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Week in Review: Mobile World Congress and FCC Broadband Plans

Last week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona spurred the industry’s usual flurry of excitement over the latest mobile handsets. While I didn’t attend myself, it was interesting to watch the chatter around all sectors of the conference, especially this year’s focus on software. The mobile operating systems introduced, such as Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 Series and Symbian 3, prove [...]

The Smartphone Revolution Has Arrived…..

In 2010, all signs point to record numbers of consumers using mobile devices, from smartphones to e-readers. With Apple’s release of the iPad, it is clear that the applicability of the mobile device is going to continue to cross boundaries between personal and professional use, from email to video viewing and beyond.
CNET reported last week [...]

U.S. University Creates WiMAX Environment Model to Replicate

I was excited to see that several higher ed institutions have recently hopped on the WiMAX bandwagon – a logical implementation to help schools increase productivity and decrease wireless costs. According to a recent article on Wimax.com, Ball State University (BSU) spearheaded a wireless research and innovation initiative by partnering with our friends at Alvarion [...]

Stimulus Funding Begins to Roll Out

“One key to strengthening education, entrepreneurship, and innovation in communities.is to harness the full power of the Internet, and that means faster and more widely available broadband,” said President Barack Obama on September 21, 2009.  It’s great to see this vision continuing to move forward with great momentum. 
 
Yesterday, Vice President Joe Biden announced an [...]

Growing WiMAX

As many of you might have seen, this week saw the continued expansion of WiMAX technology across the country, through network launches by Clearwire, Towerstream and Time Warner.

Clearwire announced two new markets – Honolulu and Seattle.  As Kevin Fitchard from Telephony notes in an article, this marks the end of the company’s 2009 rollout and [...]

Going Green with the Cloud

Cloud computing is something we talk about a lot here in the Towerstream offices.  Although it’s not directly a part of our business, we’re very much aware of the future potential it offers our customers – and all businesses, in fact.  The technology will enable businesses to adopt intelligent online services that will benefit both [...]

A Streamlined Stimulus

Yesterday, the government announced that the broadband stimulus process would be shortened to two rounds of funding rather than the initially planned three.  According to a WSJ article by Amy Schatz, this was a “response to criticism from applicants and lawmakers that the program isn’t getting money out quickly enough.”
 
I am very pleased to [...]

Score One More for WiMAX – Clearwire Secures Additional Funding

The WSJ’s Jeffrey McCracken and Don Clark reported yesterday that Clearwire has secured an additional $1.5 billion in financing to build out its nationwide WiMAX network.
The article noted, “Sprint would invest $1 billion and its Clearwire joint venture partners, a group which includes Comcast Corp., Intel Corp, Time Warner Cable Inc. and Bright House [...]

On the Ground at SUPERCOMM

Hello from Chicago!  I’m at SUPERCOMM today and wanted to write a quick post between meetings on what I’ve seen and heard so far.
 
As with CTIA just a few weeks ago, net neutrality has been creating a lot of buzz on the show floor and in the headlines.  However, if CTIA was the FCC’s “soapbox” [...]

Putin WiMAX in Russia

Hello everyone and Happy Columbus Day.
 
There was some interesting WiMAX news recently out of Russia that I wanted to take a closer look at today.  According to FierceTelecom, Russian WiMAX carrier, Yota, said it will be offering WiMAX devices that can make VoIP calls and allow users to roam onto GSM networks when the user [...]


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