Harry Jacob
„My biggest mistake is to dive always down to the floor, even when the pool is very deep.“
Harry Jacob, born in Nördlingen (Bavaria, Germany) in 1968, studied journalism in Munich and Leipzig. For 16 years he held leading positions at Vogel IT-Medien in Augsburg, where he was instrumental in the development of the print magazine, supplements and digital offers of “IT-BUSINESS“, a trade magazine for IT specialists. In 2014, he became editor-in-chief of “A & D”, a magazine for manufacturing automation at publish industry, Munich – in time for the hype of Industrie 4.0.
Since 2017, Harry Jacob works as freelance journalist, author and communications consultant. His main topics are IT, IoT and Industry 4.0, with focus not so much on technics but on concepts and strategies of business models and customer relations that are changing due to digital transformation.
Articles by the author
“More than just a router manufacturer”
In the fall of 2020, Swedish 5G pioneer Ericsson was able to close the supply gap on the router side with the acquisition of Cradlepoint. We spoke with Jan Willeke, Area Director Central Europe at Cradlepoint, about the current corporate
1&1 feels thwarted by Vodafone in network rollout
There is a dispute among network providers in Germany. 1&1 complains, a Vodafone subsidiary does not meet the agreed rollout targets for 1&1's 5G network. The true reason could be, that the powerful provider wants to make it more difficult for the smaller rival to access further frequencies precisely with this fact, so the suspicion. Now the Bundeskartellamt is to examine whether a targeted strategy distorts competition.
5G routers for industry – part IV (with data sheet)
A selection of current 5G routers for industrial purposes (Source: D-Link, Teldat, Digi, Teltonika, Cradlepoint, Comtime) On the occasion of the Mobil World Congress 2023, some providers have again presented new router models. Also in the past few months, some
