Tag: service
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WiMAX in India- Whom do you believe: press or Indian government official?
Business Week called it "A WiMAX Breathrough in India– Tata Communications unveils an ambitious plan to become global leader in wireless broadband by launching the world’s largest commercial network On Mar. 4, India’s Tata Communications , an emerging broadband wireless service provider, announced the countrywide rollout of a commercial WiMax network in India, the largest…
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Hope Fading for Muni Wireless Networks- Is WiMAX the answer?
Saturday’s NY Times had a front page story describing the sorry state of Muni WiFi networks in the U.S. We long ago suspected that the business model was flawed, but we did not expect that the number of WiFi Access Points on light poles had to be so much larger then originally planned. What kind…
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The Virtual Living Room
Although the title of iHollywood’s conference this week was, the Digital Living Room, The Virtual Living Room would have an equally good description. A common theme throughout the show was the idea of portability and that consumers want to be able to consume entertainment on their own terms; wherever they are and whatever time it is. OK,…
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Internet Video – In One Place
It’s 11 AM on Tuesday, 3/18 and I still haven’t made it to the VON conference, but it looks like the really big news is from the show’s organizer, Jeff Pulver. He has co-founded a company, Prime Time Rewind, with Amit Shafrir which serves to aggregate network content that is already out available on the…
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MTA Public Service Award Winner – Gary Johnson
One of the best things about the MTA conference is seeing friends, old and new. One person I did not catch up with is Gary Johnson of Paul Bunyan Telephone. .He should have been there to accept his MTA Public Service Award. The irony is that the reason he was not there was the reason he…
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Has the 700 MHz Auction Been a Failure?
Abstract Promoted as the most important FCC auction in decades, it appears that the 700 MHz auction has been a failure on several fronts. We were promised private operator-public safety partnerships (for the D Block) along with a new nationwide wireless broadband network (Frontline Wireless’ initiative), open access for any device and any application (Google’s…