In the world of startups, you hope one day for an exit. In the case of many at Boingo it’s been a long time coming. Pal Christian Gunning has been there since the beginning, from it’s days inside an incubator called eCompanies Wireless, the Sky Dayton/Jake Winebaum progeny that was a JV with Sprint in Passadena … Read more
Over the weekend the Telecom Law Monitor, a blog from the telecom practice group of Washington D.C. based Kelly Drye caught my eye when I spied that MagicJack's sister/parent company, YMAX and AT&T were embroiled in a battle over, you guessed it. MONEY. For a long time many observers were trying to figure out just how … Read more
Image via CrunchBase Today's announcement of Level3 buying GlobalCrossing is a big deal in telecom. Rather than rehash the very saliant points made by Stacey Higginbotham of GigaOm let me go into some analysis: Level3 picks up a ton of similar technology based capacity and routes for their network. Thus customers who have been using both Level3 … Read more
If AT&T offers more bars in more places, T-Mobile is the mobile operator with more speed in more places. As of today they have added more markets to their "4G" network bringing it to 10 more markets, which means they estimate that their "4G" network now reaches 167 markets and more than 200 million people nationwide in … Read more
I was in Denver in 1988 working for the Denver Nuggets. US West was the telco and a few years later they became Qwest. The company had a lot of vision and big ideas. Of the major telcos back then Qwest with their CyberCenters and fiber network that was built out along side the same … Read more
Image via Wikipedia Sprint, the nations third mobile operator in size, but the company that has always been first in mobile and network innovation, has broken ranks with the rest of the mobile operators and embraced the concept of the Over the Top play with Google Voice. While the news will likely get overshadowed by … Read more
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
Today, hundreds of thousands of iPad2s will be sold in all kinds of flavors. WiFi only, WiFi + 3G on AT&T or WiFi + EVDO/3G from Verizon. And like many people who are somewhat frustrated with their experience on AT&T in some markets in the USA, there will be some thought given to buying a … Read more
Image via Wikipedia I like Dean Bubley's quick analysis (with more to come) on Cisco's just released data on mobile data. The reason-he's cutting through the b.s. and calling it as he sees it. As a former DataMonitor analyst in his past, numbers form the basis of all he, and most analysts really do. The … Read more
