by Phillip Redman | September 28, 2010 | Comments Off
I get asked a lot about taxes. Though I am not a CPA, and I don’t play one at work, many IT managers were worried and asked me about the tax implications of personal cell phone usage on a business-paid phone (see my blog entry last year from June 18, 2009). Leglislation to remove this [...]
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Category: cellular Enterprise IT mobile phones Regulation Tags:
by Phillip Redman | July 8, 2010 | 1 Comment
I first started working in the wireless market over 15 years ago. The economy and the interest in wireless has clearly expanded since then–which is obvious. But what isn’t as obvious is that practices and business decisions that may make sense in another industry–computing or software–don’t stand a chance of succeeding in the wireless world–because [...]
Category: cellular Enterprise IT mobile phones Technology Tags: Apple, RIM, Smartphone, wireless
by Phillip Redman | June 30, 2010 | 2 Comments
I signed up for Google Voice for my mobile phone about a month ago. There are a few options including unifying numbers from several phones, but for now I chose to try the voicemail system. In theory, my unanswered calls are forwarded to Google where they would transcribe the voicemail message, then send them to [...]
Category: cellular Google Technology Unified Communications Tags: Google Voice, Voice Recognition
by Phillip Redman | June 16, 2010 | 1 Comment
Think it’s going to be a cool, quiet summer? Think again! The FCC is turning up the heat early. The tentative agenda for its June 17 open meeting includes a formal Notice of Inquiry (NOI) related to the FCC’s authority over broadband services. Among the NOI’s questions: whether the current Title I (information service) classification [...]
Category: cellular Networks Regulation Technology Tags: FCC, Internet, Network, Regulation
by Phillip Redman | December 11, 2009 | 1 Comment
“Are these the shadows of the things that Will be, or are they shadows of things that May be, only?” It’s one of my favorite moments in Dickens’, “A Christmas Carol” from one of my favorite stories. It is a moment of sheer terror in the dread of what can come, but also one of [...]
Category: cellular FCC mobile phones Policy Regulation wireless carriers Tags:
by Phillip Redman | October 21, 2009 | Comments Off
This week is our annual Fall Symposium in Orlando and if that’s not breaking news enough (OK–any large meeting this year is news) then we also like to make some tech announcements. One of the bigger ones this year is that IT spending in 2010 is likely to grow 3.3% versus a 5.2% decline we [...]
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Category: AT&T cellular Enterprise IT Green IT Technology Uncategorized Tags: Top 10
by Phillip Redman | September 22, 2009 | 1 Comment
Looks like the FCC, in the next month, is going to mandate net neutrality to all types of Internet access, including cellular networks. In his first major policy speech, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski proposed new rules including that, “the Internet remains an unfettered platform. . . ” meaning service providers will soon be restricted in [...]
Category: cellular Economy FCC Policy Regulation wireless carriers Tags: cellular, FCC, net neutrality, wireless
by Phillip Redman | September 11, 2009 | Comments Off
This week, AT&T announced its plans to allow customers to call a predefined group of numbers, both in and out of the AT&T network where the call won’t count against their buckets of minutes. Called the “A List,” this was in response the Verizon Wireless’s adoption of the “Friends & Family” program earlier this year [...]
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by Phillip Redman | June 18, 2009 | Comments Off
In a move that all companies should be happy about, President Obama, via a statement posted on its Website by IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman, has asked Congress to repeal a law that currently taxes personal use of corporate paid cellular phone usage. If you think that sentence is confusing, you should take a look at [...]
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Category: cellular cost optimization mobility management Tags: cellular, tax, TCO
by Phillip Redman | May 13, 2009 | Comments Off
Last week I was in the nation’s capital and was doing some briefings and meetings with some pretty super secret groups. Probably most of the technology I talked about was something they had invented or perfected years ago. That far ahead. In one organization, all wireless devices were banned, for security sake. Any mobile phones brought in [...]
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Category: cellular mobile phones Tags: Mobile Life
