Verizon’s Clouded Thinking: Social Media is Not Customer or Media Relations

  Image via Wikipedia Verizon's Wireless needs a dose of reality. Using Twitter to tell the public that they are aware of the LTE outage this past week, is neither media relations nor public relations. It's hiding in plain sight. It's like a public company putting out news on a Friday afternoon, after the market … Read more

Verizon LTE-A Work In Progress

Image via Wikipedia So my Verizon LTE Samsung 4G LTE modem arrived today. Unlike my iPad2, the "need it now, want it all the time" feeling isn't quite here with the new way to "stay connected." While I have no "buyers remorse" my initial feelings are sorta like, this. "It's nice. It's faster than 3G. … Read more

AT&T Buys T-Mobile USA-Plays Defense and Gains Spectrum

In what has to be both a hedge on spectrum and a move to prevent anyone else from jumping up in class,AT&T has made a strategic move to acquire all of T-Mobile in the USA. What they get is similar wireless technology in GSM/HSPA/HSPA+ and LTE, plus they also get Wi-Fi that AT&T can use (or … Read more

Mobile Networks Are Just That

Image via Wikipedia Telappliant has a rather obvious poke at the misunderstanding of the way the mobile world of communications is going. It's no longer about voice. It's about IP based traffic and you don't need to be a genius to figure that out. What that means with the looming worldwide arrival of LTE is … Read more

VoIPWars – Bubley Throws It Down

I have been a friend of Dean Bubley's for quite a few years, and consider him one of the world's leading Blogalysts (an independent analyst who uses the blog format to share perspective, insight and opinion) This past week he took to task another respected analyst, Gabe Brown article, that surrounds VoLTE and IMS. Dean, … Read more