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2012: Wireless Year in Review

Quite a year, good old 2012. Lots of innovations, devices, wireless technology, mergers, policy making, booms and busts. Let’s review:

Here are some of my favorite stories of 2012:

Cell phones: iPhone5, Nexus4, Samsung S3, Nokia 920, Windows Phone 8, Apple Store Turns Four
Tablets: iPad3, iPad Mini, Nexus 7, Microsoft Surface, Kindle Fire HD
Infrastructure: Verizon’s LTE coverage, Dish Spectrum Approved, AT&T and 2.3 GHz, T-Mobile’s HSPA in PCS, China Mobile TD-LTE Launch, Google Fiber, Small Cells
Mergers: Sprint/Softband, T-Mobile/MetroPCS, ESRI Acquires Geoloqi, Cisco Buys Meraki for $1.2 Billion, Facebook/Instagram, Verizon Buys Hughes Telematics, Sprint Buying Clearwire
Regulation: FCC Okays 3.5 GHz, Verizon AWS Purchase Okayed, Battle Over Unlicensed Spectrum, White Spaces by Mid January, TV Auction Set for 2014, Universal Service Reform Passed, ITU Wraps Up: US Disappointed, Flying Cell Towers
Bluetooth/WiFi: Bluetooth LE, 802.11ac, Miracast, Ruckus at Olympics
Satellites: Lightsquared’s Failure, Broadband satellites from ViaSat and EchoStar, Inmarsat Global Xpress, CubeSats
R&D: Google Glass, Voice Translation, Telematics, Driverless Car, Microsoft Kinect, Platform as a Service, Interplanetary Internet, Curiosity Rover Lands on Mars
General: 6 Billion Mobile Subs!,1 Billion Smartphones!, Cellular: 1000x Increase Predicted, Top Ten Spectrum Stories, Samsung vs iPhone: What Evidence?, Stuxnet, Municipal Fiber

What do you think were the most interesting wireless stories of 2012?

Posted by Sam Churchill on Monday, December 31st, 2012 at 10:58 am .

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