Category: connectivity

11 April 2008

Comcast: Not A Member Of The Fat, Dumb Pipe Club

Filed under: connectivity, telecom - 11 Apr 2008

Comcast CorporationImage from Wikipedia

A couple of weeks ago, Comcast issued a press release saying they were going to “undertake a collaborative effort” to …

4 April 2008

Now Blogging On voip.com/blog

Monday, I got an email–out of the blue–from Leanne Tremblay, a.k.a. VoIPGirl. Apparently, she’s been busy with her other business to be blogging about VoIP. However, she did …

2 April 2008

CTIA Thinks Smart Pipes Are The Right Answer

Filed under: connectivity, mobile network operators - 02 Apr 2008

BTS (Base Transceiver Station).Image from Wikipedia

The folks at the CTIA–the asscociation, not the trade show–are …

22 March 2008

Even With Hotel Broadband, I Still Go EVDO

Filed under: business, connectivity, travel - 22 Mar 2008

I frequently hear the result of Andy Abramson’s lousy hotel broadband on KenRadio. While I usually know better than to try and do VoIP over my hotel broadband, the fact …

19 March 2008

Wave Broadband On An Acqusition Spree

Filed under: business, connectivity, entertainment, telecom - 19 Mar 2008

Wave BroadbandBack when I lived in Port Orchard, Wave Broadband was my cable company, at least after they took over from Charter Communications. The switchover was a bit rocky, but during …

14 March 2008

Why We Need To Go To IPv6. Now.

Filed under: connectivity, nokia - 14 Mar 2008

Bob Hinden is one smart dude who’s been around the block a few times. His name appears on several Internet RFCs. He currently works for Nokia–specifically, the part of Nokia I work for. He even threw up a slide showing …

27 January 2008

RingFree To Be Just That–Free

Filed under: apple, connectivity, voip - 27 Jan 2008

RingFreeI noticed an entry on the RingFree blog about how they are going to change their pricing model on Monday. The last sentence at the end got me thinking: “We think …

8 January 2008

Unified Communications Is A Pipe Dream

Filed under: connectivity, marketing, telecom, voip - 08 Jan 2008

Bog RollYou know, I hear this term Unified Communications all the time. It recently came up as I saw the press release of Jajah and CallWave partnering up to “make global communications …

7 January 2008

The Cost Of Twitter and Facebook

Filed under: blogging, connectivity, software - 07 Jan 2008

TwitterPat Phelan over at Cubic Telecom wrote a post about how much Twitter is costing businesses. As someone rightly pointed out in the comments, what’s the cost of any given thing to …

4 January 2008

Mobile WiMax Gets 80 Million Users By 2013

Filed under: connectivity - 04 Jan 2008

WiMaxSometimes I think these companies like Jupiter Research make these predictions just to boost their own sense of self-importance. Take the latest buzzword technology–in this case Mobile WiMax–come up with …

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