mobile

I have just returned from a very interesting and jammed-packed week at Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona. For the first time ever, over 100,000 people and 2,200 plus vendors attended this year’s premier technology festival. Much has changed in the industry over the last year since I reported m…

Mobile World Congress (MWC) continues to set records for attendance with 101,000 people through the doors according to GSMA. At our Cisco booth we hosted over 450 meetings with Service Providers, and as usual the discussions were frank and insightful. The “smorgasbord” of topics covered with our cu…

Last week at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Ericsson announced plans with business and technology partner Cisco to support 3 Italia’s mobile IP backbone network transformation. The two industry leaders will combine their expertise to deploy and integrate a variety of technologies and services t…

As I was walking in the neighborhood this past weekend, I had a very frustrating experience between my Wi-Fi and cellular network. I was listening to my favorite radio station, streaming it via an app on my phone. As I walked further and further away from my home, the radio stream halted due to a we…

At Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona last week, we caught up with Ruba Borno, Cisco’s Vice President of Growth Initiatives and Chief of Staff to CEO, Chuck Robbins.…

The annual gathering that is Mobile World Congress (MWC) is upon us again. As always there will be the usual hype around 3 letter acronyms like NFV, SDN, SON, IoT and of course 5G (ok not a TLA). As I fine tune the Cisco Mobility strategy for my APAC region, I see these as just enablers, to get Serv…

Here we are, at the verge of what is the 30th Mobile World Congress, in Barcelona. It’s a show I tend to characterize as “the water cooler for telecom,” because everybody is there! Over its impressive and storied history, starting in London in 1987, MWC has consistently served up the “firsts” that u…

Every time a new generation of mobile network has been introduced – 2G networks transitioning to 3G, and 3G evolving to 4G, there have been concerns about the user adoption and capacity utilization. And each time skeptics have been proven wrong. By 2020, smartphones will represent 48.1% of global mo…

To say that global device and connections are growing is a true understatement. And this growth is rapidly shifting. By 2020, there will be 8.5 billion handheld or personal mobile-ready devices and 3.1 billion machine-to-machine (M2M) connections supported by mobile networks. From smartphones and ta…