Wireless
TRAI makes the case for femtocells and GSM phones with WiFi support
The TRAI has figured out something that I felt was obvious, that 60% of all calls on mobile phones are made when the caller or the called person is inside a building.
The Hindu Business Line : Mobile phone calls within buildings account for 60%
According to estimates made by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of [...]
AT&T decides to wait for and invest in LTE
I shared this news item on my link blog earlier today:
Looks like AT&T is going to sit out the WiMAX deployment cycle and wait for Long Term Evolution (LTE) - the 4G equivalent of GSM. Engadget is linking to an article about this in Wireless Week and connecting this to the Sprint story on plans [...]
Lost amidst the hype around WiMAX, South Koreans are snubbing WiMAX/WiBro
I somehow missed this gem in TeleGeography's CommsUpdate (March 14, 2007) until just now:
WiMAX snubbed by users: CommsUpdate : TeleGeography Research
It appears there are only 1,057 subscribers to WiBro in all of South Korea! And SK Telecom's got about 14.3% market share while KT Corp has the remaining.
Why isn't this piece of news being analyzed [...]
Antenna overload in personal communication devices
Nick Jones at the Gartner blog brought up a very important issue regarding miniaturization of communication devices: How do we deal with the antenna overload?
Typical dual-mode 3G phones have at least these antennae:
3G antennas for 850, 1900 and 2100 MHz to support tri-band 3G
1800 and 900 MHz for the other two 2G frequencies
2.4 GHz - [...]
Steve Jobs announces the Apple phone – iphone?
Steve just announced the 4GB Apple iphone (?) at MacWorld today, with Cingular as the exclusive launch partner for the US. Looks like it won't be available until June 2007 in the US and it will be 2008 by the time it makes it here to Asia.
Both models have Quadband GSM, EDGE, Bluetooth and WiFi [...]
Opera Mini 3.0
I'm a few days late on this - Opera Mini was released on November 28, 2006...
I use Opera Mini on my RAZR V3 and its a great browser - much better than the built-in browser that Motorola provides. I've just upgraded after reading this news via OSNews - lets see how the new version is.
Opera [...]
DECT cordless phones in US market from Philips
No Snap or Crackle: A New Technology for Cordless Phones - New York Times
Its hilarious to see the NYTimes not checking their facts before writing this article... DECT has been around for at least a decade as a technology for cordless telephony. In fact, it has been used for much more. There are over a [...]
Each new generation takes tech for granted (& adopts it) while those even 5 years older have a hard time getting used to the same
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Kids today - LANs - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com
So what of today's youngsters, what do they see? One eight-year-old I came across has never seen a computer connected to anything other than a power outlet when charging.
Kids in each new generation just take certain things (especially technology [...]
NTT DoCoMo achieves 1Gbps downlink in 4G lab test
Wireless OFDM based tech in 4G field trials at DoCoMo
More on GigaBeam
Stealth Communications, an NYC internet gateway and VoIP service provider, will use GigaBeam’s wireless GigE technology.
Light Reading coverage on this topic: GigaBeam, Stealth Expand VOIP Services
Om Malik writes about it: Stealth, GigaBeam team on VoIP
It appears the primary reason for choosing GigaBeam is the advantage of bypassing local infrastructure and its significantly lower levels of [...]
GigE Network in the air over Manhattan
WiFi Networking News coverage on GigaBeam:
GigaBeam puts multi-gigabit-per-second wireless into lower Manhattan: Using a carrier-neutral interchange, GigaBeam is using point-to-point wireless gigabit connections in the 71-76 GHz and 81-86 GHz range. Prices weren't noted. The company plans to hit 10 Gbps in 2005....
[Wi-Fi Networking News]
You can read more about GigaBeam's technology here.
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WLAN monitoring and security
Here's an article discussing WLAN monitoring technology.
Over the last few months, AirMagnet is the second company (the first is Wibhu Technologies - I came across them in January 2004) I have come across that has a hardware & software based solution to deal with monitoring of Wireless LAN networks as well as offer security. [...]
The Year of WLAN Adoption?
There's some cautious optimism in the WLAN industry, as this could very well be the year of WLAN adoption in corporate environments and in industries that have no relation to IT. Yahoo! News has coverage on this here. Other news sites have had similar coverage over the last few weeks.
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