Larry Bellehumeur

M2M – The Industry You may have read my colleague’s (Richard Hobbs) latest rant, where he talks about how security is in our numbers. While I don’t totally disagree, I have a few concerns with security and I believe that these concerns are wide-spread among many different entities…..customers, namely.  In fact, I believe that these concerns […]

M2M – The Industry In a previous blog post, I wrote about how the idea of Apple becoming an MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) actually had some merit to it and was not the craziest idea I had heard.  My thinking was that it would allow an even greater way for Apple to force you to “stay in […]

  M2M – The Industry I do feel old.  I don’t mean that my body creaks in the morning or that I have to get up to pee 4x a night, but working in the cellular industry really makes you feel old fast. I started out in the mid to late 90’s doing pretty much […]

Quick, what was the catalyst that launched the growth of the Internet?  Some may argue that it was Windows 95, as it allowed for a better experience in a browser, at least compared to what we had before.  Others may argue that the Internet never really took off until we started to see the availability […]

Last winter, I was stuck in a pretty major traffic jam, one that took me about 4 times as long as normal to get home.  Eventually, we determined that it was because of a serious (in terms of vehicle damage, likely no one was injured) collision where a car rear-ended another vehicle.  Amazingly, when I […]

This post is a bit different for two reasons.  First, it will be shorter, and more importantly, it really not focus exclusively on #M2M! I have written a few times about how Big Data is changing our lives, specifically from the slant of how M2M data is used to provide better, real-time information into key […]

Just back after about 10 days off between posts and it was nice to get some feedback asking about the delay!   Whether you decide build your own device, to use a product to simplify the deployment (such as the socketmodem from MultiTech) or use a 3rd party modem, you are going to come across four common […]

For many companies, wireless has been the domain of the purchasing department.  When wireless only meant voice, this made sense.  Devices were relatively the same in terms of functionality, and the offering from the carriers was also similar, with features like pooling, device to device calling and simplified billing often being more important than the […]

When I first started in the cellular industry in the later part of the 1990s, Machine to Machine accounted for an extremely small part of the overall activations at the carriers and an even smaller portion of the overall traffic.  It was deemed to be “extremely niche” by most industry experts and it was often […]