Comments on: Do We Really Need Smartphones? http://www.phoneboy.com/2074/do-we-really-need-smartphones VoIP, Mobile Phones, Telecom, and Technology Made Simple Fri, 16 May 2008 19:45:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: PhoneBoy http://www.phoneboy.com/2074/do-we-really-need-smartphones#comment-25568 PhoneBoy Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:49:53 +0000 http://www.phoneboy.com/2074/do-we-really-need-smartphones#comment-25568 @spg Sprint is in serious financial trouble. They need to do something to get out of the tailspin they're in. Clearwire isn't quite big enough to pull it off. Maybe Sprint needs to buy Clearwire so McCaw can come fix Sprint? :) @spg Sprint is in serious financial trouble. They need to do something to get out of the tailspin they’re in. Clearwire isn’t quite big enough to pull it off. Maybe Sprint needs to buy Clearwire so McCaw can come fix Sprint? :)

]]> By: spg http://www.phoneboy.com/2074/do-we-really-need-smartphones#comment-25566 spg Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:12:01 +0000 http://www.phoneboy.com/2074/do-we-really-need-smartphones#comment-25566 there is an an enormous amount of perfect spectrum(for all but the most rural areas); the problem is that it is the hands of two companies that are not showing the momentum needed: sprint and clearwire. they will eventually work together it was all planned that way long ago by Craig McCaw when he started putting away spectrum into a second company(clearwire) before the sale of nextel to sprint. recently there is talk of partnership with intel and google. i do not think that it will be ten years. and it may come first as DSL/Cable alternative before the technology shrinks down to phone size. if google wins the 700 mhz auction it could all happen much faster since that spectrum is more suited for early build out since it require less towers per same area; but in the end the sprint/clearwire batch of spectrum at 2.5 Ghz is only chunk big enough to really give lots of people lots of bandwidth. and lets not forget all the dark fiber that google is laying and how that will fit into the picture. there is an an enormous amount of perfect spectrum(for all but the most rural areas); the problem is that it is the hands of two companies that are not showing the momentum needed: sprint and clearwire. they will eventually work together it was all planned that way long ago by Craig McCaw when he started putting away spectrum into a second company(clearwire) before the sale of nextel to sprint. recently there is talk of partnership with intel and google. i do not think that it will be ten years. and it may come first as DSL/Cable alternative before the technology shrinks down to phone size. if google wins the 700 mhz auction it could all happen much faster since that spectrum is more suited for early build out since it require less towers per same area; but in the end the sprint/clearwire batch of spectrum at 2.5 Ghz is only chunk big enough to really give lots of people lots of bandwidth. and lets not forget all the dark fiber that google is laying and how that will fit into the picture.

]]> By: PhoneBoy http://www.phoneboy.com/2074/do-we-really-need-smartphones#comment-25547 PhoneBoy Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:36:10 +0000 http://www.phoneboy.com/2074/do-we-really-need-smartphones#comment-25547 Right now, the wireless technology isn't quite up to the same speed level as the wired solutions. Furthermore, the backend infrastructure of many of these carriers simply aren't able to handle the same speeds and feeds as a conventional wired ISP. Then there's the issue of spectrum. Is there enough to service everyone? With all these issues, I'd say we've got another decade or so before wireless internet connections overtake the wired ones. Right now, the wireless technology isn’t quite up to the same speed level as the wired solutions. Furthermore, the backend infrastructure of many of these carriers simply aren’t able to handle the same speeds and feeds as a conventional wired ISP. Then there’s the issue of spectrum. Is there enough to service everyone?

With all these issues, I’d say we’ve got another decade or so before wireless internet connections overtake the wired ones.

]]> By: spg http://www.phoneboy.com/2074/do-we-really-need-smartphones#comment-25538 spg Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:14:48 +0000 http://www.phoneboy.com/2074/do-we-really-need-smartphones#comment-25538 while there will be a future for smartphones we will learn that the big 'killer app' for mobile data will simply be internet access for laptops. this will consume the bulk of all bandwidth. but it will not catch in huge numbers until we have no more 'fair use policies' and pricing is only slightly above that of DSL/Cable. also it will be a replacement for DSL/Cable in many cases not a supplement. particularly among those people i know who are a little less tech minded(the overwhelming majority of society) it is accepted as fact that all of their internet access(at least on the consumer level; perhaps not in the office) will be wireless. eventually the telecoms will have no choice but to deliver what the consumers really demand. while there will be a future for smartphones we will learn that the big ‘killer app’ for mobile data will simply be internet access for laptops. this will consume the bulk of all bandwidth. but it will not catch in huge numbers until we have no more ‘fair use policies’ and pricing is only slightly above that of DSL/Cable. also it will be a replacement for DSL/Cable in many cases not a supplement. particularly among those people i know who are a little less tech minded(the overwhelming majority of society) it is accepted as fact that all of their internet access(at least on the consumer level; perhaps not in the office) will be wireless. eventually the telecoms will have no choice but to deliver what the consumers really demand.

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