WholeThinking essays with keyword tag: wireless

Google-Verizon CoOpoly Galvanize Net Neutrality

By | August 19, 2010 | Raw Economics

If the intention of the Google-Verizon CoOpoly proposal was to provide a compromising way forward on Internet broadband policy, they may have gotten more than they bargained for as the Net Neutrality forces achieve a laser like focus. and turn their bright focus upon them. Verizon is no stranger to controversy, it strides confident across […]

Nokia Siemens Networks Lands LightSquared Deal

By | August 8, 2010 | Raw Economics, Visible Future

In one of the largest telecom gambles in United States history, LightSquared, backed by New York hedge fund Harbinger Capital Partners, has put pen to paper and contracted Nokia Siemens Networks to build their wireless broadband network. I first wrote of the LightSquared plan about two weeks ago in, “New Broadband Service Coming to United States, […]

Finally, WiFi Coming with New Apple iPhones in China

By | August 7, 2010 | Mobile Nature

It has been a Long March to put WiFi on the Apple  iPhones released in China, but starting next Monday, August 9, all new iPhones will be equipped with WiFi. Chinese regulators prevented WiFi abilities on mobile devices while authorities attempted to get their own WAPI standard adopted. A combination of Western patience and Chinese pragmatism […]

iPad International Data Plans, Will Cost Deflect User Acceptance?

By | July 31, 2010 | Mobile Nature

The acceptance or rejection of a device or user pattern is not just dependent on great industrial design, interface and user experience -price and availability can be just as much a part of user experience. A successful product acceptance and the subsequent user pattern change depends on many factors. None can be ignored if the […]

New Broadband Service Coming to United States, LightSquared

By | July 22, 2010 | Raw Economics, Visible Future

With a $7 billion investment, from hedge fund Harbinger Capital Partners, LightSquared has announced plans to build a coast-to-coast, wireless broadband network. A wholesale only service, based on a mix of terrestrial and satellite networks. They plan to have the system launched by late 2011 and cover 92% of the US by 2015. In a telecom era […]

iPhone in South Korea, Soon To Be In All Major Asian Markets

By | September 26, 2009 | Mobile Nature

The regulatory agency in charge of telecommunications in South Korean has approved Apple’s iPhone for entrance to the country. Two wireless carriers are now in negotiations with Apple to carry the iPhone: SK Telecom Co, Ltd. and KT Corporation. KT Corporation, a former state run monopoly, has 90% of the wireline telephone service and is the […]

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