by Phillip Redman | January 30, 2013 | Comments Off
RIM had two big announcements today–it is changing its name to BlackBerry (and who didn’t sometimes call it that already ?) and it released its long awaited new smartphonse today, the touch-based Z10 and the keyboard equipped Q10. They are based completely on the QNX platform and makes BlackBerry (finally) competitive with the Apple iPhone and the best Android [...]
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by Phillip Redman | January 18, 2012 | Comments Off
Wireless technology really gets a bad rap. For all its incredible capabilities, connecting voice and data services at 65 MPH, delivering video in your hand, providing real-time interaction, wireless technology has become to known as a fickle, unreliabe connection. It may be true for a lot of what people encounter as general purpose use (WiFi [...]
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by Phillip Redman | December 2, 2011 | Comments Off
Today we have something from one of my colleagues, Sylvain Fabre, who has recently put together a collection of research on cellular 4G. Sylvain Fabre is a research director in the Carrier Network Infrastructure group of Gartner. 4G: The Next Frontier for Celluar Networks Recently, a committee of UK members of parliament criticized mobile operators for [...]
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by Phillip Redman | October 13, 2011 | Comments Off
It wasn’t quite a yawn, but there was far less outcry this week than there would have been two years ago since BlackBerry service was out for three days. As you probably know by now, a core switch failure led to intermittent delays and message delivery failures in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Backlog [...]
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by Phillip Redman | July 8, 2011 | Comments Off
About ten years ago, millions of Wi-Fi hotspots began their emergence to offer those with Wi-Fi-enabled devices wireless high-speed access in hotels, coffee shops and airports (to name a few). At that time, remotes access was supported mainly through an Ethernet hook-up or even a RJ11 jack into a wired telephone! This was just the [...]
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by Phillip Redman | March 30, 2011 | Comments Off
As I write this, I sit on a semi high-speed train running south from Boston through the Connecticut coastline towards the New York Metro area. It is the beginning of analyst briefing season. Like the greenish grass that emerges each Spring, most of the large technology vendors host groups of analysts to meet their executives [...]
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by Phillip Redman | June 14, 2010 | 2 Comments
Last week I spent a lot of time with user clients going over some of their main business issues relating to mobile networks and the enterprise. At each meeting, the most burning question was not related specifically to technology, but how to manage the ever expanding number of mobile and wireless platforms and services. In [...]
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by Phillip Redman | May 11, 2010 | Comments Off
One of the more common questions I get is how to reduce the cost for international roaming. Though roaming impacts a smaller percentage of U.S. users, the cost of international roaming is the highest per user cellular cost for most companies. Voice rates run above US$.99 per minute and data costs can be above US$2.00 [...]
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by Phillip Redman | April 7, 2010 | 2 Comments
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent United States government agency.The FCC was established by the Communications Act of 1934 and is charged with regulating interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable. The FCC’s jurisdiction covers the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. possessions.–FCC Website The FCC recently [...]
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by Phillip Redman | January 15, 2010 | 1 Comment
Verizon Wireless (VZW) announced new and simplified mobile voice and data plans to begin Monday, January 18, that offer lower prices on unlimited voice and some data plans. As VZW feels more pressure in the market on pricing, weakening subscriber growth has motivated them to re-evaluate their pricing for wireless voice and data services. Unlimited [...]
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