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

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
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