In a landmark ruling sure to be appealed to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, a federal appeals court has ruled that the FCC has no legal authority to impose net neutrality rules on Internet Service Providers (ISPs.) Net neutrality proponents immediately responded that ISPs should be brought under FCC jurisdiction similar to that [...]
We arrived in Las Vegas Monday afternoon and immediately jumped into the fray. Meetings started with Don Winters and Tom Prosia of Whitehawk Associates. Whitehawk provides consultants and subject matter expertise to Mobile Operators and other players in the wireless industry. Tom is presently working on an application which collects mobile location and feeds it [...]
Frequently contracts for adding products, services and for changing service providers must be processed. The ability to read, understand and negotiate such contracts is essential to becoming an effective manager.
First, it is absolutely necessary to become comfortable reading contracts and understanding their meaning. Certainly contract language is not the same as that which one might [...]
We recently had cause to investigate 4G Wireless Jobs, a web site offering resources for Telecoms in general and for job seekers in particular. A quick click through the site reveals industry-specific articles, commentary, HOWTOs and research on a variety of topics relating to Telecoms. Article categories include Business, Careers, Electronics, Technology and Wireless, with [...]
Stats
Mobile Broadband Growth in the US expected to double over the next two years.
11 M – 2009
19 M – 2010
28 M – 2011
2.5 GHz Spectrum in U.S., averaging 120 MHZ in major markets
540 Mbps per cell site vs. 45 190 Mbps from the competition
Launch dates
launch to existing customers November 1. all existing customers will be [...]
We’re pleased to announce that TeleTips Network is partnering with Telecom Voices, adding our voice to their coverage of Telecoms. Telecom Voices is a site dedicated to rebroadcasting blogs focused on Telecoms, allowing a wide diversity of Telecoms ideas to be found and read on a single web site. The posts of TeleTips [...]
Google has caved to pressure from the International Olympic Committee and pulled a video from YouTube which shows a protest about the subjugation of a peace-loving Himilayan country by an unelected dictatorship. Here is a link to the video, thanks to Slashdot.
Information Week is reporting that BlackBerry Users Experience Service Outage
What’s going on over at RIM? Is this the 3rd or 4th highly publicized network failure they’ve experienced in the last year or so? Running a network is a highly repetitive, process-oriented business. Not much sex and magic involved. Widespread service-affecting events are signs of poor [...]
So over on Yahoo! this article is interesting. The advantage to Motorola is clear, more cash for a business it does not appear to run well.
The advantage to Nortel is less clear. Nortel already has switching and radio kit for a variety of wireless technologies and air interfaces. We’ll need to wait until more [...]
The Mozilla foundation has recently announced that they intend to extend their web browser to allow it to run on mobile devices. I have to wonder about the opportunity they perceive. Outside the US there may well be a chance for a new browser to become popular on mobile devices.
Within the US however, [...]
