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  • WiMAX and LTE Go Separate Ways- No Merger Likely Any Time Soon

    The Bottom Line:  Brad Smith of Wireless Week said it best in his July by-lined article, "It won’t happen.  The harmonization of WiMAX and LTE, that is."   Please see: http://www.wirelessweek.com/Article-Marriage-WiMAX-LTE.aspx                           Sprint, which was one of the founding members of the NGMN in 2006, has recently quit that Alliance after it selected LTE as the 4G…

  • An Unhealthy Industry: Telecom reports indicate continued contraction in revenues and growth

    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…

  • Will accelerating Internet traffic growth produce a bandwidth famine? Is congestion slowing down your Internet experience?

    Yesterday, I read a very thought provoking article in Broadband Properties magazine (I have a print sub).  It stimulated my thinking on Internet bandwidth growth and network congestion. I have recently been keenly aware of how long it is taking some web pages to load and I can only attribute that to Internet congestion (probably caused…

  • Monitoring Goes Home

    One of the best things about the Connections Conference is the quantity and quality of primary research data presented by Parks Associates. Tricia Parks, Founder and CEO of Parks Associates, gave a speech titled, The Consumer Purchase Process – Evolution and Curved Roads, in which she provided an overview of some of their primary research regarding…

  • Maravedis-BWA Webinar: WiMAX Counts 1Q08 Market Survey

    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…

  • Google’s Trojan Horse Takes Another Step

    The announcement of Google’s Media Server, which allows a Windows PC to serve up video, images and music to UPnP enabled devices, is another move towards a Google OS. The Google Media Server requires the Google Desktop 5 or above. This could be another step towards a “Google Inside” type approach whereby a common appliance might serve…