Posted on Thursday, November 01, 2018As I was preparing Tuesday’s blog, I ran across the US White House’s memorandum on 5G which is also on spectrum management. This is an official policy memo not a press release, so it is unfair perhaps to compare the one to the other. The US memo is much, much longer with an extensive preamble […]
Read More Posted on Tuesday, October 30, 2018Last week Colombia’s MinTIC issued a press release on Minister Constaín’s remarks to kick off the 8th International Spectrum Congress, held in Bogotá. I attended once many years ago and it was so far over my head technically that I have never been back. But the Minister made some important strategy statements, especially about the […]
Read More Posted on Thursday, October 25, 2018The 5G business case is a hot topic, especially with emerging markets operators. This week Strategy Analytics said that device subsidies will be necessary to build penetration. No one should be entirely surprised. I saw the report in the GSMA’s daily newsletter. It quotes the analyst firm as saying that 5G smartphones will be the […]
Read More Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2018TMForum has published its third ‘Digital Transformation Tracker’ a semi-annual industry survey to assess how advanced CSPs are in their digital transformation (DT) plans. Things are improving but not as much as TMForum had expected – or perhaps hoped. TMForum is a global association of operators (CSPs) and vendors that historically has worked on operations […]
Read More Posted on Friday, October 19, 2018A few weeks ago, I attended the Colombian Engineers’ Association (ACIEM) annual telecom conference. I am on the program committee so somewhat honor-bound to be there, but I would go anyway because it is one of the best small conferences of the year. Every time there is a C-level panel from the major operators and […]
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