The Viodi View
Overview: At long last, Sprint has confirmed it will be turning off of its WiMAX service on or around November 6th, 2015. That’s a little over 1 year for owners of WiMAX mobile devices (including laptops with WiMax cards/dongles) to switch to LTE . WiMAX mobile devices will still work in 3G mode after that, but one doesn’t buy […]
Overview: The annual Sprint Open Solutions conference is primarily for software developers to learn about Sprint’s partnerships and to stimulate creation of applications that will run on (smart) devices which access the Sprint network. While previous conferences focused more on the network itself (as an enabler of mobile devices and apps), this year’s event provided a […]
Part 1 of this article summarized the big picture view from IDC Directions 2012 as well as changes in enterprise IT and network infrastructure/ architecture. Mobility and next generation mobile network architecture’s are examined in this piece. Essential guidance from IDC Analyst Courtney Munroe’s presentation on Mobility and the Cloud: Cloud Applications and Traffic will […]
Tom Peters had it right some 20+ years ago when he suggested that the work force would be shifting away from a static, hierarchical structure to one shaped by dynamic teams that form out of a need and disband when the need goes away. As I recall, or maybe as I infer through the lens […]
The squabbles, break ups and make ups between Sprint and Clearwire have become worthy of a prime time soap opera. Sprint has been reselling Clearwire’s mobile WiMAX network (CLEAR) and offering its own branded “4G” smart phones along with a Samsung tablet that works on CLEAR and Sprint’s 3G network. But earlier this month, Sprint announced it wouldn’t be supporting […]