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By: Clearwire Just Showed Off its Giant Spectrum Advantage: Tech News «

Clearwire Just Showed Off its Giant Spectrum Advantage: Tech News « — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:07:10 +0000

[...] are deploying LTE in 10×10 MHz blocks, which limits the capacity and will likely lead to pricing schemes that constrain use by making usage expensive. For Clearwire, the additional spectrum means faster speeds or more [...]

By: Verizon to Shift Usage Forecasting to Consumers With Tiered LTE Pricing

Verizon to Shift Usage Forecasting to Consumers With Tiered LTE Pricing — Fri, 28 May 2010 16:31:03 +0000

[...] the form of fatter margins. As Chetan Sharma, a wireless industry consultant and GigaOM Pro analyst explains: “LTE will help force costs down 60 percent on a per-megabyte basis, but usage might go up by [...]

By: Pulse on Techs » Mobile Broadband: You’re Gonna Pay for the Convenience

Pulse on Techs » Mobile Broadband: You’re Gonna Pay for the Convenience — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:15:14 +0000

[...] what they want to hear. But Sandvine’s data also paints a very clear picture (one we’ve been painting for at least a year) about the economics of mobile broadband demand and use (GigaOM Pro). From its [...]

By: Mobile Broadband: You’re Gonna Pay for the Convenience – GigaOM

Mobile Broadband: You’re Gonna Pay for the Convenience – GigaOM — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:47:50 +0000

By: Verizon’s Affair With Wi-Fi Heats Up – GigaOM

Verizon’s Affair With Wi-Fi Heats Up – GigaOM — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:22:52 +0000

[...] Wireless. And it allows Verizon to better meet the demands of the data card users that account for a disproportionately massive amount of traffic on mobile networks. That offloading will be crucial as Verizon’s data traffic ramps up thanks [...]

By: Femtocell market update for week of 30 November 2009 « 3G In The Home

Femtocell market update for week of 30 November 2009 « 3G In The Home — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:07:34 +0000

[...] when the network is congested (for an extra €49 per month). This is the kind of thing analysts have been predicting, as the business model for flat-rate mobile data increasingly fails to support adequate performance [...]

By: CTIA: Apples and Oranges Revisited

CTIA: Apples and Oranges Revisited — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:12:37 +0000

[...] What Will Carriers Do When the Data Gravy Train Derails? (gigaom.com) [...]

By: What’s Behind T-Mobile USA Big Bet on Google Phones

What’s Behind T-Mobile USA Big Bet on Google Phones — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:24:03 +0000

[...] for the longest time offered only one 3G phone of note — the G1 Google Phone. As a result, it has been slow to get on the data gravy train. Data services revenue (as defined in Notes 1 and 8 to the Selected Data, below) was $990 million [...]

By: Will P2P Soon Be the Scourge of Mobile Networks?

Will P2P Soon Be the Scourge of Mobile Networks? — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:48:38 +0000

[...] boost revenue or slow looming competition from Internet video. Now cellular operators, faced with growing traffic on their mobile broadband networks, are paying closer attention to P2P file-sharing done on their [...]

By: McGuire’s Law » Blog Archive » Observations: Carriers - July 20, 2009

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:54:39 +0000

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By: Femtocell market update for week of 13 July 2009 « 3G In The Home

Femtocell market update for week of 13 July 2009 « 3G In The Home — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:21:03 +0000

[...] Chetan Sharma predicts usage based pricing for mobile data. [...]

By: T-Mobile Wants to Give MyFaves a Social Boost

T-Mobile Wants to Give MyFaves a Social Boost — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:02:17 +0000

[...] For now the carriers are riding this data gravy train, but they better start thinking about the future. I think Brodman and his company are going down the right path of rethinking the whole communications experience and building devices that fit this fast-changing world. [...]

By: free market

free market — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:22:42 +0000

Wow, there are a bunch of socialists here. What makes you think that a government option would be better? Competition is what is needed for innovation and to keep things affordable. I just recently dumped TWC for Verizo fios as I was fed up with the service (not as fast as promised). If the government provided my internet, what could I do in a similar situation?

As for pricing, if your neigbor is hosting a website or uploading massive amounts of data for torrents or anything of the sort; while you merely surf the web, check email and download the occational song, why should you pay the same amount? He is causing way more stress on the infrastructure than you.

By: Mobile Broadband Will Trigger Global Innovation :

Mobile Broadband Will Trigger Global Innovation : — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:56:17 +0000

[...] T-Mobile USA, meanwhile, has indicated that average mobile data consumption among its customers has shot up to 3.7 megabytes per user, per month, from just a few kilobytes a couple years back. That incredible growth in traffic will have to be managed by carriers if they want to maintain their profits. [...]

By: Mobile Broadband Will Trigger Global Innovation

Mobile Broadband Will Trigger Global Innovation — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:48:45 +0000

[...] a few kilobytes a couple years back. That incredible growth in traffic will have to be managed by carriers if they want to maintain their profits. But while Sharma notes that the growth in mobile broadband speeds will lead to more data [...]

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