If you think fixed wireless is dead, think again. Even though the first three fixed wireless companies Ò WinStar, Teligent and Advanced Radio Technologies -cost investors almost $10 billion in losses, the fixed wireless industry is getting a second wind. Using a blend of open-spectrum frequencies,… Read More »
Bio:Om is the founder of GigaOM Network, where he is currently a senior writer. He has worked as a senior writer for Forbes.com, Red Herring and Business 2.0. He is the author of Broadbandits: Inside the $750 Billion Telecom Heist. Om blogs about baseball, life and music on his personal blog, OmIs.Me. Follow him on Twitter @om
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If you think fixed wireless is dead, think again. Even though the first three fixed wireless companies Ò WinStar, Teligent and Advanced Radio Technologies -cost investors almost $10 billion in losses, the fixed wireless industry is getting a second wind. Using a blend of open-spectrum frequencies,… Read More »
Running with the bulls in telecom land By Om Malik Investors stocking up on telecom and networking stocks deserve to loose their shirts on their investments. Ignoring the telecom market fundamentals, over past six months, these so called professionals have plowed billions into this ÏleperÓ stocks, resulting in… Read More »
Wi-Fi is old news, and social networks are fully funded. So what’s next for Silicon Valley venture capitalists? How about Blogsphere? Expect a spate of announcements in coming months, and of course I have some juicy scoops here. Read on…. Silicon Valley venture capitalists believe in one… Read More »
For VCs, Blogging is the Next New Thing The Number Portability Tips for Consumers Shattered Glass is Ghetto “Fabulist” The Dawn of the MicroPubs Networks according to AT&T CTO Hossein Eslambolchi Four questions for Mario Mazzola, Cisco Systems Read More »
With November 24, 2003, around the corner, it is time for all of to get to know more about the highly anticipated Wireless Local Number Portability (WLNP). WLNP will allow wireless subscribers to change service providers within a given location while retaining the same phone… Read More »
With November 24, 2003, around the corner, it is time for all of to get to know more about the highly anticipated Wireless Local Number Portability (WLNP).ððWLNP will allow wireless subscribers to change service providers within a given location while retaining the same phone number.ððAs such,… Read More »
Let the Wi-Fi wars begin
As it happens in any market where there is too much competition, the industry folks start sniping at each other. The Wi-Fi chipset business is no different. Today Glen Fleishman and Nancy Gohring filed a very interesting piece for the PC World. According to the report,… Read More »
Broadband prices swooning
It might not seem so but apparently the prices of Broadband, especially DSL are swooning world wide, according to data collected by Point Topic, a research firm. This should be good news, because the number of DSL subscribers is going to rise sharply, up to about… Read More »
StarBand to exit bankruptcy
Anyone remember StarBand, the much vaunted two-way high speed satellite based Internet service? Well it is coming out of bankruptcy, according to TelecomWeb. StarBand had filed for bankruptcy in May 2002 and if all goes well the company could be out of bankruptcy protection by end… Read More »
