{"id":7607,"date":"2009-01-19T15:17:16","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T15:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/gadgets_to_shape_more_telecom_decisions.html"},"modified":"2009-01-19T15:17:16","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T15:17:16","slug":"gadgets-to-shape-more-telecom-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/gadgets-to-shape-more-telecom-decisions.html","title":{"rendered":"Gadgets to Shape More Telecom Decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems both of the major US cellular carriers have decided femtocells are a good idea. First <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/att\/att-inching-forward-with-femtocells.html\">AT&amp;T<\/a> and now <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20090119-verizon-getting-on-femtocell-bandwagon-with-sprint-att.html\">Verizon<\/a>. What this obviously means for customers is better service at home or in offices with poor coverage. The obvious losers here are pure-play VoIP companies as well as cabecos.<\/p>\n<p> <span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/old-bathing-suits.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"358\" width=\"256\" alt=\"old-bathing-suits.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2009\/01\/old-bathing-suits-thumb-256x358-5573.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s face it &#8211; wireless devices are the cool hip gadgets we carry and using even the hippest home phone makes us feel like we are walking around in bell bottoms and one-piece bathing suits from the turn of the century.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to fashion and pizzazz, it is really tough for anything to compete with today&#8217;s cell phones.<\/p>\n<p>The telecom battle has really become the consumer electronics battle. This should have been clear a few years back when COMDEX ended up dead and CES continued to grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems both of the major US cellular carriers have decided femtocells are a good idea. First AT&amp;T and now Verizon. What this obviously means for customers is better service at home or in offices with poor coverage. The obvious losers here are pure-play VoIP companies as well as cabecos. Let&#8217;s face it &#8211; wireless<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,168,201,172,160,196,189,203,118,174,191,205,219,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}