NEW ORLEANS–Many Tier 3 operators dislike the notion of selling customers unlocked handsets because they believe unlocked handsets can result in a degraded customer experience. Speaking on a roundtable discussion at the Competitive Carriers Association conference here Thursday, Ron Smith, president and CEO of Bluegrass Cellular, said that if a customer brings an unlocked handset [...]
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Embedded devices, applications spill into the limelight – MWC 2012 preview issue
Posted by Mobile-ized on February 25th, 2012
It should come as no surprise that connected devices and machine-to-machine services are key pillars in the GSMA’s Mobile World Congress schedule. Indeed, according to Cisco, M2M traffic globally will grow 22-fold from 2011 to 2016, a compound annual growth rate of 86 percent. Cisco predicts M2M will account for 5 percent of total mobile [...]
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No Comments »Report: AT&T to launch new ‘Digital Life Services’ connected devices unit
Posted by Mobile-ized on November 18th, 2011
AT&T Mobility (NYSE:T) will unveil a new unit focused on connected wireless devices in the home security, healthcare and energy markets dubbed “Digital Life Services,” according to a report in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The organization, which is not yet operational, appears to be a separate division of AT&T’s three-year-old emerging devices business, which has handled [...]
