We’ve got to get moving: FCC commissioner vs. DoD on freeing up government...
FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai wants government agencies to clear spectrum and auction it off to the mobile telecoms industry. Now. That puts him on a collision course with federal agencies, particularly...
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Gizmo updates from MobileCon
Escort’s macho Smokey and the Bandit-style crowd sourcing platform is finding its feminine side. Their flagship 9500 model is sporting a pearl white finish with pink trim, all in support of the Susan...
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Qualcomm’s consumer services business going to the dogs
Tagg is a mobile pet tracker and promising veterinary diagnostic tool, offered by Snaptracs, a Qualcomm subsidiary. The hardware costs $100, with ongoing service at $8 per month for the first pet and...
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RIM ends the game with Zip
Remember the Iomega Zip drive? Back when laptops had 80 meg hard drives and a gig was just a dream, the 100 MB Zip super floppy was hot. But Iomega couldn’t push it beyond 750 MB. I retired mine in...
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Mobile could claim half of online spending in 2013
“Fifty percent of e-commerce happens on mobile devices in 2013,” said Scott Raney, a partner at Redpoint Ventures, when asked to go out on a limb and predict next year’s big surprise in mobile telecoms...
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Mobile carriers’ broadband coverage claims challenged by ISPs
Availability maps submitted by mobile telephone carriers are a problem for local Internet companies trying to expand and improve broadband service in California’s central coast region. Representatives...
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Oh, you mean a Maxwell Smart home
“Chaos is an opportunity for people like me,” said Tom Kadlec, one of the founders of The Homeworks Group. They do the hard work of integrating and managing home automation systems for about a thousand...
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Cellular sites have no impact on property values
Noise level does not equate to economic impact. Cellular tower opponents talk a lot (including on their mobile phones – go figure) and can be extremely disruptive at public meetings. Not to mention the...
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FCC crowdsourcing mobile broadband measurements
Can y’all hear me now? Via Jim Warner, U.C. Santa Cruz network engineer and chair of the Central Coast Broadband Consortium’s technical expert group: the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will...
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New CPUC map eases the burden on CASF applicants
CPUC’s mobile broadband field testing results show lower-than-claimed performance and significant gaps. The latest California interactive broadband availability map is up, and it has some pleasant...
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Partisan shift in Congress could influence anti-trust reviews of T-Mobile’s...
The flip from a republican majority to a democratic one in the federal house of representatives has opened a window of opportunity for, among others, those opposed to T-Mobile’s planned takeover of...
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AT&T rep says 5G is only for infill in rural California, and she’s probably...
AT&T doesn’t plan to deploy 5G networks in rural California. According to AT&T staff lobbyist Alice Perez, small cell sites will be used for “infill” purposes in rural communities, to...
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5G smartphones, systems ready for 2019 exhibition season
It’s a lot like spring training. Mobile 5G service is moving into the “proof of concept” stage, according to a joint press release from Samsung and Verizon. They trotted out a design they intend to...
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AT&T’s theory of Evolution assumes its customers aren’t highly Evolved
AT&T subscribers will get 5G on their smartphones soon. No, not 5G service. Just a “5” and a “G” and a little bitty “E” at the top of their screens, where it now says “4G”. It’s a branding move,...
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Five consumer technology challenges will decide who owns the future
The innovation capital of Earth is Las Vegas for the coming week, as hundreds of thousands of technology makers and breakers, and buyers and sellers converge on the event formerly known as the...
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Eight essential characteristics of 5G networks defined by Verizon CEO
Hans Vestberg, Verizon’s CEO, did a rockstar, black t-shirt keynote at CES in Las Vegas yesterday. Vestberg took over the top spot at Verizon last year. As he often did in his former job as head of...
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T-Mobile-Sprint merger gets a hard look in California this week
California’s review of the proposed merger of T-Mobile and Sprint goes into high gear on Wednesday. The California Public Utilities Commission will hold a hearing to allow lawyers for the two...
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T-Mobile tries to make California merger case with soft engineering and hard...
T-Mobile and Sprint claim that if they are allowed to merge, then California will see “enormous public-interest benefits”. That’s what the companies told the California Public Utilities Commission in...
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T-Mobile’s merger with Sprint could get even closer scrutiny in California
Californian opponents of T-Mobile’s proposed takeover of Sprint want more hearings and another round of written evidence and rebuttals, before the California Public Utilities Commission moves ahead...
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T-Mobile, Sprint sandbag themselves as California’s merger review is bumped a...
A document dump by T-Mobile and Sprint backfired at the California Public Utilities Commission. The administrative law judge managing the commission’s review of the proposed merger of the two...
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