Having just analyzed recent reports from telecom companies, we conclude that the telecom recession/ depression continues. Revenues are falling way short of expectation, growth is limited to mobile data, and profits are minuscule with the exception of Verizon (VZ). But even at VZ, the growth seems to be coming almost entirely from new wireless data [...]

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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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[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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