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There were nearly 110,000 visitors to MWC19 this year, slightly surpassing last year and once again underlining the fact that this is the Network Event of the planet and perhaps the solar system. The size of our industry is by every measure enormous, it impacts everyone on the globe and generates roughly $1,4 Trillion annually.Read more

In the hype-a-thon that is MWC it’s easy to lose focus. Walking its halls since Cannes circa 2006, I’ve come to accept it as at once forest and trees, oracle and arcade, and more poetically perhaps, the clouds in Joni Mitchell’s Both Sides Now. Perhaps I don’t know MWC at all. But for a certainRead more

Ever reluctant to bandy war metaphors about, what at once looked to be a mere silver bullet for mobile operators is today looking more like a silver smart bomb capable of meeting multiple, unique challenges in a single shot. Welcome all of you to 2019, and this, our first post of what promises to beRead more

Even if 5G isn’t the stuff of stellar cocktail conversation for most civilians that hasn’t discouraged the cool-aid drinkers in our industry to make it the dominant topic for the last several years. Call it hype, or the emperor’s new clothes, 5G is most definitely “a thing” and one that will have enormous implications inRead more

As everything from WAN to RAN goes virtual, some things never will. After a whirlwind week on the road for Broadband World Forum in Berlin, a full roster of meetings and a quick three day huddle at Cloudstreet headquarters in Helsinki, I am more convinced than ever. Of course nothing will ever replace the face-to-face,Read more

BY MIKA SKARP When we talk reliability in Public Safety networks, what are actually talking about? Fresh on heels of the National Sheriff’s Convention in New Orleans, where the US’s contentious immigration policy hit fever pitch, many great behind-the-scenes discussions around public safety communications came to a full gallop. What are the key ingredients forRead more

Sure we see a daily flood of stories around 5G, but there remains a sense that the it’s still many business cycles away from anything like a zinger Hollywood pitch. Rather it feels more like another unnecessary Star Wars instalment that may well have gone with the wrong director. BY MIKA SKARP Sunny days areRead more

BY MIKA SKARP It’s been said many times, but bears repeating that telecom is deep pocket business. It’s also game of volume as it relates to electronics, and one of scale when it comes to the networks that support them. At my age, and as a near lifelong observer and participant in the industry I,Read more

With all of the excitement around Autonomous Vehicles, we’re looking at the history that has brought this enormously promising industry to where it is today and some of the challenges that may continue to make it a rocky road. BY MIKA SKARP At mere imagination stages back in the 50s, Autonomous Vehicle technology development hasRead more

BY MIKA SKARP One of the big challenges over the past few months has been the shift in Network Slicing discussions with carriers from the technical side (solved) to the business side which remains a ball in the air. This for me really gets to the heart of what Network Slicing is all about, andRead more