Competing with Satellite Cellular
A recent article in Fierce Network quotes AT&T’s CEO John Stankey as saying that he’s not too worried about competition from satellite cellular providers. He said the new technology is better...
View ArticleHow Many IoT Devices Do You Have?
Before reading any further, make a quick guess of the number of Internet of Thing (IoT) devices you have in your house. That’s any device that can make a wireless connection through cellular, WiFi, or...
View ArticleMatter – The New IoT Standard
Anybody that uses more than one brand of Internet of Things (IoT) device in the home understands that there is no standard way to connect to these devices. Each manufacturer chooses from a range of...
View ArticleThe Next Big Thing
I’ve always been somewhat amused to read about the colossally important technology trends that are right around the corner. These trends are mostly driven by the wishful thinking of vendors, and they...
View ArticleAmazon’s Huge IoT Network
In a recent blog post, Amazon invited developers to test drive its gigantic IoT network. This network has been labeled as Sidewalk and was created by tying together all of Amazon’s wireless devices...
View ArticleIs Your Home Listening to You?
When I was a teenager, science fiction books envisioned a future where people talked to their home to take care of mundane tasks. For somebody willing to spend the money on new appliances and devices...
View ArticleWe Need Public 5G Spectrum
Last October the FCC issued a Notice for Proposed Rulemaking that proposed expanding WiFi into the 6 GHz band of spectrum (5.925 to 7.125 GHz). WiFi has been a huge economic boon to the country and the...
View Article5G and Home IoT
I’ve been asked a lot recently about the potential future of 5G – everybody in the industry wants to understand the potential threat from 5G. One of the biggest proposed uses for 5G is to connect IoT...
View ArticleThe Fourth Industrial Revolution
There is a lot of talk around the world among academics and futurists that we have now entered into the beginnings of the fourth industrial revolution. The term industrial revolution is defined as a...
View ArticleAn IoT Bill of Rights
Parks Associates recently released a report saying that the average broadband home now has 10 connected IoT devices. This includes desktops, laptops, tablets, and smartphones but also today includes a...
View ArticlePrivate 5G Networks
One of the emerging uses for 5G is to create private 5G cellular networks for large businesses. The best candidates for 5G technology are businesses that need to connect and control a lot of devices or...
View ArticleeSim
One of the big goals for 5G is to be able to use the technology to communicate with numerous devices other than cellphones and tablets. In order for that to happen the cellular industry is going to...
View ArticleI’m Not a Fan of the 5G Hype
I read a lot of articles talking about what a huge deal 5G will be for the economy. The source of the excitement is the huge numbers being thrown around. For example, Qualcomm and IHS Technology issued...
View ArticleThe Latest on Agricultural IoT
For years we’ve heard about how broadband was needed to support agriculture. However, for many years it was hard to find widespread use of farming technologies that need broadband. Finally,...
View ArticleThe Future of AT&T and Verizon
The cellphone companies have done such a great job of getting everybody to purchase a smartphone that cellular service in the country is quickly turning into a commodity. And, as is typical with most...
View ArticleMachine Generated Broadband
One of the more interesting predictions in the latest Cisco annual internet forecast is that there will be more machine-to-machine (M2M) connections on the Internet by 2021 than there are people using...
View ArticleWho Owns IoT Data?
The press has been full of discussion over the last month with numerous articles about Internet privacy. Recent moves by the FCC and Congress have opened the doors for ISPs to track and monetize...
View ArticleThe Future of WiFi
There are a lot of near-term improvements planned for WiFi. The IEEE 802.11 Working Group (part of the Wi-Fi Alliance) has a number of improvements being planned. Many, but not all of the improvements,...
View ArticleReady or Not, IoT is Coming
We are getting very close to the time when just about every appliance you buy is going to be connected to the IoT, whether you want it or not. Chips are getting so cheap that manufacturers are going to...
View ArticleStandards for 5G
Despite all of the hype that 5G is right around the corner, it’s important to remember that there is not yet a complete standard for the new technology. The industry just took a big step on February 22...
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