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Archive for March, 2007

Free Telecom Magazines

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 26th, 2007

How does DailyWireless keep up with wireless news and trends? It’s no mystery. We use the same newsreaders, search engines and blog news trackers that everyone else does.

One key advantage — we read LOTS of trade publications.

We LOVE trade publications. DailyWireless subscribes to more than a dozen. We also spend hours reading [...]

Bob Garfield’s Post-apocalyptic Media World

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 26th, 2007

Bob Garfield, pundit for Ad Age and NPR’s On The Media, smashed media complacency two years ago with his brilliant essay, The Chaos Scenario (MP-3)

What if TV as we know it were replaced by something really, really cool?
CHORUS: [SINGING] MEET GEORGE JETSON-
BOB GARFIELD: Let’s say it’s 2020. George’s job at Spacely Sprockets is gone, [...]

CTIA Pre Show

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 26th, 2007

CTIA WIRELESS 2007 (site map & Event Blog), runs March 27-29 in Orlando, Florida.
The wireless industry convention, the biggest in the United States, is open only to companies involved in the wireless industry. They expect tens of thousands of attendees, viewing over 400,000 square feet of exhibits, from over 100 countries, representing a $500 [...]

Vegas Unwired

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 26th, 2007

Cheetah Wireless Technologies (CWTI) and BelAir Networks have launched a WiFi mesh network along the Las Vegas Strip (map), including coverage inside and outside of the country’s largest hotels and casinos.
To cover Las Vegas casinos and hotels, some reaching over 30 floors, CWTI uses BelAir’s outdoor-in broadband wireless network solution. Upon completion, the wireless network [...]

Verizon’s $6B Smackdown

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 26th, 2007

Alcatel-Lucent today announced a three-year, US$6 billion deal to supply network equipment, software and services to Verizon Wireless.
With this agreement Alcatel-Lucent continues to be Verizon Wireless’ primary network infrastructure supplier and will continue to help grow Verizon Wireless’ already successful, existing portfolio of multimedia and data services.

Existing Alcatel-Lucent-supplied packet switches will be upgraded to [...]

Mobile Ad Delivery for Traffic.com

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 26th, 2007

Acuity Mobile, a provider of mobile ad delivery technology, announced today its EMAP technology has been selected for the embedded mobile advertising for Traffic.com, a Navteq company. Traffic.com provides traffic information to 50 Designated Market Areas (DMAs) encompassing 83 of the most traffic congested U.S. cities and was recently acquired by NAVTEQ, a leading [...]

FCC Firming Up 700MHz Rules?

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 25th, 2007

The FCC will set the rules for the 700 MHz auction, possibly as soon as next month, says the NY Times. Depending on that ruling, the spectrum could be used for voice services for cellular carriers, emergency responders, or for commercial high-speed broadband.

Among those trying to influence the outcome are three of the nation’s four [...]

Portland MetroFi Update

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 25th, 2007

DailyWireless editor Sam Churchill recently met with Logan Kleier, Project Manager, for Unwire Portland and two representatives from MetroFi, (Adrian Van Hafften, VP of Marketing and June Delaney, Director of Consumer Marketing).
The goal of the meeting was to bring DailyWireless readers up to speed on the Portland, Oregon, MetroFi roll out, what consumers should [...]

How To VideoBlog

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 23rd, 2007

Ericsson Pulls Plug on WiMAX

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 23rd, 2007

Unstrung reports that networking giant Ericsson is pulling the plug on WiMax development to concentrate on upgrading their 3G cellular technology.

The company confirmed on Thursday afternoon that it stopped internal WiMax development efforts at the end of last year and is instead relying on a reseller strategy for the technology. “Right now, we don’t work [...]