Indian WiMAX Spectrum Winners can offer voice, says DoT - August 29, 2008
 
India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has proposed that winners in the upcoming licence auctions for broadband wireless access (BWA) - read mobile WiMAX - will be able to offer voice as well as data services.
But the dispensation comes at a price. Instead of [...]

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Overview:
The global Broadband Wireless Access (BWA)/ WiMAX subscriber base increased by more than 200,000 in the first quarter of 2008, reaching nearly 2 million (1.98M ) subscribers worldwide, according to Montreal based market research and analysis firm Maravedis. Service revenue increased more than 20% to $366.2M. 
 
Author’s Note:   It is not clear how many of these BWA [...]

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Summary of Location Based Technologies and Services Workshop
[June 19, 2008, Crown Plaza Hotel, San Francisco International Airport] 
Alan J. Weissberger
IEEE ComSoc- SCV Secretary and Program Chair
Backgrounder:  
Yankee Group tele-briefing report on Location Based Services and Technologies:
http://viodi.com/2008/06/13/location-based-services-and-technologies/

Speaker Remarks
1. Dave Reid, Director of Business Development, SiRF Technology Inc. http://sirf.com/
 
The world is on the go (which implies that mobile telecom [...]

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Abstract:
 
We have previously opined that the highly touted 700 MHz auction was a win for the U.S. government (almost $20B was raised) and Google (open access rules for C block w/o spending a dime).  Yet it was a big loss for public safety. 
 
Based on a post auction spectrum analysis from a well placed source, we [...]

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Last night, winners of the "beachfront property" FCC 700MHz auction were finally permitted to reveal their plans for using the spectrum obtained.  AT&T and Verizon won most of the licenses, spending a combined $16 billion.  As anticipated, the wireless giants aim to build faster wireless broadband networks capable of delivering high-speed data, voice, video and [...]

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Business Week called it "A WiMAX Breathrough in India- Tata Communications unveils an ambitious plan to become global leader in wireless broadband by launching the world’s largest commercial network
On Mar. 4, India’s Tata Communications , an emerging broadband wireless service provider, announced the countrywide rollout of a commercial WiMax network in India, the largest anywhere [...]

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Saturday’s NY Times had a front page story describing the sorry state of Muni WiFi networks in the U.S.  We long ago suspected that the business model was flawed, but we did not expect that the number of WiFi Access Points on light poles had to be so much larger then originally planned.  What kind [...]

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Abstract
Promoted as the most important FCC auction in decades, it appears that the 700 MHz auction has been a failure on several fronts.  We were promised private operator-public safety partnerships (for the D Block) along with a new nationwide wireless broadband network (Frontline Wireless’ initiative), open access for any device and any application (Google’s petition), [...]

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The FCC released three studies regarding on the topic of licensed versus unlicensed spectrum. These could be very critical policy papers that shape the future of spectrum allocation and are important for Congress to read. Interesting timing, as their release comes during the 700 MHz bidding process. Of particular interest, is Working Report #43, which looks at the [...]

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[editor's note:  To engage Alan Weissberger for consulting services, contact him at alan at viodi dot com]
If implemented, the merger of Motorola’s and Nortel’s wireless infrastructure businesses would result in the creation of a $10 billion revenue company that would be better positioned to jostle for market share in a fast-consolidating industry.  Both companies have invested [...]

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