January 2010 - Leadership Blog

According to an article in Business Week, the data traffic over at&t’s network has jumped 5,000% since the iPhone was introduced 3-years ago. While some of the increased traffic is due to the shift away from the smartphone being primarily a business tool and more toward becoming a ubiquitous device for the general public, it is by no means the majority. The majority of that network traffic increase is coming from only 3% of users...or “network hogs.” at&t currently estimates that 3% of its...

The worst economic turmoil in 60 years is over, but the crisis has contributed to strengthening some fundamental trends that will shape the next decadein the telecom market. Wait a minute… am I crazy? Who wants to predict what’s going to take place in the next decade knowing how fluid things can be in our industry? There will always be a new technology ordevice out there, so these are the types of predictions that are more difficult to make. I’m less anxious about Google’s next device, if cloud computing...