JetBlue will introduce in early 2008 limited in-flight e-mail and Instant Messaging access, in partnership with Yahoo and RIM (the maker of BlackBerry phones). Passengers on JetBlue’s Wi-Fi equipped BetaBlue aircraft will be able to use their Wi-Fi-enabled laptops, smartphones, and BlackBerries to access customized version of Yahoo!® Mail and Yahoo!® Messenger named Yahoo! Mail [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Wireless category.
Fortune at the Bottom of the Indian Pyramid
India’s cellular market has more than 217 million customers and is adding eight million subscribers a month, making it the world’s fastest growing. With just 13% penetration of mobile subscribers, there’s still a lot more opportunity for wireless carriers and a lot of areas in India still don’t have cellular coverage. So far India’s mobile [...]
Indian Telecom is Looking Bright and Prosperous
The Indian telecom sector has undergone a major transformation since key policy reforms were initiated in the late 1980s when telecom equipment manufacturing was opened to the private sector, followed by the National Telecom Policies in 1994 and 1999. Historically, the telecom network in India was owned and managed by the government. It was considered [...]
Cablevision to bid in 700MHz Spectrum Auction
US cable operator Cablevision Systems has submitted paperwork to bid in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) spectrum auction in the 700MHz band in January 2008. Cablevision is the second Cable provider, after Cox communications, to get in on the wireless spectrum bandwagon. Cox will bid on its own, and Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Charter [...]
Top 10 wireless providers in the US
The US Wireless market is reaching maturity fast and market penetration or saturation levels of mobile devices are above 70%, a pretty high level. Of course, some European countries have market penetration rates of more than 100%, but that’s because some people have more than 1 mobile phone and these countries generally have smaller populations, [...]
Verizon Wireless selects LTE as 4th Generation Wireless Technology
Verizon Wireless has confirmed plans to use Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology as its 4th Generation (4G) technology. Today, Verizon Wireless uses CDMA2000 technology and most of the rest of the world (including Verizon Wireless’ European half-parent Vodafone Group Plc.) uses W-CDMA (also called UMTS) for 3G services. These two technologies are similar but are [...]
Will Amazon Kindle a better MVNO model?
The Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) business in the U.S. is hardly making any headlines these days. That’s because some of the biggest MVNO’s have lately kicked the bucket. First, there was Amp’d Mobile where the management engineered a spectacular demise by burning cash and providing service to those who didn’t pay (a cellular sub-prime [...]
Skype goes Cellular with the 3 SkypePhone
Skype and UK-based cellular service provider “3” have launched the 3 Skypephone, a mobile phone that allows users to make free Skype calls via the Internet. The 3 Skypephone could also send free Skype Instant Messages (IM). Right now, SkypeOut calls, SkypeIn calls, and voicemails are not available, but the phone makes conventional calls. The [...]
Qualcomm enables laptops with both EV-DO and HSPA
Qualcomm launched on a Wednesday a dual-3G chip with EV-DO and HSPA (High Speed Packet Access) for laptops. This will enable laptop makers to embed a WWAN chip that can handle any of the two most dominant cellular broadband technologies in the world. Currently, laptops are available with embedded chips that work with either AT&T’s [...]
Agito Networks seeks gold in fast WiFi/Cellular handoff
Fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) and the quest to make quick, smooth hand-offs between cellular and WiFi got a shot in the arm when Agito Networks formally launched this week. Agito Networks is founded in 2006 by Pejman Roshan (VeeP of marketing) and Timothy Olson (CTO), both formerly of Cisco’s Wireless Networking Business Unit, and backed by [...]
