Digital infrastructure globally is being reorientated as the "cloud" comes closer to everything we do, in parallel with the rollout of 5G. A roundtable recently explored this all, with Milan Rao, president of Wipro, and Mo Katibeh, chief marketing officer for AT&T Business. More
5G Partner Insights Tech & Society
We asked leading experts of the telecommunications industry to explain what they think the mobile ecosystem will look like in 2030. Authorities on the subject from Micron, Qualcomm, Ericsson, and more weighed in on what exciting mobile landscape the future might hold. More
5G Community Insights International Affairs
The authors explain why the U.S. must work thoughtfully with allies to build alternatives to Chinese-manufactured—and -financed—communications equipment. More
Cable and wireless internet companies are in trouble, as consumers demand more for less. More
The escalating tech war between the U.S. and China will hurt more than Huawei. It could do major economic damage to the world. More
5G Internet of Things Partner Insights
At a recent dinner in SF hosted with Ericsson, agreement about the importance and gravity of 5G was near-unanimous. But questions abound- where will it arise first? What will it mean for the internet of things? Can we manage all that data? More
5G Internet of Things Sustainable Development Goals
In this exclusive pre-CES conversation, Vestberg talks about what 5G wireless, the industry's new standard, means for society, and for Verizon. For him it's key to how all business, and even government, will be able to improve society. More
The combination of 5G and AI will turn our mobile phones from passive devices to truly intelligent. But to do get there, they will need massive amounts of memory. Our partner, Micron, is developing the next generation of chips. More
5G Community Insights Global Tech Mobile
While it has taken a while for the digital revolution to take shape in India, the country is now leapfrogging more advanced economies. There is much we can learn from India’s efforts, says the CEO of a telecommunications networking equipment supplier doing business there. More
5G promises network responses at speed faster than we can even perceive, but to get there we need a distributed cloud that spans the end-device, edge sites, distributed sites, central sites and public clouds, argues Ericsson's head of cloud. (Note: Ericsson is a partner of Techonomy Media.) More
Mobile World Congress covered 2.5 million square feet of exhibition space stretched across eight halls and was host to 110,000 visitors. The juxtaposition of commercial aspirations with calls for tech to be in service of a higher purpose underscored the complexity of the 5G opportunity and the need for thoughtful innovations across both worlds. More
Mobile World Congress 2017 in Barcelona is next week. Mobile technology continues to amaze. One key theme will be the upcoming 5G world–significantly faster data, less delay, and greater wireless connectivity to far more endpoints. Globalization will be another top theme, along with AI, VR, and new kinds of wearable connected tech. More
What comes after so-called 4G wireless, today’s highest-bandwidth systems (sometimes called LTE)? Even though only a small portion of smartphone users in a few countries so far have 4G, Ericsson, one of the telecoms industry’s leading tech providers, is already deep into planning the next phase. These 5G systems will differ dramatically from those today, […] More
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