Category Archives: mobile carriersWhen I was looking for some information on Carterfone rules, I ran across this PDF from the CTIA about how the Carterfone rules should not apply to the wireless industry. I tend to disagree. Let me pick apart their talking points:
Requiring wireless networks to support any, generic device would erode the levels of service quality […]
I was thinking more about the difference between buying a bundle of minutes–at a fixed monthly cost–versus paying for minutes as you go. I’m trying to figure out why such a thing caught on here in North America, but doesn’t seem to have caught on so much elsewhere.
The only thing I can think of–speaking […]
A reader, whom I’ve been engaged in many private conversations with about how much the mobile operators here in the U.S. rip us off, sent me information about how much mobile phone service costs in Indonesia, along with some basics about how the service works. For the record, Indonesia is the fourth biggest country by […]
The CTIA–the industry association for wireless carriers here in the US–is spewing their lies creative interpretations of the truth again at the FCC in the form of ex parte communications. What else is new?
In their filing (warning, PDF link) they list 7 areas where the US mobile carriers excel compared to the other “top 10″ […]
Rico Mossesgeld over at The Smart PDA points to a Roughly Drafted piece on how the iPhone is scaring the Symbian folks because in the Q3 results for North America, the iPhone kicked butt over everyone except for Blackberry. Daniel Dilger is quick to dismiss how Symbian presents the numbers in a worldwide fashion because […]
I was catching up on my viewing of Heroes this evening when I noticed a rather obvious product placement for Sprint. The product placement doesn’t bother me so much, it’s the fact that anyone who knows anything about mobile phone networks would realize that this product placement is unrealistic.
Sprint uses CDMA technology to provide service. […]
Leo Blanco over at The Mobile Technology Weblog writes about a village in India where about 40 people have to walk 20km just to get some place with electricity in order to charge their phones!
For these people, their mobile phone truly is their lifeline. Without electricity or much other infrastructure in this village, the mobile […]
I have to say, I really like the idea of Femtocells. It remains to be seen how well they actually work in the real world, but it sounds like a sexy technology–a lot sexier than UMA.
Meanwhile, the folks at RadioFrame Networks have signed a pact with Nokia Siemens Networks to provide Femtocell gear that conforms […]
Gary Kim lets us know about an interesting development in the Indian mobile operator space. The infrastructure of the three mobile operators is being joined together as a separate entity that all three entities will own a stake in and lease capacity from. The selling of the service and the actual mobile service itself will […]
This video was done by Walt Mossberg of The Wall Street Journal in October, well before the recent announcements from Verizon and AT&T about “opening their networks.” Even if the carriers are going to open up and allow you to bring your own device, the reality is, it’s still outside of the realm of the […]
Have you ever come back from an international trip and seen your mobile phone bill? I have, and let me tell you, it’s not a pretty sight. It was rumored on one of my first trips for Nokia that I ran up a 1,000UKP phone bill! This was back in 1999, long before I knew […]
Well, so much for this list being shorter. That happens when you see topical gadgets and good cross-promotion opportunities.
Aside from The Mobile Technology Weblog being new to my weekly roundup, there’s also one new blog on the list this week I hadn’t talked about previously: Businesspundit. Creative Weblogging asked me to do a few posts […]
A few years ago, AT&T Wireless–back before it was purchased by Cingular and assimilated into AT&T–sold a device called the Ogo. The device was a huge flop, but it offered an interesting proposition: a data-only plan for under $20 a month, which included access to one IM service over SMS. Additional ones could be purchased […]
Leo Blanco at the Mobile Technology Weblog, one of the blogs I am helping to bring some traffic into, found some interesting numbers from Forrester about how mobile phone operators (in the US) compare to other industries in terms of overall customer experience:
Yup, wireless phone service is better than some industries like the cable company, […]
There was an article in the New York Times today about my employer’s desire to increase their market share numbers here in the United States. Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, pictured left, or OPK as we refer to him internally, was interviewed for this piece and is quoted a number of times.
This news did not go unnoticed by […]
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