At a recent dinner party in Munich a US start-up that makes short-length videos was explaining to Informilo how business was booming. The start-up's videos have been downloaded 500 million times, 30% onto mobile devices. Asked what mobile operators the company works with, the reply was: "None, we deal with Google and YouTube." Such over-the-top (OTT) services are clogging operators’networks. And it is only going to get worse. Mobile data traffic is doubling every year.Read more

It is no accident that Alcatel-Lucent will showcase its LTE connected car, which brings cloud computing to moving automobiles, at the industry's annual Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Feb. 15 to 18. This year marks the start of the LTE decade. But gear makers have to help drive the creation of money-making mobile Internet services or there will be little return for carriers on multi-billion dollar network investments.Read more