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

Hoopo Titan Brings Chassis Intelligence Into FlexiVan's AIM360 - 10/06/2026
KORE OmniSIM Keeps Wastewater Intelligence Flowing Across Borders - 10/06/2026
Monnit Turns a Hot Yoga Schedule Into Closed-Loop Climate Automation - 10/06/2026
TCS DriveSphere Helps Kautex Build the Software Core of Sustainable Mobility - 10/06/2026
Venstar Skyport Gives HVAC Contractors a Remote Command Center - 10/06/2026
Beijing Post Data's TAPC-509-1 Proposes Privacy-Conscious Occupancy Intelligence - 10/06/2026
Soracom Earns Back-to-Back Analyst Recognition from Gartner and QKS Group, Underscoring Platform Momentum - 08/05/2026
Soracom Closing the Gap Between IoT Strategy and Production Deployment in North America - 07/27/2026
Soracom Expands North American Partner Ecosystem with Bridgepointe Technologies Alliance - 07/16/2026
The 30-Day Deadline Nobody's Talking About But Should - 07/14/2026
Zero Trust, Not Zero Risk: Why Quantum-Safe Crypto Has to Be Part of the Story - 07/07/2026
The Digital Supply Chain: Resilience, Visibility, and the End of Flying Blind - 05/26/2026
The CIO Reimagined: From IT Keeper to Digital Business Leader - 05/26/2026
How Does Anthropic's Mythos Foretell the Post Quantum Nightmare? - 05/14/2026
From Perimeter to Identity (Part 2): From Good Idea to Broken Reality - 04/06/2026
From Perimeter to Identity (Part 1): Zero-Trust Architectures for IoT and OT - 04/06/2026
Security-by-Design Is Now Law: How New Global Regulations Change IoT Product Roadmaps - 03/26/2026
Scaling Your Data Management with Better Orchestration: Lessons from Flex83 - 03/20/2026
Identity, Zero Trust, and Secure OTA: The New Baseline for IoT Defense - 03/11/2026
ASRock Industrial Puts Secure Edge AI at the Core - 03/02/2026
Beyond Garbage In, Garbage Out: How Our Systems Hardwired Bias Into AI - 02/24/2026
Beyond the Yellow Brick Road: How Telit Cinterion and NVIDIA are Leading Manufacturing into an AI Land of Oz - 01/29/2026
AIoT in 2026: From Edge Intelligence to Agentic Systems - 01/21/2026
AIoT in 2026: From Edge Intelligence to Agentic Systems - 01/19/2026
Trump's AI Framework and the Next Wave of AIoT Regulation - 01/16/2026
Telit Cinterion Gets Wiser With deviceWise - 01/16/2026
Trump's AI Framework and the Next Wave of AIoT Regulation - 01/16/2026
Exclusive Interview: AIoT World Expo Keynoter Chirag Agrawal (part 1) - 12/11/2025
Exclusive Interview: AIoT World Expo Keynoter Chirag Agrawal (part 2) - 12/11/2025
Exclusive Interview: AIoT World Expo Keynoter Chirag Argrawal (part 2) - 12/11/2025
Exclusive Interview: AIoT World Expo Keynoter Chirag Argrawal (part 1) - 12/11/2025
Robot Swarms: These are the Droids We're Looking For - 12/05/2025
Amazon's Massive AI-Driven Automation to Reshape Warehousing and Logistics - 11/19/2025
ASUS IoT and Algorized Strategic Partnership Orchestrates Improved Perception - 11/11/2025
Are Patents Safe on AI? - 11/07/2025
USPTO on Patents and AI - 11/07/2025
New Ideas Are Back Again! A New Era: Platforms Over Devices - 11/05/2025
How AI and Global Scale are Making Things Happen in IoT: An Interview with Soracom's Kenta Yasukawa - 10/30/2025
IoT Security in 2025: Battling Breaches and Scaling Threats - 10/29/2025
From Amazon to AI: How Pocket Mentor Preserving Decades of Industrial Know-How - 10/07/2025
From COBOL to Copilot: How Cox Automotive is Modernizing with Microservices, GenAI, and the Cloud - 10/07/2025
Soracom Answers What's Next with AI, Partnerships, and Tools? - 09/09/2025
An Interview with Loic Bonvarlet, Kigen's SVP, Solutions Marketing - 08/13/2025
Robots in the Field: Using AI to Weed the Crops with Precision Lasers - 08/13/2025
Fiber at the Edge - 08/01/2025
Thoughts, Prayers and AIoT - 08/01/2025
The $2B Seed Round for Thinking Machines Lab - 07/28/2025
Transforma Insights regarding AIoT - 07/23/2025
Does the Industry Need a Coverage Quotient? - 07/17/2025
LEOs: The Long and Low of It - 07/17/2025
Atombeam Neurpac: Compacting Data, Expanding Possibilities in the IoT Era - 07/16/2025
You Can Stop Singing the Blues Thanks to Blues.io NoteCard - 07/16/2025
You Can Stop Singing the Blues Thanks to Blues.io Notecard - 07/16/2025
You Can Stop Singing the Blues Thanks to Blues Notecard - 07/16/2025
Hoopo Demos the Synergies Possible with IoT - 07/16/2025
Lantronix Powers the World's Largest DC-Powered Warehouse - 07/16/2025
Globalstar's RM200M Conquers the Edge - 07/16/2025
Preventing Mold in Student Housing: The Turn Company and Monnit's Smart Solution - 07/16/2025
Beyond Roaming: floLIVE's Local Connectivity Solves IoT Data Challenges Worldwide - 07/16/2025
Empowering MSPs with Hyperion VAST Track - 07/16/2025
Interview with Dr. Robert Spalding, CEO of SEMPRE - 07/15/2025
SIEMENS: In the End There Should be Only ONE - 07/15/2025
Airalo: A Telco Unicorn is Born and Hopefully Ends A Dry Spell - 07/14/2025
Nothreat Launches On-Premises Agentic AI Analyzer Enterprises - 07/10/2025
Texas Passes Unique AI Laws - 07/03/2025
I've Asked the Security Experts, But It's Time You Have Your Say - 06/27/2025
Mary Meeker Returns with AI and Breezes Past AIoT - 06/26/2025
Nothreat Fights AI Fire with AI in Firewalls - 06/26/2025
How Kapitus is Reshaping SMB Funding - 06/16/2025
Slicing Up the Network with 5G SA: An Interview with Telit Cinterion's Stan Gray - 06/10/2025
Cisco Introduces Agentic AI to Industrial AIoT - 06/10/2025
CiscoLive and Well in 2025 - 06/10/2025
What are the Hyperscalers' Goals Working the Power Play with Telcos? - 06/06/2025
Meta Goes Nuclear with Constellation Energy. - 06/05/2025
lomarlabs and BlueNose: Finding Synergies in Diversity - 05/30/2025
The Cutting Edge Is Filled with Data, and aicas Knows What to Do with It. - 05/29/2025
IoT Cybersecurity: An Interview with Shield-IOT's CTO Motty Cohen - 05/28/2025
Low Code IoT: An Interview with Iotellect's Igor Lenskii - 05/27/2025
Rejoining the Split Parts of Wi-Fi - 05/27/2025
An Interview with Ceva's Moshe Sheier, VP of Marketing. - 05/22/2025
Has the Small Cell Forum Lost its Edge? - 05/22/2025
Veea Completes Acquisition of Strategic Assets from Crowdkeep - 05/16/2025
Nozomi Networks' Edgard Capdevielle Discusses IoT Security - 05/15/2025
Front-end Meets Field: Why the UI Is Your First Line of Defense in Industrial IoT - 05/15/2025
Calling it Splits in Wi-Fi for a While - 05/15/2025
Nozomi Networks' Edgar Capdevielle Discusses IoT Security - 05/13/2025
Nozomi Networks' Edgar Capdevielle Sicsusses IoT Security - 05/13/2025
CELUS Designs an Engineer's Dream Assistant - 05/13/2025
When It Comes to Edge Compute One (or Two) of Us Is Hallucinating. - 05/08/2025
Ubuntu and Dragonwing take Flight. - 05/07/2025
Yet Another eSIM First - 05/06/2025
If It's Serverless Computing, Why Do Hyperscalers Dominate? - 05/06/2025
Will AIoT be the Death of Cheap and Cheerful IoT? - 05/02/2025
Amber Waves of Grain in Argentina: Siloed, Moist and Shiny - 05/01/2025
1NCE Raises $60 Million in New Funding - 04/30/2025
Good Bye Moore's Law, Hello AI Acceleration - 04/30/2025
Retrofitting for Energy Savings - 04/24/2025
NATO Oceans Apart on Technology and Trust - 04/22/2025
What's Going on with the LoRa Alliance? An Interview with CEO Alper Yegin - 04/21/2025
Telematics 4.0 - 04/21/2025
Will AIoT Make Hardware Important to VCs? - 04/17/2025
I Pity the Fool That Doesn't Watch Jony Ive - 04/16/2025
A Feel-Good Story: IoT for a Mixed Community - 04/16/2025
What Was World Internet of Things Day? - 04/15/2025
Two Portable Private 5G Networks, One Designed to Carry on a Plane, the Other to Survive a Fall from a Plane - 04/15/2025
How Do We Contain the Container Wars? - 04/14/2025
Synaptics and Google Open Up on AI-Native IoT - 04/11/2025
Is the Future of IoT in Space? Yes, but Not that Far - 04/04/2025
Air Force Research Lab, Raytheon and BrainChip to Bring AIoT to Radar - 04/03/2025
Will V2X Development Take Off or be Stalled by Tariffs? - 04/03/2025
Two-Edged Swords Should Cut Both Ways - 04/03/2025
Powering the Edge with a Fleet of Turbines - 03/31/2025
TI's New Microcontroller: So Small, All I Can Think of is Spyware. - 03/27/2025
+1 14 IoT Dialing, SS7 and STIR/SHAKEN Meet on a Call - 03/26/2025
Is AI Going to do What 5G/6G Want Ahead of Time? - 03/26/2025
LoRaWAN Applications: May I Have Some More, Please. - 03/20/2025
Does SGP.32 Enable Single Pane of Glass (SPOG)? - 03/19/2025
Securing IoT with AI - 03/18/2025
CSignum: A Different Kind of Wireless for IoT - 03/17/2025
Is 1+14 the next Y2K for Telecom? - 03/14/2025
On the Edge Impulse Acquisition by Qualcomm - 03/14/2025
Is it time for Home Depot to have an IoT Section? - 03/13/2025
Is Orchestration the Right Word for the Symphony MVNOs Are Playing? - 03/11/2025
Trying to Put LoRaWAN in Perspective - 03/07/2025
Small Scale Deployments: How 3D Printing Impacts IoT - 03/05/2025
Is One Throat to Choke Obsolete? - 03/03/2025
The Rebirth of IoT Hardware Thanks to AIoT - 03/03/2025
Kajeet and Cisco Partner to Solve Hospital Dead Zones. - 02/28/2025
How Digital Twins Became Digital Angels - 02/27/2025
GitHub CoPilot speeds the transition from Windows Solutions to ARM - 02/24/2025
Are Data Scientists in the Wrong Position at the Right Time for AIOT? - 02/24/2025
A Pressing Dilemma: Discussing Security and Efficiency in Industrial IoT - 01/06/2025
When Will AIoT Outsmart Humans, and How Will We Know? - 01/06/2025
What's Happening at the Smart City Event in 2025? - 12/30/2024
IoT and Beyond: Taking a Meaningful Look at the #TECHSUPERSHOW Experience - 12/13/2024
The Evolution of Trust: From President Reagan to IoT Evolution - 12/13/2024
The Sensational Sectors of Analysts and Content: Learn More at IoT Evolution Expo 2025 - 12/09/2024
What I expect from Spectrum Management: All the Colors of the Rainbow and More - 12/09/2024
Coding Like It's 1999 All Over Again - 12/05/2024
'IoT and AI, Babies and Bathwater:' Exploring a Reciprocal Relationship in Modern Technology - 12/05/2024
A Look at the Future: IoT Predicts, and AI Prescribes - 12/03/2024
10 Years Later and IoT is Still Growing Jobs - 12/03/2024
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