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Fear and Loathing Versioning


Which is scarier?  Discuss

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• web 2.0
• hype
• fear
• media

8/24/2006 5:38 PM permalink | 3 comments | Add Comment | Email To A Friend

27 Mobile Network Operators Quit CDMA

The GSA (Global mobile Suppliers Association) has updated a report today listing which MNOs are upgrading their networks to W-CDMA that were previously CDMA networks.   The report, CDMA to GSM/W-CDMA Migration, includes the following table with an update stating that 2 other operators in India have stated they will switch or are investigating the change.

GSM constitutes 81% of the mobile network market worldwide, and with the options of HSDPA (3.5) and HSUPA (3.75) in the upgrade path it is likely that other operators will consider this change.

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• CDMA
• GSM
• W-CDMA
• mobile technology
• mobile operators

8/7/2006 12:35 PM permalink | 3 comments | Add Comment | Email To A Friend

Mo List

Derrick Oien and Shawn Conahan have established a new mail list called Mo List for open discussions on the mobile industry for anyone interested.  The model they reference is the famous Pho List of times gone by.

 

Derrick describes the goal for the group this way.

It is our hope that we can get some of the various characters, players and geniuses of the mobile world to get together and have some open conversations. And maybe there will be some good heated discussions. And maybe we can get Russell Beattie to sign up so he may occasionally opine on all things mobile since he isn't blogging anymore. At any rate, come on in and check it out. You can always unsubscribe.

And Shawn assures:

All we need is a mobile industry mailing list. There are some closed lists and some blogs, but no open and free forum to discuss the mobile industry. So we registered a URL and set one up. It has nothing to do with our company and we have no agenda other than to create a forum because nobody else has done so. It is not limited to a particular topic or group or whatever. It is completely open and everyone who has an interest in the mobile space is invited.

There are some mobile industry forums and mail lists that I am subscribed to, but they tend to break along regional lines.  For example, the Keitai List is fairly active, but narrow.  The Oxford Mobile Forum supports lively exchanges, but it's trapped on a web based platform and not easy to access from my phone email client.

 

I'm going to send this out to the mobilejones mail list, so if you receive this announcement/request twice, I beg your pardon.  Given that some active mobilists or mobilistas share and contribute we could create a valuable resource for each other.  I look forward to the experiment.

To subscribe, send an email to mo-subscribe@mobilista.net

Derrick's description of the Mo List

Shawn's description of the Mo List

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• mobile industry
• maillist
• mobile discussion
• Mo List

8/3/2006 3:29 AM permalink | 0 comments | Add Comment | Email To A Friend

All Aboard the WiMAX Train

 

 

Caltrain in Silicon Valley has completed a trial of providing broadband wireless internet connectivity to commuters between the Milbrae and Palo Alto stations.

 

``For some time Caltrain has been looking for a way to provide uninterrupted high-speed wireless access for its passengers,'' said Randy Rudolph, director of information technology and telecommunications, Caltrain. ``With Nomad's cutting edge WiMAX-based technology and the successful trial completion, we can now move forward with plans to implement a wireless network along the entire rail mainline.''

Nomad is a UK company which deployed WiMAX on behalf of T-Mobile on  Southern's  Brighton Express, the 60 mile line from London to Brighton, last year.  There's no information on the cost of the network or it's operation, Nomad did reveal that while WiMAX is intended to provide coverage for tens of miles that providing access to a target moving at speeds up to 100 mph requires a base station about every mile, or so.

 

Funding is being sought to complete deployment of the network to supply Caltrain's 350,000 daily passengers broadband connectivity with access speeds up to 32Mbs.  The connection is synchronous which means that the high speeds are both uplink and downlink.  Makes me wonder if Caltrain would consider adding a car for office space.

via AP Science & Technology

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• nomad
• WiMAX
• wireless broadband

8/2/2006 8:44 PM permalink | 1 comments | Add Comment | Email To A Friend

Phonescoop + YouTube = Webriffic Reviews

Example:  Sidekick III

 

 

Be sure to visit all of Phonescoop's videofide phone reviews at YouTube.

 

www.youtube.com/results?search=phonescoop&search_type=search_videos&search=Search


Excellent job, Eric!

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• reviews
• mobile phones
• social media
• phonescoop

7/23/2006 5:05 PM permalink | 0 comments | Add Comment | Email To A Friend

Mobile and Wireless Broadband Networks and Social Media

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of discussing mobile network capacity as it relates to social media with Martin Sauter.  Martin is a network consultant with Nortel Networks and author of the forth coming book, Communication Systems for the Mobile Information Society.  In this discussion, Martin and I focus on UMTS and HSDPA rather than EvDO. 

More recently, Sprint's new podcast effort brought together a group of US writers and journalists to discuss EvDO in the EvDO Roundtable.

These two podcasts together provide an interesting overview of the desires and demands of power users for mobile applications.  Notable was the statement from Lisa Pierce that her primary use of the mobile network is for laptop access.  Martin and I also surfaced the operator/subscriber conflict which is that subscribers want access to all the data, applications and services that are on the web while mobile, and yet the mobile operators are focused on delivering broadcast services and walled garden solutions.

There are a number of factors resulting from convergence that will continue to press the operator/subscriber conflict forward.  More powerful devices such as smartphones that are capable of running web servers, increasing demand for personal and peer media production, and additional radios providing access to alternate networks are pressures for which the incumbent mobile providers will need a response.

Martin and I also discussed the distruptive potential of muni wifi and WiMAX, in particular, mobile WiMAX.   What are your thoughts?  What will answer the unmet need of mobile subscribers if the mobile operators: Sprint, Verizon Wireless, Cingular, T-Mobile, Vodafone, etc., won't?

Podcasts

Martin Sauter and Mobile Jones

EvDO Roundtable, Lisa Pierce, Rafat Ali, Mike Ginsberg and Oliver Starr

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• mobile media
• mobile networks
• HSDPA
• EvDO
• podcast

7/19/2006 11:12 AM permalink | 0 comments | Add Comment | Email To A Friend