Talking for less just got easier in the USA. The spectrum swap and bi-lateral roaming agreement between Leap Wireless (Cricket) and Metro PCS, a value priced leader in mobile, means that the incumbent giants Verizon Wireless, Sprint, T-Mobile and AT&T now have to look over their shoulders at the two companies. While both have traditionally … Read more
Last week at Mobilize, global carrier Hutchison Whompoa, best known as mobile operator THREE in the UK and in other markets was present with a ranking executive. They also co-sponsored the post event reception along with client Boingo. Their presence in a USA conference about mobile intrigued me, so with a bit of digging around … Read more
The Times of London has the news on the new rates for Skype users who acquire the SkypePhone. The big news is now you’ll be able to call non-Skype users via Skype on the SkypePhone just like you can from Skype today on your PC. This is Huge…. With the kind of pricing that’s coming … Read more
Give it to pal Pat Phelan and his team of developers. They have built a global roaming based mobile operator solution that now gives just about anyone the ability to be their own mobile operator. What they is really good for companies and associations who have a team of global road warriors that need to … Read more
The New York Times reports that for the first time SMS (Texting) was more popular than talk. In the fourth quarter of 2007, American cellphone subscribers for the first time sent text messages more than they phoned, according to Nielsen Mobile. Since then, the average subscriber’s volume of text messages has shot upward by 64 … Read more
Sprint’s XOHM, is coming online in downtown Baltimore today. Both USA Today and the Wall Street Journal covered the story, with the WSJ’s Don Clark doing the more complete job at digging into what the opposition might be saying. In traditional media style, the story was either “it’s new” or “here are the challenges,” the … Read more
Lee Dryburgh has quietly begun to put the word out about eComm, perhaps the most important of all telecom conferences of the year ahead in 2009. The new web site is up, and while Lee is still pulling a lot of the pieces together, the one good thing is he’s moved to the original home … Read more
It’s logical to presume that the Samsung P270 may become the first 3G/Dual mode device in T-Mobile USA’s arsenal when the phone arrives in the USA. TMO already does UMA, they have a new 3G network launching and they need differentiation.
The last 16 hours or so have been surreal for me and ironic. My mom passed away, at the same time my flight from Newark to London took off. I found out shortly after landing from my wife, who was at the hospital when mom joined my late father in heaven. Helene’s first words were … Read more
Tom Keating of TMC writes up the Jazinga box. Unlike Tom, I’ve been using my box up until the latest round of home remodeling, and can only give it the highest form of compliments. It’s VoIPWatch approved. Now for the sake of transparency, we’ve been helping the leadership of Jazinga get their box out and … Read more
