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  • Slightly Off the Beaten Path

    I remember clear as yesterday a conversation I had with an unassuming World War II veteran sometime in the late 1990s. We were at an Atlanta steakhouse during one of the many Supercomms (e.g. the predecessor to NXTcomm) in that fair city. He explained to me how he was part of a commissioning crew on a submarine…

  • WiMAX Patent Pool Planned by Cisco Systems Inc., Intel Corp., Samsung Electronics Co., Sprint Nextel Corp., Alcatel-Lucent and Clearwire

    Computerworld and the WSJ articles state that several WiMAX stakeholders will jointly license patents that cover WiMAX technology in an attempt to limit royalty rates that could deter customers from using it. The group of six, now known as the Open Patent Alliance (OPA), wants to make IPR costs predictable so that the WiMAX ecosystem will grow.…

  • Appointment for an On-Demand Webinar

    Avail Media is sponsoring and hosting a webinar regarding on-demand content on Thursday, June 12th at 2 PM EDT. Avail’s acquisition of ViewNow late last year made them the only supplier of both linear and on-demand content to providers of IPTV. What makes this webinar interesting is that Avail will be sharing the stage with one of…

  • 2nd Update on WiMAX in India article

    July 15, 2008 update:  More disputes threaten to delay India’s WiMAX goldrush, by Caroline Gabriel India is absolutely critical to the fortunes of WiMAX, and the level of uptake in the huge nation will help decide how prominent a position 802.16e takes in the overall wireless landscape in the next decade. There are many reasons…

  • Telecom Trendspotting; Alcatel-Lucent, Infineon, Reliance-MTN deal, DT investigation

    In the May 30, 2008 FT print edition there were several telecom articles worthy of comment and analysis :   Alcatel-Lucent bosses face rough reception http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/39b269dc-2de4-11dd-b92a-000077b07658.html   The troubled network equipment company wants to make a big move from equipment into services  Too much competition from Huaweii and ZTE along with slow growth in developed countries may be…

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