum, and what its competitors have to say about it.
