GigaOM

Taken individually, the latest quarterly results for three of the top U.S. mobile operators look strong. Add in Sprint’s two consecutive quarters of net subscriber losses, however, and the picture looks substantially different. But this is just isn’t about Sprint. There is also something bigger going on here: a shortage of new subscribers.

When it comes to broadband economics, a new paradigm may be found in Amazon’s Kindle. The question now is to what degree will this trend accelerate as the first WiMAX and LTE networks come online?

As the U.S. immerses itself in election primaries, wireless service providers would do well to pay attention. There are a number of lessons that the sector — especially operators — can draw from successful political campaigns, specifically around microsegmentation, messaging and engagement.

Yahoo can become the jewel of Web 3.0. It already has strong, or at the very least interesting positions in numerous verticals. But it needs more of them, and it needs to thoroughly monetize them.

In the Internet’s relatively brief history, a lot of things that could be described as social networks have already come and gone. The past provides valuable insight when it comes to assessing the real value of social networks as businesses, as well as anticipating how they are likely to evolve in the future.

Bottlenecks have become a pervasive feature of our everyday, urban lives — diffusing them requires a detailed understanding of traffic patterns, be they human or transportation. And a ready-made source of data that could be used to analyze those patterns is already in our hands: mobile phone systems.