Iain Morris

3 days ago | lightreading.com | Iain Morris

CEO school seemingly teaches the future bosses of big business to retain a few unnecessary "management layers" between the top and bottom of an organization, like easily cleared bookshelves. When business goes south, and markets expect a response, those layers can be swept away to protect margins and keep shareholders happy. "We are reducing management layers and flattening our organization," said Marie Myers, the chief financial officer of HPE, like a diligent student reading out her coursework.

3 days ago | urgentcomm.com | Iain Morris

6G could be needed to provide relief at congested 5G sites, but it is unlikely to be substantially different from 5G, and traffic growth is slowing. If the signal coverage of a macro basestation site could be seen by the naked eye, a helicopter view would look like the concentric circles of an onion sliced through its fat middle. The outer ring is the coverage provided by low-band, typically sub-GHz, spectrum – good for blanketing wide areas and penetrating walls.

5 days ago | lightreading.com | Iain Morris

After Vodafone and Three justified their merger plans by arguing they were too weak as separate players, the combined company will have to work fast. The last time two big UK mobile operators merged, the moniker they selected for the new company totally ignored its heritage, bearing zero trace of the old names. The choice of Everything Everywhere, the operator formed from the combo of Orange and T-Mobile, was justifiably mocked by commentators.

6 days ago | lightreading.com | Iain Morris

If the signal coverage of a macro basestation site could be seen by the naked eye, a helicopter view would look like the concentric circles of an onion sliced through its fat middle. The outer ring is the coverage provided by low-band, typically sub-GHz, spectrum – good for blanketing wide areas and penetrating walls. In the center, conceivably, is a tiny circle where smartphone users enjoy the zippiest mobile services, courtesy of abundant spectrum at the opposite end of the mobile scale.

2 weeks ago | lightreading.com | Iain Morris

Society seems increasingly prepared to relinquish skills and expertise to AI – a bad idea if the AI is fallible – and yet hardly anyone talks about it. We've all heard those anecdotes about the grizzled engineers lured out of retirement, or perhaps rescued from it, to deal with some antiquated technology that befuddles everyone else. But what happens when nobody has a clue about anything?