Posted on Friday, February 22, 2019The Heathrow airport immigration officer asked me why I had come to the UK and I told him that Huawei was having an event the next day in a London hotel. “The’ve had a spot of trouble in the press lately, no?” he replied. I said, “Yes, and that’s why I came: to hear what […]
Read More Posted on Friday, February 15, 2019A few weeks ago, I introduced the topic of Private Mobile Broadband (P-MBB) networks also referred to in specific implementations as Private LTE or Private 5G. The issue in that blog was Do-it-yourself versus Managed Services and was written from the client’s perspective. Now I want to talk about the challenges for Mobile Network Operators […]
Read More Posted on Friday, February 08, 2019On Wednesday (February 7 2019), the Colombian government introduced its 2018 – 2019 Development Plan. Its third objective is Increase direct support to companies for productive modernization and Industry 4.0 appears as a significant part of this objective and in many other parts of the plan. The TV news report I saw on the night […]
Read More Posted on Friday, February 01, 2019If 5G was listed on the stock market, this would not have been a good week. Verizon stumbled, AT&T fumbled and Nokia mumbled or at least indicated 2019 will be slow starting for the erstwhile ‘Next Big Thing’. The biggest news was Verizon’s CEO Hans Vestberg saying that their 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) product […]
Read More Posted on Monday, January 28, 2019Last week, Telefonica announced it was selling its Guatemala and El Salvador properties. No surprise there. But to America Movil! Big surprise. These two operators definitely travel to the beat of a different drum. This Telegeography article gives the details: US$333M for Guatemala and US$315M for El Salvador. The Guatemala deal closed already because the […]
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