Posted on Thursday, August 02, 2018This thought went through my mind at three separate times in the last week. Once when listening to a new survey on Internet use in Colombia, once when reading a Nokia announcement about a contest to find interesting IoT applications in Brazil and once when reading an email from TMForum. First the Nokia contest because […]
Read More Posted on Tuesday, July 24, 2018Today the Brazilian regulator, ANATEL, announced a new spectrum pricing framework. A general article (in Portuguese) can be found here. The regulatory document is here. According to the news article – no I am not going to read the actual document, sorry – the formula tries to capture the value that an operator will derive […]
Read More Posted on Wednesday, July 18, 2018I opened my (virtual) copy of Mexico’s Dinero – a normally serious business site – and read the following screaming headline: ¡100 veces más rápido! Este 2018 México tendrá capacidad para 5G For non-Spanish speakers, 100 times faster! This 2018 Mexico will have the capacity for 5G Thankfully for integrity’s sake, the very first sentence […]
Read More Posted on Monday, June 25, 2018Roughly every 18 months or so, Telefonica holds a global analyst day. Because much of the focus is on enterprise solutions, customers are also invited. This is a “can’t miss” event: always well run, always interesting, always thought-provoking. Benjamin Button All of the execs gave presentations – some better than others – but they all […]
Read More Posted on Friday, June 22, 2018This is an interview in Spanish that I did after my presentation to ACIEMTelecom 2017 on 5G in Latin America. Here are the conclusions from my presentation. 5G technology advances rapidly But there is a lack of work in the business plans for a massive deployment. The first use will be for wireless […]
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