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  • A Tale of 2 Meetings: Mobile Telecom in Crisis

    1.  SVC Wireless March 10th Meeting: Mobile in Crisis- How to Survive and Thrive through the Economic Tsunami With the current credit crisis, economic meltdown, and stock market crash, both business and individuals are facing significant challenges: Big corporations are cutting cost and downsizing workforce while startups are struggling with shrinking market and drying capital…

  • 3G and LTE squeeze WiMAX- is the market window still open?

    Summary: Many pundits have declared the window of opportunity for WiMAX has closed.  Squeezed between he enhanced capability of 3G technologies (e.g. HSPA/HSPA+ for GSM) and accelerated LTE roll-outs, (notably Verizon Wireless) the claim is that WiMAX is DOA.  We disagree!  In particular, we believe there is a reasonable market for WiMAX fixed and nomadic/portable service…

  • Google (and Intel) write down Clearwire investment; Google optimistic about Android platform

    Google’s fourth quarter results were hurt by write downs related to investments in AOL and Clearwire. The Internet search leader also said it remained confident about the progress of its Android platform for mobile handsets. Google reported a net income of $382 million, down 68 percent from the $1.21 billion in the year-ago period, but…

  • Viodi View – 01/23/09

    Something is different this third week in January. No, I am not talking about the historic inauguration of the first U.S. President born in the 1960s, but I am referring to missing this week’s OPASTCO’s Winter Convention. Unfortunately, we did not get our act together and, consequently, did not produce ViodiTV at this OPASTCO Convention.…

  • Android: An Open Handset Alliance (OHA) Project

    Android promises to be the first complete, open and free mobile broadband platform. In this WCAI session, Google and Motorola described how Android will break down barriers to building innovative applications and thereby offer consumers a richer wireless experience. The main message was that the Android "open mobile ecosystem" will encourage software development of many…

  • Google’s Larry Page and FCC’s Kevin Martin Laud White Spaces for unlicensed BWA

    Google co-founder Larry Page was very encouraged about the FCC’s November 4th decision to open up white spaces (the unused portions of the new digital TV frequency bands- up to 700 MHz) for unlicensed Broadband Wireless Access (BWA). "White spaces are very important for the future of wireless broadband," Page said in his openning remarks.…