Last week the iPhone 3GS was announced and Apple says they sold 1M. Comparing that to Sprint's PalmPre and T-Mobile G2 announcement its a winner. However, Apple's efforts to steal the thunder obviously succeeded.Having said that the front end loading...
First of all a personal note, Ed Whitacre and my father were friends, so I have never stated an opinion about Ed, despite my affiliation with people who did not like him.But the story here is one beyond the man,...
Scott and I just had lunch and we were next to a Verizon Wireless store. And we got to talking about Andy Abramson's blog about VZ's MiFi service. My connectivity has been for S%^# for a while and these last...
One of the reasons Verizon is so aggressive in its LTE deployment is Apple's iPhone deal with ATT is only for the 3G generation of iPhone. As we have reported before the iPhone has given ATT an additional 5M subscribers...
As the world continues to view the smartphone market as a battle between RIM and Apple, my T-Mobile Google phone is about to get an OS update that will bring on some new features. The update will also provide improvements...
EB Software (Elektrobit Corporation) and Terre Star demoed a prototype satellite phone that was dual mode with cellular. It raised some interesting questions for me. Unlike the expensive satellite phones of other companies, this was an incredibly elegant footprint, about...
Here in Vegas, I have been doing interviews with a variety of companies and talking with friends. One observation I have is that it may be that all 10M iPhones are on the floor here. I am shocked how many...
I don't think this would be a sign of WiMAX's apocalypse. I instead see this as a prudent move on Nortel's part to emphasis the pieces of the solutions they own.
Next week at this time, the discussions will be about the future of policy and protocols in wireless communications.Here is a preview of Monday's sessionsFanny Mlinarsky and Brough Turner will start our morning off with a historical discussion about the...
Today's Wall Street Journal warns about the issues facing Clearwire in building out there nationwide network. The question of their readily available of $3.2B capital and whether they will need to put in two or three more times that to...
Why did ATT commit to Verizon choose to use LTE for new nationwide 700 Mhz spectrum? The answer is peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR), which is a measurement of a waveform, calculated from the peak amplitude of the waveform divided by...