Wow. From GigaOM and The Wall Street Journal this morning, the Spring/Clearwire WiMAX joint venture is on, and top cable operators are in on the fun. Comcast is adding more than $1 billion to the venture, Time Warner Cable is putting in $550 million and Bright House Networks is committed for $100 million. That doesn’t [...]
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As referenced yesterday, I sat down with a Motorola exec recently to get an update on the femtocell market. One of my big takeaways from the conversation was that the market varies widely from region to region. That shouldn’t be a surprise given the landscape of the mobile industry, but still the differences were far [...]
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I got fantastic input on femtocells the other day and am still looking for the time to write up everything I learned. As a teaser, I heard that every major operator in EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) is currently holding some kind of femtocell trial. North America is not on the same timeline, [...]
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Defining a cohort is far from an exact science, but describing generational behavior is still useful for analyzing broad trends. Much has been made, for example, of the buying power of Baby Boomers. And Gen X’ers are often lovingly referred to as the MTV generation. The latest cohort to make waves in [...]
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Here are some pre-show shots from CTIA. It’s not going to look this empty in a few hours. (Thanks, Steve)
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My good friend Dave Zatz is broadcasting with Qik from his cell phone at CTIA right now. Check out his live stuff and his video from the Motorola booth at Showstoppers.
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One of the Motorola news announcements I didn’t cover last week was the introduction of the company’s CDMA femtocell. Femtocells keep getting buzz, and the latest stats out of ABI Research suggest there will be 70 million femtocells in the world by 2012 and roughly 200 people using them. (That’s up from [...]
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Get ready for a flood of wireless news and analysis in the run-up to CTIA. Among the topics of discussion will be fierce debate on the current state of WiMAX, and in fact it’s begun already. I opened up TechMeme this morning and was greeted by the news that several cable companies are [...]
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Both US mobile broadband usage and TV viewing on the Internet have soared. In two entirely different articles today I read that:
Mobile broadband usage has gone up 154% in a year, and
NBC.com measured more than half a billion video streams on the Web in virtually the same time span.
This begs the [...]
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Info and pics continue to trickle in from the Mobile World Congress festivities. Check out some of the gorgeous photos after the jump showing Motorola’s LTE demos. There’s a great comparison shot of LTE video versus fixed broadband (much clearer than the shot I posted last week), and a photo that shows Motorola’s [...]
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