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VoIP in the Skies is a Social Concern

Andy has an entry today about a NY Times article that talks about VoIP in the Sky. The interesting thing to note is that using the increasingly available inflight wireless broadand connections are not causing a technological upheaval, but rather the...

Posted on September 14, 2008 11:46 PM

America for Sale?

Tim Gray is reporting on the chatter that has Sprint as the target of a takeover - albeit a friendly takeover - at the hands of SK Telecom, South Korea's wireless giant. Yesterday, Leuven, Belgium-based InBev picked up Anheuser Busch for...

Posted on July 15, 2008 4:22 PM

FCC Answers to Congress

The FCC was called on the carpet today to answer a Congressional committee’s questions about the recently completed wireless spectrum auction. A central issue was the Commission’s inability to attract any bidders for the so-called D block portion of the...

Posted on April 15, 2008 3:38 PM

FCC Answers to Congress

The FCC was called on the carpet today to answer a Congressional committee’s questions about the recently completed wireless spectrum auction. A central issue was the Commission’s inability to attract any bidders for the so-called D block portion of the...

Posted on April 15, 2008 3:38 PM

VZW Offers Unlimited Web, E-Mail for Smartphone Users

If you own any of these smartphones — the Verizon Wireless SMT5800; the Verizon Wireless XV6800 and the MOTO Q9m — then for just $29.99 per month (with a qualifying voice plan) you can surf and send e-mail to your...

Posted on April 14, 2008 3:56 PM

Industry Players Agree on LTE Licenses

LTE is that much closer to becoming a reality, as a number of industry players have agreed to commit to a licensing framework, whereby they would license their patents according to “fair and reasonable” terms.   The group is a...

Posted on April 14, 2008 3:41 PM

Qualcomm Drops Another Battle in Nokia Patent War

Qualcomm has taken it on the chin today.   In its ongoing legal patent battle with Nokia, (this time in the U.K.) Justice Christopher Floyd ruled at the High Court in London that one of Qualcomm's patents is invalid and...

Posted on March 3, 2008 3:49 PM

Death of the All You Can Eat Internet (continued)

Last week I posted an entry about Time Warner’s plans to implement a usage-based billing model with a test run set for Beaumont TX.   Well, here’s some more information on that subject.   Kudos to Slashdot for pointing out...

Posted on January 22, 2008 3:20 PM

Latest Wireless Musings

In his latest column for TMCnet, former CTIA and NCTA head Tom Wheeler discusses  the recent news that UK carriers T-Mobile and Hutchinson’s “3” will combine their networks and share the capacity, saving $4 billion in the process.   Instantly,...

Posted on January 4, 2008 3:47 PM

iPhone Has Zippy on EDGE

TMC’s executive editor Richard “Zippy” Grigonis, offers yet another angle to today’s super-hyped (or as my kids would say, “super-duper-scooper” hyped) Apple iPhone launch.   Richard actually paints a scenario that shows that things are not altogether perfect when it...

Posted on June 29, 2007 12:51 PM