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Doug Mohney, a principal at Cidera Analytics, has been working and writing about IT and satellite industries for over 20 years. His real world experience including stints at two start-ups, a commercial internet service provider that went public in 1997 for $150 million and a satellite internet broadband company. Follow him on Twitter at DougonIPComm or contact him at dmohney139 (at) gmail (dot) com.

Latest Articles

Satellite IoT provider Myriota is coming to North America - 09/13/2019
Amazon Satellite Broadband? Jeff Bezos Does not Mess Around - 04/08/2019
The (Literal) Launch of New Satellite IoT Services Has Begun - 12/05/2018
Boeing Invests in Aussie Satellite IoT Company - 04/16/2018
Satellite Imaging - Petabytes of Developer, Business Opportunities - 04/11/2018
Blockchain in Space - 04/10/2018
Sky and Space Global Generates First IoT Revenues - 04/06/2018
Satellite Firm Swarm Technologies Facing Death After Defying FCC - 03/22/2018
CES 2018: Terabit Fiber - Closer Than We Think - 01/17/2018
Your New Heart Monitor is an Apple Watch. Really. - 12/04/2017
Amazon Unleashes Alexa for Business - Consequences Abound - 11/30/2017
International Tech Innovation Growing, Says Consumer Technology Association - 11/08/2017
After Cisco/Broadsoft, Who's Next for M&A? - 10/27/2017
The Intriguing Mystery of Verizon's Hum+ Car IoT Promotion - 10/05/2017
SpaceX Names Satellite Broadband Service, Works FCC Connect America - 09/29/2017
New Apple iPhone X as Much Hype as Innovation - 09/28/2017
Alexa and the PBX, Coming Soon - 09/28/2017
Big Sky: The New World of Sky-oT - 06/27/2017
For Amazon-Whole Foods' Future, Look to Zappos, Not Robots - 06/19/2017
IoT Brings Inmarsat to a World Beyond Satellite - 06/14/2017
OneWeb Satellite Broadband Service: Big Win in Alaska? - 05/31/2017
LeoSat Secures Japanese Investment for Enterprise Broadband Satellite Network - 05/23/2017
Inmarsat Adds New Broadband Satellite to Global Xpress Fleet - 05/16/2017
Inmarsat's Newest Satellite Launch: Business as Usual or Cusp of Change? - 05/15/2017
SpaceX and Apple's Dreams of Satellite Broadband Billions - 05/08/2017
CoreDial to Channel Partners: Get Your Unfair Share - 04/06/2017
Amazon Vonage Acquisition on the Horizon? - 03/30/2017
IBM's Cloud/Data/AI Trinity Vision - 03/27/2017
What is IBM Watson Adding to the Practice of IT? - 03/23/2017
NVIDIA and Intel Race for Autonomous Vehicles - 03/17/2017
Will Fixed Wireless Broadband Save or Sink Service Providers? - 03/16/2017
Take Note: IBM's Next Big Thing is Quantum Computing - 03/10/2017
Meineke Goes IoT to Build Customer Loyalty, Data Value - 03/06/2017
The Bifurcation of IoT: Avoid Consumer Confusion, Embrace Businesses - 03/02/2017
Alexa: The Next Android - 02/28/2017
Verizon, Oh Verizon, Where Are You Going? - 02/23/2017
Voice 2017 - Best of Times, Worst of Times - 02/21/2017
Voice 2017 - Best of times, Worst of Times - 02/21/2017
Needed: Better Location Tech for RideShare Services - 02/21/2017
Finding a UC Voice or Two in the CES Consumer Forest - 02/01/2017
The Paradox of Twitter's Value in the Trump Era - 01/24/2017
SoftBank OneWeb Satellite Investment Makes Sprint Interesting - 01/23/2017
The Race for Faster Broadband Continues Between Telco and Cable - 01/16/2017
A WebRTC-like Standard for the Internet of Things? It's Complicated - 01/13/2017
CES 2017: Product Evolution and Robotics Underline the Show - 01/09/2017
CES 2017: Liberty Mutual Goes API, AI , and Gamify - 01/04/2017
Waiting for Alexa 2.0 (and Other Voice AI Assistant Improvements) - 01/03/2017
Satellite-filled Sky for New Apps & Broadband in 2017 and Beyond - 12/21/2016
Moving Beyond Gigabit Will Be 2017 Broadband Story - 12/13/2016
From Social Media to Sour Media in 2016 - 12/05/2016
Look for PC Price Wars in 2017 - 11/29/2016
Making Sense of SpaceX, Boeing and Other Mega Satellite Broadband Projects - 11/22/2016
The Abysmal Pace of New PC Tech - 11/22/2016
Virtual vs. Real: Both Count When Selling - 11/16/2016
Telecom Chip Merger Madness Running Against Open Hardware Tide - 11/03/2016
Telecom Chip Merger Madness Running Against Open Hardware Tide - 11/02/2016
Google Fiber to Gigabit Google to Gone (Maybe) - 10/31/2016
Microsoft One-Ups Apple, PC Manufacturers with Surface Desktop - 10/26/2016
Will the Next Generation of Computers be Crowdsourced? Maybe - 10/25/2016
The Cybersecurity Race to Secure the Internet of Things - 10/25/2016
Google's Losing Temperament Won't Help With Phones - 10/11/2016
5G's Real Revolution Won't Be Mobile, But Wireline - 10/04/2016
SpaceX and Blue Origin Talk Seriously Going to Mars - 09/29/2016
No Restraints On 5G Hype While LTE Progresses - 09/22/2016
Will Legacy Paper Save Us From Electronic Fraud? - 09/21/2016
Building Big Data Earth: Google, Planet Add More Imaging Satellites - 09/19/2016
A Creeping World of Voice-Enabled Cloud Surveillance - 09/16/2016
Social Media #Fails and #Wins - 09/14/2016
Have We Hit Peak Phone? - 09/09/2016
Broadband Satellite Provider LeoSat Finds First Enterprise Customer - 09/06/2016
Sound the Alarm on 911 Failures - 08/30/2016
Broadband Delivered by Fiber Proves Better than Alternatives - 08/23/2016
The Road to SD-Internet - 08/22/2016
Broadband (and Tech) Boom Predicted by ADTRAN CEO - 08/10/2016
Cyber Security (and lack thereof) Starts at the Top - 07/07/2016
Comcast NBC Preps for Olympic Streaming Marathon - And the Future - 06/29/2016
Twilio IPO: Bellwether or Blip for the API Business? - 06/23/2016
Apple's Potpourri of iPad Obsolesce, Web Tweaks, and APIs - 06/16/2016
Microsoft Buys LinkedIn - Big Deal, But Needs a Tweak - 06/13/2016
Has Verizon Jumped the Shark on 5G, 6G? - 06/06/2016
Media Encryption: Rough Patch or Temporary Hiccup for Optimization? - 06/03/2016
Problems with Cyber Security Start at the CEO's Office - 06/02/2016
Trash UC - You Want Integrated Communications - 05/26/2016
2012 LinkedIn Data Breach Reboots, Affects 117 Million - 05/19/2016
American Well Launches Telehealth Exchange - 05/17/2016
Advanced DNS Speeds Up Services - 05/12/2016
Voip-Pal.com $7 Billion Patent Attack Against Apple, Verizon and AT&T - 05/11/2016
GENBAND Lands More Medical Kandy, Gets SAP Expansion - 05/04/2016
Apple Needs Reset, Not Elon Musk - 04/29/2016
Cable, 5G Break the Big Telco 'We can't invest due to FCC' Myth - 04/25/2016
Verizon's Tightrope Between Burning Copper Bridges and Building New Fiber - 04/25/2016
T-Mobile Goes Beyond HD Voice to EVS - 04/20/2016
WebRTC: The Big Missing Piece in Polycom/Mitel Merger - 04/18/2016
The Evolution of SDN and NFV to SD-WAN - 04/14/2016
Apple Finally Crosses the WebRTC Bridge - 04/13/2016
SpaceX Reusable Rocket Now a Reality - 04/12/2016
'Unified' Messaging is Still a Long Way Off - 04/08/2016
WebRTC - It's Now Mission Critical - 04/07/2016
Hello Voice My Old Friend, Goodbye PSTN - 03/31/2016
Does WebRTC Need Fixing? Well... - 03/30/2016
Commonality Between March Madness Office Pool and Unsanctioned Real Time Communications - 03/19/2016
Latency and the Coming Internet Reboot - 03/09/2016
WebRTC's Challenge: Large Scale Broadcasting - 03/08/2016
End the WebRTC and ORTC Divide - 03/07/2016
PC Taken in Different Directions by HP, Huawei - 03/03/2016
Watson: IBM's (and IT's) Biggest Breakthrough Since the PC - 03/03/2016
WebRTC's Challenge: Large Scale Broadcasting - 03/01/2016
Doing WebRTC - How Soon, How much? - 02/29/2016
5G Hype - Where's the Fiber? - 02/24/2016
To VP9 or Not to VP9 with WebRTC? - 02/22/2016
2016: Social Media's Plateau? - 02/17/2016
Using Real Time Communications to Jump Start Business - 02/16/2016
Lost Opportunities: Real Time Communications in the 2016 Primaries - 02/11/2016
Telcos Beware - Alphabet/Google Fiber Gets Serious - 02/02/2016
Hybrid to Native with WebRTC Apps - 02/01/2016
10 Years into the Future of Communications - 01/28/2016
Shifting UC, WebRTC and the Business World - 01/27/2016
SD-WAN Hot Ticket, But What Does it Offer WebRTC? - 01/25/2016
The Chaotic Mess of the Smart Home - 01/08/2016
Health & Fitness Tech 2.0 is Upon Us - 01/04/2016
Platforms as a Service + Real Time Communication = Cleaner Customer Engagement - 01/04/2016
Fitbit vs. Apple Watch - Really a Contest? - 12/30/2015
Fitbit vs. Apple Watch - Really a contest? - 12/30/2015
La Technologie Francaise at CES - 12/29/2015
PaaS + RTC= Compelling Customer Engagements - 12/28/2015
SpaceX Successfully Returns Falcon 9 to Flight with ORBCOMM - 12/22/2015
The Trouble with Tech Mergers - 12/21/2015
Real Time Communication and Healthcare Engagement - 12/10/2015
WebRTC Hype and Fear - 12/04/2015
Under Construction: Next Era of U.S. Manned Spaceflight - 12/03/2015
Breaking the Cliché: Different Real Time Communications Applications Emerge - 12/03/2015
Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk Square Off on Rocket Firsts - 11/25/2015
Real Time Communications Hot in 2016 - 11/23/2015
Weaving a Web of Real Time Communications, Internet of Things, and Big Data - 11/19/2015
Apple iPad Pro Promo Reveals Company's Decline - 11/13/2015
Microsoft Building Key Value-added Services Applicable to WebRTC Developers - 11/12/2015
NASA's Actual Resupply Efforts are Weirder than The Martian - 11/06/2015
Smartphone: Killer of All Other Devices - 11/03/2015
Moving Real Time Communications to More Immersive Experiences - 11/03/2015
6 Big Value-added Services for Real Time Communications - 10/29/2015
Microsoft Hardware: Surface and Beyond - 10/27/2015
WebRTC Future Awaits - Even with Apple - 10/26/2015
Don't Hate Microsoft for Getting into PC Hardware - 10/21/2015
G.Fast, Gigabit Connectivity and the Glass Gap - 10/20/2015
Unified Communications, Meet the Era of 'Collaborteam' - 10/20/2015
A Look at Mobile Growth in Latin America - 10/19/2015
Tech Mergers Suck - 10/15/2015
Enabling Quicker Sales Contact via Connective Ink and IoT - 10/12/2015
Microsoft Out-Pencils Apple, Adds Laptop - 10/07/2015
Who Will Save Sprint? - 10/05/2015
Google and Microsoft Settle Patent Disputes - 10/01/2015
Google Dives into RCS, Buys Jibe Mobile - 10/01/2015
Terabit Networks in 2020 - 09/25/2015
Terabit Networks in 2020 - 09/25/2015
Public Service At Your Service Through Smart Cities - 09/24/2015
Healthcare Innovations: Getting Better, Faster with RTC - 09/18/2015
Bezos' Blue Origin Announces Florida Rocket Factory, Launch Facilities - 09/16/2015
Five Facts on 5G Derived from CTIA Super Mobility - 09/16/2015
Five facts on 5G Derived from CTIA Super Mobility - 09/15/2015
Dirty Wi-Fi: How Do You Fix It? - 09/14/2015
Has Apple Jumped the Shark? - 09/10/2015
Make Mine Mobile: Why Size Will Not Matter - 09/08/2015
Real Time Communications Ready to Meet Bitcoin Blockchain - 09/02/2015
International Calling: From Phoning Home to Stimulating Business - 09/01/2015
Hyperconnected Internet of Things Driving New Wi-Fi Standards, Google & Intel Dreams - 08/26/2015
Microsoft Surface Future Includes Phones, Maybe IoT - 08/18/2015
Cheaper Computing Power Driving Need for Faster Software Development - 08/18/2015
New Fingerprint Tech Unlocks the Internet of Things - 08/11/2015
Small Teams Leveraging Big Technologies: WebRTC, Cloud - 08/07/2015
Got a Service? APIs Required - 08/06/2015
Southern Tech Scene Can't be Ignored - 08/03/2015
Chattanooga Fiber Network Triple Play: Smart Grid, Gigabit, Green Energy - 07/31/2015
Enhancing Gaming with RTC - 07/31/2015
Chattanooga: Much More than GigCity - 07/31/2015
Strategies for Staying Sane in an Always-on, RTC World - 07/28/2015
T-Mobile US Adds RCS, Expect Anti-OTT Talk to Follow - 07/27/2015
Making the WebRTC Phone Ring - 07/24/2015
AT&T, House of Cards and Net Neutrality - 07/22/2015
SpaceX Supply Flight Lost Due to Strut Failure - 07/22/2015
Gamification Goes Beyond Advertising - 07/20/2015
The End to Moore's Law in Sight - 07/17/2015
Everyone is Pushing Open and Ubiquitous Web Environments - But How Far? - 07/16/2015
Why Offline Can Be as Sexy as Online: Not Just A More Productive Ride at 20,000 Feet! - 07/13/2015
The Mobile 'Phone' is Dead: Microsoft Got It Right - 07/10/2015
From SIP Trunking to SBC as a Service - 07/10/2015
New Math for the All Software Real Time Communications World - 07/09/2015
Rumors of the Death of the Desktop Phone Continue to be Exaggerated - 07/02/2015
The Evolution from UC to RTC - and Back Again - 06/30/2015
OneWeb Satellite Broadband Effort Gets $500M - 06/26/2015
Can OTT Make Money for Service Providers? - 06/25/2015
The Subtle Ad Lure of Geofilter Digital Stickers - 06/24/2015
Will Wi-Fi Finally Put Cable Into the Mobility Business? - 06/23/2015
Advances and Questions for SpaceX, OneWeb 'Big LEO' Broadband Satellite Constellations - 06/22/2015
When Will Ad Sponsored Communications Services Take Off? - 06/22/2015
Gigabit South: The Next Big Thing? - 06/16/2015
WebRTC Enrolled for Suicide Prevention - 06/11/2015
Extending Real Time Communications to the Next Billion - 06/11/2015
From UC to ME with eZuce - 06/09/2015
New Opportunities Abound with Real Time Communications - 06/09/2015
Innopolis: Russia Launches Its Silicon Volga - 06/08/2015