Tammy Parker
Monica Paolini
Peter Jarich
Maravedis
Articles by Monica Paolini
Paolini: Can wireless backhaul facilitate transition to fiber backhaul?
One of the big debates in mobile backhaul is whether an operator should use wireless or fiber. The choice is not only or primarily about technology or fiber availability, but it...
Paolini: TDD innovation in the RAN
LTE does not only deliver more capacity to mobile operators overwhelmed by traffic growth. It is also brings innovation in the RAN, where operators have started to experiment with new topologies, new
Paolini: The big challenge for small cells - backhaul
Mobile operators have finally come to accept that small cells will be an essential component of their strategy to increase network capacity--and more precisely to increase capacity density in those
Paolini: Are vertical applications for wireless ready to take off?
Vertical applications have become one of the hot areas in the wireless industry. With cellular penetration approaching saturation and subscriber ARPU slowly declining or remaining stable despite the
Paolini: Has Clearwire picked the right flavor of LTE?
Finally Clearwire has publicly announced its commitment to move to LTE. The decision to adopt LTE was a widely expected, and probably an unavoidable one, but there were (and still are) many open
Paolini: Wi-Fi offloading - build your own Wi-Fi network or share it?
For mobile operators fighting network congestion, Wi-Fi offloading has been an unqualified success. In some high-traffic locations in Hong Kong, up to 80 percent of the cellular data traffic is
Scavenger apps: BitTorrent protocol sends data when there's enough capacity
Data caps have become the first line of defense of mobile operators against network congestion. But it is becoming increasingly obvious that imposing limitations on traffic allowances is not an
Paolini: Is cost per bit a reliable metric for wireless data?
Cost per bit is a useful metric to capture costs associated with the delivery of data, and make comparison across technologies, operators, or markets. Yet cost per bit estimates cited as absolute
Paolini: Data revenues to surpass voice revenues at DoCoMo
These days all the attention in the US wireless industry seems to be on the growth of data traffic. And yet, despite all the growth, it is voice that US mobile subscribers seem to love more than most
Wireless service plans tailored on subscribers, not on devices
Let me start with an obvious and uncontroversial observation: Not only has mobile broadband grown to become a consumer service with a high stickiness (subscribers may churn to a different provider,
