Carl Ford Info

Partner, Crossfire Media

As a partner at Crossfire Media, Carl is developing programs that bring to light an understanding of the issues required for delivering broadband wireless Internet services with existing technologies and facilitated by a variety of smart end user devices. As a board member of the VON Coalition, Carl runs weekly phone calls to communicate the latest regulatory issues affecting the entire industry.

Latest Articles

Wireless Wars Part 1: Creating an Industry - 11/02/2021
Meeting the Need of the Enterprise for a Global IoT Deployment - 01/20/2021
AtomBeam: Big Things in Small Packages - 07/25/2019
The OpenFog Consortium & Industrial Internet Consortium Unite: Going from Framework to Functionality - 01/31/2019
When IoT Track & Trace leaves the Internet behind (Temporarily) - 01/04/2019
Processing the Impact of Qualcomm - 12/18/2018
Keeping AI out of the Clouds: An Interview with Edy Liongosari at Accenture - 08/02/2018
SQUAN Brings Order to the Wild Field of Dreams for Smart Cities - 05/16/2018
Beyond the Edge with Pryme Peripherals - 04/04/2018
You Have to Be Agile with Today's First Responder Legacy - 03/21/2018
Getting Cold Chain on the Radar in Real Time - 03/05/2018
Getting the Fix on Fixed Wireless Triple Play - 03/02/2018
Getting Over IT with Over the Top: Cloudonix - 02/21/2018
Elon Musk is Anything but Boring - 02/20/2018
Penetrating Industrial IoT with LTE - 02/07/2018
Security and the Internet of Things - Take Two - 02/02/2018
Has Anyone Else Lost Control of Their iPhone? - 01/22/2018
Virtual Reality Is Going To Be WiGig - 12/12/2017
Elon Musk Wins his Bet, but Australia Hasn't Won Yet! - 11/28/2017
IIoT Mergers Cannot Be Automatic: Emerson Seeks Rockwell - 11/17/2017
GE: Third Place Is No Place to Be in IoT - 11/13/2017
Senet, G+D Make No SIMulation Necessary - 11/08/2017
How to Think about Broadcom's Proposed Qualcomm Acquisition - 11/08/2017
Passively WeBoost the Office with DAS - 09/28/2017
Managing the GIG Economy Workforce with StaffConnect - 09/28/2017
Third-Party Maintenance and the IT Core of Assets - 09/28/2017
The Industrial IoT Hot List - 09/08/2017
A Sign of Things to Come: Telecom of Things - 09/08/2017
Mind the Gap - 09/08/2017
Finding the Balance in IoT Wireless Design for Modules and Mobility - 08/01/2017
IoT Evolution Security Certification - 06/29/2017
What Signal Does the GENBAND and Sonus Merger Send to the IoT? - 06/12/2017
The Whole World is Wireless with LTE - 04/25/2017
The 5G Hot List - 04/20/2017
Money Matters What's Happening with IoT M&A - 04/20/2017
Is Security IoT's Achilles Heel? - 04/20/2017
IoT Evolution Expo Interview: Gemalto Drops Gems on eSim Technology - 02/07/2017
IoT Batteries - 02/02/2017
How You Should Be Thinking about Digital Transformation - 02/02/2017
Integration Remains an IoT Challenge - 02/02/2017
IoT Evolution Expo Confirms Larry Karisny for Security Summit - 01/24/2017
DEATH, TAXES and IoT under President Elect Donald Trump - 12/02/2016
Guess What: We are Evolving! - 11/23/2016
Yesterdays Wars, Today's Regulation! Does HBO From AT&T Really Matter? - 10/28/2016
Will the FCC have a Mandate with the Next President? - 10/14/2016
Twitter is Bad Data, But is it Good Business? - 10/07/2016
What a bunch of Yahoooooos! - 09/23/2016
Is Your Service Provider Messing with your Wi-Fi? - 09/16/2016
Mobile Malware: Pay Attention to Those Androids - 09/02/2016
The IoT Analytics Hot List: Integration, Implementation, and IoT - 08/29/2016
PTC: The Sum of the Parts Creates A Whole New Paradigm - 08/29/2016
Capital, Disruption, and Sudha Jamthe - 08/29/2016
Shared Spectrum 2.X - 08/26/2016
Gee, that's fast. - 08/19/2016
Getting a Fix on 5G Wireless with Cambridge Broadband Networks - 08/09/2016
The Whole US is Watching via Mobile - 08/05/2016
Rocketing to the Fifth Dimension in Virtual Reality - 07/29/2016
The Negroponte Switch and My 5G Aha - 07/22/2016
The Lost 5G-eneration - 07/14/2016
The Start of the Robust Backbone: Ciena Corporation Co Founder Kevin Kimberlin. - 07/08/2016
Who isn't an MVNO These Days? - 07/01/2016
Ad-versarial Relationships: Ad Revenue and Ad Blocking - 06/24/2016
The Hot List: Home Gateways Hot List: The Hype is Deserved - 06/20/2016
Examining the Abry/Kore Strategy - 06/20/2016
Words of Inspiration - 06/20/2016
FCC Broadband Reform: You are here! - 06/09/2016
Mary Meeker's Report is Out and So is the US. - 06/03/2016
One China, One Opera! - 05/25/2016
Call Emergency: I Have Warm Feelings for John Oliver - 05/20/2016
Will Video Basic Service Be on the Agenda for 2020? - 05/13/2016
The Holistic View of Network Design: Musings from GENBAND's Perspectives16 - 05/06/2016
Verizon Partnership Meeting Migrating in Tandem - 04/29/2016
'5G: This Article Contains Content That is Written Like an Advertisement' - 04/22/2016
Negroponte's 'Switchless' Future: Was He a Visionary? - 04/15/2016
A New Web Browser Looking to Orchestrate the Edge - 04/06/2016
The FBI Knows How to Break an iPhone; What Have We Learned? - 04/01/2016
Apple: The Legacy Drives the Decisions - 03/24/2016
Rant of the Month: Is the Web Becoming a Giant Tweet? - 03/18/2016
You Know Where it's @, but Do You Know How it Got There? - 03/11/2016
Less is More? No, I Said, Wyless is Kore - 03/09/2016
What's Unsafe at Any Speed? Texting - 03/04/2016
One More Humble Opinion on Apple vs. the FBI - 02/26/2016
Is the End Near? Think About Uber 'This' and 'That' - 02/19/2016
Patents, Trust and Brand: The Foxconn Acquisition of Sharp - 02/12/2016
The IoT Developer's Tools Hot List - 02/11/2016
Apple's HomeKit: Hot, But Not for The Hot List - 02/11/2016
Are You a Unicorn, or Should You Be? - 02/11/2016
Brownfields Could Be the Hotter Spot - 02/11/2016
It Just Worked! The End of Apple's Elegance - 02/05/2016
Twenty Years Later, the Lost / Next Generation - 01/29/2016
What Carriers Should Learn about Their Business: AKA, 'WhatsApp Lessons' - 01/22/2016
Submarine Cable Capacity Makes it to the Cloud - 01/15/2016
Try Competify. Or Don't. - 01/08/2016
What Ever Happened to Signaling System Internet (8?) - 01/04/2016
Whatever Happened to Signaling System Internet (8)? - 12/30/2015
Have a Cookie - 12/29/2015
Applications Trends for 2016: It Takes an Ecosystem - 12/23/2015
Hello China, Welcome Back CDMA; It's About Time - 12/16/2015
Do Truckers Need to Update Their Cabs or their Trailers? - 12/15/2015
Paperless Gets Trucking - 12/10/2015
Which Disappears First as a Result of Mobile: Your Desktop or Your Home Phone? - 12/09/2015
Cradlepoint Acquires Pertino and the Cloud gets Closer to Checkmate - 12/08/2015
Is Copper the Buggy Whip of Telecommunications? - 12/02/2015
Beacons: Bridging the App Gap - 11/25/2015
Feeling Alone in the Ecosystem - 11/25/2015
My Hype Gripe - 11/25/2015
In the End, There Can Be a Lot of Traffic on Corning ONE Wireless Platform - 11/25/2015
Cisco and Ericsson: Love, Actually! - 11/18/2015
Are You Safe? We Want to Know - 11/18/2015
Facebook: You Talk, It Sells - 11/11/2015
Fraunhofer Said Let There be Li-Fi And it was Good - 11/04/2015
Rethinking the 'Smoke and Mirrors' of Femtocells - 10/28/2015
Once in A Lifetime: The FCC's Reverse-Auction Soap Opera - 10/21/2015
Food Safety Modernization Act: Preventive Controls Order - 10/20/2015
Hey Fleet Management Companies: You Need Help - 10/20/2015
POTS is Dead. Have a Cookie! - 10/14/2015
An Attack on Wi-Fi at CTIA - 10/13/2015
Oh, Canada! My Smart Supply Chain Rules - 10/09/2015
Moore's Law in a Bind - 10/07/2015
My Amazon Fire - The Boat Anchor That Keeps Swimming - 09/30/2015
'Getting' the Nuance of the Mobile Internet - 09/23/2015
If you Need It: They will Build. - 09/18/2015
The Force of IoT Thunder is not the Real Time Engine for Salesforce - 09/16/2015
5G and IoT: Where do They Intersect? - 09/16/2015
Net(flix) Neutrality: Who's Kidding Whom? - 09/09/2015
The Blind Side of IOT: These Are the Droids You are Looking For - 09/02/2015
Sprint Refocuses Ads in Bid for Bigger Share - 09/02/2015
WiSilica Making IOT Big Data Contextual - 08/28/2015
An Attack on Wi-Fi at CTIA - 08/26/2015
Everything Old is New Again - 08/19/2015
IoT Evolution Expo Dispatch, Day Two: Divide and Conquer - 08/18/2015
IoT Dispatch Day One: Certification, Security & Comprehension - 08/17/2015
T-Mobile Sprints Ahead, But Why? - 08/12/2015
When it Comes to Brillo, Stay in the Nest or Take a Wait and C Attitude - 08/10/2015
My View on Public Relations & The Press - 08/10/2015
Who Scares You, and Who Do You Scare? - 08/10/2015
Smart Grid Hot List: Transformers No Disguise - 08/10/2015
Dave: 'HAL, Are You My Phone Now?' - 08/05/2015
Testing the Soundness of BT's Green Supply Chain - 07/29/2015
For Those of Us Who Know the Truth about Clouds - 07/22/2015
Flash is Dead but Not if You are on a Desktop - 07/20/2015
Three Peaks and More Hype - 07/15/2015
Random Thoughts I Should Probably Keep to Myself - 07/08/2015
Quest Diagnostics Rolls Out MyQuest for Health - 07/01/2015
Wi-Fi with a Twisted Pair for Guest Services 2.0 - 06/24/2015
Getting Its Actility Together: Olivier Hersent Starts Up Again. - 06/18/2015
Weighing in on the 'Weightless' Protocol - 06/17/2015
Connected Cars: It's All About the Software - 06/10/2015
Copper's Not Dead Yet: 'Caravan' Uses Almost Stationary Wi-Fi - 06/10/2015
IoT Analytics Get Prescriptive - 06/08/2015
Fasten Your Seatbelts: Winning Strategies Plan for Turbulence Ahead - 06/08/2015
Know Pain, Know Gain - 06/08/2015
Developers Need to Pay Attention to Compliance and Security - 06/08/2015
Bright Lights for Smart Cities - 06/03/2015
For POTS, the End is Here (Or Just About) - 06/03/2015
I Need Your Help, Because IoT Takes a Village! - 06/02/2015
Yet Another SDN Strategy To Migrate 2.5 to LTE - 05/27/2015
The Uber/Under of Numerex's FASTrack Prepaid - 05/26/2015
Getting the WebRTC Message Across with Comverse - 05/22/2015
Analytics: Time to Pull Back the Curtain in the IoT - 05/20/2015
Can OTT Kill VoLTE or Voice-Charging? - 05/20/2015
Kurzworld: Basketball Nanomotors and Glidden Paints - 05/13/2015
Free Continues to Improve the Experience - 05/13/2015
'Free' Continues To Improve the Meeting Experience - 05/13/2015
What ISDN Brought into the World, VoIP has Abused - 05/13/2015
Kurzworld: The Future of Under Armor - 05/06/2015
Let's Face(book) the Reality that SIP is Not the Answer - 05/06/2015
Smart Bodies: A Future Story From KurzWorld 2025 - 04/29/2015
Does Wireless IP have any IP Characteristics? - 04/29/2015
WebRTC Less Balkanized than the Web? Or Just Another SNAFU? - 04/23/2015
I Can Draw Architectures, But Sometimes A Cloud is the Best I Can Do. - 04/22/2015
Will the Mobile Internet Require SS7 2.0? - 04/22/2015
Cat 0 vs. Cat 1: Perhaps the Limits are Beyond This Scope - 04/15/2015
The Internet of (Open Source Software) Things - 04/14/2015
Automotive 2025: It's not Uber Alles. - 04/08/2015
The Fifth G is Coming to a Millimeter Near You - 04/08/2015
Can the Cloud Take on Disaster Recovery? - 04/06/2015
Make Sure Your IoT Apps Get the Applause They Deserve - 04/01/2015
Should Carriers Develop Their Own Frameworks? - 04/01/2015
Is it Time to Accept that 4G is the Only Road Forward? - 03/25/2015
The Machine Leading the Blind - 03/25/2015
Cooper's Law of Spectral Efficiency - 03/18/2015
Lean, Mean and a Profit Machine - 03/17/2015
Dick Tracy Would Not be Happy with the Apple Watch - 03/11/2015
The Adoption Challenge: PARC's Perspective - 03/11/2015
Respoke: Time for a New Way to Talk - 03/10/2015
Does Net Neutrality Stand A Chance in the Courts? - 03/04/2015
Can IoT MVNO's Ride the Netflix Net Neutrality Coattails - 03/03/2015
What Does Your Urgent Care Center and the Video Billboard Have in Common? - 02/25/2015
If You Haven't Yet Learned the Power of 'GWATT', You Will - 02/25/2015
Mapping the Air for Drones - 02/18/2015
All Politics are Local, Even for Federal Agencies - 02/18/2015
Sencha Bringing Lifecycle Management to Mobile Applications - 02/13/2015
All This Great TLS Security of IoT and We Still Can't Use IPv6 - 02/11/2015
Should Microsoft Buy Radio Shack's Remaining Assets? - 02/11/2015
A Protocol and an Integrator Drive into a Parking Lot - 02/04/2015
A Protocol and an Integrator Drive into a Parking Lot… - 02/04/2015
IoT Takes Location Based Services to the Next Level - 02/04/2015
The Trends Ahead - 01/28/2015
Thoughts While at ITEXPO: Confusion, Collusion and Net Neutrality - 01/28/2015