Category: Alan Weissberger
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Telco Spending Up Modestly in 2011; LTE Revenues >$200B by 2015
New market research reports from Infonetics and Juniper Research are summarized in this article which also looks at the critical issues to transform LTE Capex into revenue for telcos. I. After a second straight year of decline, Infonetics Research predicts telecom carrier capital spending (CAPEX) to be up a modest 1.6% next year. In its just released updated report on Service Provider…
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Silicon Valley Bubble or Barrier for Web 2.0 Startups?
Who's got it right? Are the new breed of Web 2.0 start-ups good investments now or are they over valued for what they propose to deliver? Have the three musketeers of the new web- Google, Apple, and Facebook- created such huge barriers that it will be extremely difficult for start-ups to compete? We'll try to provide…
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Network Neutrality Revisited: Level 3 Complaint & Comcast Response
Level 3 Communications Complains about Comcast's excess charges for video content delivery: Level 3 Communications Inc., a Broomfield, CO based Internet backbone company ("carriers carrier") complained Monday November 29th that Comcast Corp. is charging it an unfair fee for the right to send streaming video and other large data files to its subscribers. The company said it agreed to pay…
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Early Stage Startups Get Wings from TiE Angels- Highlights of Nov 15th meeting
Introduction to TiE Angels With venture capital and private equity firms concentrating their investments on existing portfolio companies and unwilling to invest small amounts of seed capital, where does an emerging start-up company look for funding? Where can they express their value proposition to a serious group of individual investors? The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) has…
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LTE Market Forecasts Up as Operators Announce Deployment Plans
Introduction There's no doubt that LTE (3GPP Release-8) is gaining traction among many wireless network operators. Two market research firms increased their LTE forecasts this week, while U.S. Cellular announced its LTE roll out plans. This December, Telia Sonera will turn on LTE data service in Finland, while NTT DoComo will make its LTE data…
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Highlights of Sprint Developers Conference: Oct 26-28, 2010 Santa Clara, CA
Disclaimer: Unlike all other Viodi View articles, this one will refrain from the analysis, insight, inferences and comments that this author is noted for. Instead, that content is being provided exclusively on the IEEE ComSocSCV Discussion mail list. Instructions for IEEE members to join are at the bottom of www.comsocscv.org. We will not offer opinions here or…