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According to the latest market study by Juniper Research, the cumulative 4G LTE mobile broadband service revenues over the next five years will account for over $1 trillion.

Every year, the world community faces a variety of natural disasters including earthquakes, fires, floods, storms, and droughts. In response to these realities, many nations have developed sophisticated emergency response capabilities. These continue to be maintained at peak levels through ongoing programs of review and reassessment.

If you had a chance to listen to my radio interview with IMI TechTalk you know I believe the analytics behinds wearable computing will be a huge business. As sensors and cameras become part of our wardrobe, there will be billions of new data gathering devices connected to the cloud.

Communications service providers are at war with OTT providers and need to ensure they are able to battle on as level a playing field as possible. There are significant costs associated with running a major telco and hardware infrastructure certainly ranks high among them.

Sometimes the future arrives sooner rather than later. Take energy-efficient access technology, for instance. Its future actually arrived a few years ago, in the form of the Tellabs Optical LAN.

As financial institutions look to restore consumer trust and respond to the new service expectations wrought by the impact of smartphones and digital commerce, delivering a stronger customer experience has become a top business imperative.

The mobile payments market has long been gestating in developed markets, and is now finally starting to gain momentum in terms of product launches and levels of investment from significant players across the financial services, IT, and telco markets. However, it is clear that the market is unlikely to reach a big bang moment, and will instead continue to evolve on several fronts at once.

Another auction of FM construction permits has come to an end. Plenty of happy bidders are now presumably basking in the warm auction afterglow – because successful bidders in Auction 94 were, in many instances, able to snatch up permits for bargain-basement prices.