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Podcast episode 38: An unprecedented year in telecom
Can’t wait to put 2020 behind you? The telecom industry feels your pain. But as the novel coronavirus wreaked havoc worldwide, technology stepped up. For insight into what changed in 2020 – and what to expect in 2021, we turned to industry consultant Monica...
5G networks are poised to benefit from cloud gaming’s booming business
Die-hard gamers are increasingly forgoing their gaming consoles and replacing them with cloud-based games that can be played on-the-go. Analyst firm Omdia expects a surge in cloud-based gaming in 2021 with revenues reaching $4 billion, a growth rate of 188 percent...
Creating and experiencing new worlds with digital twins
The scale and variety of challenges facing humanity – ranging from pandemics to climate change – is unprecedented, and it is clear that staying on our current course is simply not sustainable. This means, in other words, that we have no choice but to innovate our way...
FinTech and the Future of Blockchain
COVID-19 has accelerated a long-term shift in the nature of financial transactions. While consumer spending has largely been down, consumption has shifted online with consumers gravitating toward digital channels and digital services across industries. In fact, what...
On the use and abuse of encryption
As more of our lives and identities move online and into a virtual space where a stunning amount of information about us is – or may become – publicly available, our ability to know and permit what, how, and when our personal data is available to others becomes...
Fixed wireless broadband’s revival
Fixed wireless broadband services have been available for a number of years but until recently the service was primarily found in rural areas where cable or wireline broadband is lacking. But now fixed wireless service is seeing a resurgence in many markets—both urban...
Embedding telecoms into post-pandemic healthcare
The telecommunications market has been inward-looking for most of its history, focusing on the technology transitions and what it allows people and businesses to do. Now it’s beginning to shift that emphasis to the industries that telecoms serve and how it needs to...
Making 5G voice pay
Hello? Is it 5G you’re looking for? With all the excitement about how 5G will enable us to download movies in seconds, or drive innovation in IoT, or take autonomous vehicles into the mainstream, it’s easy to forget that sometimes—just sometimes—people might actually...
6 areas where technology can make our world safer
The irony with technology is that while many people have valid concerns about how technological development puts our privacy at risk, technology can also make our world safer. This is, of course, a broad statement. But there are six key areas, in particular, where...