Comments on: 4GWE: Developers have the upper hand in 4G apps ecosystem http://www.muniwireless.com/2009/09/02/4gwe-developers-have-the-upper-hand-in-4g-apps-ecosystem/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=4gwe-developers-have-the-upper-hand-in-4g-apps-ecosystem Citywide WiFi, smart grid, enterprise wireless, public safety, mobile apps Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:38:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Larry http://www.muniwireless.com/2009/09/02/4gwe-developers-have-the-upper-hand-in-4g-apps-ecosystem/#comment-38978 Larry Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:15:28 +0000 http://www.muniwireless.com/?p=11463#comment-38978 Good timing to previous article: Local, wireless intelligent networks: Can we live without them? You are right. “It’s the application stupid”, not the network. The problem is that carriers and developers only direct their attention on business models to support the apps. To give you an example I focus on machine to machine intelligent wireless applications like collision detection and traffic congestion rerouting. Thousand of lives and billions of dollars could be saved each year in heath care and transportation costs buy deploying these technologies. So do we wait for the government or a carrier to put these apps in? We might be dead (literally) before that happens. This is not just a fight of the dumb pipe carriers and the app developers. The apps are endless in the local intelligent wireless Internet and sadly readily available. We need to put a priority list together to find both the quality of life and business models needed to support public/private 4G apps. This is where we can get the biggest bang for our buck and is where the real broadband stimulus resides. Good timing to previous article: Local, wireless intelligent networks: Can we live without them? You are right. “It’s the application stupid”, not the network. The problem is that carriers and developers only direct their attention on business models to support the apps.

To give you an example I focus on machine to machine intelligent wireless applications like collision detection and traffic congestion rerouting. Thousand of lives and billions of dollars could be saved each year in heath care and transportation costs buy deploying these technologies. So do we wait for the government or a carrier to put these apps in? We might be dead (literally) before that happens.

This is not just a fight of the dumb pipe carriers and the app developers. The apps are endless in the local intelligent wireless Internet and sadly readily available. We need to put a priority list together to find both the quality of life and business models needed to support public/private 4G apps. This is where we can get the biggest bang for our buck and is where the real broadband stimulus resides.

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