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Just in Time For Mobile World Congress

February 9, 2010

Supercomm was cancelled for 2010.  While it would interesting to talk about this from the conference side, I will make the assumption that other people will take that opportunity and try to talk about it from a different perspective.

CES was hoping and the buzz was around various forms of wireless use.  Ford with Sync, Microsoft with KIA, Wireless devices and devices using wireless were all around most of them Internet enabled. 

Mobile World Congress is going on in Barcelona and it's expected to do well next week. 

I want to point out that these events are following the money which is no longer about the network its about the consumers freedom of choice.

As congress and the FCC contend with the legacy of the PSTN the new network is flourishing and its not about wireless its about customer choice.  The wireless world may still have the same issues facing it that their fixed line brothers faced.  Brough Turner points out that over 90% of the packets on any network head for the Internet.

If I were at the FCC I would be ready to advocate that its time to treat all networks as if they were accessing the Internet.  Looking at competition not based on the technology but on the services and the primary services.  Voice, video and data are probably going to converge at some point as well with the over the top (internet) model

Legacy service providers are looking for protection, but government should praise itself for enabling the competitive landscape we are heading for rather than embedding old rules into the new environment.

In these days of government bail outs its hard to see what is the economic downturn versus technological progress.

If the goal of net neutrality is to support the progress, I would contend it's to dynamic a market to codify.  If its to protect the applications from abuses by the legacy networks, I am not sure its needed.  

 






Tags: 4G Wireless, broadcast, CES, FCC, Ford, Government, Internet, KIA, Microsoft, Mobile World Congress, regulation, Supercomm

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How is your Intellectual Digestive System

February 8, 2010

Brough Stops the Show

February 8, 2010

We have been buzzing around the discussion of WiFi that Brough Turner shared with us at the 4GWE. 

Wi-Fi Opportunities In A 4G World View more presentations from Brough Turner.

Suzanne Bowen's
interview is a good commentary to go with the slides. And of course, you can read the man himself

Tags: 4GWE, BelAir, Brough Turner, LTE, Strix, Suzanne Bowen, Tropos, WiFi, WiMAX




LG Breaks the Categories, but not the model

January 11, 2010

"It's not a Femtocell!"
Chris Zeigler at engadget took this picture and as asked what is this thing?

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/01/lg-m13-ces-itw00-sm.jpg

If you live alone and you don't have to keep the family entertained.  Why have the Internet Access at the house and not with you.  That seems to be the reasoning behind the this terminal adapter.  That connects your LTE phone to the house and gives you connectivity. 

Given the fact that 60% of CES, was trying to move video from the Internet to the media server in the house, this would probably require some network smarts.  

In my humble opinion this places LG's LTE closer to the dual mode camp, but since they have femtocell strategies, it maybe this was an internal product that had to be different the LG / Nortel Femtocell.

Can we call it MonoMode?




Tags: Dual Mode, Femtocell, LG, LTE, Media Servers, Video

















Its a MSlate vs iTablet

January 11, 2010

Microsoft made a lot of statements, but when it came to the term tablet, the lexicon changed.  They want to call it a Slate.


Tags: Apple, HP, ITablet, Microsoft, Slate, mSlate




Google vs. Apple

January 5, 2010

Google and Apple are vying for your attention today.

If you are a carrier, your bed fellows are not staying the night! Google with the Nexus One announcement that is all about the Android operating system and not a carrier. And strangely enough the Apple iTablet maybe the same thing.

Axxcelerating the Apps

January 4, 2010

Mark Kelley Interview

November 27, 2009

The Taffy Pull of Nortel: Ciena & Ericsson

November 25, 2009

If the sum of the parts is never greater than the whole,  the dividing of Nortel into various sections has interesting implications.

First of all, Ericsson is on a hot streak right now.  It's announcements with ATT , T-Mobile and Verizon.  Its outsourced services with Sprint, has made Ericsson the leader in the market.  And its reflected in the fact that it now has an extra 5000 employees in the US.  

Most importantly,  It bought a cash cow for a mere $70M as the battle for 4G and LTE heats up they will be in their customers hearts already with the GSM support.

So its a pretty strong move.

On the other side, Huawei continues to capture the cable operators hearts and it will be interesting to see where the operators link between their IMS plans and the existing structure. 

However, if integration services are the story for the future, then an opportunity probably exists for other companies to build that kind of a service.

One place where Integration will be tricky at best is CienaNortel had a long history of walking to the beat of its own drummer on interoffice facilities, as the migration to ethernet continued it had a legacy mindset that carried over and doe not match well to Ciena.

So the question of how the nearly $ 800 M acquistion of the Nortel Ethernet assets get managed will be interesting to see.   My own expectation is this may be a bitter pill to swallow and Nokia Siemens maybe grateful they did not win the bid.







Tags: ATT, Ciena, Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia Siemens, Nortel, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless

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All The Free in China

November 16, 2009