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 […]
According to c|net, one of the questions asked of Senator Obama in today’s MySpace/MTV “dialogue” is MoveOn.org’s, “Would you make it a priority in your first year of office to reinstate Net Neutrality as the law of the land? And would you pledge to only appoint FCC commissioners that support open Internet principles like Net […]
Opponents of net neutrality (i.e., carriers) have been on the ropes for much of the year. When the Democrats took control of the U.S. Congress in January, legislating net neutrality was one of their first initiatives. There was a brief respite for the carriers in September when the U.S. Department of Justice issued […]
I was watching TV last night and I saw the Verizon commercial where the husband and wife suggest introducing their house’s landline “network” to the wife’s cell phone “network” - but of course they know each other already because the Verizon “network” is all one big happy family (cue the Verizon theme song…). This commercial reminded me […]
I hope everyone had a nice weekend! Last week I had the pleasure of going to Berlin for the Broadband World Forum, and while I was there predominantly for the IEC InfoVision Award ceremony (we were a finalist but, alas, not a winner), the show ended up being quite interesting. I attended some thought-provoking keynotes […]
On Friday, Bob Cringely posted a provocative column about the growth of carriers leveraging Wi-Fi hotspots saying, “These games are played over and over by communication service companies of all kinds, and at the heart of it all is a big lie — that bandwidth is scarce. Bandwidth is not scarce.” His argument […]
On Monday, the Yankee Group issued a press release whose first sentence claims “the hype surrounding Second Life doesn’t match its actual marketplace impact.” As c|net points out, the primary stumbling block isn’t Second Life’s challenging user interface or frustrating lag times, but its PC-centric mindset in a mobile world. Yankee Group goes […]
With AT&T and O2 talking up Wi-Fi for the iPhone and T-Mobile’s new HotSpot@Home service that allows you to make calls on your home’s Wi-Fi network, I’ve been wondering - why are cellular service providers suddenly pushing Wi-Fi/cellular integration? I mean, every call and data connection on Wi-Fi means less revenue for them (although T-Mobile is trying […]
The debacle that is the Apple iPhone/AT&T EDGE network marriage just continues to get worse. At this point, everyone is aware of the EDGE network problems and the fact that iPhone customers are not happy with the data service. Everyone is also aware that iPhone hackers have been flooding the Internet with iPhone […]
In the afterglow of DEMOfall 07, I’ve been thinking about an interesting trend in the types of innovation we’re seeing related to networks. At last winter’s DEMO 07, the “favorite” demonstrations were applications that required tremendous bandwidth and/or QoS from their supporting networks (e.g., Total Immersion, eJamming, etc.). Conversely, at last week’s DEMOfall […]
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