Author: Alan Weissberger
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Still No Nationwide Public Safety Network- Why Not Use LTE To Build One?
The NY TImes [1] has called attention to the lack of a U.S. public safety network, nine years after 9/11 and despite $7 billion in federal grants and other spending over the last seven years to improve the ability of public safety departments to communicate with one another. The article states that many of the…
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GAO Report: Four Telcos Control U.S. Wireless Industry- Enhanced FCC Data Collection Recommended
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports that consolidation amongst wireless carriers over the past decade has resulted in just four telcos owning 90 percent of the U.S. wireless market. The big two, are, of course, AT&T and Verizon Wireless (VZW) – the behemoths that produce the popular "dueling commercials" that try to trump one…
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Hold the Obit: Sprint pays $105M for spectrum, will focus on WiMAX
Sprint will buy 10 MHz of spectrum from Wirefree Partners III for $105 million to boost its coverage in 16 markets, the carrier noted in a newly filed quarterly report. Wirefree Partners was formed by former executives of Sprint affiliate AirGate PCS, which was acquired by Alamosa Holdings, which Sprint then purchased. In 2005, during…
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Conundrum Continues: Mobile video drives mobile traffic but for how long?
Overview With the success of smart phones, tablet PCs and game players, video continues to be the dominant form of mobile data traffic on wireless networks. Cisco Systems predicts that mobile video will increase at a compound annual growth rate of 131% between 2009 and 2014. Yet we constantly hear and read user complaints about poor video quality, stalling/…
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Infonetics: Mobile Broadband Revenues to double; HSPA drives card sales
Disclaimer: This author has no business relation with Infonetics. We do admire the way they do primary market research. Infonetics Chief Analyst Michael Howard recently spoke at an IEEE ComSocSCV event and has just become an IEEE member. Mobile broadband service revenue to more than double by 2014 Infonetics Research (http://twitter.com/infonetics) today released excerpts from…
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Wireless Network Nearly Maxed Out-More spectrum the answer?
That was the title of a terrific San Jose Mercury News article, Sunday June 27th by columnist Chris O'Brien. The online version title is: We're not ready for the mobile revolution O'Brien writes, "We are reaching capacity on our wireless networks. The gadgets we use have caused such a dramatic surge in mobile data that…