In Monday’s FCC hearing [video link] on Comcast’s network management practices, Vuze, a video sharing Website that uses P2P technologies to enable near zero distribution costs, apparently argued that BitTorrent does not hog bandwidth. Real World IT’s George Ou responded with a wonderfully cogent and fact-based response that demonstrated BitTorrent was a gigantic upstream […]
Verizon Wireless has set March 19 as the date it will release the first version of its open network service specs. As c|net’s Marguerite Reardon points out, the pricing of the “Any Device, Any App” service is still up in the air (no pun intended):
“But even though Verizon appears to be embracing the network openness, […]
On Monday, Starbucks announced that it would switch providers for its ubiquitous Wi-Fi hotspots, replacing T-Mobile with AT&T. Starbucks also announced it will start providing two hours of free Wi-Fi for customers who buy coffee on their Starbucks purchase card as well as cheaper rates monthly (and after that two hour freebie). AT&T’s broadband customers […]
On Monday, BlackBerry users suffered another service outage. As the outage appears to have affected all wireless carriers, it sounds like another software glitch more than a network issue, but one quote from the AP’s article caught my eye:
“[Stuart] Gold . . . plans to ask his company to buy him a backup smart phone […]
iPhone users having problems with AT&T’s EDGE network at the biggest consumer electronics show in the U.S.?
I am shocked. Shocked, I say.
If only there was some sort of planning solution that could help carriers ensure that their networks can support their services . . .
Verizon Wireless has made a large footprint in the “Open” movement over the last week — first opening its network to outside devices and applications, then announcing its plan to use the LTE (Long Term Evolution) standard instead of UMB (ultramobile broadband), and Tuesday joining Google’s Open Handset Alliance. The company is positioning the OHA […]
I attended the TeleManagement Forum’s “Management World Americas” show in Dallas last week, and one of the more notable talks I sat in on was by Phil Dance, British Telecom’s CIO for technology. During his talk about BT’s 21CN migration, Phil noted that the rate of change in the industry continues to increase and […]
If you subscribe to the IEC’s newsletter, you may have noticed that a whitepaper I wrote with Sukant Mohapatra, “A Solution Framework for Next Generation Network Planning,” was featured in yesterday’s issue in the “Analyst Corner” section. The paper addresses the core issues associated with next-generation network planning, the challenges wireline service providers […]
Reading the news and analysis about Google’s Android and OHA announcements this week, I was reminded of a good rule of thumb in networking technology and telecom services - “simple wins, cheap wins, open wins.” An Android-based phone has all three - it’s easy to use (it’s Google), inexpensive (no or little embedded software […]
I was reading Om Malik’s blog yesterday, and came across the results of the annual show survey from CTIA last week. While reading through Om’s “Cliff’s Notes” of the report, one thing that struck me was that Average Revenue per User (ARPU) is just $49.94.
When you consider that your most basic wireless plan runs somewhere […]
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