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WiMax discourse from Mr Operator coming shortly

Monday, September 1st, 2008

We’ve a huge, huge piece on WiMax coming from Mr Operator. Suffice to say, he is not impressed.

Some highlights I plucked from his piece this morning:

  • “Over at Intel, someone else (possibly at the same long lunch) piped up and said “Great idea guys, here’s several Billion dollars, hop to it”. And lo, the WiMax hype machine was born.”
  • “But there’s a rather pesky technical fly in the WiMax salesman’s snakeoil.”
  • “Moving on to the myth that WiMax provides better ‘coverage’ than 3G systems.”
  • “And at currently allocated frequencies, you’ll be building 3-4 times the number of sites.”

We’re aiming to publish on Tuesday.

There’s gonna be fireworks.

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Obama’s VP text = an extra $118m for US operators?

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

So reckons Scott M. Fulton of BetaNews.

If Sprint’s early estimates are accurate and if they’re reflective of other carriers’ traffic on the day Sen. Barack Obama announced his running mate, the resulting flow of text message traffic on the nation’s networks could theoretically have generated more than $118 million in extra revenue for the nation’s cell phone carriers.

His maths are sound — on the basis that people are being charged for their texts.? If you’re sat around on an unlimited plan then there’s limited additional revenue for the operators.

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