Category Archives: telecomWhen 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″ […]
You know, I hear this term Unified Communications all the time. It recently came up as I saw the press release of Jajah and CallWave partnering up to “make global communications easier for people and businesses to communicate and collaborate.”
The theory of having all your communication come through one inbox is appealing, no doubt. GrandCentral […]
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. […]
It’s that time of year when companies give away free calling during Christmas. Jajah is no exception. They are giving away one hour of free calling between 24 December 2007 at 12am GMT and 25 December 2007 at 11:59pm GMT. That’s two days to take advantage of this offer, so sign up and get calling!
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 […]
One thing I don’t do for a variety of reasons is attend any conferences and trade shows. Not a comment on the quality of the trade shows, but it’s generally not compatible with my current situation.
However, if I had to choose one to go to this year, it’d be eComm2008, which Lee Dryburgh created in […]
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 […]
Want to send a quick congratulations to the folks at Flat Planet Phone Company for being the top “voip reseller” search result on Google. As they say, it differs by region. However, it does show up in the first place (#5 result) on my search. Either way, it’s still a great victory for Moshe and […]
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 […]
We had a bit of snowfall here in the Seattle area on Saturday. It made getting around a little bit entertaining. My son decided to scrape what little snow he could up and made a tiny little snowman, which you can see at the right.
So without further ado, here’s some posts I penned in the […]
Man, oh man, I wrote a lot of stuff this week. Let’s get straight on with it:
Charge Your iPod With An Onion And Gatorage (From The Gadgets Weblog)
Use Your Nokia N95 As A Lightsaber (From The Gadgets Weblog)
Defensio Launches Comment Spam Filtering Service (From I Got Spam?!)
Skype 2.0 For Linux Adds Video (From The VoIP […]
I can’t remember the last time I willingly used any product of Yahoo’s aside from Flickr. Personally, I try and be a company man and use my employer’s offering in the space. So why do I care about Yahoo? Why does anyone care about Yahoo?
I got to thinking about this when I saw Andy Abramson’s […]
© 2007 The PhoneBoy Blog. Powered by Wordpress wearing MyJournal Hypereal by 
BlogoSquare
There are currently 1,709 posts extending over categories with loads upto 1,570 comments with valid XHTML and CSS.
