http://www.thefinalmile.net/blog Wimax and other wireless related information. Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:45:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I haven't blogged on my own site in a while. My apologies for this. I do blog regularly on www.wimax.com and on www.wimax360.com for those who would like to see my more recent blogs. What I wanted to do today was catch up with some of my current thought on ... http://www.thefinalmile.net/blog/2008/04/25/musings-upon-the-state-of-broadband-wireless-in-the-us/ The recent announcement by Sprint and Clearwire of their joint collaboration to build out their combined spectrum assets with a WiMAX network seems to have not caught on with very much buzz it seems. I am more optimistic than some about this. Certainly, there have been criticisms of Sprint of late, ... http://www.thefinalmile.net/blog/2007/07/24/thoughts-on-the-sprint-clearwire-collaboration/ In almost all respects, the FCC made no changes whatsoever to its prior rulings on the 3.65 GHz spectrum. What it did, however, was clarify the rules around its "contention protocol" requirement, which are extremely important for both WiMAX equipment vendors and carriers potentially using this spectrum. The spectrum is ... http://www.thefinalmile.net/blog/2007/07/05/thoughts-on-the-365-ghz-band/ Hi. Everyone. I have a new podcast up on www.wimaxglobalnews.com where I interview Mr. Rodney Prescott, the CTO of New Zealand Broadband Wireless ISP, NATCOM. Natcom is a very interesting firm competing in what, in many ways, is still a monopoly telecommunications marketplace. Very interesting stuff and he is a ... http://www.thefinalmile.net/blog/2007/04/03/wimaxmobilecom-and-wimaxfastcom-are-up-for-sale/ Good morning everyone. I have a new website. My designer www.CubeCreativeDesign.com has done a terrific job if freshening up my look. As part of this new site, I plan to start adding scripts for my podcast www.wimaxglobalnews.com as I got several requests mainly from my listenergs who were non-native English ... http://www.thefinalmile.net/blog/2007/03/06/podcast-scripts-on-my-website/ Hello Everyone. I wanted to let you know that I am now podcasting again. My show www.wimaxglobalnews.com is live once again. I uploaded a new show last night. This week's topics include a summary of some of the top stories from 2006---at least in my opinion. I discussed the Sprint ... http://www.thefinalmile.net/blog/2007/03/06/new-wimax-global-news-podcast-up/ As we move into 2007 what will be the major trends for the broadband wireless industry? One trend I noticed last year when I was doing my annual survey of top broadband wireless providers was (anecdotally at least) an acceleration of consolidation. Companies are merging, being bought and sold and ... http://www.thefinalmile.net/blog/2007/01/24/2007-an-early-preview-what-is-hot/ I think that the Municipal wireless movement is clearly one of the biggest stories of all of 2006. The growth on the vendor side has been tremendous as has the movement by carriers to shift to address this market. To begin with I believe the market is not being driven ... http://www.thefinalmile.net/blog/2007/01/22/recapping-2006-part-2-the-muni-challenge/ Hi. Everyone. I am finally back blogging. My new website is (almost) finished and I thought it a good time to resume. I thought it would also be a good time for a series of recaps of all things wireless for this year and bring you up to date with ... http://www.thefinalmile.net/blog/2006/12/18/82/     Hi. I just got back from presenting a white paper at the WiMAX Forum meeting in San Diego. It was my first visit to a Forum event. It was also a great experience. I am working with the Applications Architecture Technical Working Group (AATG). This paper was a "best ... http://www.thefinalmile.net/blog/2006/07/19/back-from-wimax-forum-meeting/     Hello readers. Thank you for your patience with me over the past month or so. I've blogged none at all. My only excuse is I have been super busy. Lots has been going on of late though. Let me catch you up. I have started maintaining the ... http://www.thefinalmile.net/blog/2006/06/28/catching-up-from-the-past-month/     I am getting closer and closer to buying one of these little phones. A piece in CNET describes the new Treo 700p model from Palm that supports the faster EV-DO networks. This new model supports Bluetooth natively. If they will just finally add Wi-Fi capability one of ... http://www.thefinalmile.net/blog/2006/05/21/palm-releases-treo-700p-for-ev-do-networks/     Telephony Online reports on Qwest's natty little purchase of OnFiber Communications for $107 Million. The deal reportedly brings $60 Million in revenue and 23 metropolitan markets of all-optical-fiber network to the table. Qwest, is really ramping up. And frankly, as perhaps the only major RBOC carrier out that ... http://www.thefinalmile.net/blog/2006/05/19/qwest-buys-onfiber-communications/     An excellent article in The Wall Street Journal (suscription required) discusses government failures to deliver a wholesome spectrum policy to the marketplace. Some of the statistics cited are very revealing and interesting. The government's outlook towards spectrum as a resource to keep scarce (and pricey) is very ... http://www.thefinalmile.net/blog/2006/05/18/a-dearth-of-spectrum/     This rather controversial piece in Light Reading interviews Rad Data's Zohar Zisapel about his views on Fixed WiMax. To say the least his views are very critical. Mr. Zisapel is deservedly considered an entrepreneur of great renown. However, his wireless gear brand Radwin is working on Wi-Fi ... http://www.thefinalmile.net/blog/2006/05/17/rad-datas-zohar-zisapel-strongly-criticizes-fixed-wimax/     Another good piece in The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) about the just-announced partnership with Nokia and Google to deliver Google's voice product over Nokia's tablets device for WiFi hotspots. This device apparently has no cellular capability as yet. I am increasingly coming to believe that VoIP ... http://www.thefinalmile.net/blog/2006/05/15/nokia-and-google-partner-with-wi-fi-tablet-phone-service/     A chip company called Multigig, Inc. released information that it had created a new method to reduce the power consumption of silicon chips by reducing the power usage by the clock, which is constantly cycling across the chip and can consume over 50% of the entire power ... http://www.thefinalmile.net/blog/2006/05/15/innovative-new-chip-clock-saves-power/     Alltel and Sprint announced their intentions to ink a 10-Year two-way roaming agreement between the two parties. The agreement would be nationwide and include both voice and data services. The announcement didn't say whether or not the companies would cross-market services that don't duplicate in some markets. ... http://www.thefinalmile.net/blog/2006/05/12/alltel-and-sprint-plan-a-10-year-roaming-agreement/     There was a nice piece in the Houston Business Journal detailing Crown Castle's acquisition of Virginia based Mountain Union Telecom LLC. The $309 millon dollar deal set to close July 7, 2006, nets Crown Castle 468 completed tower sites and another 79 under construction. The annual revenue from ... http://www.thefinalmile.net/blog/2006/05/11/crown-castle-to-acquire-tower-developer/     Another good article in The Wall Street Journal by Amol Sharma discusses (subscription required) Sprint's drop in profit. A drop of 11% to be exact. The company spent a ton on marketing plus its customer base is shifting to less lucrative customers. More pre-paid for example. One ... http://www.thefinalmile.net/blog/2006/05/09/sprints-profit-falls/     I read a nice piece in the Wall Street Journal (subcription required) by Mark Heinzl and Shawn Young about the uptake going on with fiber due to high Internet traffic growth. Basically, all of the hedge bets companies made during the boom years of the 1990's are ... http://www.thefinalmile.net/blog/2006/05/09/spare-fiber-optic-is-filling-up/     I had a really good show at Broadband Wireless World in Vegas week before last. I almost did not go due to how much I had going on workwise (It is good to have work by the way). I haven't missed the show since I started ... http://www.thefinalmile.net/blog/2006/05/09/broadband-wireless-world-recap/      You may be wondering why I am harping so on this search technology. It doesn't have that much daily direct impact on broadband wireless for me. But search to me is what has driven the web for a long time. Google has been the only real rock ... http://www.thefinalmile.net/blog/2006/04/28/more-radical-search-engine-speculation/     I read a really good article in the Wall Street Journal from April 11th by Amy Schatz and Amol Sharma about the potential change by the FCC to a blind bidding process. WSJ requires a subscription. Here is a link to a different piece. This particular spectrum ... http://www.thefinalmile.net/blog/2006/04/28/fcc-auctions-going-to-blind-bidding/     If you will recall Monday I blogged about this stealth (sort of anyway) search company called Wireless 5th Dimensional Networking, Inc. Well the company's site says it was sold anonymously (one supposes privately). If you will recall too I thought the technology was really innovative. First, it is ... http://www.thefinalmile.net/blog/2006/04/26/radical-search-revisited/