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The Wall Street Journal this morning had a short article pointing out the somewhat obvious reasons why location-based services on cell phones are still not mainstream . It also helpfully pointed out that carriers were working on it. To recap, LBS services need three main things: a way to get location...
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I'd better hightail it to Washington, because a reshuffling of Congressional Committee members is poised to herald more regulation for telecommunications firms on issues ranging from rural access to Net Neutrality. Yesterday Rep. Henry Waxman ascended to the head of the House Committee on Energy...
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Meraki, the Google and Sequoia-backed startup that focuses on citywide Wi-Fi networks , hasn't let the demise of municipal Wi-Fi halt its efforts to make money or make the wireless network technology available in more places. It has scaled back considerably on its visions of open source, low-cost...
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Filed under: Google, Mobile, Meraki, Broadband, Cisco, GOOG, startups, juniper, Hitlines, CSCO, Quentanna, JNPR
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Nothing like a deep recession to get a company's management to focus. Carphone Warehouse, a major retail chain in Europe, is going to de-couple its broadband (telecom) business from its retail operations, according to various press reports. In the UK, spin-offs are called "de-mergers."...
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UPDATED : The recession won't cut too deeply into wireless data spending in the U.S. for now, according to data sent over last night by Chetan Sharma of Chetan Sharma Consulting. In his third-quarter wireless data report, Sharma concludes that the rise in the number of consumer smartphones over the...
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As the world moves to fourth generation wireless networks, lawyers for chip firms, handset makers and other technology firms are moving into their bargaining positions on patents related to the technology that enables the WiMAX and LTE networks. When deploying an in-depth technology protocol, such as...
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Over the years we have seen the gradual separation of phone numbers from geographical location. To date, Skype's SkypeIn service has been the best demonstration of this trend; even though I live and work just outside Toronto, Canada, I have a Palo Alto, Calif., SkypeIn number for historical family...
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Filed under: Mobile, Broadband, Voice, mobivox, Truphone, Web, Rod Ullens, Voxeo, Voxbone, iNum, +883, numbering service, Calliflower, Picks, OnState
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So o2 has currently been behind all the other networks when it came to mobile broadband, however it seems they may have pulled the cat out of the bag.
From Mobile Today; O2 is looking to accelerate sales of its mobile broadband by offering a money-back guarantee amid growing consumer uncertainty regarding...
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The troubles in telecom continue as Nokia Siemens Networks plans to cut an additional 1,300 employees in Finland and Germany as part of an overall restructuring. According to today's Wall Street Journal , the telecommunications equipment maker has cut about 6,000 workers and plans to lay off a total...
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[qi:048] As consumers use more data on their mobile phones, carriers want to know more about what consumers are doing with that data access. While the revenue from wireless data plans is rising to about a fifth or a fourth of carrier's wireless sales overall, a survey released today, and conducted...
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The Free Press on Friday filed a petition with the Federal Communication Commission asking the agency to create rules that would force Internet Service Providers to detail how they manage and route traffic, and what actual speeds are on their networks.
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A week before the Federal Communications Commission is set to vote on a proposal to turn over spectrum between the digital television channels for a wireless broadband service, singer/songwriter Dolly Parton has come out against the plan.
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Filed under: Motorola, Microsoft, fcc, Google, Mobile, Broadband, Google Earth, dell, MOT, MSFT, Hitlines, white spaces, Dolly Parton, NAB