It looks like we’re going to see the concept of paying for access to the Internet for some apps that cut into the revenue of the service providers. Today, MoCoNews is reporting in the Washington Post that T-Mobile Germany is going to charge 9.95 Euros to allow VoIP services to be accessed by their customers. … Read more
Stacy @ GIGAOM has been keeping a watchful eye on the meandering ways of Time Warner Cable and their new user agreement. Basically she points out the flaws in it, giving it a well deserved thumbs down. Here’s who should be upset: Vonage Skype Gizmo5 and just about all the VoIP operators. Add in: UStream … Read more
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
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
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
Well it seems that just like in the gaming world, where Microsoft’s X Box Live has been racking up voice minutes for years, has seen Second Life roll out voice services to a point where 15 million minutes were consumed last year, at a rate of 700,000 users per month signing up. That’s faster than … Read more
MobileCrunch has broken a story exclusively about a new Nokia Tablet that runs something other than Symbian. In this case the reported number is 900, as a follow on to the Nokia N810. As someone who really enjoys the Nokia N810 and whom had the good fortune to trial a WiMax equipped model at the … Read more
Wired has a story about wireless Internet access, calling the questions as to why we have so little of it. It’s timely, especially in light of the nations (and likely the worlds) looming data network access crush wirelessly until fatter pipe access becomes more ubiquitous. Let’s start with some history. The mobile operators didn’t really … Read more
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
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
