Now that the political dust has finally settled (it even made the news on the BBC) in my fair Commonwealth (for some reason, we're not a State), I can now get back to fully focusing on scouring the webosphere to see what people are saying about enterprise mobility. I was sent a link yesterday by a friend and colleague that I found quite interesting.
The author of the blog entry is someone whom I respect and find to be highly knowledgeable in the world of enterprise mobility. That said, I simply can not agree with his hypothesis.
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As most of you have probably seen, Ralph de la Vega, CEO of AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets eluded this week that his company is considering a tiered pricing model for data. Most people have been up in arms about this, saying that it's just a way for AT&T to not only squeeze more money out of its customers, but better cope with the fact that its network can't handle all the traffic that comes from the iPhone.
I'll say: "Ya...So what?"
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Hello from the 48th floor of the Marriott Marquis in Times Square. What a truly amazing view of the New York City skyline from this location. Today was an incredibly wonderful, albeit hectic day. While it was filled with both planned and unplanned meetings, I knew it was going to be a great day by the time I met with the participants of the opening keynote panel I was moderating at the Mobile Business Conference at Interop.
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There has been much speculation over the last couple of weeks about T-Mobile making a bid to buy out Sprint...especially after the news that combined, they lost over 500,000 customers in the last quarter.
The common wisdom has been that this would not be a good move for either company, primarily because of the fact that these two companies are on 1) two completely different technology platforms and more importantly 2) there technology roadmaps are divergent.
Call it a slow news week (I won't comment on "Bada Bing"), but this is something that I have actually been thinking about for some time. What if I played The Devil's Advocate and said it was reasonable and plausible? (how's that for a legal term)
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Ah, what a week off can do for the mind and body. While the beautiful Boston weather provided me an overwhelming amount of rain, I was able to get a couple of (very bad) rounds of golf in, as well as just catch up on a number of chores around the house. That, combined with the fact that I did not have to get up at the crack of dawn every day, was a very welcome concept. Now mind you, coming back to ~500 emails was less than pleasant, but it was certainly worth it.
So as I was getting my day going today, I stumbled upon this article on the BBC web site that struck a chord for me.
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Every so often I look back on my blog entries, as well as look at other news in the blogosphere of enterprise mobility and say to myself, now why didn't I think of "that?" Let me tell you briefly about a post that I never wrote a few months back when I was started looking at Cloud Computing and its impact on enterprise mobility.
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Well here we go. "Can you hear me now?" is going to take on a new meaning. They might even think about changing the line to "Can you see me now because I'm going so fast....just like The Flash." OK, maybe not THE catchiest tag line in the world (I never pretend to be an advertising genious), but you get the drift. Verizon Wireless' CTO, Dick Lynch, announced this week that his company was going to have LTE running by the end of 2009. I think I had a Keanu moment, where I just stopped and said "Whoa..."
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After months of challenges and changes in strategy, Sprint's XOHM service is now available in Baltimore. Congratulations to Sprint, Clearwire, Google and the rest of the companies that have pumped BILLIONS of dollars into this technology.
Does anyone (other than the companies above) really care at this point?
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Well here we go again. More consolidation in the world of US Mobility. Unless you live under a rock, you will have heard that Verizon Wireless has agreed to purchase Alltel for a mere $28.1 Billion - with a B. The breakdown is actually $5.9 Billion for assets and another $22.2 Billion in assumed debt. Jeez - unbelievable numbers. The deal will of course have to go under regulatory scrutiny and VZW will probably have to cede some assets where it will be considered "too dominant" in certain geographies. I think this last point is a little silly, but I digress. I actually think this news is a good thing and should hopefully create some more M&A activity.
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For some months now, we have known that Verizon Wireless, AT&T and presumably T-Mobile will be leveraging LTE for their 4G networks. I've written before that this creates a large problem for Sprint as it would be the odd one out choosing instead to deploy a 4G network based on WiMax. Well now, Alltel announced last week that it also plans on adopting LTE for its 4G network. Is WiMax completely doomed? Will Sprint see the writing on the wall?
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