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Here is a white paper from RIM called Employee Owned Smartphones about new strategies and policies that IT managements are using to deal with employees bringing their own smartphones to work. It’s no longer feasible for an IT department, regardless of company size, to ignore the smartphone push from employees. IT management must determine ways [...]
One thing to think about as you consider that shiny new 4G phone purchase — if you are looking at the snazzy new LTE devices from Verizon Wireless or the upcoming ones being promised for later this year from AT&T, get used to the fact that your data service won’t “roam” when you are outside [...]
If you live near the Boston Common or go there to enjoy the lovely spring weather, you’ll soon find free Wi-Fi in the park. The service is provided by the Boston Dept of Innovation and Technology who have hired Anaptyx (based in Watertown, MA) to set up and run the network. It remains to be [...]
Choosing an Enterprise-Class Wireless Operating System is a white paper that compares the attributes of three mobile operating systems: the BlackBerry OS from Research in Motion, the iPhone OS from Apple, and the Windows Mobile OS from Microsoft. Security considerations remain the single biggest limitation to more aggressive expansion of wireless device usage in many enterprises. In selecting [...]
Charlotte, N.C., along with six other smaller cities, are the latest locales to receive Verizon’s high-speed 4G LTE wireless network service, according to a Verizon announcement. The new markets join the 38 cities that had LTE when Verizon launched commercial services back in December, along with approximately 60 major airport sites. While Verizon already has most of [...]
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced support for telecommunications projects in seven states (Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, North Dakota, Montana and Oklahome) to improve broadband service to rural residents and businesses. “Investment in broadband technology will create jobs across the country and expand opportunities for millions of Americans. Broadband provides the opportunity for rural Americans to [...]
Will Verizon Wireless be the U.S. 4G market leader before the end of the year? It certainly looks that way if Big Red can keep up the pace from its just-announced first fiscal quarter, which saw Verizon add 500,000 subscribers for its Long Term Evolution (LTE) 4G network. According to Verizon that number includes 260,000 [...]
We’ll have more on the news later but for Clearwire it appears the next chapter of company history starts today with the announcement of a definitive agreement with majority owner Sprint gives Clearwire a minimum of $1 billion over the next two years. The (finally!) reworked deal resolves the biggest contention between the partners, namely the [...]
WISPs are starting to get a little recognition with Obama’s new initiative to provide more funding and loans for Rural Broadband. He announced a new initiative to take back more bandwidth below 1GHz and auction it off. Then he came up with the brilliant idea to use those funds to pay for a real public [...]
Nellie Kroes, telecoms commissioner for the European Union, stated in an interview that European mobile operators are essentially ripping off people by charging data roaming prices that are significantly higher than the cost of providing the service. She explains that operators get away with high margins because there is no competition in the data roaming [...]
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