Me and My Verizon MiFi

I’ll admit, I’m a gadget guy, and the kind of person who just has to have the latest and greatest, then push the limits of it to the nth degree immediately upon purchase. I did that once with my Nissan 300zx back in 1995 when I bought my Z, getting to the 350 mile mark … Read more

Israel-Land of Innovation

I’m representing Vringo, one of the companies whose advisory boards I sit on next week at what is shaping up to be a very talent filled conference in Los Angeles. Dubbed, the Israel Conference, it is all about bringing the companies and technologies whom are both known and under the radar, which are looking to … Read more

Emerging Market Mobile Merger

The potential merger announced last last night Bharti Airtel of India and the MTN Group of South Africa may have shocked some folks, but not me. I’m a big believer that just like with cable television and telephony here in the USA we’re going to be seeing more and more consolidation in the mobile world. … Read more

Cellular VoIP? Seems Like It May Be Real

While I may be skeptical about a few other so called “data channel VoIP” that are being touted, this concept out of Israel and Syracuse, NY seems to fly. Based upon using unlicensed spectrum and deploying some kind of voice call continuity and roaming between WiFi hotspots the concept would appear to be plausible. In … Read more

Greed Kills

Esme Vos has a post earlier this week about what I am calling the 3G Choke Point on Muni Wireless. As a PolyNetwork carrier user I’ve seen what the greed of AT&T, and the lagging T-Mobile has done here in the USA with 3G data, and how the very conservative, but far more better managed … Read more