How Clearwire Hopes to 'Reinvent Wireless' (1)
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In a conference call earlier today, Clearwire Corporation's CEO Benjamin Wolff spoke enthusiastically about the 'new' post-merger Clearwire and the company's ambitious plans to "reinvent wireless" by developing a nationwide mobile WiMAX network (the company will retain the Clearwire name, but its products will be referred to as Clear). Wolff didn't hide the fact that the Sprint-Clearwire deal had been left for dead on more than one occasion, acknowledging that today's announcement is the culmination ...
Despite Downturn Clearwire Gets Xohm and $3.2 Billion (1)
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Clearwire said today that it has closed several transactions that will allow it to build out a nationwide WiMAX network, including gaining control of Sprint’s Xohm network and a $3.2 billion investment from several large companies. These deals were announced in May, and despite the downturn that has pummeled stocks since then, the terms of the deal have not changed. The new nationwide WiMAX service will be branded Clear. Clearwire received the $3.2 billion investment ...
The alleged takeoff of mobile advertising and the role of quality of experience (1)
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The Economist, which has been quite skeptical about mobile advertising, has a story which reports takeoff has occurred. What I find interesting is the analysis of which roadblocks have been removed. Here, the relevance of the broadband quality of service experience work we have been doing is noteworthy. Assuming that mobile operators want ad revenues (not a hard assumption), this shows that it is in their interest to improve the quality of service experience from ...
Haberler: 3G İhalesini Turkcell Kazandı! (1)
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2007 yılı içerisinde 2 kez ertelenen Turkcell, Avea ve Vodafone arasında çetin rekabete sahne olan 3G lisans ihalesi bugün yapıldı. İhalede; 3G A lisansını Turkcell kazandı; B lisansını Vodafone kura ile alırken; C lisansı da Avea’nın oldu. ... Kategori: Mobil Etiketler: 3g 3g mobile 3Generation 3uncu nesil Avea broadband cep cep telefonu gsm hızlı internet mobil mobil 3g telefon turkcell turksel Vodafone yeni nesil
Mobile Broadband - τιμές (1)
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Για τις ανάγκες της δουλειάς έκανα μια μίνι-έρευνα αγοράς για τα συμβόλαια που προσφέρουν οι τρεις εταιρίες κινητής τηλεφωνίας στο mobile broadband. Παραθέτω τον σχετικό πίνακα: Δωρεάν MB Πάγιο (ευρώ) Κόστος ευρώ/επιπλέον MB COSMOTE Wireless Internet 200MB 200MB 13.00 0.10 Wireless Internet 5GB 5120MB 29.50 0.02 Wireless Internet Unlimited unlimited 49.00 WIND ADSM Basic 1MB 3.50 0.70 ADSM 300MB 300MB 17.00 0.70 ADSM 5GB 5120MB 29.50 0.02 ADSM Non-Stop unlimited 49.00 Vodafone VMC1 1MB 3.50 ...
Saskatchewan Promises Universal Broadband Access (3)
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The Saskatchewan government has pledged to make broadband universally accessbile within three years. The government has promised millions of dollars to improve its rural telecommunications infrastructure.
Technology Brings Remote Town a Little Closer (1)
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Both Telstra And Optus Officially "Bid" For The National Broadband Network (2)
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If The Daily Show covered Australian events, this whole NBN saga would be called: "Fibre Clusterf%*k to the Node", or something like that. But in any case, today was the deadline for submissions to the government for their NBN, and both Telstra and Optus (backed by Terria) have sent theirs in. Although Telstra still managed to slide in a sideways "Fuck you" by not lodging a complete application due to "unresolved issues in the Government's ...
Does Your House Need a Tail? (3)
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Thus far, the debate over broadband deployment has generally been between those who believe that private telecom incumbents should be in charge of planning, financing and building next-generation broadband infrastructure, and those who advocate a larger role for government in the deployment of broadband infrastructure. These proposals include municipal-owned networks and a variety of subsidies and mandates at the federal level for incumbents to deploy faster broadband. Tim Wu and Derek Slater have a great ...
Cisco To Shut Down For 4 Days At Year End - GigaOM (15)
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Updated with Cisco Confirmation: If you want to know how bad it is going to get for all of us in Silicon Valley, just look at Cisco Systems. For first time in its history the company is going to shut down for four days at the end of the year, according to a report by UBS Research. Remember when such shutdowns were associated with industrial era companies? Well, this is the new past as they ...
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Devlin D said:
Don't know what's more amazing, that Cisco is shutting down for 4 days or that those 4 days will save it $1 billion.
Cable Markets in New York City Declared Competitive (3)
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In an order released yesterday, the Federal Communications Commission declared certain parts of the New York City cable market competitive, thanks to Verizon offering its FiOS TV in the area. This means the FCC also revokes the ability of the municipal authorities of New York to regulate how Time Warner Cable sets its basic cable rates. So far, it looks like parts of Brooklyn and Manhattan are competitive, if one can envision a duopoly (in ...
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Laurent Courtines said:
I live in brooklyn and there is no Fios near me yet. I am desparate for it!
Handset Market Decline May Soon Affect Carriers (1)
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As people in the U.S continue to line up for mobile phone launches, the rest of the handset market is looking pretty grim. Optimistic news about the BlackBerry Storm is akin to Restylane in an aging actress — a plastic filler that hides signs of decay underneath. Today Samsung said that the handset market won’t achieve the 9 percent growth it anticipated for 2008 back in June, and pointed to a lackluster 2009. James Chung, ...
A new broadband idea: 'Homes With Tails' (1)
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"Homes With Tails" sounds like an effort promoting puppy adoption (an excellent cause, we might add), but it's actually a very interesting idea about how to promote universal broadband. Is it compelling, too? Hmm... "Homes With Tails" is the title of a paper authored by Columbia University law professor Tim Wu and Google policy analyst Derek Slater, and it proposes that last mile fiber ownership go the way of condominiums, with individual home owners owning ...
A Quick Peek at the Internet Growth Charts (7)
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The growth of the Internet is both true and greatly exaggerated depending on which web you look at, according to a rundown of data offered last night by Prof. Andrew M. Odlyzko of the University of Minnesota School of Mathematics. Growth of the wireless web is far outpacing the rise in use of the wired web, and providers charge more for wireless traffic. Odlyzko compiles an annual report on the growth of Internet traffic that ...
Broadband in the AFR (1)
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I have a piece today in the Australian Financial Review on broadband (reproduced over the fold). For regular readers, it might strike you as something very new. Put simply, I take as a political constraint that the government is going to invest in high speed broadband. I argue that it should not go halfway (something that I have argued before). Instead, it should build the whole 100Mbps+ network capable of doing all telecommunications and set-up ...
Disappearing divides (2)
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As sure as clockwork, whenever there is a discussion of the advances the internet and technology provide, someone will bring up the digital divide. Not sure what they expect the folks in the discussion to do about it - hold all progress until the divide is conquered? Of course, it’s the progress itself that will close the divide by creating demand and efficiency and thus scale and affordability. Once upon a time in America, there ...
Le opinioni di Silvio (3)
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Vanity Fair, 20 novembre 2008 Una della meravigliose qualità di Silvio Berlusconi è che non avendo opinioni, le ha tutte. E’ contemporaneamente filo americano e filo russo, sta con l’Europa, ma sta anche con i celti orobici della Lega che sono contro. E’ amico contemporaneamente dei cinesi e del Dalai Lama. Ai vertici internazionali difende i diritti umani. Ma se li scorda quando atterra a Tripoli per finanziare con 5 miliardi di euro la dittatura ...
LBS: A Dream Continually Deferred (3)
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The Wall Street Journal this morning had a short article pointing out the somewhat obvious reasons why location-based services on cell phones are still not mainstream. It also helpfully pointed out that carriers were working on it. To recap, LBS services need three main things: a way to get location (which we have thanks to GPS chips and even the ability to triangulate using Wi-Fi networks), software that can make sense of geographic information and ...
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Ten Sleep, Wyoming is home to a booming new company that teaches English online to students in Korea. The town of 350 people is a testament to how the reaches of broadband connectivity allows high-tech business to flourish even in remote areas. read moreShared by JEP (3)Contribute comment
